Boxing Day Test Match: Australia v South Africa @ Melbourne (Fri-Tue)

[Renegade]

101 stand for the 9th wicket.

 

[ManWithNoName]

Oh now come on, that's just ridiculous.

 

[Cooldude]

Okay I'm just gonna put money on Dale Steyn for a hundred

 

[Juddism]

Yeah, smartarse hindsight selections are such difficult things to do.

bullshit, they knew before the start of the match that his knee was screwed and they still picked him knowing he couldn't bowl.

You could make the same criticism of South Africa`s bowlers then, couldn`t you?

Haven`t been able to clean up Australia`s tail in three consecutive innings.

one sizeable difference though, SA bowlers took 20 wickets in the first test and Australia only took 14.

 

[YOTC]

Why not try Katich or Haddin. Somebody!!!

 

[chris86]

This is just frustrating. Though credit to Duminy and Steyn, both played well.

 

[Cleavy]

This is beyond embarrassing!

 

[Alpha1]

I think these days with the bowling machines etc, all the players and get good solid hits in the nets. Hence we are seeing the improvement of the so called tailend batsmen.

 

[fraser25]

Bowl kat!

 

[alfy!]

I think these days with the bowling machines etc, all the players and get good solid hits in the nets. Hence we are seeing the improvement of the so called tailend batsmen.

did you see us play new zealand a month or so ago

 

[damochandler]

bowl some yorkers. try and change it up. they have bowled 1 yorker maybe and that nearly got a wicket. no common sense

 

[Alpha1]

did you see us play new zealand a month or so ago

Well the Kiwis are a different matter. Im talking about the top teams like Australia, SA, India, England

 

[Hollow Knight]

Can't watch this anymore.

Going to play Madden.

 

[Costanza_]

Sigh...

To think that just yesterday we had them 6-140'ish with the very real possibility of taking a 150-200 run lead into the second innings. Heartbreaking.

 

[Kid A]

Duminy has hit 61 runs off 156 total in the last two partnerships.

Tail-enders have been lucky, but brilliant.

 

[fairdinkum]

Interesting one:

Sportingbet have Hussey as favourite in Hussey v Clarke (second innings).

Hussey hasn't scored a run all series!

 

[Lensen]

I got on the draw at $3 and SA at $4.50 on day 1. Hopefully the Aussies can get out to say $3.50 so I can be guaranteed at least some sort of return

 

[weevil]

bullshit, they knew before the start of the match that his knee was screwed and they still picked him knowing he couldn't bowl.

They picked him as a batsman. They knew Bing would get injured?

 

[Illinois Nazi]

Frustration over Australia's performance aside, I am really enjoying this series as a contest. You just can't take anything for granted.

And if South Africa become the #1 ranked nation, then so be it. Certainly can't say they won't have deserved it.

 

[Ron]

Can't watch this anymore.

Going to play Madden.

hah yeah i just turned on fallout 3, don't want to watch this s**t anymore.

 

[KevinCat07]

8/355...this is beyond a joke now. Absolutley pathetic!

 

[Alpha1]

Frustration over Australia's performance aside, I am really enjoying this series as a contest. You just can't take anything for granted.

And if South Africa become the #1 ranked nation, then so be it. Certainly can't say they won't have deserved it.

Well SA do deserve the No. 1 if they can get the series win here. They have done well all over the world. They drew the series 1-1 in India just before the Aussies went there and lost 2 - 0

 

[Deenamite]

bowl some yorkers. try and change it up. they have bowled 1 yorker maybe and that nealry got a wicket. no common sense

Seconded. This is unbearable.

 

[fraser25]

I got on the draw at $3 and SA at $4.50 on day 1. Hopefully the Aussies can get out to say $3.50 so I can be guaranteed at least some sort of return

interesting punting method, do you often do this during Test matches?

 

[Juddism]

They picked him as a batsman. They knew Bing would get injured?

well if they picked him as a batsman then they may just as well have picked Watson...quite logical really, Watson may not have done much with bat in recent times, Symonds has done just as little too.

at least Watson could throw down a few.