South Africa vs Australia, 3rd Test, Cape Town, 19-23 March

SA have now exhausted their quota of referrals.

Steyn bowls Clarke for nought.

Great delivery that by Steyn.

Aus in a bit of trouble.

And therein lies the idiocy of the stoopid NSP sending just enough specialist batsmen and 2 farkin spinners. We've gone in with 5 specialist bats + Haddit and *cough* Ranga and now we are farked as Steyn grabs two critical middle order wickets.

FFS. 150 will be a good score from here. Farkin arrogant tosser NSP.

How farkin sh!t is this? We are now relying on an opener and the wicketkeeper to scratch up somthing over 200. FFS.

And Hussey and Clarke's form needs to get sorted in the JAMODIs to give us some sort of warm and fuzzy feeling prior to the Ashes.

Relax, skully. We won the series. 3-all is a fair result for the home and away rounds.

Besides, it's the Ashes that matter, remember. OK< we're stuffed for that, too, but at least we've won a couple of Tests recently.

I think the ozzies will start calling this a dead-rubber again shortly.

I still don't understand how the ashes can be a bigger series than Aus-Sa.

freddled gruntbuggly wrote:Relax, skully. We won the series. 3-all is a fair result for the home and away rounds.

Besides, it's the Ashes that matter, remember. OK< we're stuffed for that, too, but at least we've won a couple of Tests recently.

Reverse woofing a future series whilst the current one is ongoing is the lowest of the low

Naeem wrote:I still don't understand how the ashes can be a bigger series than Aus-Sa.

More history, grounds full etc etc. It doesn't make it a better series cricket wise as clearly this is between 2 teams in the top 3...

JKLever wrote:

Naeem wrote:I still don't understand how the ashes can be a bigger series than Aus-Sa.

More history, grounds full etc etc. It doesn't make it a better series cricket wise as clearly this is between 2 teams in the top 3 2...

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Naeem wrote:I still don't understand how the ashes can be a bigger series than Aus-Sa.

History.

JKLever wrote:

freddled gruntbuggly wrote:Relax, skully. We won the series. 3-all is a fair result for the home and away rounds.

Besides, it's the Ashes that matter, remember. OK< we're stuffed for that, too, but at least we've won a couple of Tests recently.

Reverse woofing a future series whilst the current one is ongoing is the lowest of the low

And it ignores the fayre that our piemen have been serving up recently.
Boycs' granny could have batted herself back into form.

You have to question the wisdom of having no reserve batsmen in the republic when we have half the reserve bowlers in the country over there plus a reserve spinner when we didn't even play a spinner in the first two tests.

Yes, well I said that 15 minutes ago, thanks Red. Farkin NSP need another royal rogering.

skully wrote:Yes, well I said that 15 minutes ago, thanks Red. Farkin NSP need another royal rogering.

Can't be bothered backtracking I was following the cricket. Sorry!

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JKLever wrote:

freddled gruntbuggly wrote:Relax, skully. We won the series. 3-all is a fair result for the home and away rounds.

Besides, it's the Ashes that matter, remember. OK< we're stuffed for that, too, but at least we've won a couple of Tests recently.

Reverse woofing a future series whilst the current one is ongoing is the lowest of the low

I'm not reverse woofing anyone, just speaking my mind. It's obvious you're playing doggo for now, but come the summer you'll be back to '05 form - and so will we.

Red wrote:

skully wrote:Yes, well I said that 15 minutes ago, thanks Red. Farkin NSP need another royal rogering.

Can't be bothered backtracking - it's not easy trolling 2 message boards at the same time!

Fixed!

JKLever wrote:

Red wrote:

skully wrote:Yes, well I said that 15 minutes ago, thanks Red. Farkin NSP need another royal rogering.

Can't be bothered backtracking - it's not easy trolling 2 message boards at the same time and wishing Graeme Smith was fielding so I could ogle him!

Fixed!

And again

We need to get this Haddin fella before tea.

NSP ===>

Naeem wrote:I still don't understand how the ashes can be a bigger series than Aus-Sa.

Ian Chappell once gave Allan Border some advice that went along the lines of:

"You can lose to the Indians, the W'Indies, the P@kis or the Kiwis, but whatever you do, don't lose to the Poms!"

I think that's the crux of it really.

Hass wrote:

Naeem wrote:I still don't understand how the ashes can be a bigger series than Aus-Sa.

Ian Chappell once gave Allan Border some advice that went along the lines of:

"You can lose to the Indians, the W'Indies, the P@kis or the Kiwis, but whatever you do, don't lose to the Poms!"

I think that's the crux of it really.

Obviously AB never spoke to Ponting.

taipan wrote:

Hass wrote:

Naeem wrote:I still don't understand how the ashes can be a bigger series than Aus-Sa.

Ian Chappell once gave Allan Border some advice that went along the lines of:

"You can lose to the Indians, the W'Indies, the P@kis or the Kiwis, but whatever you do, don't lose to the Poms!"

I think that's the crux of it really.

Obviously AB never spoke to Ponting.

AB lost series to the poms twice though. Maybe he did...

Ian Chappell came back to give Allan Border some more advice after 1987.

He told AB that he'd been too chummy with the English players and needed to be more ruthless.

As a result Border completely snubbed David Gower on the 1989 tour (they'd been very good friends before that).

Gower himself commented that it seemed like Border was a different person.

I don't know if it had an impact or not, but Australia did win that series 4-0.