The South African Proteas take on England in the 2nd 5-day Test of the series of 4 Tests, after drawing the 1st Test in Centurion. This is the traditional Boxing Day Test and this year it takes place in Durban at Kingsmead. This is your match thread for discussion of the game.
South Africa 343 & 133 (50.0 ov)
England 574/9d
England won by an innings and 98 runs
South Africa 1st innings | R | M | B | 4s | 6s | SR | ||
GC Smith* | run out (Cook) | 75 | 256 | 186 | 9 | 0 | 40.32 | |
AG Prince | c Swann b Anderson | 2 | 8 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 40.00 | |
HM Amla | lbw b Broad | 2 | 35 | 22 | 0 | 0 | 9.09 | |
JH Kallis | c Collingwood b Swann | 75 | 197 | 132 | 7 | 0 | 56.81 | |
AB de Villiers | c †Prior b Broad | 50 | 149 | 98 | 6 | 0 | 51.02 | |
JP Duminy | lbw b Onions | 4 | 9 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 44.44 | |
MV Boucher† | lbw b Swann | 39 | 72 | 50 | 5 | 0 | 78.00 | |
M Morkel | lbw b Swann | 23 | 87 | 49 | 2 | 0 | 46.93 | |
PL Harris | lbw b Swann | 2 | 15 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 16.66 | |
DW Steyn | c †Prior b Anderson | 47 | 66 | 58 | 3 | 3 | 81.03 | |
M Ntini | not out | 6 | 47 | 30 | 0 | 0 | 20.00 | |
Extras | (b 1, lb 17) | 18 | ||||||
Total | (all out; 108.3 overs; 474 mins) | 343 | (3.16 runs per over) |
Bowling | O | M | R | W | Econ | |||
JM Anderson | 23.3 | 4 | 75 | 2 | 3.19 | |||
G Onions | 23 | 6 | 62 | 1 | 2.69 | |||
SCJ Broad | 20 | 6 | 44 | 2 | 2.20 | |||
GP Swann | 35 | 3 | 110 | 4 | 3.14 | |||
IJL Trott | 4 | 0 | 19 | 0 | 4.75 | |||
KP Pietersen | 2 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 3.50 | |||
PD Collingwood | 1 | 0 | 8 | 0 | 8.00 |
England 1st innings | R | M | B | 4s | 6s | SR | ||
AJ Strauss* | b Morkel | 54 | 80 | 67 | 9 | 0 | 80.59 | |
AN Cook | c Kallis b Morkel | 118 | 401 | 263 | 11 | 0 | 44.86 | |
IJL Trott | c †Boucher b Morkel | 18 | 39 | 31 | 2 | 0 | 58.06 | |
KP Pietersen | lbw b Harris | 31 | 86 | 52 | 4 | 0 | 59.61 | |
PD Collingwood | c †Boucher b Duminy | 91 | 283 | 215 | 7 | 0 | 42.32 | |
IR Bell | c †Boucher b Steyn | 140 | 313 | 227 | 10 | 1 | 61.67 | |
MJ Prior† | b Duminy | 60 | 134 | 81 | 6 | 1 | 74.07 | |
SCJ Broad | c Kallis b Duminy | 20 | 65 | 59 | 1 | 1 | 33.89 | |
GP Swann | c Prince b Steyn | 22 | 15 | 14 | 2 | 1 | 157.14 | |
JM Anderson | not out | 1 | 17 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 25.00 | |
G Onions | not out | 2 | 8 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 25.00 | |
Extras | (lb 10, w 6, nb 1) | 17 | ||||||
Total | (9 wickets dec; 170 overs; 724 mins) | 574 | (3.37 runs per over) |
Bowling | O | M | R | W | Econ | |||
DW Steyn | 34 | 6 | 94 | 2 | 2.76 | |||
M Ntini | 29 | 4 | 114 | 0 | 3.93 | |||
M Morkel | 31 | 6 | 78 | 3 | 2.51 | (3w) | ||
JH Kallis | 14 | 1 | 43 | 0 | 3.07 | (1nb) | ||
PL Harris | 38 | 4 | 146 | 1 | 3.84 | (1w) | ||
JP Duminy | 24 | 1 | 89 | 3 | 3.70 |
South Africa 2nd innings | R | M | B | 4s | 6s | SR | ||
AG Prince | c Bell b Swann | 16 | 42 | 28 | 1 | 0 | 57.14 | |
GC Smith* | lbw b Swann | 22 | 97 | 56 | 2 | 0 | 39.28 | |
HM Amla | b Swann | 6 | 17 | 13 | 1 | 0 | 46.15 | |
JH Kallis | b Broad | 3 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 75.00 | |
AB de Villiers | lbw b Broad | 2 | 18 | 15 | 0 | 0 | 13.33 | |
JP Duminy | b Broad | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | |
MV Boucher† | c †Prior b Broad | 29 | 91 | 65 | 3 | 0 | 44.61 | |
M Morkel | lbw b Swann | 15 | 51 | 40 | 3 | 0 | 37.50 | |
PL Harris | c Broad b Anderson | 36 | 57 | 50 | 5 | 0 | 72.00 | |
DW Steyn | lbw b Swann | 3 | 37 | 25 | 0 | 0 | 12.00 | |
M Ntini | not out | 1 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 33.33 | |
Extras | 0 | |||||||
Total | (all out; 50 overs; 215 mins) | 133 | (2.66 runs per over) |
Bowling | O | M | R | W | Econ | |||
JM Anderson | 8 | 2 | 24 | 1 | 3.00 | |||
G Onions | 4 | 1 | 12 | 0 | 3.00 | |||
GP Swann | 21 | 3 | 54 | 5 | 2.57 | |||
SCJ Broad | 17 | 3 | 43 | 4 | 2.52 |
Match details |
Toss South Africa, who chose to bat Series England led the 4-match series 1-0 |
Player of the match GP Swann (England) |
Umpires Aleem Dar (Pakistan) and AM Saheba (India) TV umpire SJ Davis (Australia) Match referee RS Mahanama (Sri Lanka) Reserve umpire JD Cloete |
Close of play 26 Dec day 1 – South Africa 1st innings 175/5 (AB de Villiers 8*, MV Boucher 1*, 61 ov) 27 Dec day 2 – England 1st innings 103/1 (AN Cook 31*, IJL Trott 17*, 26.2 ov) 28 Dec day 3 – England 1st innings 386/5 (IR Bell 55*, MJ Prior 11*, 123 ov) 29 Dec day 4 – South Africa 2nd innings 76/6 (MV Boucher 20*, M Morkel 7*, 32 ov) 30 Dec day 5 – South Africa 2nd innings 133 (50 ov) – end of match |
Looks hellova misty and balmy at Kingsmead
Ntini is bowling too short…. flok!
