8th Match: England v South Africa (Group B)

[Dare]

How is this a choke? Not even close to a choke. I mean, they put up a great fight.

I think he means because SAF were the favorites to take this tournament and they don't even make it out of the group.

 

[rocky_g]

:doh England will have to pay for this denying a runner for smith.

 

[WORLD CHAMPIONS]

How is this a choke? Not even close to a choke. I mean, they put up a great fight.

Getting knocked out from the group stages, what you will call it when a team is fully balanced and hot favourites

 

[Highlander999]

:doh England will have to pay for this denying a runner for smith.

Not really

Getting knocked out from the group stages, what you will call it when a team is fully balanced.

It's bottling

 

[Params7]

*claps for Smith*

 

[evertonfan]

I wish Shah would have taken that catch that Smith offered him earlier. Commentators creaming all over Smith's innings is annoying me now; it wasn't that good ffs.

 

[WORLD CHAMPIONS]

Magnificent knock :hpraise a lone warrior.

 

[Fatal Shot]

Amazing innings comes to an end. He fought to the end, and even though I'm dissapointed, I know they (and Smith definitively) gave it their all. Sigh... maybe on another day, if we had won the toss we could have posted the big total on the board. It's fine though. At least we put up some sort of fight, rather than folding out for 180.

 

[Brook]

Sadly both Steyn and Parnell are personal-high-scoring for these knocks, in ODIs anyway.

6 every ball to win.

 

[irottev]

:doh England will have to pay for this denying a runner for smith.

Did they honestly? That's disgusting sportsmanship. From the text commentary it sounds like he was physically injured on the field edging a ball onto himself? Details?

I'm truly appalled.

 

[evertonfan]

Oh boo hoo. He had cramp. You can't start allowing runners for ****ing cramp.

 

[Highlander999]

I thought it was cramp?

 

[evertonfan]

Probably wasn't even cramp. Just him being a lazy fat bastard who was nackered.

 

[Highlander999]

Seems like you hold a special place in your heart for him, Matt

 

[pcfan123]

Should have given him a runner, no reason not too. A deviation of grace from Strauss, after he called Mattews back to the crease 2 days ago.