SA V TA S/S game Oct 13-16

[mighty_tiger_79]

the highlight of the day was MAL in the BRADMAN stand when TASSIE kept losing wicket after wicket, kept yelling out NEXT

Tim Paine was not impressed at all by big Mals sledging

[heater31]

So with Clearly injured that must make way for Jake "Snake" Habberfield!!!!!!!! Good to see SA playing the younger bowlers

Its great to see them bowl a team out without allowing a lower order fightback. This is a great start if we can grab the 6 points!

Also is Matthew Weeks injured?

FFS is there any chance that Ice can string two games together without getting injured

[mal]

I almost left the ground today in absolute disgust
We have TA 4 for
Within half an hour we have COSGROVE bowling to BUTTERWORTH
for several overs this was the field to Butterworth
Bear in mind we are trying to nail them for the outright

mid on
short midwicket
1st slip
gully
gully
point
cover
extra cover
mid off

What the......

About 76 years ago we had a Englishman bowling Leg Theory at the same ground
Mr Larwood bowled his leg theory with a million fielders on the legside
Today we had Off Theory
Cosgrove with 7 fielders on the off side with 1 slip

What the......

I almost left

But Danny Christian came on to an orthodox field and he and O.B. cleaned em up

How bad were TA in this game
TA 197-1 overs 20/420
SA 123-0 overs 11/421

How can a side get to 4/170 odd + not make 200+ against an attack that was disintigrated today
No Duval
No Cleary
And yetChristain/Obrien destroy them today
Mindja Christian is now almost allrounder status

My votes for man of the match
1 cosgrove 2/20..53...0/28..................did a very good job with the ball + well batted
2 christian 2/50...00...4/31...................superb bowling 2nd dig when we needed him
3 obrien...1/25...27*...3/49.................usual honest efforts
4 bailey...34...90...............................very well batted, his batting mates let him down
5 smith 116...57*.............................MAN OF THE MATCH played shots unlike the TA top order

6 points SA top
TA need to improve

[spell_check]

A great start, but merely just one match out of 10 played. You need about 5 outright wins to at least be certain of a final berth. That's only one. From what it sounds like it was a total team effort - no need for the big names to get you the points, just a team that wants to win.

[MAY-Z]

So with Clearly injured that must make way for Jake "Snake" Habberfield!!!!!!!! Good to see SA playing the younger bowlers

Its great to see them bowl a team out without allowing a lower order fightback. This is a great start if we can grab the 6 points!

Also is Matthew Weeks injured?

FFS is there any chance that Ice can string two games together without getting injured

cleary played 9 of the 10 matches last year

[MAY-Z]

I almost left the ground today in absolute disgust
We have TA 4 for
Within half an hour we have COSGROVE bowling to BUTTERWORTH
for several overs this was the field to Butterworth
Bear in mind we are trying to nail them for the outright

mid on
short midwicket
1st slip
gully
gully
point
cover
extra cover
mid off

What the......

About 76 years ago we had a Englishman bowling Leg Theory at the same ground
Mr Larwood bowled his leg theory with a million fielders on the legside
Today we had Off Theory
Cosgrove with 7 fielders on the off side with 1 slip

What the......

I almost left

But Danny Christian came on to an orthodox field and he and O.B. cleaned em up

How bad were TA in this game
TA 197-1 overs 20/420
SA 123-0 overs 11/421

How can a side get to 4/170 odd + not make 200+ against an attack that was disintigrated today
No Duval
No Cleary
And yetChristain/Obrien destroy them today
Mindja Christian is now almost allrounder status

My votes for man of the match
1 cosgrove 2/20..53...0/28..................did a very good job with the ball + well batted
2 christian 2/50...00...4/31...................superb bowling 2nd dig when we needed him
3 obrien...1/25...27*...3/49.................usual honest efforts
4 bailey...34...90...............................very well batted, his batting mates let him down
5 smith 116...57*.............................MAN OF THE MATCH played shots unlike the TA top order

6 points SA top
TA need to improve

mal how many players were out caught in the slips in the match? hardly any but there were quite a few bowleds and lbws so why have fielders in teh slips if teh ball isnt going there?

are you saying christian is an allrounder on the base of his 0 in this game? he took more wickets per match than any other bowler in the shield competition last season yet made hardly any runs - he is definitely a bowler with a bit of batting potential in teh 4 day game