The Cricket Thread 2013

[PaulWinch again]

Bloody hell Finn getting smashed about by Peterson.

[bilsim]

50/4. Let's bowl em out for 80 odd.

[PaulWinch again]

Huge getting De-Villiers out.

[PaulWinch again]

Missed a review opportunity with Duminy there, he's potentially dangerous.

[tomd2103]

Missed opportunity there by not reviewing an LBW shout.  I know he's not everyone's cup of tea, but I really like Shane Warne's commentary.  His insight is really interesting and the suggestions he makes about field placing and tactics are always positive and attacking. 

[bilsim]

What a great second spinner Tredwell is.

[PaulWinch again]

Nevermind gone anyway.

[ADVILLAFAN]

Agree, Shane Warne is an interesting commentator.

[Dr Butler]

78/8...where has that come from England ? 

[olaftab]

There will once again be allegations of choking against the South Africans!

[paul_e]

The choking allegations are going to belittle quality of our performance here, getting 2 wickets in the first 2 overs caused the nerves that have led to this, the Jimmy one in particular is perfect swing bowling and deserves credit for the quality bowling rather than any perceived nerves from SA.

As for Warne, I think he's a great commentator, like David Lloyd, Ian Botham and Michael Holding, he's very interesting and has loads of good anecdotes, on top of an excellent understanding of all aspects of the game.  More than any other sport cricket allows for the commentators to bring their personality to things and, to give sky credit, the team of commentators as a group is excellent, with the 4 named marginally ahead of the rest, because they've got big personalities.

[PaulWinch again]

We need to knock them over and win this comfortably.

[PaulWinch again]

I hope we haven't fallen into the trap of thinking this game is won, because it isn't. These two are putting on a partnership.

[PaulWinch again]

Broad having one of his off days, he really needs to cut these out.

[paul_e]

Kleinveldt is well into borrowed time, we need to smother him with fielders now, surround the bat and get into his head, we should have done it in the powerplay though really.