1st Test: South Africa v Australia at Centurion Feb 12-16, 2014

[benched tiger]

Appalling

Yep...appalling somes up the fielding by the SA boys...imagine what Jonty Rhodes would be thinking about this display:crazy:

 

[Sphagnum]

Is Hanse Cronje back? There should be an inquiry into this bowling/fielding performance so far.

 

[hineyrulz]

Steady Eddie is now the South African fielding coach.

 

[Pete Cash]

The fielding has simply been the worst I have seen dished up by a South African side.

 

[benched tiger]

The Aussies aggressive, positive play has really put these negative sides like England and SA under pressure and they have crumbled.
You would think SA would have seen it coming after the Ashes series.

If there was one team that played hard cricket similar to Australia it was South Africa,now they have gone all Ingurland !

 

[TheParraboy]

100 run partnership between doolan and warner

Doolan is due to get out, his average suggests it

1/104
lead of 295

450 plus lead easily

 

[hineyrulz]

If there was one team that played hard cricket similar to Australia it was South Africa,now they have gone all Ingurland !

They always played hard and aggressive cricket against everyone else but us. We always did to them what they did to all the other teams. Looks like it is happening again. 9 off that over.

 

[Pete Cash]

lmao Warner has almost hit that back to Australia

 

[hineyrulz]

:lol: Take that Monobrow!!

 

[some11]

So are we declaring at a figure or do we want to have a go at them shortly before the end of play today?

 

[Sphagnum]

The words gone out. They can't bowl, catch or field so have a dig, boys.

 

[benched tiger]

Nice...

 

[Sphagnum]

:lol: Take that Monobrow!!

I think I'm gonna call him 'aggro'. It works on many levels.

 

[Sphagnum]

 

[hineyrulz]

I think I'm gonna call him 'aggro'. It works on many levels.

My cousin was nicknamed Agro by me many moons ago. He still is called that 20 years later :lol: Hates it.

 

[no name]

They're getting desperate.

 

[herbert henry1908]

So are we declaring at a figure or do we want to have a go at them shortly before the end of play today?

I hate to be slightly on the negative side but I'd want to be 500 plus in front before we declare.


Best we could get to whilst having a bowl tonight would be about 430-450. Not enough IMO.

 

[TheParraboy]

So are we declaring at a figure or do we want to have a go at them shortly before the end of play today?

Id say declare at 500 lead, most likely 45min to an hour into day 4. Leaves us plenty of time to get them out.

 

[Desert Qlder]

500 is a very reasonable expectation now as a target, by lunch tomorrow.

 

[TheParraboy]

Chasing under 300 has been pretty easy on this ground (according to stats on cric info), so setting them 400 is a bit risky, wont be enough IMO

500 would be out of reach, with well over 5 session to bowl them out