Aussie Cricket

[No Quarter]

What an innings from Faf. And a very savvy declaration 9 down to give his bowlers 12 overs at the Aussies under lights. Advantage SA.

[No Quarter]

Haha Davey Dumb Dumb spent too long off the field and now can't open. I'm sure Waj is stoked.

[NTA]

New kid does a bloody good with The Waj to get us through to stumps.

[No Quarter]

@NTA said in Aussie Cricket:

New kid does a bloody good with The Waj to get us through to stumps.

He looked solid for such a young bloke, handled himself really well.

I back the decision to declare but Aus surviving that period has nullified that, and can start fresh under the sun today. Test evenly balanced again.

[NTA]

Yeah bit of swing around in the afternoon perhaps, but if we can stay solid we might even have a lead.

[mariner4life]

Warner going well. Goes off for treatment last night, gets caught out by Faf, and can't open. Then "plays his natural game" and gets out for fuck all

41/2.

Khawaja playing solid

[NTA]

Did you see the catch to get Renshaw? Jeez that was close. A tad unlucky but looked like Elgar had enough under it to back up the umpire's instinct.

[mariner4life]

@NTA close decision alright. A good-bad-great catch in the end

[NTA]

Yeah he'd pretty much fucked it and the umps might have been tempted to say "not out" and then let the video evidence back them up.

As it was, the Saffers were confident, the belief was "out" and they get the reward. Same as Philander yesterday - given out, no hotspot, but enough snicko to suggest its good.

I don't mind the "overwhelming evidence" for the technology.

[Rapido]

Aussies got a longer tail than normal this game? Seems quite weak from 9 down.

I do like the night session bringing the bowlers back in at the end of the day, an extra dimension. Apart from when it down-troued us last year, then I didn't like it.

[NTA]

9 through 11 tend to be bowlers i.e. the tail.

Not sure whether I've misunderstood you there?

[mariner4life]

Aus in front on the back of the waj.

Good to see that gobby fluffybunny wade get fuck all

[Siam]

Please please can the ghost of Kerry Packer smite Michael fucking Clarke from the commentary box.

I think my ears bleed when he speaks and that's before my brain processes his captain obvious sound bites

For the love of god won't someone think of the children

[Bovidae]

@Siam I see you Clarke and raise you Healy and Slater. Tubby is easily the best of the Ch 9 comms.

[NTA]

Tubby? Captain Obvious? The Best?

Nup. Chappelli easily. Grumpy as fuck. Tells it like it is

[Bovidae]

@NTA Of the new era - yes. Chappelli was better when he had Greig to argue with. Now they're a bunch of sycophants.

[hydro11]

I think Clarke is easily the best of their commentators. He at least tries to talk about the cricket. Warne is probably the worst.

[booboo]

Dare I mention KP? Does he get paid per word? Speak less, you'll say more.

[Tregaskis]

@booboo From what I heard last night every second line KP was chipping at Tubby, Healy etc for being fat. Straight into the blokey nothingness vacuum that defines the current Channel Nine panel.

[barbarian]

Was at the Adelaide Oval for the first two days, thoroughly enjoyed it. Crowd was a little bit lighter than I thought it would be, but I'm now totally onboard with the day/night concept. Makes it a really interesting day, especially as day turns into night.

Helps that it's been a great game so far, couple of cracking innings from Waj and Faf, with some good bowling mixed in and the Aussies getting on top.