The Cricket Thread

Good idea for England to use the spinners while Klaasen is new at the crease.

 

Good catch!

 

Excellent bounce back over from Jofra!

 

Massive wicket, but dreadful running

 

Jos is on fire!

 

Rashid's figures were fantastic. Should keep SA Under 170 here.

 

Which would be a great effort as I think they said that the average run rate was 9.17 per over for this ground.

 

163-6 20 Overs.

 

Horror drop

 

Struggling to time the ball.

 

Tame wicket to concede

 

SA absolutely dominating us with the bowling. Two down and behind the rate early on.

 

Yep but to be fair Jofra went for 21 in his first over, which helped to inflate their power play.

 

Their bowlers just look so in control. We need to find one to punish.

 

Yeah. Need to start using the middle of the bat too. Too many shots are nearer the edge of the bat than the centre.

 

And 3 down

 

Looked like another slightly mistimed shot.

 

Good thing that we continued to select Wood, and then only give him two overs, rather than strengthen our batting with Jacks (or Duckett or even Jordan)...

 

A couple of 20 run overs and everything will look better but we need to improve our striking of the ball. It’s as if they are trying to knock the skin off the ball and making poor contact too often.

 

I just assumed it was because SA are varying the pace so well we can't time it