*Official* South African tour of England and Ireland 2022

[CarlsbergXpress]

Buttler in Tests is so forgettable

Foakes could really cement his position in this side with this contribution. For about 10 years given the backing of Crawley!

 

[BazBall21]

Go on captain??

 

[Uppercut]

Important for Stokes to get a score. It was a strange run of poor form, seemed to be mostly due to poor batting strategy rather than technique or reaction problems.

 

[trundler]

Who said that? (Genuine question not sarcasm)

Grecian wanted Foakes gone and elsewhere I've seen people wanting Buttler back because of Bazball.

100! Best Stokes test performance combining both bat and ball?

 

[Aritro]

This has been a great dig

 

[Aritro]

Foakes has such an ungainly stance and grip

 

[Uppercut]

Grecian wanted Foakes gone and elsewhere I've seen people wanting Buttler back because of Bazball.

100! Best Stokes test performance combining both bat and ball?

Headingley. Completely overshadowed but his bowling in that game was crucial.

 

[Heboric]

Apt way to go I guess

 

[Uppercut]

Stokes isn’t someone who needs to be told to play his shots. He just naturally bats aggressively, but when he consciously decides to bat aggressively he becomes reckless.

 

[Nintendo]

Headingley. Completely overshadowed but his bowling in that game was crucial.

Yeah that 15 over or whatever it was spell at the back-end of Australia's second innings was crucial.

 

[Heboric]

Elgar has to own up to this selection blunder. No way around it.

I will stand up for Elgar a bit here. In the end his players let him down. Our batters in the first dig and our bowlers barring Nortje havent been to sharp. So as they say Captain Hindsight has never lost a match

 

[BazBall21]

Wonder if Trundler is so anti-Buttler because 50% of his test centuries came against Pakistan

 

[BazBall21]

Ben Foakes really loves that midwicket area

 

[chris.hinton]

Well there you go. South Africa have already ran out of ideas. We do this to teams and will do so in the future

Foakes and Stokes are awesome. SA attack looks average now and confidence has gone and i would be worried if i was a South Africa fan

 

[chris.hinton]

Get 200-250 ahead. and South Africa will not make us bat again. Anderson is too good against them. You see the changing rooms all relaxed and very confident. an easy innings victory is on the menu

 

[chris.hinton]

Harmer is looking very average. SA Captain is throwing him under the bus here and i want more

 

[nick-o]

Maybe this is a dumb question, but... Broad now ranks #40 on the list of all-time run-scorers for England, just below Greig. The other names above them who also bowled substantially are just: Flintoff, Botham, Stokes, and I suppose Hammond, unless I've missed someone obvious. So is Broad legitimately one of the greatest England allrounders ever?

 

[GIMH]

Important for Stokes to get a score. It was a strange run of poor form, seemed to be mostly due to poor batting strategy rather than technique or reaction problems.

Poor form been overstated imo. Averaging 37 for the summer before today; pretty much standard for him.

 

[wpdavid]

Nortje vs Broad batting from somewhere close to square leg could be fun. And brief.

 

[Red_Ink_Squid]

Fear the NightHawk.