Third test Australia V South Africa - Adelaide

[jeemak]

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Duminy looked like an absolute patsy with that effort. Good ball, good pressure, but really bad batting.

[lemmon]

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Duminy looked like an absolute patsy with that effort. Good ball, good pressure, but really bad batting.

Yep, one of those cute little whips into the offside. Lazy

[jeemak]

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It was like his best outcome was going to be a bunt back towards the bowler or mid-off he'd gotten himself in such a mess. His feet were tailender quality.

[jeemak]

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Test cricket is so much fun to watch when the bowling is having an impact.

Fantastic catch to knock off du Plessis, and excellent welcome from Starc to Bavuma.

[Topdog]

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This match is really well posed. If SA get a lead of 180 it will be a great 2nd innings.

[1eyedog]

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Watched most of Cook's innings. Unorthodox technique but effective for him and mentally strong. Hope he goes on with it.

[lemmon]

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Watched most of Cook's innings. Unorthodox technique but effective for him and mentally strong. Hope he goes on with it.

His story isn't disimiliar to Rogers'. Older player, came through the ranks with Graeme Smith but has been overlooked till his mid 30s.

[lemmon]

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I'm really interested in how we're going to see night cricket tactics evolve.

Bradman once flipped his batting order on a very wet wicket to not sacrifice his top order and give the pitch time to dry out. Is it possible we'll start seeing the tail come in for the last session to protect the batsman until the next day? Both sides have almost decided scoring isn't worth it, Khawaja and Renshaw put away the thought of scoring, as Duminy and Cook tried to last night

[1eyedog]

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His story isn't disimiliar to Rogers'. Older player, came through the ranks with Graeme Smith but has been overlooked till his mid 30s.

Saw that his old man made 20,000 first class runs in S.A and that Cook himself has close to 14,000 which is a fair effort in anyone's language. He has serious limitations but his mental strength, determination and the premium he places on his wicket can go a long way to nullify the lack of class.

[1eyedog]

Re: Third test Australia V South Africa - Adelaide

I'm really interested in how we're going to see night cricket tactics evolve.

Bradman once flipped his batting order on a very wet wicket to not sacrifice his top order and give the pitch time to dry out. Is it possible we'll start seeing the tail come in for the last session to protect the batsman until the next day? Both sides have almost decided scoring isn't worth it, Khawaja and Renshaw put away the thought of scoring, as Duminy and Cook tried to last night

To be fair Hazelwood put them on a 20c piece all day and Starc was generally accurate and very sharp. Bird also was tidy so it wasn't easy out there. When Lyon came on after the sun went down he looked very dangerous. Threw it up and got a lot of grip.

There doesn't seem to be an issue batting at night in the 50 over competition so I wonder what the difficulty has been. Pink ball, Adelaide conditions, good bowling? Combination of the three?

[Twodogs]

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Saw that his old man made 20,000 first class runs in S.A and that Cook himself has close to 14,000 which is a fair effort in anyone's language. He has serious limitations but his mental strength, determination and the premium he places on his wicket can go a long way to nullify the lack of class.

Is he Jimmy Cook's son? I've been meaning to ask for a while. I liked Jimmy Cook. He was very good at being the annoying little bugger that every good team seems to have. The problem was the team was pretty poor.


Jimmy just had enough time to eke out a couple of series when RSA were readmitted to international cricket. I think he opened with Kepler Wessels for the first few series.

[Twodogs]

Re: Third test Australia V South Africa - Adelaide

I'm really interested in how we're going to see night cricket tactics evolve.

Bradman once flipped his batting order on a very wet wicket to not sacrifice his top order and give the pitch time to dry out. Is it possible we'll start seeing the tail come in for the last session to protect the batsman until the next day? Both sides have almost decided scoring isn't worth it, Khawaja and Renshaw put away the thought of scoring, as Duminy and Cook tried to last night

It's going to be interesting as night tests increase. Maybe we will see more all rounders like Slasher Mackay who put more emphasis on preservation of their wicket? Defensive batting may become a skill in its own right as much as smacking the cover of the ball.

BTW Batting through a difficult time until the conditions improved then making hay used to be the batting plan for the Australian test team. Not sure when we bought the "give up if it all gets too hard" and the "quick game is a good game" philosophy in, but can I just point out my opposition to it from the start?

[1eyedog]

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Is he Jimmy Cook's son? I've been meaning to ask for a while. I liked Jimmy Cook. He was very good at being the annoying little bugger that every good team seems to have. The problem was the team was pretty poor.


Jimmy just had enough time to eke out a couple of series when RSA were readmitted to international cricket. I think he opened with Kepler Wessels for the first few series.

Yeah he is. Between Father and Son they've contributed 35,000 first class runs. That's unbelievable really.

[Bulldog4life]

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It's going to be interesting as night tests increase. Maybe we will see more all rounders like Slasher Mackay who put more emphasis on preservation of their wicket? Defensive batting may become a skill in its own right as much as smacking the cover of the ball.

BTW Batting through a difficult time until the conditions improved then making hay used to be the batting plan for the Australian test team. Not sure when we bought the "give up if it all gets too hard" and the "quick game is a good game" philosophy in, but can I just point out my opposition to it from the start?

He was nicknamed Slasher because of his slow batting.

[Twodogs]

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Yeah he is. Between Father and Son they've contributed 35,000 first class runs. That's unbelievable really.

I wonder if that's the most? The current Yorkshire keeper who makes a lot if runs is a son of a former England player so they would have made a few runs between them. Bristow I think?

He was nicknamed Slasher because of his slow batting.

Yeah that Austealian ironic nickname thing. Like Tiny for a big bloke or Bluey for a redhead or curly for a bald bloke.

I couldn't remember his name is the reason I used Slasher, it was Ken wasn't it? I wasn't going to Google it because before it became possible to Google everything I could remember every Australian test cricketer's middle name and now I'm googling their first name?

It's Ken Mackay. K. D. Mackay in the scorebook in my head. Douglas?