England vs S.A. Cricket

Dreadful batting by England in the second innings.

Dreadful shot by Strauss.
Peterson misses a straight ball ( i would not miss him if he never played for England again).
Bopara out of his depth (again!).

I thought Strauss’s captaincy was poor.

But, well done South Africa, what a performance. Credit where credit is due I feel.

Well done to South Africa.

Now England just need to get rid of Pietersen, to improve things in the England camp.

I was on the road the whole day yesterday, only caught a glimpse at lunchtime. Well done South Africa.

Well done to Amla! 🙂

4th Day : Scoring here

Cloudy in the Natal midlands this evening with a possibility of snow on the mountains Alan!

See our video : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qRVYcMnfkz8

I’m not sure if I could cope with the blue sky, and lack of traffic 😀

(England 57-3)

At stumps of day 3: 403/2 – SA leads by 18 runs with Kallis on 82* and Amla on 183*

A superb batting performance by SA losing only the wicket of Smith during the course of the day.

Tomorrow I’m on the road all day, not sure how much I will be able to follow. Driving from Durban to Johannesburg, 660 kilometers, but doing it over 2 days. My daughter is navigator and will keep me up to date on the score! 😀

See our video : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qRVYcMnfkz8

Get all our runs in the first innings and don’t bat again, here’s hoping.

That certainly seems to be the SA strategy ? 😉

From the Guardian:

37th over: South Africa 86-1 (in reply to England’s 385; Smith 37, Amla 47) That’s the end of the day’s play. It’s England 1-1 South Africa. England completely dominated the first day; South Africa have completely dominated the second. What an outstanding performance with both bat and ball. Tomorrow could well be the most important day of the match and even the series.

Dean, thanks for the Facebook accept!

Hey Ralph, (accepted your request on facebook)

Watched every ball, a few things I noticed, a great toss to win, the wicket is largely slowish and flat, but very dry. Get all our runs in the first innings and don’t bat again, here’s hoping.
SA didn’t really have a bowling strategy at all, they just ran in and bowled, there was no mixing it up, no bouncer barrage, no plans to unsettle us, they just seem to go through the motions which is quite odd considering their fire power. Cook & Trott, fantastic together again, dug us out of what could have been a bit of a hole considering we lost our captain to the 4th ball of the day. They played with patience and certainly seemed to have a plan against Morkel which worked.
Looking forward to day 2 tomorrow, but I’m playing in Devon myself so I’ll miss most of it, must catch the highlights on CH5 tomorrow evening.

Forgot it was on, and didn’t see anything on TV about it.

Considering Cricket is one of our national sports, it gets very little coverage in
the media.

Not watching but very happy with day one!:)