England v South Africa, Lords, 3rd Test Thread

[Duty281]

First topic message reminder :

The equation is simple. If England win, they remain number 1. If South Africa avoid defeat, they move up to number 1 and will officially be the best Test team in the World.

England: 1 Andrew Strauss (capt), 2 Alastair Cook, 3 Jonathan Trott, 4 Ian Bell, 5 James Taylor, 6 Jonny Bairstow, 7 Matt Prior (wk), 8 Stuart Broad, 9 Graeme Swann, 10 James Anderson, 11 Steven Finn

South Africa: 1 Graeme Smith (capt), 2 Alviro Petersen, 3 Hashim Amla, 4 Jacques Kallis, 5 AB de Villiers (wk), 6 Jacques Rudolph, 7 JP Duminy, 8 Vernon Philander, 9 Dale Steyn, 10 Morne Morkel, 11 Imran Tahir

Are you ready?

[Biltong]

No doubt you can, I haven't seen any cricket today so don't really know how it went.

It will be a good game now as a result is surely on the cards.

[skyeman]

Geez, luckily I have been out car hunting today so I haven't been exsed to this innings too much.

It seems we are in for a game here.

I wonder what KP s doing right now!

Texting, twittering, e-mailing

[mystiroakey]

darn that,, bell was you napping there pal

[eirebilly]

Geez, luckily I have been out car hunting today so I haven't been exsed to this innings too much.

It seems we are in for a game here.

I wonder what KP s doing right now!

Texting, twittering, e-mailing

[VTR]

I think this could be set up for a second innings shootout.

I feel we need SA out for a lowish score as we'll probably struggle to get much more than 300. 3 out of our top 6 are hardly bankers are they?

There is a banker missing though

Yeah but you don't know how many wickets "team spirit" has been worth today. At least 6 I would say

Kallis c The Team b Unity - lovely stuff isn't it?

[skyeman]

I think this could be set up for a second innings shootout.

I feel we need SA out for a lowish score as we'll probably struggle to get much more than 300. 3 out of our top 6 are hardly bankers are they?

There is a banker missing though

Yeah but you don't know how many wickets "team spirit" has been worth today. At least 6 I would say

Kallis c The Team b Unity - lovely stuff isn't it?

[Duty281]

Over in Nottingham, Nottinghamshire are 127/6 - Onions currently 6/53. He's got a good chance of being on the plane to India.

[skyeman]

Geez, luckily I have been out car hunting today so I haven't been exsed to this innings too much.

It seems we are in for a game here.

I wonder what KP s doing right now!

Texting, twittering, e-mailing

A nut free zone here.

[Shelsey93]

Over in Nottingham, Nottinghamshire are 127/6 - Onions currently 6/53. He's got a good chance of being on the plane to India.

Would have had him instead of Finn, but I think Finn's first spell today justified his selection!

[Liam]

on form Onions should be there ahead of Bresnan. I'm sure we'll play Patel like we did in Sri Lanka as the spinning all rounder, meaning we could have Broad, Anderson, Swann, Finn and Onions as the front line attack.

[Liam]

Could do with a wicket here England, psychologically it would be great to get them out under 200 but its unlikely unless someone can bowl one heck of a spell.

[Biltong]

Geez, luckily I have been out car hunting today so I haven't been exsed to this innings too much.

It seems we are in for a game here.

I wonder what KP s doing right now!

Texting, twittering, e-mailing

But........




i thought his twitter account was closed?

[Biltong]

It really is a joy to see all the english supporters in an upbeat mood.

[VTR]

It really is a joy to see all the english supporters in an upbeat mood.

Well we're all back to following the cricket now and I think the team are feeding off the support. Dancing horses and Welsh girls kicking each other in the face can only distract you for so long.

[skyeman]

It really is a joy to see all the english supporters in an upbeat mood.

Been fed up with the saga, very happy to get back to the cricket.

Being in a healthy position helps too

[Mike Selig]

To many singles conceded to Philander early on in overs: 4 times now he's got one in the first 2 balls.

[Biltong]

How many hats has Fists eaten today?

Does anyone know?

[skyeman]

Onions got 7 now, Notts 140/7.

[mystiroakey]

Onions on 7!!

come on the 10!

[Mike Selig]

Someone needs to explain why Swann's bowling to Philander with x men on the boundary. I don't get it.

