Here we go again - I wrote extensively about this previously. The score is 15/3 and the following are out:-
* Elgar - 6 runs from 13 balls
* Amla - 0 - first ball
* Bavuma - 0 from 2 balls
I repeatedly warned that Amla and Elgar should not be in the team - but they still are. Players cannot remain in teams based on reputation - performance i s essential.
Yessss Mike....
We know.....
I've just checked your cricket posts...
Why do you never post a new thread when something good happens?
You are an old misery. And like my 91yr old grandmother who I love dearly... you love to complain about everything .
And its Proteas... not proeas!
Chippo
There has been very little to be optimistic about in the Proteas team recently. Problem is the team is under-performing and I am afraid it is always the same players who let them down.
The other problem I have is the fact that the orcs are always attacking their pet hate players without regard to performance - just watch out what the main orc writes. I am just getting a bit of revenge by putting their lunatic approach back into perspective.
Faf is also out - but at least he scored 25 runs,
All of Elgar, Amla and now Faf have been clean-bowled and Bavuma ran himself out. Pathetic.
Now the hope for a reasonable score in the first innings rests entirely on the shoulders of Markram (already on 37 runs), De Kock and Mulder. All three has been under constant attack by the orcs.
Chippo
I should rather have left the "r" and the "a" out as well - it would give an exact description of the team performance thus far.
Markram is out LBW - 60 runs from 116 balls. Orcs start the attack on Markram now.
Score - 130 for 5
Markram is out LBW - 60 runs from 116 balls. Orcs start the attack on Markram now.
Score - 130 for 5
Now the orcs have a field day - De Kock only scored 86 runs from 87 balls. Go BSters go.
I think you were way too harsh on the guys here Mike
This wicket is definitely not the easiest to bat on, as can be seen by the amount of wickets to have already fallen in the first day and a half alone
AD
I may be too severe - but I think the batting was not really influenced by the pitch. In the case of the Durban test -
* the bowlers claimed that they had to work very hard to get wickets; and
* even though Philander could not bowl on the final day of the test - which made the bowlers task more difficult; but
* how come did du Pleassis, De Kock and ultimately Perera scored huge runs in the test?
In the present test in the first innings -
* Markram made 60 runs; and
* De Kock made 86 runs from 87 balls
In the present series the poor scoring of Elgar and Amla is a serious problem:-
Elgar runs - 0 + 35 + 6 + 2 - 43 = average 10,75
Amla - 3 + 16 + 0 + 32 - 51 = average 12,75
Sorry - but I am not happy with the batting of those two players.
24 wickets down in the first 1.5 days
Tells me that ain't no easy wicket Mike, barring some stupid shots, this is a tri cky one to bat on
DA
The difference is that a good batsman can do well on the wicket and don't tell me that averages of 10,75 and 12,75 are reflecting good batsmen at work.
Mike
I am not going to argue with you
27 wickets down now, and the 2nd day is not even over yet...… that clearly tells me that there is something up here...… Not all these batsman from both these teams are that continuously stupid or that bad
If you believe so, cool
I listen to the commentators and they said repeatedly their is nothing wrong with the pitch. There is one thin wrong though and that is when De Kock fails in making runs - the team falls apart.
I listen to the commentators and they said repeatedly their is nothing wrong with the pitch. There is one thin wrong though and that is when De Kock fails in making runs - the team falls apart.
Sorry - too many dreams that will not happen, AB will not agree to return and if he does will he be the AB we used to know. There is no way Amla will get over his present problems and he has been going backwards badly in the past year. Even in the few games where he made good scores - the Proteas lost the games and besides that his performances in play-off games in 20 11 and 2015 were very poor - can he take the stress associated with such games.
Wish they could convince Rossouw to come back and play for the Proteas again - but or the rest I would bring in Van der Dussen in the starting line-up.