1st Test: Australia v South Africa at Perth on Nov 3-7, 2016

[no name]

Warnie predicted Elgar would get out......

Yesterday at 4pm.

 

[hineyrulz]

And all of a sudden.......

 

[TheParraboy]

We really should have put on over 350 in our dig.
Couple of bad calls sure, but most of them should have buckled down once Steyn was out of the game, go at run an over for an hour who cares, get the SA bowlers tired, the runs would have come in buckets

Our batsmen put us in this mess, they need to get us out of this (I have zero confidence they will). SA win or a draw the only two likely outcomes.

 

[undertaker]

Australia 0/158, on target to rack up a strong 1st innings lead, before losing 10/86....an oh too familiar story, yet again.

With South Africa currently leading by 322 with 6 wickets in hand and 2 more days to go, it'd have to take the miracle of the century for Australia to salvage a draw out of this test.

Australia's middle-order batting has been brittle for the past few years, starting towards the end of Ponting's tenure as test captain (Headingley 2010 vs Pakistan, where we got skittled for less than 100). Some serious changes are going to be needed between now and next summer's Ashes series. One of them is removing this fixation of trying to emulate Flintoff's feat in the 2005 Ashes and trying to produce an all-rounder. The Mitch Marsh experiment has failed and a specialist #6 batsman needs to be selected instead.

 

[TheParraboy]

Warnie predicted Elgar would get out......

Yesterday at 4pm.

Warnes a fool

 

[hineyrulz]

Warne has become a bad parody of himself. He was always an embarrassment I wouldn't even begin to know what he is now. Not sure who is worse these days, the team, the selectors, commentators or the clowns in charge of running the game.

 

[no name]

Marsh, what a star!

 

[TheParraboy]

lol voges

 

[hineyrulz]

Plodder.

 

[Pete Cash]

This team is insipid, lazy and soft as butter. The selectors have much to be blamed for but the clowns in charge who never have any pressure put on them should of been gone long ago.

Mate heads should have rolled after the last ashes, heads should have rolled after the sri Lankan tour.

Yeah we simply have f**k all batting depth but how can administrators and coaches and selectors keep their spots after these kinds of performances

 

[JJ]

Australia still with a big chance here - Saffers only have 3 bowlers, one you generally regard as rubbish, and another on debut...

 

[Mr Spock!]

Burns failed again

Just looking at who's made centuries in the Shield so far and aren't in the test team

Lehmann
Cooper
White
Harris
Burns
Ferguson
Maddinson
Patterson
Weatherald

Though they'll probably go with Henriques who hasn't even scored a 50.

 

[Mr Spock!]

Australia still with a big chance here - Saffers only have 3 bowlers, one you generally regard as rubbish, and another on debut...

You mean like in the first innings when those same bowlers took 9 for not much.....

 

[TheParraboy]

Mitch Marsh looks like Garland Greene (Steve Buscemi) from the movie Con Air

 

[hineyrulz]

Mitch Marsh looks like Garland Greene (Steve Buscemi) from the movie Con Air

"He's got the whole world in his hands"

 

[Mr Spock!]

Mate heads should have rolled after the last ashes, heads should have rolled after the sri Lankan tour.

Yeah we simply have f**k all batting depth but how can administrators and coaches and selectors keep their spots after these kinds of performances

Apparently not Pete

Mitch Marsh 'not cooked' and won't be dropped by Australia, says Mark Waugh

• ‘We have actually picked this team for the first two Tests’, says Waugh
• National selector says Western Australian is ‘not cooked

National selector Mark Waugh has guaranteed Mitch Marsh he won’t be dropped for the second Test against South Africa, but the heat is on the all-rounder to start pulling his weight.

Marsh’s spot in the Test side is coming under increasing scrutiny following a lean year with the bat. The 25-year-old is averaging just 23 in the Test arena, with his eight-ball duck against South Africa on Thursday heaping even more pressure on his spot in the team.

Despite his batting woes, selectors are vowing to stick by Marsh for at least one more Test. But if Marsh fails in the second Test against South Africa in Hobart, starting on November 12, he could be replaced by Moises Henriques for the third Test.

So the all rounder experiment of picking a mediocre batsman/bowler will continue.

ffs

 

[JJ]

You mean like in the first innings when those same bowlers took 9 for not much.....

Yeah, just saying though - most here think Philander is more Nathan Astle than quality opening bowler...

Without Steyn they're very short, if Australia can hang around they could get close - that said, I've said for a long time the Australia top order is over-rated

Who knows, shocked RSA came back so well, but two Marshs, Khawaja, Don and Nevill is a pretty ordinary lineup on anything other than the flattest of decks

 

[El Diablo]

"He's got the whole world in his hands"

Mong wrote that scene

 

[Canard]

De Kock looks very stiff.

 

[TIGER14]

Faf will dig in and bat to tea tomorrow slowly strangling us to death. Lyon as toothless as usual against competent batsmen,

Quality prediction.