England v South Africa Test Series

[mattie]

Remind me, is the extra half-hour only an option up until 4th day?

 

[embree]

...at which point it will be too late to bash out 200 odd runs

it'll be less than that, they're going at almost 4.5 an over over the last ten overs so by tea it would be around 150 to win at the current rate

 

[embree]

Remind me, is the extra half-hour only an option up until 4th day?

yes, last day has no extensions at all

 

[SpookyFrank]

4.6 an over needed to win...time for KP to do a KP and batter the crap out of everything that comes near him.

 

[embree]

Call me Mr boringly conservative but I'd rather they made sure we won't lose first.

Mind you, we need a win somewhere to cancel out the traditional battering we'll get at Cape Town

 

[Santino]

Sky just showed a shot of one of the roads outside the ground. 'John Vorster Drive' - Vorster being the SA Prime Minister who presided over the D'Oliveira affair.

Naughty Sky director.

 

[Santino]

 

[mattie]

good stream here, btw:

http://www.vshare.tv/live/20969/SS2

 

[Flashman]

ooh ta mattie

 

[embree]

Both England batsmen at the crease currently average over 50 in Tests

 

[littlebabyjesus]

South Africa v South African exiles. Hard for me to care at the moment.

 

[embree]

Well I'm happy to get behind people who've chosen the country of their parents/grandparents

 

[Discordia]

Where are the Englishmen, they're much easier to get out!

Christ this is boring. No wonder Test cricket is dying.

 

[littlebabyjesus]

They've chosen to come and play in England for the extra money he could earn, in the case of Trott, and because he had a hissy fit on being dropped in the quota system, in the case of Pietersen. It is hard for me to agree with Graeme Smith, but Smith holds Pietersen, in particular, in contempt for his decision to bail out from SA. I agree with him. Neither of these two is playing for England out of a love for the land of their forefathers, neither learned their cricket in the England system. Neither should, imo, be playing for England.

 

[Flashman]

Job well done indeed Aggers.

 

[Mumbles274]

On the Skybox, did anyone see the moment in the morning session where Trott had dug himself a trench and had 5 or 6 players round him against the spin?

Bumbles put up a pic from one of the intervals with hundreds of spectators on the pitch especially round the wicket. He started using that red line to show where trott could find a gap

I laughed


Intersting evening session coming up, will England chase the runs?

 

[gabi]

Don't be a cunt all your life, gabi.

I've no idea who you are santino - name change? or just a no-mark?

Either way, you're yet to respond to my question earlier about your 'beef'?

 

[gabi]

Anyway, c'mon south africa! (b)

 

[mattie]

Characteristically good-humoured.

 

[mattie]

Anyway, wonder how long Pietersen will wait before turning his Twenty20 skills on.

 

[embree]

Where are the Englishmen, they're much easier to get out!

Christ this is boring. No wonder Test cricket is dying.

It's not boring in the slightest. England still have a sniff, just. One wicket and it could all cave in. Or it could meander along to a draw.

It's only boring if you're ADD or a fuckwit

Oh bollocks, wicket

 

[littlebabyjesus]

Idiot!

 

[tangerinedream]

doh!

 

[embree]

They've chosen to come and play in England for the extra money he could earn, in the case of Trott, and because he had a hissy fit on being dropped in the quota system, in the case of Pietersen. It is hard for me to agree with Graeme Smith, but Smith holds Pietersen, in particular, in contempt for his decision to bail out from SA. I agree with him. Neither of these two is playing for England out of a love for the land of their forefathers, neither learned their cricket in the England system. Neither should, imo, be playing for England.

Whatever the motivation, Pietersen's half English, Trott has two English grandparents and I have no problem with their decision whatsoever.

 

[mattie]

Anyway, wonder how long Pietersen will wait before turning his Twenty20 skills on.

..and there's your answer.

 

[littlebabyjesus]

Whatever the motivation, Pietersen's half English, Trott has two English grandparents and I have no problem with their decision whatsoever.

If South Africa didn't play test cricket, I'd have less of a problem. But they do.

 

[embree]

If South Africa didn't play test cricket, I'd have less of a problem. But they do.

I don't think it makes a blind bit of difference. I have a bigger problem with England nicking Ireland's best players which destabilises someone else's system far more

 

[Flashman]

I'm not bothered either really good luck to them, same for "Irish" players playing for Ireland*, all the best. Life's too short.

Colly is wobbling here...







*at football

 

[embree]

Trott needs another 48 runs without getting out to average 100 in Tests

 

[littlebabyjesus]

I'm not bothered either really good luck to them, same for "Irish" players playing for Ireland*, all the best. Life's too short.

Why not just abandon the idea of national teams altogether, then?