Captain21,007 posts
04 Jan 2025, 13:44
#41
04 Jan 2025, 13:44#41
250 up for Rickleton
He just keeps going and going...
Second Test - Markram gone for 17
Started by Plum70 REPLIES2,157 VIEWS· 03 Jan 2025, 11:07
Captain26,388 posts
04 Jan 2025, 13:48
#42
04 Jan 2025, 13:48#42
Already a generational achievement...we should mould our batting lineup around him...
Captain26,388 posts
04 Jan 2025, 13:49
#43
04 Jan 2025, 13:49#43
Giraffe loves these conditions and situation...skop gat Marco!!!
Captain26,388 posts
04 Jan 2025, 13:54
#44
04 Jan 2025, 13:54#44
I wanna see 700...Newlands in prime form it seems?
Captain26,388 posts
04 Jan 2025, 13:55
#45
04 Jan 2025, 13:55#45
Lieflikk e dag innie Kaap.
Captain26,388 posts
04 Jan 2025, 13:57
#46
04 Jan 2025, 13:57#46
Giraffe gets his 50 off 42.
Captain26,388 posts
04 Jan 2025, 14:00
#47
04 Jan 2025, 14:00#47
Damn...Rickleton gos for 259!!!Respect!!!
Captain26,388 posts
04 Jan 2025, 14:01
#48
04 Jan 2025, 14:01#48
7th all time scorer in probably the poorest team in decades...huge achievement.
Captain21,007 posts
04 Jan 2025, 15:48
#49
04 Jan 2025, 15:48#49
Pakistan in all sorts of shit now.
18/2...and SA's fastest bowler hasn't bowled yet.
Gotta feel for a team that is this far behind, with a mountain this size to climb, and already faltering.
Captain21,007 posts
04 Jan 2025, 16:00
#50
04 Jan 2025, 16:00#50
Another one for KG.
Pakistan could be in for a record loss here.
20/3
Ouch!!!
Captain21,007 posts
04 Jan 2025, 16:17
#51
04 Jan 2025, 16:17#51
Maphaka gets his first ball in test cricket.
Couple of loose ones to start, and he's just warming up.
Still waiting for his matric exam results haha
He can bowl as fast and as free as he wants here, plenty of runs and game situation to play with.
First over done.
He's warm now, let's see how his second over goes.
Bit of trivia...is he the youngest ever test player for SA?
Captain21,007 posts
04 Jan 2025, 16:26
#52
04 Jan 2025, 16:26#52
Maphaka starts his second over...
Getting up to 143km/h now...but a bit wider than he needs to be.
Captain49,914 posts
04 Jan 2025, 17:53
#53
04 Jan 2025, 17:53#53
Terrific mature innings by Rickleton. He looks very sound technically.
Captain21,007 posts
04 Jan 2025, 20:29
#54
04 Jan 2025, 20:29#54
I watched about 90% of his innings and it was flawless. The track was flat on days 1 & 2 but I can't remember watching someone bat for that long and be that organised. I'm not exaggerating when I say I can't think of a single false shot that he played.
The only dampener would probably be that the Pakistani bowlers offered little variation. But you can only play what is in front of you.
Quite ironic that I have been complaining about the Proteas' top 6 not being able to focus for sustained periods and then Rickleton plays probably the most mindful innings I've ever watched.
Captain26,388 posts
04 Jan 2025, 22:16
#55
04 Jan 2025, 22:16#55
The concentration and determination reminds of Biff and Amla...
Captain21,007 posts
05 Jan 2025, 06:32
#56
05 Jan 2025, 06:32#56
For now, the two certainties in the top 6 going forward are Stubbs and Rickleton.
Bedingham is good too but he's struggling to find his feet.
Zorzi looked okay against Sri Lanaka but terrible against Pakistan. Pakistan don't even have express pace but in the first Test one could tell that anything over 140lm/h, that is slightly accurate, is a step above his ability. It's not like he got out to excellent balls or anything, he just looked completely troubled and uncomfortable until he eventually got out, on both occasions.
Maharaj is retiring soon. So I rate Markram should replace him. Bat at 7 and bowl a lot more.
Verrynne is the best keep batsman we have at the moment and he got a nice quick 100 yesterday, but he's also struggled a bit.
And if Warner could have a test career with Australia then Brevis could have one for South Africa. Kinda that simple really. I'd have him in the Proteas playing at 5.
So I'd go, Rickleton, ________, Stubbs, Brevis, Bedingham, Verrynne, Markram, Jansen, KG + 2x Bowlers.
Captain21,007 posts
05 Jan 2025, 09:30
#57
05 Jan 2025, 09:30#57
Jansen starts off proceedings.
He's bowling accurately and forcing the batters to play.
Just what the doctor ordered.
