Smith is still a great player just having a form slump. the injured finger at the end of the indian tour happend at a very bad time. He was in great form till then.
I prefer it to be hosted in asia. Can't stand having to get up at 5 am or if it's a day game at 1 am. I much prefer the mid morning starting times of asia. :D
Lara's world record's were also on very falt wickets at antigua. I don't believe the pitch takes away from the performance. It takes great concentration to achieve 300 even more to get 400.
Botha hasn't been found guilty yet. He has only been reported for having a suspect action. the same as what happend to murali,signh,akhtar,lee,ect. We shall see what the tests show. the people here in SA are convinced he is within the 15 degrees allowed limit.
Another disgracefull performance from SA with the bat in the pro 20. As if the batting performance vs NZ at the wanderers wasn't bat enough. Now they come up with this showing. :crying
The Sa player's have played about 10 domestic 20/20 games and 1 international 20/20. Some like Smith also played in England's 20/20 last year for their county sides.
SA has more expierence at this game than aus . That should count in our favour. SA has had 2 domestic competitions of pro 20 while in aus they have only started a competition this month if my info is correct. But from the withdrawals it seems both teams are disrespecting this form of the game. I...
Botha averages 30 in first class cricket. We won't lose much in batting . Boje hasn't do much in international cricket with the bat or ball for a long while. Maybe the mathc fixing rumours have gotten to him.
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He should have been on this tour anyway. Botha is a much better player imho.
Ponting is no where near Stephen Waugh. He cowardly reintroduced the nightwatchman. Plus some of his decisions are bizare. Bowling first right after Mcgrath got injured in the ashes. Declaring only when he was 491 ahead in the perth test.
It has nothing to do with rhodes. We dropped 13 catches in a adelaide test in 1997/1998 when he was in the side. The team's catching is usually very good it just seems they crumble under the pressure in aus.
This would be my SA team for the second test:
1.Smith
2.A.B. de villiers
3.Gibbs...
I like these players. some have retired but while they played I really enjoyed watching them:
Aus: Steve and Mark Waugh and Shane Warne.
India: Tendulkar, Dravid and Sehwag
West Indies: Lara
Srilanka : Murali
Pakistan: Shoaib
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