240 GBS, why are you still growling at me? 😐
243@ Carol – Not at you…. just so you sense my general mood…… hehehe
Puma, the pitch is tame…. farking good for batting…
Don’t be surprised if the Poms put up a BIGGGGGGGGGGGG 1st Innings lead….. and then try to get us out cheap in the 2nd innings.
245 – GBS, That is what I was worried about. The pitch becoming better for batting as the days go on. Well we have to hope that we can bowl at least 2 out by tonight. Otherwise we could be in trouble.
242 – Morne and Steyn should have opened together with the new ball. Ntini should have come in a bit later.
Ntini has to prove himself after all the recent flak!
There is no doubting your mood today!! 😉
Did you see Bonzais comment….came in after last nights dinner party and fell about laughing when I saw it! 😳
Ntini has reached his sell-by date it seems…. gets way too many balls at either the wrong lenght or on the wrong line.
It’s a very serious waste of the new ball…..
248@ BonzaiGBS will be here this afternoon sometime….. he’ll have to answer for the kakkas he writes on here…. fark, I have no boep…. just a little porch for some valuable tools…. hehehe
J. Boycott saying Ntini not the bowler for this wicket. And all of England saying keep him on, keep him on. Well why is it that they can see it and not us? Should have had Parnell instead of Ntini there or De Wet. Ntini is past his best.
Farkkkkkkkkkkkkkk, I have this huge bowl of Biltong and droë wors and cabanossi on my desk….. and not the teeth to eat it right now…… do you know how frustrating that is????
252 – GBS, Good save the teeth…hahaha.
Ag, It must be frustrating. Get is sorted out tomorrow.
Heheheheheh…..Look if you want to meet my sister turn your Skype on, see if we can cheer you up!
AD saying Ntini was all over the show when bowling.
NOT GOOD ENOUGH. Drop him for the next test and select Parnell or De Wet.
Carol, You getting visitors today? Do you still have snow?
Had a e-mail from my mate up in Scotland yesterday and where they live it was -10 Now that is really freezing for me.
Heavy clouds now hanging over Umhlanga. See there is now rain at the stadium. Wont play long in this rain.
Snow all but gone….Yep a few over for a casual lunch! Shame you can’t pop in!! We can’t see the crickett tho!
It is probably about 5 degrees now!
Hau, another draw is on the cards.
259 – Pill, It could be, rain here and think at the ground now too. If they do come out and get going again. England will land up with a big score. Only the 2nd day so far. We on the back foot I think. They scoring easy peasy there.
Ntini went for 25 off of 2 overs. Strauss has got 49 off of 50 balls. Not good enough from our bowlers. Steyn bowling well though.
258 – Carol, You will be pleased the snow has gone. Must be difficult to get anywhere when the snow is on.
Enjoy your visitors when they come.
Cheers Puma, out now!
Laters folks!
262 – Cheers Carol, Enjoy the rest of your day.
We all going out to dinner later. So will catch up tomorrow.
Not so sure about that thought Strauss was out. Looked to me like a small nick to the bat then hitting his leg. So not sure what they were looking at upstairs. Think Strauss got lucky there.
Hummmm, Grumpy here…. Dopey is in the House…. hehehehe
Fark, the batting wicket is good like I feared it would be…. 102 / 1
Shit, we need wickets
Damn, bad light has stopped play, 2nd day in a row.
GBS, Think the weather will be a bit better tomorrow but forecast says rain and sun for the next 4 days.
Batting will be better if the sun comes out. Which I think it will tomorrow. The out field will be drier so it will be faster and easier for 4’s to come. Hope our bowling is better.
Only bowler really doing it so far is Morne. Steyn not too bad but should be better tomorrow. Think we should have kept De Wet from last week in this side. Ntini has served SA well but for now he is a little past it. De Wet should have started in his place or Parnell.
GBS, Hope you get to a Dentist tomorrow and sort that tooth out.
Out of here catch up tomorrow.
BonzaiGBS thinks I’m a hoot with my sore tooth…. he says I must take a bottle of Tequila and a pair of pliers and go for a walk….
I think I’ll do it differently, I’ll take the Tequila and the pliers to the dentist with me….. drink some Tequila in the waiting room and then I’ll put the dear Dr’s goolies in the beak of the pliers, just before he starts to work on my teeth, then we’ll see who hurts whom the most…..
Bet you it’ll be the kindest Dr I’ll ever come accross!
MMMWWWWAAAAAHHHHHAAAAAHHHHHAAA 😆
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