3rd Test: Australia v South Africa at Adelaide on Nov 24-28, 2016

[Bazal]

Give him cover on the off side then.

Also, Cook is walking well over to work it down leg.

No, Lyon is boring and defensive. Hitting to the off side is playing against the spin. It's a risk for the batsman. He has enough cover, he simply doesn't want to take a risk himself.

 

[tomdl]

A 60's story from Grandpa Simpson. Just what I wanted to hear.

 

[hineyrulz]

A 60's story from Grandpa Simpson. Just what I wanted to hear.

At least he was talking about someone else for a change.

 

[The Mad Hatter]

Did they give Hazlewood a 2nd new ball, or a Kool Fruit?

 

[Bazal]

Great nut from Starc

 

[hineyrulz]

This looks salmon trout.

 

[jargan83]

Heals: "It was was well worth the review"

No it wasn't.

 

[Bazal]

Vernon Watson

 

[jargan83]

Well batted young saffer.

 

[hineyrulz]

Well done to him, it wasn't pretty but he guts it out for a ton.

 

[Bazal]

See, that's not a great hundred. It's not a particularly memorable hundred. It's not a dominant hundred.

But it's a hundred. It's the kind of hundred our bats need to learn to make. A gritty, dirty, slow, gutsy hundred. Test cricket is a five day game, you don't need to strike at 80, you need to score runs

 

[_snafu_]

Gutsy effort there

 

[AlwaysGreen]

Thats a f**king good hundred. Guts, ticker, balls. His style is ugly as Sam Burgess' love child but that's a test match hundred to he proud of.

Really, 3 fine centuries this matfh.

 

[some11]

Now get the other two and leave him stranded not out.

 

[Twizzle]

decent knock from Cook but f**k me I hate watching him bat, terrible technique and virtually no footwork, goes looking for the ball with his hands

got me f**ked how he even gets off the mark with a technique like that, especially being an opener playing against a shiny new ball

 

[Eelectrica]

Credit where credit's due. Well done Cook for gutsing it out and bringing up his 100.
Given SA a chance. Hope we can end it soon though. Don't want the chase to be much over 150.

 

[Eelectrica]

Did they give Hazlewood a 2nd new ball, or a Kool Fruit?

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Why not both? Works for Faf.

 

[AlwaysGreen]

decent knock from Cook but f**k me I hate watching him bat, terrible technique and virtually no footwork, goes looking for the ball with his hands

got me f**ked how he even gets off the mark with a technique like that, especially being an opener playing against a shiny new ball

Ok KP.

 

[Bazal]

decent knock frpm Cook but f**k me I hate watching him bat, terrible technique and virtually no footwork, goes looking for the ball with his hands

got me f**ked how he even gets off the mark with a technique like that, especially being an opener playing against a shiny new ball

Got me f**ked why people cling to some kind of phantom idea of "technique" tbh....the guy has 12,500 first class runs, clearly "technique" doesn't matter to him

 

[Twizzle]

KPs eyes dont work too well