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Smith lazily fishes at an awful wide half volley from Martin (but some good bowling building pressure leading to that) and hits it straight to cover.

Now comes the real danger partnership - Amla/Kallis.
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about 14 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
Now then..

Three for me, and two for them.

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about 14 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
That is some spell
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What a waste of a challenge. Surely Amla told him if he didn't hit it he was a goner.
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about 14 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
god i love test match cricket
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Downey26 wrote:


god i love test match cricket


x100

Good to see we have readjusted our plans and lines at tea with the ball not swinging.
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aitkenmike wrote:
Downey26 wrote:


god i love test match cricket


x100

Good to see we have readjusted our plans and lines at tea with the ball not swinging.


Too bad it took 27 overs to realise. If only.

Three for me, and two for them.

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about 14 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
you beauty dougie
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Who would've picked this. Has anyone heard Doull acknowledge that he was wrong earlier when he said Ross Taylor made the wrong call putting them in to bat? He was convinvced they were going to be on top at the end of today...
Fruglo on 15.01.2013 wrote:

Fuck this stupid game

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Doull is often wrong. And a knob.

Three for me, and two for them.

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Doull is okay but lately he's annoyed me. Seems to be hell bent on sparking debate with loose comments. Craig McMillan is our worst commentator. Oram debuts today though, how long before he strains a vocal chord or something...
Fruglo on 15.01.2013 wrote:

Fuck this stupid game

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Our day.

Three for me, and two for them.

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Great to see us strike early today. I'm still worried that we will bat poorly and end up with a 1st innings defecit. Would love to see a nice 1st innings lead. around 150 ish, the kind of lead where there is a fair bit of work to do before they level the scores.

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Calling it now, we won't lead by 150. Nowhere near.

Three for me, and two for them.

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Buffon II wrote:
Calling it now, we won't lead by 150. Nowhere near.
 
 
Ardly the boldest prediction ever made   
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Well Downey suggested it and i responded. Doesn't matter if it's bold or not.

Three for me, and two for them.

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Buffon II wrote:
Calling it now, we won't lead by 150. Nowhere near.

 
Yea i too doubt we will, was just some overly wishfull thinking on my part
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Actually, what are the odds we'll get rolled out for 150? Or less?
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el grapadura wrote:
Actually, what are the odds we'll get rolled out for 150? Or less?
I'm picking 86.
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f**k f**k f**k. Was just about to post how good this partnership was looking then that goes and happens.
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Lot of pressure here on young kane williamsons shoulders.
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How typical.
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Awful shots to get out from both McCullum and Taylor.
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So often it seems to be our shot selection more than anything else that is our undoing. 
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Taylor's wasn't awful shot selection it was awful execution. Short and wide you are meant to put away.

Three for me, and two for them.

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This partnership could be test match defining. So absolutely vital.

www.kiwifromthecouch.blogspot.com

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Soft dismissal from Williamson. Nothing shot at a good ball.
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Well this one is the partnership that keeps us in the game. If they can put on 60 or 70 we should end up close to parity. If they don't then we could be facing a pretty decent deficit. Whatever happens now though we are going to have to roll South Africa for not many in the 2nd innings to have any chance of winning the test.

www.kiwifromthecouch.blogspot.com

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van Wyk looks could. Inching towards that first innings lead now - come on lads!

Rain forecast for Sunday so we might get a draw out of this

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Buffon II wrote:
Taylor's wasn't awful shot selection it was awful execution. Short and wide you are meant to put away.


Agreed, was a bad ball, but Taylor got it all wrong, feet went nowhere and head and bodyweight going away.
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TopLeft07 wrote:
He won't give up.
So guess I was wrong, Jesse has taken an indefinite break from cricket. Fair enough though, maybe the best way to sort himself out.TopLeft072012-03-08 22:40:33
Fruglo on 15.01.2013 wrote:

Fuck this stupid game

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We'll take a lead of 35 

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about 14 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
is anyone else having problems getting onto cricinfo atm?

People like Coldplay and voted for the Nazis. You can't trust people.

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BarryZuckerkorn wrote:
is anyone else having problems getting onto cricinfo atm?


 
nope

Well done to Boult. Like he did in Hobart, adding some pretty helpful runs there.

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BarryZuckerkorn wrote:
is anyone else having problems getting onto cricinfo atm?

I've been having issues with Cricinfo and Soccernet recently.

www.kiwifromthecouch.blogspot.com

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Hmm that's odd. No problems on other sites. Oh well I'm watching on tv anyway so all it means is that I can't peruse stats at the same time.

Anyway, that was an awesome little partnership there. Boult continuing the fine tradition of lower order sloggers. Martin's bowling this morning looks particularly sharp, should be an interesting first session

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TopLeft07 wrote:
TopLeft07 wrote:
He won't give up.
So guess I was wrong, Jesse has taken an indefinite break from cricket. Fair enough though, maybe the best way to sort himself out.
Agreed. I hope everyone leaves him alone for a bit, and he comes back when he's truly ready.
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I hate these earlier than 10.30 starts. Here I was wasting my time doing work... and I come on to see that Martin scored 5... how did that happen? Not even a four involved, so it can't have been edged through slips like usual.

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Got a single, would have been runout if they had hit the stumps but no one backing up and it went to the boundary.

www.kiwifromthecouch.blogspot.com

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Ha, that's classic. Ta.
I'd love to see a breakdown of Martin's test runs. I.e. where/how they were scored. I'd bet 1/2 of them were from edges.
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