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***England V South Africa 2nd Test*** UNBROKEN THREAD
***England V South Africa 2nd Test*** UNBROKEN THREAD
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tail showing absolutely no fight
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and to think England were backed into 7.x to chase this
 Poor Grant lost a packet, thinking England would chase this easy on this "runway" |
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lose by 340
they're not getting 340 with another 10 wickets in the shed |
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Pathetic effort from Enland today.
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i reckon whoever wins the toss in the 3rd test , will go on to win the match.
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A clearout required and low key & highly paid Trevor Bayliss needs to explain himself. That is worse than anything that Windies have served up lately.
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Anyone see how much was matched on match odds?
Just looked at SL vs Zim game and 36m been matched already with a day to go! Cricket turnover is insane atm |
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quite possibly ECE...the oval has been a bowl 1st venue and a happy hunting ground for visitors in recent years
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dawson out
ballance out for starters |
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DStyle 17 Jul 17 14:56 Joined: 20 Jan 05 | Topic/replies: 26,363 | Blogger: DStyle's blog seriously, this is abject. it's the same philosophy in the one day's as well. just one f*cking gear, back yourselves, show aggressive intent. it's just plain wrong. Couldn't have put it better myself, completely brainless cricket. |
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Root needs to go up to no.3
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Credit to Faf for batting first against Broad and Anderson, especially after what happened here in the last test.
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apparently this is the 8th time since 2015 england have won then lost the next match. rather sums up where we are in test cricket at the moment
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trent bridge a bat 1st venue, bowling 1st like root said he would have done would have hcapped themselves
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Yep, FAF's captaincy was superb in every department throughout this match.
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England 2.08 to win the series...a definite lay to me...far too many problems concerning the batting & unless Root or Cook get a big score the rest fall down almost immediately..both number 2 & 3 are real weak links & England as likely to collapse as produce a big score - Australia (assuming they play a proper team) will easily beat us in the Ashes as pace will be order of the day on their wickets and we look so susceptible to any half decent bowling
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Top order abysmal outside of Cook and Root which looked a glaring weakness before the 1st test at Lord's. What I don't get is the number of chances afforded to Ballance who has consistently been exposed at test level. Meanwhile, Ian Bell has seemingly been thrown on the scrap heap when he is a proven test class batsmen. Other test nations like Australia/India cherish test class batsmen and allow them play on until their late 30s. Eng seem to be keen to off-load their best batsmen past 30.
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james vince and mason crane required me thinks
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Bell was abject for over a year in tests, so don't think we should weep for him but Ballance has been even worse and should be ditched. This was an all round horror show though.
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a lot of sense there from nasser & pollock
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vince done too much batting on rose bowl belters, was exposed in test cricket when he came in
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dawson was bayliss's pick
jesus fkin christ, I might not be just dawson who is on borrowed time if this run of defeats continues |
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If Bayliss thinks Dawson is the answer then we do have problems with that sort of thinking
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wouldn't hesitate to go back to hameed no matter he hasn't scored many runs this year. you could see he oozes class in the winter. the complete opposite of ballance
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hameed fc scores since may
17, 23, 0, 2, 18, 38*, 9, 10, 0 I like him but its asking a lot to throw him back in isn't it (no cricket for 3 weeks either)  |
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I wouldn't touch Hameed with a barge pole right now. I'm not a great believer in the phenomenon of form, which is often just random variation but Hameed now has a pretty indifferent overall record and putting him back in because of one or two decent test innings months ago would be a vast leap of faith and unfair to him too, I think. I'd rather give Hales another go and I don't think he's a particularly good selection either. Westley would probably be my choice.
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England 338 - 20 is an incredible stat.
No Rabada and of course no Steyn. Olivier playing his 2nd test, Morris his 3rd, Kesh his 9th. |
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Complete lack of pride exhibited today, not one of them wanted to come out and bat properly.
That doesn't detract from SA's first class performance, or the fact that England are carrying 3-5 players every test. Hopefully that's the end of 'well, he can bat a bit' Dawson, and Gary Ballance. |
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Who is batting well in Division 1?
Jonathan Trott  Sam Robson  Paul Stirling  Good bunch of Englanders there  |
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suppose we shouldn't be surprised. england's home record in the major series of the summer since bayliss took over is WLWWLLWWLWL . struggling to think of any of them going to day 5 and all decided by massive margins - an innings, hundreds of runs or loads of wickets
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Made a modest profit after starting with a SAF lay. A bit lucky as I backed Eng at 10 start of day 4 and just managed to lay off before wickets started to fall.
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