Sri Lanka v South Africa 1st Test

neither boring lad

Jul 17, 2014 -- 12:59PM, jainil wrote:

hi whisperingdeath,,,,  hello foniavon... how are you guyspm me your contact number and email address...

why do you keep asking for phone numbers ffs

The mystery grows Max,

How do you look in Guantanamo Orange?

Jainil,

We like to remain anonymous.  Just because we are not paranoid it doesn't mean they are not after us

Anyone looking like a glamour model or offering a new job can PM me, otherwise, no thanks

haha, just like that to stay in contact...i reside in india...no probs kingmax...you are yourself a best judge....anyways back to match... looking like a pretty boring one ...

Matches that look a draw after day 2, quite often aren't. And that goes double for a place like SL.

So I'm treading cautiously here and keeping SAF onside with a largish draw green.

Jul 17, 2014 -- 10:28PM, pxb wrote:

Matches that look a draw after day 2, quite often aren't. And that goes double for a place like SL.So I'm treading cautiously here and keeping SAF onside with a largish draw green.

Yeh 270 overs to go + dry pitch and reverse swing. Think Port Elizabeth earlier in the year! Everyone was on the draw because they had forecast a last day washout! I live in the Tropics and it is rainy season where I am. Normally sunny until 3/4pm & then you get rain a few times a week. I check where I live to the online forecasts and the forecast is always much worse than the actual! I would never use BBC for an overseas match. They are dogshit!

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rip draw

no idea why the draw is still odds on. I just keep laying it and working a treat so far. Down to 1.25 in the first session of day 3. The easiest money I've made since the ashes!

Jul 18, 2014 -- 8:40AM, jucel69 wrote:

no idea why the draw is still odds on. I just keep laying it and working a treat so far. Down to 1.25 in the first session of day 3. The easiest money I've made since the ashes!

yes u r right

why lay the draw.. back SA if anything

The movement in the odds is like a 4th/5th day. The draw dropped 20 ticks after lunch for about 30 runs

Jul 18, 2014 -- 8:43AM, kingmax wrote:

why lay the draw.. back SA if anything

Just the way I like to bet. Pretty much always like to keep two results on side. Just been prudent really. I've seen 3rd innings in SL way too many times! 150 happens quite a lot

Mathews shaping up to be a very good captain.

Jul 18, 2014 -- 10:07AM, pxb wrote:

Mathews shaping up to be a very good captain.

yeh, i greened up when he came to the wicket. Seen him put on some big stands in the last year or so. Going to wait until about 1.3/1.4 till i go back in, or the new ball

4th day weather is nt gud

5th day wash out

South Africa caught ball tampering. Again.
Vernon Philander (who won't appeal) fined 75% of his match fee for scratching the ball.

150 by SAF would put this out of SL's reach IMO.

At what point will SAF declare?

The result backers will hope today.

I'm heavily on the draw, and happy for SAF to keep batting.

Be interesting to see Amla's style of captaincy with his declaration.

south africa get 225 from 50 overs and set sri lanka 388 in 122 overs this is the target for them

gives south africa a crack with the new ball day day 5 also

sri lanka only have 3 bowlers

draw backers not looking good

I took a position early in the match to back draw due to possible weather.  The weather did not fully materialise but because batting was slow going the draw remained favourite because of the possible future weather.  Prior to the end of day 1 I layed SL only to see them take a few late wickets and the price come down so I layed them some more early day 2 i think.  I figured runs on the board at Galle count big. Then JP took it away from SL but I topped up on SA just in case as this is a big result pitch.

My position has not changed since day 2. almost even Draw and SA moderate win, big red SL.  I then switched attention to Lords.

I take the view that a result here looks probable,  The pitch is going to be difficult to bat on.  The only thing that will save SL is rain and that is in the hands of the gods.  I wouldn't like to make the call which way it goes and being even will not switch from one winning position to another.

very danger match anything is possible this is script match by bookis

wtf 6's!

layed SL again!

made a dumb bet at Lords backing draw at 2.74!  IDIOT!  would have used that money here but didnt get time when I saw 5.9 FFS!

one out

lay here draw whisper

no scripts here we have just seen the greatest fast bowler in dayle steyn here perform his art

Jul 19, 2014 -- 10:44AM, slip5 wrote:

no scripts here we have just seen the greatest fast bowler in dayle steyn here perform his art

Thought Amla was being cavalier with my money (had layed SL from the start and not greened).
One down already so can relax a bit.

may bookis win sl

stop this nonsense housefull

markit confuse

i think sl win

today sl make 120

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last 5 balls - 4 dot 6 4 4

all is fixing my friend

lay draw no forcastday 5

Laying SL!

SA don't need 10 wickets!  they just need a couple quickly before lunch tomorrow to slow this down.

but sri lanka in game

and draw is out here

tomorrow sri lanka win or lost this match no draw here i think

Hope you are right Whispering, I'm not enjoying this at all.

mathews and jaiwardne is key betsman

thanks for that..i thought the key batsmen were eranga and lakmal

philander is useless on flat pitches

I shall be getting a good nights sleep.  Everything tells me SL cannot win.  It is impossible.  I just hope SA don't implode.  I think in Steyn we trust.  He will take a couple of wickets and slow things down.  At some point I hope that SL will settle for the draw.  I am on straight lay of SL no idea which way this will go.  better have a shilling on the thai!  SL cannot win ffs, can they?

difficult to slow SL down when needing less than 3 an over. Bat the overs, they win.

day 5 pitch alfie.  there should be a couple of wickets for bowls staying low or spinning out of the rough at least that is what I am hoping and maybe that will put a halt to the run chase!  otherwise I am truly up against it

2.7 sl  i laying again  far 2 short

I would too but am already way over comitted.  There is also a chance of rain interruption tomorrow and I for one shall be doing the rain dance. My brain tells me SL cannot do this but my ring is telling me something else.

