*Official* WTC FINAL Australia vs South Africa 2025

[honestbharani]

Nah that’s rubbish

Yeah there’s been a little bit of movement but not only are these two fragile batting sides at the best of times, they’ve just come from months of bullshit t20 cricket

I account for that and I still think there can be a better pitch given how much the overhead and the Dukes ball impact the game.

 

[Alex0paul]

Shades of Cape Town 2011

 

[Heboric]

Is this Newlands 2011 over again ?

 

[kykweer.proteas]

Lungi Ngidi has 58 test wickets @23.22 in the career , has there been a more disrespected seamer with this kind of record ..
20 tests is a lot of matches for someone to average that low, he can't be as bad as he is made out to be !

If he was from Pakistan he would be considered a goat

 

[GotSpin]

I account for that and I still think there can be a better pitch given how much the overhead and the Dukes ball impact the game.

We shouldn’t be rolling out the flattest wickets possible just because batsmen are so poor right now

 

[trundler]

Ngidi has a million dollar smile to go with that natural BBL

 

[GotSpin]

Carey looks so bad here

 

[honestbharani]

We shouldn’t be rolling out the flattest wickets possible just because batsmen are so poor right now

Mate you always prepare for what's in front of you, not what you imagine something to be.

 

[King Kane]

The pitch looks fine to me. It's been overcast and there's a massive gap between the quality of the bowling and batting lineups.

I had a feeling that this final would be a short one, two high quality bowling line ups against two bog ordinary batting line ups.

 

[trundler]

Lungi Ngidi has 58 test wickets @23.22 in the career , has there been a more disrespected seamer with this kind of record ..
20 tests is a lot of matches for someone to average that low, he can't be as bad as he is made out to be !

He's obviously quality when fit but there's some Axar Pateling going on in that record

 

[Nintendo]

Comms just showed the average swing and seam movement and it's actually a bit lower than the lord's average, particularly swing. Don't recall inconsistent bounce bringing about any wickets either, although the numbers on that could be interesting.

 

[slowfinger]

how has Ngidi only played 20 tests? swear he's been around for like 8 years

 

[Kenneth Viljoen]

Damn they really giving Proteas fans that hope, it's the hope that kills you !

 

[Coronis]

So did end up falling asleep before the day’s play. Seems I’ve missed a fair bit.

 

[slowfinger]

first ever ICC trophy on the line here for south africa

 

[SeamUp]

first ever ICC trophy on the line here for south africa

***Cough*** 2nd

 

[cascade]

Okay if Carey can't pull out his usual domestic form here, I will also take him repeating his scratchy but useful efforts in the last WTC final.

 

[cnerd123]

This pitch is fine, it's just two fantastic seam bowling attacks bowling well against fragile batting lineups.

 

[Coronis]

So has this been more poor batting or great bowling that has us here? Also rip Smith getting out to Markram and Ngidi.

 

[Arachnödouche2.0]

Brilliantly attended final for two neutral sides and no India either. Great to see.