Australias Tour of South Africa #2

[GoLions]

Clarke hasn't done much better lately, shall we drop him as well?

[JBs-Hawks]

No.

[My Chumps]

You're about due for a big innings Clarke and boy do we need it.

[elephants]

Amla gets out for second ball duck, Marsh gets out for second ball duck. Therefore Marsh = Amla ;)

Also, lel Jukes.

[Bill Manspeaker]

in some trouble

COME.

ON.

SMIDDY.

[elephants]

Need a Warner ton for sure. Rest of our lineup is safe for today at least with the iron defense of Gaz at the crease now.

[BB67th]

Need some people to hang around with Lyon for the rest of the innings. Surely on his way to another not out. ;)

[Ringo]

Australia is in trouble imo for the policy of playing attacking cricket.

South Africa really ground it out in typical Test match cricket 150 overs for 421 runs.  Whereas Australia still played the attacking cricket and there 112 of 25 overs so far.

Bear in mind in SA First Innings they were also 2/11 with the ball new and they adopted the preservation tactics and as we seen batting became easier when the ball softened. Will be interesting to see if Morkel can still get the same bounce today,

Really enjoying this series and the swings but the fact remains we still have a very fragile top 4 which was evident in the Ashes and still evident here.

An interesting statistic on Lyon he is now playing his 9th innings since the Ashes in England and has not been dismissed, (Should have been out twice in last over though especially with SA not reviewing)

Hoping Parnell does not do a Johnson though following hs recall to the team.

[Jay]

GAZZA!!!!!! ;D

[Scrads]

Australia is in trouble imo for the policy of playing attacking cricket.

South Africa really ground it out in typical Test match cricket 150 overs for 421 runs.  Whereas Australia still played the attacking cricket and there 112 of 25 overs so far.

Bear in mind in SA First Innings they were also 2/11 with the ball new and they adopted the preservation tactics and as we seen batting became easier when the ball softened. Will be interesting to see if Morkel can still get the same bounce today,

Really enjoying this series and the swings but the fact remains we still have a very fragile top 4 which was evident in the Ashes and still evident here.

An interesting statistic on Lyon he is now playing his 9th innings since the Ashes in England and has not been dismissed, (Should have been out twice in last over though especially with SA not reviewing)

Hoping Parnell does not do a Johnson though following hs recall to the team.

Most of that aggressive batting was from Warner who is still in. I didn't see Clarke get out but Rogers, Marsh and Doolan got out playing defensive, they didn't even get the chance to be aggressive.

If you don't include Warner's score we are about 45 off 14 overs, which is only just over 3 RPO, which isn't overly aggressive. Warner plays the way he does and no one can change that, but it wasn't aggressive batting which lost us wickets.

[tbagrocks]

shower carn lads, good session eh!? ???  FIRE UP DAVEY

Brad Hadden for PM, should get a personalized letter from Tony anyway thanking him for saving us. Now, please Mr Hadden, one more effort tonight?

[Mailman the 2nd]

Warner obviously the key here. If he can push to a century and get Australia over 300-350 and bat for most of the day the game is more or less unwinnable for either side.

Because of course Gazza won't be out!

[BB67th]

Well that has gone well. Need to avoid the follow-on now.

[Ringo]

Smith and Haddin need another 66 to avoid the follow on.  Should be able to achieve that.

[BB67th]

18 required to avoid the follow-on with 2 wickets remaining. Smith on 49* and Harris will join him on the other side of lunch. Hopefully we can make it there, there is rain forecast for day 5, so maybe we can get away with a draw in this one still.