Captain21,007 posts
05 Jan 2025, 09:57
#58
05 Jan 2025, 09:57#58
Plenty of false shots this morning from Pakistan but no wickets yet. They need to survive to the drinks break and then really dig in between that and lunch.
The pitch is doing very little and nobody is moving it too much....
Priority number 1 = avoid the follow-on and force SA to bat again. To do that they will need to get 415, meaning they need 339 more, and are batter down due to injury.
If one of the guys currently in can get a big hundred, they can get there, but it's very long way off at this point.
Captain21,007 posts
05 Jan 2025, 10:13
#59
05 Jan 2025, 10:13#59
Lol!!!
South Africa employing the short and to the body tactics now.
What's funny about it is that we have 4 bowlers that are quick enough to do it...but Pakistan, known for their supremely fast bowlers, didn't have anyone quick enough when they bowled and tried it.
Captain21,007 posts
05 Jan 2025, 10:17
#60
05 Jan 2025, 10:17#60
100/3 now.
Pakistan need 315 more to avoid the follow-on.
They're playing some lovely strokes now as Babar gets to 50.
Batting with the metal weight of that mammoth score hanging over your head is probably the most difficult thing in the game. It's easy to say "Oh, ignore the scoreboard."
...but it's the doing that requires all the fortitude.
Captain21,007 posts
05 Jan 2025, 10:28
#61
05 Jan 2025, 10:28#61
Maphaka on now and much more accurate this morning.
He's bowling nicely at the 6th with line and bring it across the batter.
This pitch is dead...like almost as dead as Denise's personality.
Captain21,007 posts
05 Jan 2025, 10:31
#62
05 Jan 2025, 10:31#62
Weird that they took Jansen off.
He bowled a nice little spell of short balls that created some discomfort for Pakistan.
Captain21,007 posts
05 Jan 2025, 10:51
#63
05 Jan 2025, 10:51#63
And Maphaka takes Babar!!!
His first test wicket. Not a pretty one but they all count as Barbar tickles one the on side and Verrynne collects.
And Maphaka is cranking it up, 145km/h and at the body.
Captain21,007 posts
05 Jan 2025, 11:04
#64
05 Jan 2025, 11:04#64
What the hell was Rizwan thinking? They trail by a mountain of runs and he charges down the pitch and tries to slog Mulder over mid-wicket.
...ends up playing it onto his stumps.
Terrible cricket by him.
I'd drop him if I were the coach. That's seriously disappointing.
Captain21,007 posts
05 Jan 2025, 11:24
#65
05 Jan 2025, 11:24#65
Maharaj now in on the act in his first over...
Verrynne nearly collects to stump the advancing Salman.
Pakistan 155/6
Captain21,007 posts
05 Jan 2025, 12:39
#66
05 Jan 2025, 12:39#66
Pakistan falling apart now.
They're gonna lose by an innings and some runs here.
Sucks for them but their bowlers and captain are kind of to blame. He had no ideas and what ideas he did have were poorly executed.
Captain21,007 posts
05 Jan 2025, 12:49
#67
05 Jan 2025, 12:49#67
Pakistan 194/9
Basically means they're all out since they're down a man because of the injury.
The follow-on has been enforced.
...and Pakistan will need well over 400.
A new nut, with over an hour to go until tea, lots of time left today.
Terrible time for Pakistan.
Captain26,388 posts
05 Jan 2025, 18:10
#68
05 Jan 2025, 18:10#68
Lioking better for Pakistan...maybe they can make us bat again...would be an achievement on it's own...
Captain21,007 posts
05 Jan 2025, 18:44
#69
05 Jan 2025, 18:44#69
I switched off after we bowled them out the first time. Came back for a little of their second innings.
The SA bowlers were tired and the pitch flatter than Denise's head.
We'll probably bowl them out tomorrow though.
Will be nice if they can get a lead of 100 though. Will be a tricky little score for the Proteas to get.
Captain21,007 posts
06 Jan 2025, 15:40
#70
06 Jan 2025, 15:40#70
Had to work today so couldn't watch any but Pakistan have managed to get into a lead of 27 with 2 batter remaining.
That's damn well done. Geez, after the demoralisation of that mammoth score from SA, to come back and show heart in a losing cause like that, it's great to see. I think they'll have learned a lot from this second innings of theirs, and from this test series in general.
Who knows what would have happened had one of their batters not injured himself on day 1.
Cricket wins
Captain21,007 posts
06 Jan 2025, 16:43
#71
06 Jan 2025, 16:43#71
And the Proteas take the series 2-0.
Easy win in the end. Set up beautifully by Rickleton with an innings that was nothing less than a purist's lesson in Test batting.
Great fight back from the Pakistanis. They won the ODI series and should really have drawn this Test series if only for the heroics of KG and Jansen in the first test.
Great job.
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