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S. Africa all out 183 (68.3). Lunch.
No word on the follow on... but everyone assumes England will bat.
The last 3 wickets fell in 17 legal balls. |
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Donny
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K wrote: | This is bad for cricket. The standard of the game is collapsing. |
SA's only FAST bowler and the World's second best, in ICC ratings, isn't playing. Apart from Philander, the rest look military medium.
The Proteas are going through a West Indies type rebuild. ie. Losing Morkel, de Villiers, Amla, Kallis and Duminy in fairly quick succession. Pollock & Smith, before that.
Replaced by van der Dussen, Bavuma, Nortje, Hamza, Maharaj, Paterson, Hendricks, Malan and Pretorius. Hardly like replacements.
Also, Vernon Philander (64 Tests. 224 wickets) is to retire after the current Test.
Will be some time, if at all, before they're a competitive Test Country, again. _________________ Donny.
It's a game. Enjoy it. |
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England 2/75 (25.1).
Their lead is almost 300 already. |
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England 4/136 (41.3).
Pope joins Root.
The lead is 353. |
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Donny
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4/136. Hendricks 2/31. _________________ Donny.
It's a game. Enjoy it. |
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Golden boy Pope is out.
And now not-so-golden not-so-boy Buttler too.
(Both caught behind off Nortje's bowling.)
That could spell the end of Buttler's Test career.
England 6/160 (48 ). Drinks. |
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8 down now. Hendricks has 4.
But England's lead is approaching 450. |
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England all out 248 (61.3).
The lead is 465.
Hendricks, on debut, takes 5 wickets in the innings.
QdK passed 200 Test dismissals too.
And that'll be stumps.
Miller, cricinfo:
"[Root] was made to look sluggish by his boy-racing team-mates, none of whom seemed to know or care that with two full days left, there's really no need to rush." |
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S. Africa 2/90 (29). Lunch.
Woakes & Stokes have the wickets, but Foakes is not playing.
The wickets were very soft, but that would not come as a surprise to anyone who has been following the Death of Test Batting in the last decade or two. |
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S. Africa were 2/181 before FdP and RvdD were out in quick succession, just before tea, Rassie two runs short of a century. |
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S. Africa all out 274 (77.1).
England won by 191 runs.
POTM: Mark Wood.
There may be more ICC action: FdP and Buttler are reported to have had physical contact (possibly quite gentle). |
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"South Africa docked six WTC points, fined 60% match fees for slow over rate"
"first team to be docked World Test Championship (WTC) points for a slow over rate"
"After leaving frontline spinner Keshav Maharaj out of their side, South Africa did not bowl a single over of spin in the Test"
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'"These last two games have literally been the template of a full Test for us. Bat first, get more than 400 because we know that first-innings runs give huge pressure to the team batting second," Stokes said.
"We managed to bowl them out twice without batting again in Port Elizabeth, and then here we were in a position that it would have been interesting if it wasn't the last game of the series. We could have enforced the follow-on then, but we weren't in a position where we felt we had to. First-innings runs [are] always what we want and we've done that in the last two games."'
[Well, that's the template because the pitches are too flat. It's absurd that so much depends on the coin toss.
Not so long ago, 400 was considered a very big total. Now, if you don't get it, it feels like you've wasted the first innings.
e.g. Zimbabwe in the current (2nd) Test have knocked up 406.] |
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"70 - Years since South Africa lost two consecutive home Test series. They lost to Sri Lanka in early 2019 and now lost to England. Previously they lost to England and Australia in 1948 and 1949-50. This is also the first instance since 2004-05 that South Africa have lost three consecutive series. They lost to Sri Lanka (2-0), India ( 3-0) and England (3-1)."
(cricinfo) |
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1st ODI:
England 8/258
S. Africa 1/194 (34). Drinks.
QdK just passed 100.
It looks like England will be crushed. Not so easy playing outside your own rigged conditions (though the team is very different from the WC one, with debuts for Banton and Parkinson). |
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