Re: South Africa v India, 2nd Test, Cape Town, 3-7 January, 2024

by lardbucket Thu 04 Jan 2024, 06:37

Amazing. Batsmen today just don’t have the skills they once did.

by tricycle Thu 04 Jan 2024, 06:48

If that is so... if we don't have good batsmen around, and if this or Aus SA in the Gabba or India England in Ahmedabad (or Lord's 2018) becomes more of the norm, then we won't need SA to send weakened teams to kill off tests.

I personally don't think it's only batsmen becoming worse.

by lardbucket Thu 04 Jan 2024, 07:15

Not only that, no, but when these bad wickets are ‘prepared’, today’s batsmen, raised on roads, don’t have the skills of yesteryear.

by WideWally Thu 04 Jan 2024, 08:44

South Africa 6/103, a lead of 5.

Markram is still there but can their tailenders hang around with him on this pitch?

by WideWally Thu 04 Jan 2024, 09:17

Could the Bannerman record be under threat?

by WideWally Thu 04 Jan 2024, 09:35

South Africa 8/162

Markram finally out for 106 so the Bannerman record is safe.

Rahul dropped Markram when he was 74

by WideWally Thu 04 Jan 2024, 09:58

South Africa all out for 176
Bumrah 6/61

India need 79 to win

by skully Thu 04 Jan 2024, 11:29

tricycle wrote:A day when somehow being 55 all out isn't the biggest meme around...

Well I laughed a lot. Very Happy

by skully Thu 04 Jan 2024, 11:32

Dean Elgar broke a World Record in his last Test.

He made the lowest ever 2nd highest score in an innings featuring a centurion. AK Markram 106/D Elgar 12, beating the previous record of GN Yallop 121/KJ Hughes 16.

Courtesy MrK from Twitter (X).

by WideWally Thu 04 Jan 2024, 11:36

India win by 7 wickets.

So the test has only lasted 1½ days after South Africa prepare a substandard wicket. Coming days after they announce a squad of third stringers to tour New Zealand, I think it is time to show South Africa the door. Boot them out of test cricket!

by skully Thu 04 Jan 2024, 11:46

Hard to argue, W. Weak-as-piss from SAf.

by furriner Thu 04 Jan 2024, 13:45

Shittier pitch than the earlier shitty pitch.

I wait weeks for a Test series and I get this.

by Lost Wombat Thu 04 Jan 2024, 16:24

2 tests is not a series, but if the pitches are gonna be like this, perhaps just as well.

by lardbucket Fri 05 Jan 2024, 00:56

Can we edit the thread title please; it’s false advertising …

Shortest completed Test ever

by skully Fri 05 Jan 2024, 01:57

furriner wrote:Shittier pitch than the earlier shitty pitch.

I wait weeks for a Test series and I get this.

You have our sympathy, furri. Just poor by the SAffer curators.

by Red Fri 05 Jan 2024, 02:10

It is good when there is something in it for the bowlers, but there must be balance.

The palindrome showed again why he should have toured oz last summer.

by skully Fri 05 Jan 2024, 04:07

As much as I despise SAf, the CSA management is so woeful that Test players can't afford to play Test Cricket any more, so bad is their Test pay.

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