Cricket season

141/5...half a recovery...

Just saw the scorecard of the Pak-Aus match...that wicket is a career average improver!! Aus only managed 4 Pak wickets across the 2 innings while Pak scored 728 total runs...

And Ravi Jadeja showed himself to be a champion cricketer...170+ with bat any 9 wickets in the match against SL...

Test cricket and the spinner comes on in the 7th over of the first morning of the test. Ok he has a wicket but this tells us that the test will be all over by the 4th day at the very latest

Pakistan fans were deprived of test cricket for a long time so you would think that the groundsman would prepare wickets for good contests. They, the groundsman, must be council workers who tar the roads as this wicket is flat, grass less and easy to bat on. Another chance for batsman to improve their averages

CnC 306 wrote:

Test cricket and the spinner comes on in the 7th over of the first morning of the test. Ok he has a wicket but this tells us that the test will be all over by the 4th day at the very latest

Changing to a 2 day and 2 session test at the most. Sri Lanka can’t bat absolutely hopeless

Australia looking to bat once on the Karachi Highway

If the Indian players want 3 days off then they should declare their 2nd innings in about 20 overs time as Sri Lanka won’t be able to bat this the 2nd day out. Why aren’t Ireland and Afghanistan not playing more test cricket as they are test affiliated nations now

Important win by SA women...

Pakistan wicket turned from road into snake pit...

SL showing a little fight in 2nd innings

SA woman’s team doing very well in WC. Kapp is some player

CnC 306 wrote:

SA woman’s team doing very well in WC. Kapp is some player

The last 3 games, I have watched the final few overs. Kapp was brilliant yet again and 2 superb 4s in the penultimate over and the last.

The previous 2 games Ismail, defended 10 runs and took a brilliant catch off her own bowling and the other she hit a 4 to make the winning easier.

Great stuff. Should qualify now with 8 points.

SA woman should drop du Preez as she is not scoring any runs. I am really enjoying woman’s cricket as there is no moaning to umps no sledging they just get on with it and play. They don’t hang around taking their time bowling overs unlike the men where every ball has to be Hollywood.

South Africa Men bowled terribly against Bangladesh yesterday. Leaked too many runs. Markram is talented but is going nowhere slowly. If he was a player of colour he will be described a "quota" player. Hard decisions need to be made.

Worst of all these matches count has World League matches where the top eight teams qualify automatically for the next ODI World Cup. South Africa is tenth, New Zealand is last but has played three matches, South Africa nine. Ireland, Sri Lanka and West Indies has played a lot more matches than us and is our only saviour but that counts for nothing if you do not win your games. Surprisingly Bangladesh is on top of the standings after preparing their spinning pitches at home.

Should have mentioned De Kock never play due to being sick. He is vital for the Proteas to get a rollicking start and he compliments Bavuma style of play well.