599 Responses to Cricket: South Africa vs Australia – 2nd Test

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  grootblousmile on 17 November 2011 at 4:12 pm

  Ashwell Prince falls for 50.

  SA 241 / 5
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  grootblousmile on 17 November 2011 at 4:15 pm

  Damn, AB de Villiers skies one… caught

  SA 243 / 6
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  grootblousmile on 17 November 2011 at 4:22 pm

  Vernon Philander caught LBW… for a duck

  SA mid-order collapse….

  SA 243 / 7

  Fark, will we reach 300 on an excellent batting pitch?
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  Ashley on 17 November 2011 at 4:23 pm

  jfk @ 21
  pitch report – dont know
  toss – we won
  ..
  3 wickets in 3 overs — wtf????
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  grootblousmile on 17 November 2011 at 4:24 pm

  Now Mark Boucher & Dale Steyn will have to re-build… and build a healthy partnership.
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  grootblousmile on 17 November 2011 at 4:27 pm

  Boucher goes for 3…

  SA 245 / 8
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  Ashley on 17 November 2011 at 4:27 pm

  oh my ………………
  cough cough cough cough ….
  someone heeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeelp
  we’re choking!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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  Ashley on 17 November 2011 at 4:30 pm

  gbsie
  have you perhaps SEEN the toss and HEARD why we preferred to BAT first?
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  grootblousmile on 17 November 2011 at 4:31 pm

  37 @ Ashley:
  Not even the Heimlich Manouvre will save them from choking!
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  grootblousmile on 17 November 2011 at 4:32 pm

  38 @ Ashley:
  No, just SAW some computers at that time….
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  Ashley on 17 November 2011 at 4:38 pm

  gbs @ 39
  maybe a few bluebull moffies could try the hindlick manouvre?
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  grootblousmile on 17 November 2011 at 4:40 pm

  41 @ Ashley:
  Don’t know, maybe some of the Stormers moffies could say if that would really work!

  … then lend the Bulls some moffies, because there ain’t any at the Bulls…

  Only steers and queers come from Slaapstad…. and you ain’t no steer!

  Hehehe
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  grootblousmile on 17 November 2011 at 4:45 pm

  Eishhhh

  Morkel Gone too.

  SA 258 / 9
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  Ashley on 17 November 2011 at 4:45 pm

  258/9 …. fuckin joke!!
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  grootblousmile on 17 November 2011 at 4:58 pm

  All out for 266
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  Ashley on 17 November 2011 at 5:01 pm

  last 6 wickets for 25 runs … pathetic!!
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  Just For Kicks on 17 November 2011 at 5:19 pm

  Can you “Adam ‘n Eve” it, pop out for 5 minutes and the wickets tumble. Absolutely pathetic. After having watched a very average Aussie bowling display for a while, I can only surmise that we threw away all our wickets – Starting with Prince, which I saw.

  GBS, no moffies lets in Slaapstad anymore, mass exodus of seapoint to Waterkloof – they’ll be with you shortly, look out for the mincing busses. You want our players, the rest come along as par for the course! Enjoy your Blue Billy Goat revival.
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  Scrumdown on 17 November 2011 at 5:37 pm

  Oh my goodness. It appears that the flower power has left the team!
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  superBul on 17 November 2011 at 6:46 pm

  Just For Kicks wrote:

  Enjoy your Blue Billy Goat revival.

  
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  superBul on 17 November 2011 at 7:40 pm

  This is how ESPN wraps up the days play, read from the bottom up

  5.30 pm It’s official now, play has been called off for the day. And wait for it, play will begin at 10.03 am tomorrow. Not 10, or 10.05, but 10.03 am. The oddities of this great game. Thank you for all your emails today, I’ll see you tomorrow. Cheers.

  5.15 pm Well they haven’t called it off yet, it’s too early, but I seriously doubt the light will improve enough for play to resume.

  So Australia have had the better of day one, after South Africa chose to bat. South Africa, however, were ahead at tea, after aggressive partnerships between Kallis and Amla, and Prince and AB e Villiers. It all came crashing down for them in the final session because of a spate of rash shots.

  5.05 pm Watson and Hughes are padded up and waiting beyond the boundary. The umpires are having a chat on the field. The light is bad, the floodlights have been on for a while now. South Africa will not want to start with a bowler slower than Steyn, no sense in wasting the new ball on a spinner.

  It doesn’t look like the players are coming out. If there was no delay they should have started by now. It’s very cloudy, dark cloud at that. It does not look good for the rest of the day, 19 overs remain.
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  superBul on 18 November 2011 at 7:01 am

  The talk of South Africa being underprepared before Newlands – they had not played a Test since early January and five senior squad members had not played a first-class match in the lead-up to the series – was shelved when they issued a comprehensive beating to Australia. What was forgotten in the madness was that part of the victory included a South African innings in which they were dismissed for 96.

  The middle and lower order, in particular, appeared vulnerable then, and did again during the first day’s play at the Wanderers. Kallis said the collapse had more to do with shot-selection than lack of match-time. “At 240 for 4 you are dominating the game; we had far too many soft dismissals and it’s something that we need to address,” he said. “It hasn’t got anything to do with the amount of cricket we played; its poor execution and shot making.”
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  superBul on 18 November 2011 at 7:04 am

  Kallis hinted that the South Africa batsmen may be struggling to change their mindset as they shift between different formats of the game. “The game has moved forward. Twenty20s and ODIs have forced change. In our case, it was poor shot making which shouldn’t happen in Test cricket. There has also been some really good bowling in between all of that.”
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  superBul on 18 November 2011 at 7:05 am

  OK off to work , enjoy the day and lets hope Dale and Co smash the Aussies big time.
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  grootblousmile on 18 November 2011 at 9:19 am

  Weather looking a bit dodgy here in Gauteng, doubt whether we’ll get a full day’s play in today.
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  Bullscot on 18 November 2011 at 10:23 am

  54@ grootblousmile:
  Looks like the thunderstorms are going to build on the highveld today so probably will lose time especially after lunch, bowlers are going to have to get stuck in from early on, after the nice middle order partnership thought final score was at least 100 runs too low, one thing to play attacking cricket but another to be sensible about it and not through wickets away with thoughtless shot selection.
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  grootblousmile on 18 November 2011 at 10:32 am

  Aussie 24 / 0 after 7 overs
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  Bullscot on 18 November 2011 at 10:52 am

  Aus 40/0 after 11 – nice steady start – Kallis already on to bowl
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  Bullscot on 18 November 2011 at 11:02 am

  Aus 57/0 in the 14th over – Kallis 1st over gone for 9, Morkel conceding 6 an over, oh dear is this going to be a long day in the field, bring on some cloud and rain!
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  Loosehead on 18 November 2011 at 11:29 am

  How many catches have they dropped?
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  ben_die_bul on 18 November 2011 at 11:46 am

  Sien die Chokers is weer terug waar hulle was, choking gister met 6 paaltjies in 25 lopies. Vorige toets was dit nie die Proteas wat so goed was nie, maar die Aussies wat sleg gespeel het.