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  1. LegendaryProtea

    ***Official*** South Africa in Australia 2012

    Yeah, Tahir's main and only strength is that he can bowl a good googly which can wrap up innings fairly quickly against a weakish tail. Given that we have Steyn and Morkel, I don't see any point in playing a frontline spinner just for the purpose of removing the tail and picking up 2/90 at over...
  2. LegendaryProtea

    ***Official*** South Africa in Australia 2012

    Fairly sure the batsman nicked that and was walking off before the umpire gave him not out and he continues batting. Weird.
  3. LegendaryProtea

    ***Official*** South Africa in Australia 2012

    Haha, wouldn't doubt it but thanks for that, it's working for me. Hopefully we can dismiss em' pretty quickly after Tea and have a bit of a bat before the close of play.
  4. LegendaryProtea

    ***Official*** England in India

    Or Sivaramakrishnan. I don't know if he is part of their commentary set-up though. I know they usually have Bhogle, Gavaskar, Shastri, Ganguly, Wilko and Wasim. I remember reading Warney is going to be doing commentary for them for a couple of Tests. I'd always prefer the Sky team though.
  5. LegendaryProtea

    ***Official*** England in India

    So Sky are going to use the STAR feed but have the regular Sky commentators (Nasser and co.) sat in a studio in England providing commentary? It's gonna feel pretty strange, especially when the feed cuts to the STAR/Indian commentators talking in the box whilst we hear the Sky team.
  6. LegendaryProtea

    ***Official*** South Africa in Australia 2012

    Is the tour match stream restricted only to people in Australia? I'm on the CA website but can only find the streams for the 3 SS matches. How exactly do you access the tour match stream? Hope Philander gets himself sorted before the Test series because he doesn't seem to have bowled well at...
  7. LegendaryProtea

    Where do we go now?

    Aside from Steyn, Robin Petersen, Duminy and Faf, everyone has come out of this debacle looking terrible. I don't even know where to begin. Firstly, questions need to be asked about AB's captaincy. Very poor team selection (e.g. keeping Levi in the side for so long), poor batting orders...
  8. LegendaryProtea

    **Official** Super 8 Group 2 Discussion - Aus, Ind, Pak and SA

    Don't get me wrong, I'm not at all suggesting that we deserved to go through. We got exactly what we deserved. I'm just stating that in both the India and Pakistan games, we were in incredibly strong positions to win and yet lost because of an inability to deal with pressure and a lack of clear...
  9. LegendaryProtea

    **Official** Semis and Final Thread

    Pakistan have to be favs from here, if only because they will be playing at Colombo where the pitches have taken turn. Their spin attack is wonderful, could actually bowl 16 overs of high quality spin with Hasan, Hafeez, Afridi and Ajmal. Batting isn't great but you only need about 140-150 and...
  10. LegendaryProtea

    **Official** Super 8 Group 2 Discussion - Aus, Ind, Pak and SA

    Wow, braindead cricket from Morne Morkel at the end there. Just get bat on it and run and you're almost certain to win with a **** bowler like Balaji bowling. Instead he swings like a madman and snatches defeat from the jaws of victory just to compound the feelings of disappointment. All in...
  11. LegendaryProtea

    **Official** Super 8 Group 2 Discussion - Aus, Ind, Pak and SA

    We're still in with a very reasonable chance of progressing, especially given that we've played absolutely horrific cricket thus far in the Super Eights. Firstly, bowling half-trackers to ****ing Umar Gul and throwing the game away when it was all but in the bag and then playing Doherty like he...
  12. LegendaryProtea

    **Official** South Africa in England 2012

    A really poor performance from South Africa for the second game running. Unless Amla or AB get a 100, you just know they will end up well under a par score. How Elgar has made this side, I'll just never know. Batting at a strike rate of 60 just isn't acceptable these days, he seems to have no...
  13. LegendaryProtea

    **Official** South Africa in England 2012

    I'd say it's pretty even. It all comes down to Amla and AB tomorrow. You'd expect the lower MO and the tail to get some decent runs but the bulk have to come from those two. If Amla gets a century and if AB can get a rapid 50 that puts England on the back foot then the number 1 ranking should be...
  14. LegendaryProtea

    **Official** South Africa in England 2012

    Well, a South African victory is virtually impossible now. Would have to get 15 English wickets and score about 300 runs to win all in 2 days with high possibilities of rain. So, it's either gonna be a draw or an England win. I think two main things have to happen for England to win. First...
  15. LegendaryProtea

    **Official** South Africa in England 2012

    Did you just contribute because you saw it as an opportunity to use one of your invented phrases, which you mistakenly seem to think is incredibly clever and impressive? Is my analysis wrong or overly unrealistic in any way? Have I said anywhere that South Africa are totally gone and will not...
  16. LegendaryProtea

    **Official** South Africa in England 2012

    Unless it rains for a prolonged period, I think England will win this. Assuming 98 overs each day, that's 196 overs over the two days. Currently trail by 68 runs with 5 wickets left. Both the current batsmen and the following bowling ARs are attacking players and it's very feasible they bat for...
  17. LegendaryProtea

    **Official** South Africa in England 2012

    Only in Dunedin, he had low scores in the other two Tests. Since his return to the Test side, his performance in Dunedin has been the only notable effort. Also, stats don't lie. To average mid 30s after roughly 45 Tests indicates he is a pretty average Test match batsman.
  18. LegendaryProtea

    **Official** South Africa in England 2012

    This is pretty much the reason I'm not getting too excited and quite fancy England getting back into the series. Most of South Africa's star/best players are better than England's star/best players but England have the edge when it comes to having a more complete side. I think Smith > Strauss...
  19. LegendaryProtea

    **Official** South Africa in England 2012

    None are great players of spin in the sub-continent, all are good players of it in England. Look at the way the likes of Mishra, Narine, Shillingford, Doherty have been treated in the last year or so. Taken apart by people like KP and Bell.
  20. LegendaryProtea

    *Official* English Domestic Cricket 2012

    Great, that's exactly what we need. :dry: KP smashing it to all parts and getting himself into top form right before the Tests. Plus, Strauss has already made a ton. Despite all the optimism I can muster, things are looking ominous.

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