I knew we were fecked as soon as I read this
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- Thread starter EdWeatherall
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We aren't a very good team anymore. Our best players are on the way down and even Bumrah hasn't been the same post injury. The chance to win in SA was last time. We have a tough couple of years as we rebuild.
Bedingham looks class. Will England try to steal him?
Goes to check the score...
Ah - long way to go yet! But yep SA well placed.
He did an interview around a year ago where he pretty much admitted he just wanted to play test cricket whether that was for England or SA. Don't think he'd be eligible until 2025 though. Good to see him eventually get the opportunity anyway.
Rabada, Cummins and Bumrah are easily the best bowlers of their generation. Bit sad that Bumrah and Rabada probably won’t play as many tests as their skills deserve.
Archer should have had a chance at making that list
That’s also sad.
I remember I made a bet with someone on the caf that Gill would average > 30 in the subsequent England tour
lucky for me he got injured after that and didnt play the tour
lucky for me he got injured after that and didnt play the tour
This is some run of Cricket South Africa are on - they looked like they were falling apart/giving up 12 months back.
Crawley and Gill are going to score some of the prettiest 20s and 30s we’ve ever seen in the England/India series next month.
James Vince legend lives on.
Their batting still isn’t great, losing Elgar is a massive blow. Their ability to churn out quick bowlers is amazing. Rabada, Ngidi, Nortje, Jansen, Burger, Coetzee is some core.
Definetly. I don't rate their test match batting at all, the England tour was a shambles hence me predicting about ten posts up India would win this series with relative ease.
This match could end today..
Thought only the caf hated on this wasteman but we're not alone!
Any team playing with two pub level bowlers like shardul and prasidh deserve to lose.
Nope, worry not, majority of South Africans despise him as well. I’m talking about Bavuma, just to be clear
Who’s the wasteman here?
Bavuma’s record in tests always shocks me, how on earth does he average 35 after 56 tests with only 2 100s? That’s more than KL Rahul and only 1 run less than Ben Stokes
How is Gill playing test cricket. Missed a straight full ball
That and it doesn’t feel like your team actually cares/wants to be here for this test (& not away on some holiday). Not to take anything away from our bowling, but some of the wickets you guys gave away have been cheap.
Bit of a pathetic effort from India this.
We aren't interested + are on the way down. It will take us a year + to get back to decent. Rohit and Kohli are old and we have no replacement in test cricket. Our quick bowling (other than Bumrah and Shami) isn't great either. We need more quicks coming through.
The scary part will happen once Ashwin and jadeja also stop playing tests. Our home domination will also disappear.
Don't worry we fly out to India with three days prep for the first test so we should get your confidence back up and running.
India are missing their best batsman in Rishabh Pant. The question is if he can ever come back to the level he was at before.
With plenty to spare in fact
Our cricket teams produce very good fast bowlers in a similar way our rugby teams tend to produce monster forward players.
SA produces fantastic cricket pitches too.
Absolute battering
Vyraaat Kohli the goat man
Vyraaat Kohli the goat man
Yeah, very fast bowler friendly. Isn’t it similar to what you produce in the UK or what they produce over in Aus?
Well well
It's a hybrid of the two i'd say. England produce very good pitches in general, but sometimes ours can be on the slow side. Australia skews slightly flat IMO.
Aargh thanks mate. I guess it helps a little with the variety having vastly different weather/climates throughout the different South African provinces/states.
Don't discount all the prep in Abu Dhabi beforehand!
Indian team has been atrocious this test.
Surely Kohli is their best batsman?
Not for a while in Tests. Pant's was India's most decisive batsman for a few years prior to his injury.