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Seth Efrica chase down 414...
...on the WACA. Absolutely positively the fastesf bounciest pitch in world cricket.
Where have your bowlers gone? I speak as someone who watched the terminal decline of the Glorious Windies. Once you get on the slippery slope its the Devil's own work to get off.
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(yes, I know England are a bit rubbish at the moment as well)
On the plus side, post Warne/McGrath, Test cricket is quite open now. Windies v England should be interesting.
PS Thank God Stanford has gone.
PS your bats must be dreading the new referral scheme, it puts an end to the cheats charter of not walking;)
Petrol, that WACA pitch hasn't been the same since they changed it some years ago. It was dusting up on day 3. It's lost pertty much all it's nastiness. The selectors got the wrong Victorian bowler in the side. They should've had Dirk Nannes in the team rather than Siddle.
The South Africans played it out exactly as they should have. Some of the journo's here are calling for Ponting and Lee's scalps, but the buggers just outplayed us and adapted to the changing conditions better than us,simple as that. Can't wait for boxing day, and thank god for test cricket.
Now instead of the "Fremantle Doctor" blowing across the wicket, it blows in-line with the wicket, so somebody has it directly behind them and the other poor bugger bowls directly into it.
Meanwhile, we're still having trouble bowling otu the SA tail order. Will be heading to the MCG on Tuesday for day 5. Cant wait!!!
Jeez, you lose one home series in 16 years and suddenly we're in crisis!!!! We've been the top of the tree for years and now we need to go through the generational change that all teams do. It's as simple as that. The South African's have been building this team since their return in 1992.( I still have my Protea World Cup shirt)
I think the reason it hurts so much is that the South African's are so similar in character to Australians. If I was Cricket Australia or a selector, I'd be using the SA leg of this series to blood some new blokes for the Ashes series in Pomgolia next year, but I don't think wholesale changes are going to solve anything.
With Brett Lee forcibly resting should help as well. H e hasn't looked right since he came back from the India tour. Heard he lost a fair bit of weight while he was there, so the rest should allow him to rebuild his body and not just his foot.
The next leg of this series is the chance to try some new blokes and do some rebuilding before we head over for the next Ashes series(the important one). McDonald needs the exposure to international level as well. He can move the ball in the air both ways and off the seam, so England will(should) be the ideal climate for him. If he can get the kookaburra to swing, his biggest problem in England should be swinging the Duke too much.
And their accents make them sound like cartoon characters.