England 2012 Cricket Thread

[Villan For Life]

He may well prove me wrong again and I hope he does, but Bresnan is not offering a great deal in this match at the moment.

That's a little harsh Paul! He's only bowled 6 overs so far.

[Villan For Life]

He may well prove me wrong again and I hope he does, but Bresnan is not offering a great deal in this match at the moment.

That's a little harsh Paul! He's only bowled 6 overs so far.

And he's into the attack now......almost got Amla 1st ball

[spangley1812]

He may well prove me wrong again and I hope he does, but Bresnan is not offering a great deal in this match at the moment.

That's a little harsh Paul! He's only bowled 6 overs so far.

Not for me I would have picked Finn before him........

[PaulWinch again]

He may well prove me wrong again and I hope he does, but Bresnan is not offering a great deal in this match at the moment.

That's a little harsh Paul! He's only bowled 6 overs so far.

And he's into the attack now......almost got Amla 1st ball

Yep and I hope he does well, but I still worry about him in a 3 man seam attack.

[Villan For Life]

He may well prove me wrong again and I hope he does, but Bresnan is not offering a great deal in this match at the moment.

That's a little harsh Paul! He's only bowled 6 overs so far.

Not for me I would have picked Finn before him........

Bressie gets in as he is an excellent lower order batsman and a top bowler. Why drop him? Finn is a wonderful bowler but does Bressie deserve to be dropped?

[spangley1812]

He may well prove me wrong again and I hope he does, but Bresnan is not offering a great deal in this match at the moment.

That's a little harsh Paul! He's only bowled 6 overs so far.

Not for me I would have picked Finn before him........

Bressie gets in as he is an excellent lower order batsman and a top bowler. Why drop him? Finn is a wonderful bowler but does Bressie deserve to be dropped?

When we are only playing 4 bowlers we need them all to be top quality , I agree Bresnan is an excellent lower order batsmen but his bowling is very ordinary on flat pitches. Finn gives another dimension to the attack 

[Villan For Life]

He may well prove me wrong again and I hope he does, but Bresnan is not offering a great deal in this match at the moment.

That's a little harsh Paul! He's only bowled 6 overs so far.

Not for me I would have picked Finn before him........

Bressie gets in as he is an excellent lower order batsman and a top bowler. Why drop him? Finn is a wonderful bowler but does Bressie deserve to be dropped?

When we are only playing 4 bowlers we need them all to be top quality , I agree Bresnan is an excellent lower order batsmen but his bowling is very ordinary on flat pitches. Finn gives another dimension to the attack 

His runs will always see him picked ahead of Finn.

[PaulWinch again]

South Africa have won several consecutive sessions here.

[UK Redsox]

In the least surprising announcement of the day; SGB really like Graeme Smith's style of play and doesn't care how slow he's scoring.

[spangley1812]

Apparently whenever Smith has scored a 100 in a test SA have never lost a test

[Villan For Life]

The ball is doing nothing, according to Michael Vaughan on TMS it went soft very early. They've complained to the umpires but have received short shrift. New ball due in 17 overs I think we're going to need some major success with the new ball if we're going to have any chance of saving this game let alone drawing it.

[PaulWinch again]

The ball is doing nothing, according to Michael Vaughan on TMS it went soft very early. They've complained to the umpires but have received short shrift. New ball due in 17 overs I think we're going to need some major success with the new ball if we're going to have any chance of saving this game let alone drawing it.

Indeed they need to do some serious thinking at lunch. We have lost four sessions in a row here.

[UK Redsox]

Mrs Smith

[Villan For Life]

A captains innings from Smith

[hilts_coolerking]

An unlovely but incredibly effective ton from Smith.  For the first time in a long time, I was wondering how and where the next wicket is coming from for England.