[Liam]

ahhh that's lucky for Philander. More short balls at him you want. Make him play the hook and put a man out at deep backward square leg

[mystiroakey]

200 up- decent after the start

[msp83]

Vernon Philander has a reputation as an all-rounder in South Africa FC cricket, time for him to show the batting skills at the highest level.
Sorry England, this time I am well and truly on the other side, and would dearly love them to lose this one.
But Strauss at last got something write in the last 15 days, Finn for Bresnan, and no more foolishness with Swann.

[msp83]

Anyways at least in the 3rd match England's luck has improved, Kallis wasn't out, neither was Petersen.

[eirebilly]

This is one hell of a partnership

[Duty281]

Anyways at least in the 3rd match England's luck has improved, Kallis wasn't out, neither was Petersen.

But they were.

[Mike Selig]

Baffling the amount of singles given away. Philander 27 off 31 with just 3 fours.

[Duty281]

Onions got 8 wickets but the ninth fell by run out. No tenfer then for Onions.

[Mike Selig]

Yet another... that's 4 Trott's given away on his own in this partnership.

For a side which prides itself on its fielding this has been Indian-esque. At least 8 runs in this partnership should have been saved.

[Liam]

crucial now that SA don't get to 250 otherwise we could be in some trouble with our Taylor in only his second test and Bairstow in his 3rd

[Duty281]

Onions finishes with nine out of the ten wickets.

[mystiroakey]

onions- wow!!

[Liam]

that's what he does, wicket to wicket and with seam movement and a decent bit of pace, its a real handful. Basically all lbw or bowled.

[eirebilly]

Thats very impressive stuff from Onions

[Pete C (Kiwireddevil)]

Onions finishes with nine out of the ten wickets.

And according to cricinfo he got the runout for the 10th. Reminds me of Hadlee's 9-fer vs Australia in 1985 - the 10th wicket was taken by rubbish off spinner (2 test wickets) Vaughan Brown - caught by RJ Hadlee.

The temptation to fumble in that situation must be immense.

[eirebilly]

Onions finishes with nine out of the ten wickets.

And according to cricinfo he got the runout for the 10th. Reminds me of Hadlee's 9-fer vs Australia in 1985 - the 10th wicket was taken by rubbish off spinner (2 test wickets) Vaughan Brown - caught by RJ Hadlee.

The temptation to fumble in that situation must be immense.

Ahh, i remember that. Sir Richard Hadlee, my favourite cricketer of all time

[mystiroakey]

Oh no Did he run the wicket out.. he should have fumbled

[eirebilly]

I really hope that England get some joy with the new ball

[msp83]

Philander and Duminy, particularly the former, has to look for every available scoring opportunity, as the new ball will be due soon.

[Pete C (Kiwireddevil)]

Oh no Did he run the wicket out.. he should have fumbled

from http://blogs.espncricinfo.com/county-cricket-live/archives/2012/08/lv_county_championship_thursda_12.php

Graham Onions missed out on all 10 -- he was bound to as soon as we started to talk about who did it last -- but 9-67 isn't bad. In any case, it was all 10 after a fashion. The only one he didn't get was a run-out from his own direct hit, swooping just behind square as Luke Fletcher turned Scott Borthwick round the corner and called Ben Phillips through for a single. But Fletcher, who is not quite built like a whippet, was a little slow off the blocks. Onions shied at the non-striker's end and, well... he seems to know where the stumps are today.

The figures are the best of his career, and the best by anyone this season. He will probably conclude it wasn't the worst three hours' work he has ever done.

[mystiroakey]

Many have been talking this onions lad up recently.. That is some impressive play, I know he hasnt played for England in donkies- i think we need to get him involved soon.

[mystiroakey]

Gotta say fair play SA here- turned a nightmare into a very average to good innings!

[eirebilly]

You have to admire JP Duminy's effort here today, it really is impressive.

[msp83]

A good comeback series for JP Duminy. Boucher's injury gave him the opening to be a regular rather than the first reserve batter in the side, and he has played 2 important knocks already. An unbeaten 48 to carry SA pass 400 in the last match, and now another fine fighting knock to save them from a pretty dificult corner.
South Africa would need him to carry on though, he has to take on the new ball and will have to manage the lower.

[Duty281]

New ball time, still got 10 overs to knock them over.

[eirebilly]

New ball time

Wickets please

[eirebilly]

YESSSSS

[eirebilly]

Took Jimmy 3 balls

[Duty281]

There we go, Jimmy's got Duminy!

[mystiroakey]

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