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Cricket: Test: SA v England.

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  • The Red Robin
    The Red Robin Posts: 26,131

    This exact article was on the guardians website earlier?
  • Leroy Ambrose
    Leroy Ambrose Posts: 14,438
    [cite]Posted By: MCS[/cite]
    [cite]Posted By: Exiled_Addick[/cite]The key to enjoying cricket is not to treat it like other sports. Other sports are designed to hold you attention fully for a couple of hours or so. Cricket, well test Cricket, is best enjoyed if you dip in and out of it or listen to TMS whilst doing something else. If you attempt to sit in front of your TV and watch every ball of a 5 day match then your attention is bound to wander.

    The key is to be suffieciently aware of what's going on that you can get yourself in front of a TV or next to a Radio in time to be involved in an hours entertainment like we got this afternoon.

    Agree with you are saying for just normal cricket fans, but mark my words the test cricket purist would love nothing more than to sit in his pants for the whole test watching every ball and drinks break!! I know this cos i am him, the 29 year old purist who on a saturday test day would sit in my pants only, watching it all day long!! Thats my goal in life, to watch more test cricket in my Jack Palance!! Beer, peace, some nuts lol and a whole lotta blocking and amazing passages of fast bowling!!

    I can tell you when it was absolute perfection for me, it was when we played the saffers last year at home, Flintoff bowling an incredible torrent of 92 mph chin music to Jack Kallis, 2 all rounders at the top, top of their games, with fred really frightening him, and making him play at an absolute rip snorter after really buttering him up!! That, for me, is sporting briliance.

    You give me, and today as to quote Boycott on TMS, that all day long, proper spells of proper brutal but skillfull fast bowling. can't wait to see Steyn in action on the sky highlights tonight to see how it held up against the likes of Freddie v Kallis, or one Atherton v Donald match up, or even when Macgrath had figures of something 4 wickets for 2 runs in the 05 Ashes test at Lords!! Stunning.

    Going to knock one out now lol
    Absolutely, 100% spot on. Test cricket transcends sport. I'd watch every ball of even a boring test - it's pure theatre. Some of the tests that England have been involved in over the last five years have been ridiculously good - I fancy we'll never see a patch of test cricket like it again.

    I reckon the Saffers will pinch this last test unfortunately. Would love to be proved wrong, but I just see their bowlers as more than capable of taking 20 wickets, whereas England's attack seems to drift through long periods of the game without much menace at all.
  • AshTray
    AshTray Posts: 1,036
    I'm quite late to cricket, but am happy to say I am fully appreciating the finer points of the game having seen a full season of county cricket live for the first time last summer.

    I too will try not to miss a ball of this final test of what has been a fascinating series - the only difference is I don't have Sky, so it will be ball by ball on 5 Live Sports Extra!
  • England Win the Toss & Bat.
  • Parnell & Mclaren in for SA.
    Sidebottom in for Onions for England.
  • SoundAsa£
    SoundAsa£ Posts: 22,488
    Strauss out first ball!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
  • Bugger.

    Strauss C.Amla .Steyn 0.
    Golden Duck (First Ball).
    0-1.
  • 7-2
    Trott LBW B.Morkel 5.
  • AshTray
    AshTray Posts: 1,036
    Cripes! What's going on out there?
  • johnnybev1987
    johnnybev1987 Posts: 11,415
    OH Shit!!! this is not looking good, but long way to go

    Just got the run by run update up at work :-)

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  • ValleyGary
    ValleyGary Posts: 37,990
    Going well then....
  • AshTray
    AshTray Posts: 1,036
    KP now out. 32 for 3.
  • AshTray
    AshTray Posts: 1,036
    Cook out LBW to a no ball. 39 for 4.
  • ValleyGary
    ValleyGary Posts: 37,990
    All down to Colly and Bell again then....
  • mart77
    mart77 Posts: 5,658
    I thought the delivery to get Cook was a no ball, so even with the technology the debates about decisions will carry on.
  • i must admit even though i play (a low level of) cricket, i thought the no-ball rule was when the ball left the hand, not where the front foot initially lands.
    in conclusion, i propose that the england bowlers wear those trainers with the roller in the heel and simply 'skate' to within a yard of the batsman, and smash his off stump out of the ground.
  • mart77
    mart77 Posts: 5,658
    [cite]Posted By: paulbaconsarnie[/cite]i must admit even though i play (a low level of) cricket, i thought the no-ball rule was when the ball left the hand, not where the front foot initially lands.
    in conclusion, i propose that the england bowlers wear those trainers with the roller in the heel and simply 'skate' to within a yard of the batsman, and smash his off stump out of the ground.

    That really made me chuckle!
  • AshTray
    AshTray Posts: 1,036
    [cite]Posted By: paulbaconsarnie[/cite]
    in conclusion, i propose that the england bowlers wear those trainers with the roller in the heel and simply 'skate' to within a yard of the batsman, and smash his off stump out of the ground.

    Healies?
  • Steadied it a bit to 100/4 at lunch. Colly has even hit 2 sixes!
  • johnnybev1987
    johnnybev1987 Posts: 11,415
    still do well to get above 180, come on colly and bell!

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  • johnnybev1987
    johnnybev1987 Posts: 11,415
    and we're underway again, going to need a big innings from them both, come on you england!!!
  • LenGlover
    LenGlover Posts: 31,661
    115-5 Colly out for 47:-(
  • AFKABartram
    AFKABartram Posts: 57,844
    125/5, somehow someone needs to have an innings and get us to 300.
  • bell end
  • 133/6
  • suzisausage
    suzisausage Posts: 11,502
    Swann said last night his preparation technique was playing oasis at full volume and practicising "shadow batting and growling"
  • Cracking delivery to get Bell, several out swingers and then one that swung in sharply.
  • Prior goes...

    Trying to hook a Steyn bouncer.

    136/7.
  • And Broad chips Kallis to mid-on...

    148/8
  • johnnybev1987
    johnnybev1987 Posts: 11,415
    [cite]Posted By: paulbaconsarnie[/cite]bell end

    give him his due, he has been performing well of late. although unsure and our second best scorer this innings with 35, although doesnt say much really does it :-(

    10 more runs then we hit the heights of 150, although give me that at 40-4 i would of taken it!