Cricket: WTC Final Oz vs SA
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Hundred partnership up. Markram and Bavuma are making this look easy. 173-2. South Africa on top. Australia desperately need a wicket.
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Looking like South Africa will win their first ever final in a major Cricket Competition.
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Strange field by Australia. Gaps all over the place. South Africa have been able to rotate the strike easily.
What an afternoon for South Africa. 93 more runs needed to win.
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A ton up from Aidan Markram. What a magnificent innings!
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Stumps at Day 3. SA 213-2 needing 69 to win.
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@KiwiMurph said in Cricket: WTC Final Oz vs SA:
@MajorRage said in Cricket: WTC Final Oz vs SA:
Aussie tail frustrating the jaaps.
Starting to get near 250 lead which will be difficult to get.
It's been difficult to get for a long time. Proteas don't have the batting class against this all time bowling line-up.
Well it didn't take very long for this comment to look utterly stupid.
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As the morning session showed with Starc and Hazlewood - scoring wasn't easy but threats were few.
Smith's dropped catch could be crucial, but to be fair he was standing very close to try and combat the drop shorts that have been a hallmark of this game. And that one flew at him.
Generally from what I saw in the second session, we simply lacked the discipline of line and length to build pressure. Lyon got some nice ones away and was a touch unlucky, but the Proteas stuck at it.
Hopefully this loss will finally be the wake up call for selectors about our bathing lineup. A bit late, and with no bowlers under 30 we are probably about to have a period of rebuild
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@NTA said in Cricket: WTC Final Oz vs SA:
As the morning session showed with Starc and Hazlewood - scoring wasn't easy but threats were few.
Smith's dropped catch could be crucial, but to be fair he was standing very close to try and combat the drop shorts that have been a hallmark of this game. And that one flew at him.
Generally from what I saw in the second session, we simply lacked the discipline of line and length to build pressure. Lyon got some nice ones away and was a touch unlucky, but the Proteas stuck at it.
Hopefully this loss will finally be the wake up call for selectors about our bathing lineup. A bit late, and with no bowlers under 30 we are probably about to have a period of rebuild
It’s only fair. It’s the best bowling line up Aus have ever fielded consistently with all due respect to McGrath, Warne, Gillespie and Lee ( actually is it better than that line up of about equal ? )
Today’s three pacers are probably better as a unit but Warne beats Lyon, tough to pick overall
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@MN5 said in Cricket: WTC Final Oz vs SA:
@sparky said in Cricket: WTC Final Oz vs SA:
Mick Jagger was at the WTC final today.
Australia would have been hoping for loads more wickets but just goes to show you can’t always get what you want.
So far they can't get no satisfaction
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@canefan said in Cricket: WTC Final Oz vs SA:
If South Africa can get over the line, this will be massive for them after so many hard luck stories and near misses
They're not a great team.
Rabada is absolutely world class, who out of the rest of them are though ? Jansen is still pretty green, Mulder looks an all rounder of real promise. It's the batting which is ordinary.
The two guys at the crease currently average a very Henry Nicholls like 38 and 36 respectively. They're two of the better ones !
But that's sport, they got in the final and they're a real chance.
A lot of these ageing Aussies are living purely off their reputations.
If SA win I hope they send the Black Caps a bottle of something nice for beating India 3-0 in India
( sorry, thread derail from a NZ perspective again )
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Looks like being another sunny day and still 24 overs to the new ball. If the Aussies get it there should only be a handful of runs required.
Looks mainly about whether SA can hold their nerve.
They've done extremely well to fight back - I doubted they had it in them.
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@Chris-B said in Cricket: WTC Final Oz vs SA:
Looks like being another sunny day and still 24 overs to the new ball. If the Aussies get it there should only be a handful of runs required.
Looks mainly about whether SA can hold their nerve.
They've done extremely well to fight back - I doubted they had it in them.
Yeh but thought those niggly runs from Starc would have completely derailed things. Not to be. They’ve done brilliantly so far.
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@nzzp said in Cricket: WTC Final Oz vs SA:
@MN5 said in Cricket: WTC Final Oz vs SA:
Oz to still win pretty comfortably.
You'd think so, but chasing a low total you just need one person to go big and it's done. I like low scoring games - runs are properly valuable and the bowlers are in the game. Better than 19 sixes in an innings ...
Well.
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@MN5 I have never seen a better bowler at Lord's from the Pavilion End (and down the slope) than Glenn McGrath. His impeccable line and length and seam movement made him devastating.
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@Chris-B said in Cricket: WTC Final Oz vs SA:
Looks like being another sunny day and still 24 overs to the new ball. If the Aussies get it there should only be a handful of runs required.
Looks mainly about whether SA can hold their nerve.
They've done extremely well to fight back - I doubted they had it in them.
Rain and lots of it through overnight. The atmospheric conditions are going to be very different this morning to yesterday. If the Australian bowler can hit the seam, especially bowling down the slope, there will be movement, especially in the first hour.
After that it's going to be sunny intervals, some cloud, 22 degrees at peak. Decent batting conditions but not as good as yesterday. The South Africans still have lots of batting to come and should do this before the new ball arrives, but nothing in Cricket is certain.
In summary, Australia can win this if they get an early break through or two, but probably need two wickets in the first half hour. Perfect line and length is required. They really don't have many runs left to play with.
