*Official* England in South Africa 2019/20

[TT Boy]

What position in the order would you bat Nortje? Maybe its wait and see as he will be nightwatchman if SA actually play well.

de Kock only scores runs when he bats 7, so, he should be promoted.

Great comeback from Broad. Looked on the way out from an overseas bowling perspective before the Hamilton test.

 

[Bijed]

Hope Root is prepared to take Curran out of the attack sooner this time if he keeps sending down boundary balls

 

[Garson007]

Rain is the only thing left to hope for.

 

[TT Boy]

Has Broad bowled a bad ball today?

 

[MW1304]

Guess this is why we've followed on.

 

[Howe_zat]

Yeah. Gonna be hard work to win this. I expect SA to drop anchor before long.

 

[Heboric]

Maybe if it rains until tea on the fifth day I will start to relax, this is South Africa batting we are talking about

 

[Flem274*]

this is some comeback from england after indulging their habit of giving up at the sight of a non-green deck for the past 6 months.

 

[AndrewB]

A stat pointed out on the online BBC cricket commentary is that this is the shortest named England team ever:
Zak Crawley, Dominic Sibley, Joe Denly, Joe Root, Ben Stokes, Ollie Pope, Jos Buttler, Sam Curran, Dom Bess, Mark Wood, Stuart Broad = 101 letters

This seems to be correct, just beating the team that played Ireland last year, and in fact seems to be the shortest for any team.

The longest named teams are unsurprisingly all Sri Lankan; for England the record seems to be a tie between the 1909-10 team in SA which included George Simpson-Hayward and Henry Leveson Gower, and a much more recent team:
Alastair Cook, Marcus Trescothick, Andrew Strauss, Kevin Pietersen, Paul Collingwood, Andrew Flintoff, Geraint Jones, Liam Plunkett, Sajid Mahmood, Matthew Hoggard, Monty Panesar = 147 letters

 

[Flem274*]

A stat pointed out on the online BBC cricket commentary is that this is the shortest named England team ever:
Zak Crawley, Dominic Sibley, Joe Denly, Joe Root, Ben Stokes, Ollie Pope, Jos Buttler, Sam Curran, Dom Bess, Mark Wood, Stuart Broad = 101 letters

This seems to be correct, just beating the team that played Ireland last year, and in fact seems to be the shortest for any team.

The longest named teams are unsurprisingly all Sri Lankan; for England the record seems to be a tie between the 1909-10 team in SA which included George Simpson-Hayward and Henry Leveson Gower, and a much more recent team:
Alastair Cook, Marcus Trescothick, Andrew Strauss, Kevin Pietersen, Paul Collingwood, Andrew Flintoff, Geraint Jones, Liam Plunkett, Sajid Mahmood, Matthew Hoggard, Monty Panesar = 147 letters

this is why i come to cw

well that and im a boring person who likes to talk about cricket too much

 

[NUFAN]

Any plans for Sibley to join Bess and go with Dom for the sake of the team?

 

[honestbharani]

Sounds like a thread for Nuffers to create..

 

[Heboric]

A stat pointed out on the online BBC cricket commentary is that this is the shortest named England team ever:
Zak Crawley, Dominic Sibley, Joe Denly, Joe Root, Ben Stokes, Ollie Pope, Jos Buttler, Sam Curran, Dom Bess, Mark Wood, Stuart Broad = 101 letters

This seems to be correct, just beating the team that played Ireland last year, and in fact seems to be the shortest for any team.

The longest named teams are unsurprisingly all Sri Lankan; for England the record seems to be a tie between the 1909-10 team in SA which included George Simpson-Hayward and Henry Leveson Gower, and a much more recent team:
Alastair Cook, Marcus Trescothick, Andrew Strauss, Kevin Pietersen, Paul Collingwood, Andrew Flintoff, Geraint Jones, Liam Plunkett, Sajid Mahmood, Matthew Hoggard, Monty Panesar = 147 letters

The first three names are a problem, they all already have 'y''s at the end. Know Archer is a proper name, put a Y at the end of that name and now we are talking

 

[Test_Fan_Only]

Any plans for Sibley to join Bess and go with Dom for the sake of the team?

His cricinfo page already has him as Dom Sibley

 

[AndrewB]

Has there ever been 5 catches taken by at least 3 different individuals whos surname contains 4 letters maximum?

Thanks in advance Howe, happy Sunday.

Quite a few times, e.g. in Broad's 8-15 Test, Bell (1/2), Cook (2/1) and Root (3/2) did it in both innings.
The records seem to be 8 catches (Bell, Cook, Read (6) in the 2006-7 Ashes), or 4 individuals (e.g. Bell, Lyth (2), Root, Wood v NZ in 2015).

 

[Daemon]

Incredible posting. Strong start to the decade from AndrewB.

 

[OverratedSanity]

Quite a few times, e.g. in Broad's 8-15 Test, Bell (1/2), Cook (2/1) and Root (3/2) did it in both innings.
The records seem to be 8 catches (Bell, Cook, Read (6) in the 2006-7 Ashes), or 4 individuals (e.g. Bell, Lyth (2), Root, Wood v NZ in 2015).

How do you do this?. It's like you have the least useful but most interesting superpower ever.

 

[NUFAN]

Quite a few times, e.g. in Broad's 8-15 Test, Bell (1/2), Cook (2/1) and Root (3/2) did it in both innings.
The records seem to be 8 catches (Bell, Cook, Read (6) in the 2006-7 Ashes), or 4 individuals (e.g. Bell, Lyth (2), Root, Wood v NZ in 2015).

Good work. Did anyone with a surname with more than 4 letters take a catch in any of the innings?

It was hard to write but thats what I was implying although the record of 8 with 6 Read catches is a good catch.

Someone like Read or Ames or Bari as keeper is useful though.

 

[slippy888]

South Africa are vularable cricket team, you need to send DE Kock up to number 3 slot ffs if you want to save cricket match for the country

 

[johnpaul007]

South Africa needs to keep their 9 remaining wickets for 2 days to avoid the loss against England, but its too difficult. Bess and Broad will taking more wickets again i hope.