3rd Test: South Africa v England at Cape Town Jan 3-7 2010

[TheParraboy]

wet outfield delaying play, England won the toss and elected to field


South Africa team
GC Smith*, AG Prince, HM Amla, JH Kallis, AB de Villiers, JP Duminy, MV Boucher†, M Morkel, PL Harris, DW Steyn, F de Wet

England team
AJ Strauss*, AN Cook, IJL Trott, KP Pietersen, PD Collingwood, IR Bell, MJ Prior†, SCJ Broad, GP Swann, JM Anderson, G Onions


Ntini dropped, interesting. Wonder if there will be any backlash over this (the black/white quota thing). Though I think his form has been poor and deserved to be dropped. Is Botha allowed to play tests?

 

[Hallatia]

Ntini finally got the chop, replaced by Friedel deWet

match delayed by rain
toss was taken a short while ago, England won and Sent South Africa in to bat

South Africa 1 Graeme Smith (capt), 2 Ashwell Prince, 3 Hashim Amla, 4 Jacques Kallis, 5 AB de Villiers, 6 JP Duminy, 7 Mark Boucher (wk), 8 Paul Harris, 9 Morne Morkel, 10 Dale Steyn, 11 Friedel de Wet.

England 1 Andrew Strauss (capt), 2 Alastair Cook, 3 Jonathan Trott, 4 Kevin Pietersen, 5 Paul Collingwood, 6 Ian Bell, 7 Matt Prior (wk), 8 Stuart Broad, 9 Graeme Swann, 10 James Anderson, 11 Graham Onions.

 

[TheParraboy]

play underway

Prince opening with Smith

 

[Hallatia]

Prince out for a duck

 

[Panther_Daz]

Another pitch with plenty in it here!

Great day of Test Match cricket viewing.

 

[TheParraboy]

There should be more of these type of decks in 20/20 I reckon, just for variety

 

[Hallatia]

Another pitch with plenty in it here!

Great day of Test Match cricket viewing.

nowhere near as much in this than in the SCG.

Agree about the test cricket today though, marvelous

 

[Panther_Daz]

Smith gets a life as Swann drops a sitter of Onions.

 

[TheParraboy]

Smith gets a life as Swann drops a sitter of Onions.

Swann dropped Onions? Bet he cried

 

[African Monkey]

Swann dropped Onions? Bet he cried

:lol:

I think it's time to drop Prince down the order. Amla to open or Jacques if he wants to.

 

[TheParraboy]

SA 5/131

Jacques kallis 40no,

I hope your paying attention here AM, Dravid is not the only one

 

[Hallatia]

KAllis is a living legend of our game

there is real question marks over a few of these Seffers though, notably Prince and Duminy. I also feel like the end is near for Boucher, I don't think he'll ever be given the chop, but I sense he is nearing the end of his career, at least in test cricket ...

 

[African Monkey]

SA 5/131

Jacques kallis 40no,

I hope your paying attention here AM, Dravid is not the only one

:lol: hopefully he goes on and makes a big score.

Btw, how is the pitch playing ?

 

[Hallatia]

:lol: hopefully he goes on and makes a big score.

Btw, how is the pitch playing ?

remarkably similar to the SCG today, but not as bad... maybe 60 to 70% of what the SCG was doing...
and there's Kallis's half century

 

[African Monkey]

remarkably similar to the SCG today, but not as bad... maybe 60 to 70% of what the SCG was doing...
and there's Kallis's half century

Sh*t a few bowler friendly pitches for once. Jacques could join the list of 2 with a good score here and I will never doubt the great genius sex bomb again

 

[eddiesmith]

Very batsman friendly conditions overhead though after lunch as all the cloud disappeared during the break, add in the ball getting older and its probably alot easier for batting now than the SCG ever was, probably only about 50% as tough as the SCG was but getting better alot quicker

 

[Hallatia]

Sh*t a few bowler friendly pitches for once. Jacques could join the list of 2 with a good score here and I will never doubt the great genius sex bomb again

I can't believe you ever doubted him in the first place, I thought you were the president of his fanclub ... but you just continue to disappoint Monkey ...

 

[African Monkey]

I can't believe you ever doubted him in the first place, I thought you were the president of his fanclub ... but you just continue to disappoint Monkey ...

Well I do know that he does read these forums and I thought that a few stern words would inspire him on to bigger and better things

 

[Hallatia]

Well I do know that he does read these forums and I thought that a few stern words would inspire him on to bigger and better things

:lol::lol::lol:
I doubt there would be many bigger and better things for the great man
apart from looking better ... the only thing about hiim which needs improving is his appearance ...

 

[African Monkey]

Jacques is very good looking thank you very much and I've noticed that Boucher has scored a few runs

P.S F**k Cameroon