NZ v SA Test Series
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@Chris-B. said in NZ v SA Test Series:
And while I'm typing BJ drops another edge from Watling. He ended up having to go a long way because 1st slip is standing very wide - but he looked very slow and awkward in going for it.
But he must have done really well to get down the other end after he bowled it.
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@booboo said in NZ v SA Test Series:
@Chris-B. said in NZ v SA Test Series:
And while I'm typing BJ drops another edge from Watling. He ended up having to go a long way because 1st slip is standing very wide - but he looked very slow and awkward in going for it.
But he must have done really well to get down the other end after he bowled it.
The man's a one man wrecking crew
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What's South Africa's plan here? Are they happy to take the draw after being down on the first innings? Because at the moment their only path to victory seems a spectacular black caps day 5 collapse which I'd never rule out but equally isn't that sound a strategy
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@Cyclops Probably all changed in the last 10 minutes. For a while it looked like Elgar and Faf were trying to up the tempo. I think the idea would have been for Bavuma to get himself set and then continue to play some shots - maybe set NZ something like 270 in 60 overs.
Now I think they'll just hang on as long as they can and take a draw.
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@canefan As long as we don't clean them up too quickly in the morning.
Philander didn't look comfortable in his brief stay, so if we got Faf early it wouldn't be hard to envisage the tail folding pretty cheaply.
For the Jaapies, I'm not sure how comfortable they'd be setting us, say, 250 off 60 overs.
You could hopefully go at 3 an over for 40 overs and keep wickets in hand. Leave yourself the chance to have a dart at 130 off the final 20. That would be the sort of equation that would worry me if I was Faf.
Then again, their bowlers may turn out to be unplayable on the 5th day and roll us for 100.
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Will we see Hess treat Santner similar to Taylor where the latter isn't in the mix for 20/20s but still first choice for ODI's and Tests.
Seems Santner is looking much more effective in the shorter forms and is trying to bowl a similar style in tests, but it ain't cutting it. He doesn't look threatening at all and hasn't offered much with the bat either. He is a fiend in the field though. I'd much prefer to see Sohdi or a more attacking spinner used. Especially if the extra spinner is cutting Southee out of the mix. We need wicket takers not containing bowlers in that situation.
Latham has gone right off the boil, will be interesting to see how he works his way back into form.
Rain delay in any case so that pretty much wraps up this test as a draw.
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@mimic I reckon you'll get reasonable odds that it will be someone whose surname begins with Br.
But, whether it's Broom, Brownlie or Bruce, who knows?
I'd probably tend to pick Broom, but I think Brownlie was called up last time they had a batsman in doubt.
Surely they wouldn't pick Ronchi?
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