[Matt_Horton]

Re: Super Cricket- England in SA : Sat Dec 19, 2009 1:48 pm  

Duminy gone. Need to rattle through them now.

Re: Super Cricket- England in SA : Sat Dec 19, 2009 3:03 pm  

We're going to have to bat for a day and possibly a few others tonight by the looks of it to save this game. If the batsmen play properly and don't give their wickets away then that shouldn't be a problem imo. The pitch looks to be playing aswell as it has throughout the whole match and we've played the extra batsman(well thats if Bell remembers he's got a bat in his hands).

As I type that Amla wicket is very very worrying. The balls been pretty true today until that rolled along the ground

Could be a tougher ask then I thought if that keeps happening.

Re: Super Cricket- England in SA : Sat Dec 19, 2009 6:23 pm  

We will do well to get through tomorrow....I sense another Cardiff on the cards, only Jimmy is already at the crease, and Monty is no longer around.

No chance of an England victory, its upto a few of our guys to show some balls.

Re: Super Cricket- England in SA : Sun Dec 20, 2009 9:44 am  

A poor start today, see we are doing the usual ENGLISH thing and trying to block through the day

Re: Super Cricket- England in SA : Sun Dec 20, 2009 1:40 pm  

Suicidal run and Pietersen is run out for 80!

Thats probably the begining of the end of England.

Re: Super Cricket- England in SA : Sun Dec 20, 2009 3:30 pm  

England doing their best to lose the match

Eng 208/7

8 overs remaining.

Re: Super Cricket- England in SA : Sun Dec 20, 2009 4:22 pm  

Eng 228/9

Match Drawn

phew.

Re: Super Cricket- England in SA : Sun Dec 20, 2009 4:39 pm  

England need to take a long hard look at Cooke,Prior and Bell.

Re: Super Cricket- England in SA : Sun Dec 20, 2009 4:54 pm  

fc baldy wrote:

England need to take a long hard look at Cooke,Prior and Bell.

Can't drop Prior after 1 iffy match with the bat...He was outstanding against the Aussies.

Agree that Cook is beginning to look on thin ice, and as for Bell??...Well, the ice gave way and he sank a long, long time ago...the fellow shouldn't even be in the touring party....He's this generation's Greame Hick...

Re: Super Cricket- England in SA : Sun Dec 20, 2009 5:31 pm  

The Angry Pirate wrote:

Can't drop Prior after 1 iffy match with the bat...He was outstanding against the Aussies.

Agree that Cook is beginning to look on thin ice, and as for Bell??...Well, the ice gave way and he sank a long, long time ago...the fellow shouldn't even be in the touring party....He's this generation's Greame Hick...

Wright, Plunkett or Sidebottom for Bell would be the most likely change. I'm not convinced Wright is a much better bowler than Collingwood, Plunkett is a very capable lower order batsman, Sidebottom in for Bell with Broad & Swann moving up a place would obviously leave us with a long tail.

They can't drop Cook as well as Bell as they only took six specialist batsmen in the Test squad. Unless I'm very much mistaken the five players in the squad not included in the First Test are Wright, Plunkett, Sidebottom, Rashid and Steven Davies. I think Tredwell and Mark Davies are also out there at the moment following a series of minor injuries to various bowlers.