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unrepentant
14,413 posts
125 months
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Laurel Green said: ferrisbueller said: Golden Duck for FIGJAM in the county cricket today.....Hampshire fans booed him on and off and cheered the wicket like loons apparently. As you'd expect. I would not usually condone such behavior but, all things considered, believe on this occasion, he has reaped what he has sown.  KP has only himself to blame.
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DJRC
19,848 posts
105 months
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unrepentant said: Laurel Green said: ferrisbueller said: Golden Duck for FIGJAM in the county cricket today.....Hampshire fans booed him on and off and cheered the wicket like loons apparently. As you'd expect. I would not usually condone such behavior but, all things considered, believe on this occasion, he has reaped what he has sown. KP has only himself to blame. Indeed, poetic justice springs to mind  Unfortunately Skip just looks like his head isnt there atm, which is probably understandable. The Boks must think its Xmas time this summer with the lovely great big pressie we have gift wrapped for them with this series. Or have our resident Bok friends not actually stopped laughing yet? What gets me though is the grief that came out of South Africa and in official cricket circles at KP over the last few yrs and now he decides its ok to start sending txts to them slating his own Captain!! I dunno if you chaps in the Southern Hemisphere do hubris, but you could bury KP in it right now and he'd be flowering his own shrubbery!!!
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AndySA
791 posts
132 months
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Hi DJRC I must admit my respect for FIGJAM (great name) was lost a very long time ago. As for all the nonsense he has got himself into recently, I am just pleased that he is not in the SA camp. And who on earth in our squad would you drop for him and still keep it ballanced?
Looking forward to today and some fired up bowling.
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DJRC
19,848 posts
105 months
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AndySA said: Hi DJRC I must admit my respect for FIGJAM (great name) was lost a very long time ago. As for all the nonsense he has got himself into recently, I am just pleased that he is not in the SA camp. And who on earth in our squad would you drop for him and still keep it ballanced?
Looking forward to today and some fired up bowling. FIGJAM is Warne at his finest I presume it was Warne in the Aussie camp anyway. Its too good for the Aussie media to have come up with on their own! KP at his best is worth a place in any lineup in test cricket. But as you say, the baggage he brings and the disruptive influence on a team, esp when you have a settled and efficient lineup...! If England do produce a proper innings today, get the victory and so scrape a series draw, then I will freely admit it is something that has been dragged from the jaws of defeat and the moral victory very much South Africas. As it is I would be astounded if we managed it, the team are simply not at the races. South Africa have battered England black and blue and it has only been some very determined, hard working bowling from England in the last 2 games that have even given us this shot. The English batting and fielding have both been poor, not least because only 2/3rd of your bowling has been working at 100% at any one time! I dont think Steyn has been fully fit all series has he?
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chimster
1,554 posts
78 months
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Vocal Minority
2,107 posts
21 months
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hornetrider said: Vocal Minority said: Quoted just in case In case what? In case we win. Which I admit is looking unlikely in the light of happenings since both statements were made. (I still refuse to go for admitting defeat when your 4th innings hasn't even started...now maybe...).
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AndySA
791 posts
132 months
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Steyn has not always looked himself this series, but then maybe we set the bar too high for him as he is already has 14 wickets (with another 8 still possible) at an average of 27 and a strike rate of 51. No one else in either team betters any of these numbers.
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hornetrider
40,814 posts
74 months
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Scoring pace seems rather sluggish this morning. Please tell me they're not trying to bat out the f  king draw.
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Nom de ploom
2,398 posts
43 months
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one would hope not but this is the best pace attack in world cricket at pres hunting for the win away from home.
9 dropped catched this series, most unlike england...
I think we've been a bowler short all series tbh, my preference is always for 5 bowlers.
with 4 if one has an off test or series (i.e. swann this series) it limits you. In order to win a match you have to bowl the opposition out twice, something sadly we have not looked close to doing this series.
Are SA the best team in the world? not sure but based on this series England definitely are not the no. 1 team in the world.
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Fishtigua
3,003 posts
64 months
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hornetrider said: Scoring pace seems rather sluggish this morning. Please tell me they're not trying to bat out the f king draw. Run rate of 3.8, hardly going to set the world alight. I think they just want to save face tbh.
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hornetrider
40,814 posts
74 months
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Fishtigua said: hornetrider said: Scoring pace seems rather sluggish this morning. Please tell me they're not trying to bat out the f king draw. Run rate of 3.8, hardly going to set the world alight. I think they just want to save face tbh. Eng 42-3 (25.5 overs) I make that about 1.7 per over.
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johnfm
9,024 posts
119 months
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Taylor run out going for a fourth run.
What the heck? Why would you run yourself out in what is effectively a 90 over innings?
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Fishtigua
3,003 posts
64 months
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hornetrider said: Eng 42-3 (25.5 overs)
I make that about 1.7 per over. Sorry, from Trott earlier. Slowed down to sod-all now.
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chimster
1,554 posts
78 months
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[quote=johnfm]Taylor run out going for a fourth run.
What the heck? Why would you run yourself out in what is effectively a 90 over innings?
Haven't got a clue what they are up to..
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hornetrider
40,814 posts
74 months
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Mentally gone, duffed up, turned over, minds elsewhere.
We need to get past the KP sideshow and get back to playing good cricket. Which we haven't done most of the series - its not often we put down that many catches. Jimmy's yesterday from ABDV was an absolute shocker.
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Fishtigua
3,003 posts
64 months
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 Hurrummph.... Giving up following this and going back outside to get burnt to a crisp and covered in old grease. More fun. 
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Nom de ploom
2,398 posts
43 months
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these two need a headingley 1981 proportions performance to drag a win out...
1 positive for me for england out of this series (KP aside) is the continually good perormances of Matt Prior.
I think we genuinely have the best all round keeper in test cricket at present. full marks.
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chimster
1,554 posts
78 months
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Nom de ploom said: these two need a headingley 1981 proportions performance to drag a win out...
1 positive for me for england out of this series (KP aside) is the continually good perormances of Matt Prior.
I think we genuinely have the best all round keeper in test cricket at present. full marks. Agree about Prior but you won't win this game from 7. Four out of out top 5 didn't get into double figures. I would love another cameo from Bairstow though just to keep the saffers waiting. This is as much about not losing Test match as it losing our No1 title. Mind you having watched the 3 matches there is only one team deserving of that moniker and thats SA.
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hornetrider
40,814 posts
74 months
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Well, JB hasn't given up yet! 
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Nom de ploom
2,398 posts
43 months
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hornetrider said: Well, JB hasn't given up yet! he's just making sure the saffers are held up for a while...he's not batting the day out thats for sure... doing himself no harm at all...posible 100 on the cards... 
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