On the plus side SL have a lot of runs to make and a couple of quick wickets at any time before tea will make them reassess their situation to play for the draw at some stage i hope.

Fantastic finale.  I shall be getting up early to watch then on top Lords.  Hope fpr a couple of early wickets!

You mean a couple of quick wickets by lunch surely.

Gonna be a great final day, SL have got off to a flyer, theirs to lose imo

This really is set up tomorrow.  No rain around apparently - although you never know with Galle.   Very hard to see how it can be a draw unless SL lose a few early wickets and just defend the overs out.  Certainly should be longer than 3.4.  My gut says Steyn comes in and kills them off but SL could just chase it down.

Looks like an automatic huge lay of the draw and at around 3.45 its very appealing but  expensive if it goes wrong.

Might just turn out that Amla was a little too generous with his declaration

im in far too much as well but 2.7 is too low and we cant be scared

260 off 90 overs with nine wickets left - quite doable

at 2.7 on day 5 ?

not much different to the SL first innings so far.  They were 98/1 after 31 overs.  Here they're 110/1 after 32.  Think SL may well put on a few more runs but as the ball gets old and starts to reverse I fully expect them to collapse once again.  SA price is very big imo.

fully agree so hav gone in again but i am on a losing run. taken a step back but think this is a great lay

Tahir the key IMO. Gets balls to spin out of the rough and wickets should fall. But very inconsistent bowler.

4 high class bowlers   6 decent batsmen laft  cant see how sl favs

2.4 now

i confused

and potentially skint

probably worth arbing 13-8 s james

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mathews and jaiwardne is key betsman

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thanks for that..i thought the key batsmen were eranga and lakmal

i really enjoyed

I partially agree with WD, even though I hear his book talking.

SL much too short at 2.5. I'd give them not much more than a 1 in 4 chance. Draw also a chance, but Tahir will either take wickets or bleed runs.

I'm in a rather poor position, but keeping a decent green on SAF, as a SAF win looks likliest to me.

I've cashed out so maybe can be a bit more objective. I can't see a draw, mainly due to the fact it is easier to attack on this pitch, than defend! You need to put the spinners off their length because if they are allowed to settle into a groove, then the batsmen will get out due to the amount of turn. Plus Tahir will be bowling quite a few overs and he is not the most economical. If SL start trying to shut up shop then they will lose. I'm going to wait to see if SL get off to a flyer and then back SA.

2.1 already! could be 1.8 after the first over, if a four is hit

Jul 18, 2014 -- 8:44AM, jucel69 wrote:

Jul 18, 2014 --  8:43AM, kingmax wrote:why lay the draw.. back SA if anythingJust the way I like to bet. Pretty much always like to keep two results on side. Just been prudent really. I've seen 3rd innings in SL way too many times! 150 happens quite a lot

a bit of prudence has served me well, thankfully!

the last test match here against Bangla was a complete anomaly so I wouldn't use that match as a barometer!

great catch! should soothe a few nerves!

what a drop sangka! f*ck me

prior and de **** have cost me a lot of cash in the last few weeks!

relax juce!

This is test Cricket........ and day 5 Test cricket....in Galle......

beauty!

the old long hop!

I wouldn't say that is the worst ball in the history of Test cricket but it is up there!  Well bowled JP!

You must be feeling better too pxb!  I certainly am now can concentrate on my say out at Lords.  didn't sleep well.  One good thing is that the pub won't be open before the start of play today so I shall have my wits about me!

WD,

Indeed.

Hope you enjoy your day at the Test.

I had tickets for the last Perth Ashes Test, but 41C temps too hot even for me, so I sold the tickets. Maybe in 2 years time.

Thanks pxb,

I shall enjoy it a helluva lot more now!  Can you imagine going to a test match after getting up at 5.30 am and then have the knowledge you have lost a bucketful of money on a dead cert sure thing and you lost because of one of the most audacious batting displays in the history of test cricket and because two spinners bowled pelt on the most helpful pitch they could ever dream of?  I think I would have got arrested for foul language and abusive behaviour I am sure!

Now to quote the other bard....sun is shining, weather is sweet. makes you wanna move your dancing feet!

that sort of pitch! backing the lankans at 2 on this pitch against this attack is high risk!

they might as well try for the runs now!

Much credit has to go to Amla here.

People were questioning his decision last night, not me.  I thought it brave and inspiring.  Not his fault his spinners let him down badly but he had a trump card up his sleeve and people forgot it. Glad we didn't.  Not counting my chickens but well done everyone...AGAIN!  This has been a great summer already!

what is the score anyone please?

158/6

thanks Juice a sri lanka win would have been a disaster foolishly backed against them winning at 18/1 !

I wonder if Rahane saw that!

DRS has been great for test Cricket and Umpires!

Actually a good decision by Bowden.  I think that did hit the glove but evidence not conclusive.  No controversy there.

People talk about umpire howlers.  I can live with that.  What I don't like is the way players put pressure on umpires by constant and aggressive appealing.  Stuart Broad looks like death when an umpire gives not out against him but most of his appeals are rubbish.  Rahane was not out last night.  not a howler a genuine mistake by the umpire that could have been cleaned up by DRS.  I hope india learn from that and stop throwing their weight around.

hi whisper

Keep an eye on that rain to the south.

Oops, wrong thread.

nice result to wake up to - looks like SA blew them away.

In Steyn we trust

Liked that Whispering