The International Cricket Thread

[olaftab]

Lovely day once again at Newlands and for once a day full of hope for England. Well deserved position after controlling day 2 and 3. 

[olaftab]

[paul_e]

Stokes means business here. Philander has just seen hisx14th over go for as many runs as the previous 13 combined.

[Villan For Life]

Great to see Sibley get his ton and Stokes is certainly in the mood. Who is this team that are batting and what have they done with England?

[paul_e]

Stokes gone for a brilliant 72.

[olaftab]

Sibley has bee totally competent. Let’s hope this is start of a great test career. Talk is declaring 10 overs post lunch.

[Villan For Life]

Almost a perfect session for England

[UK Redsox]

Incredible location for a sporting venue

[paul_e]

Sibley has bee totally competent. Let’s hope this is start of a great test career. Talk is declaring 10 overs post lunch.

I'd agree with that, get them to do a little bit more in the field whilst Curran and Sibley tee off, 10 overs or the next wicket, whichever comes first. This is about grinding their face in the dirt more than adding anything to the target, it's the sort of thing Australia, South Africa and India do to teams in this situation.

Almost a perfect session for England

I'd go a bit further and say this is almost a perfect 3rd innings.

[Villan For Life]

391-8 declared so a lead of 437. Well batted Dom Sibley

[paul_e]

The important thing now is to not let them settle early, we need to be really aggressive in this session and try to have a few wickets by tea.

[Richard]

The Bears will need to find another opener now !

[paul_e]

A partnership like this was what we really needed to avoid.

Elgar gone to the thinnest edge imaginable. Given Malan survived earlier by an edge nearly as small I think that's balanced it out well. Now lets get another 1-2 quite quickly.

[UK Redsox]

Anyone on here ?

[Villan For Life]

Anyone on here ?

I spotted that too. There seems to be a decent Villa contingent out there.