Second Test: England v South Africa, Nottingham, July 14-18

[Dr Cricket]

should be 6 if england didn't cheat.

England don't do anything different to any other team when it comes down to slowing down the game.

In this test it has no effect as there is too much time left and a result is virtually guaranteed.

other team could manage 90 overs though, england can't.
only pakistan, SA and england are team that can't in the last few years so it is different.
if you purposely not bowling overs to slow play down it is cheating.
ICC are a disgrace for not taking action though.

[Dr Cricket]

looks like 2 overs will be lost, should really be 4 though.

[rich1uk]

Philander all over Cook there but just bowled a bit short so everthing was going over

[Dr Cricket]

Wonder if anyone in the stadium will get a refund for the 2 overs lost.

[Aidan11]

Both survive but some very nervous moments in those 4 overs.

[andy]

At least they got through it, big relief and should be a minor boost for the openers, lots of work to do now!

[Dr Cricket]

england poor overrates even means we don't get to see any analysis after day play. straight to the verdict.
Top of that the verdicts going to likely be 15 mins unless they scrap the highlights show at 7.
thank goodness sky do 1 hour buildup in the morning though, use to annoy the hell out of me before when they still used to finish coverage at 6.30 or 7 when the play finishes around 6.30.
suspect with the poor overrates these days they had to do most of the analysis in the morning.

[Dr Cricket]

what happened to verdict.
not sure why sky changed the old verdict was a good show, especially in recent times when they added a touring person as well was a top show.
why is nasser joining willis.

nasser starting to very bias as well lately.

[backfootpunch]

I'd suggest writing a letter to the icc if it's that much of a concern

Not posting the same thing over and over and over

We all want teams to bowl their overs faster, you really don't need to keep banging the drum

I almost never come on here anymore because of this, every England test match discussion is just full of the same posts from the same poster

We get it, but we can't do anything about it, so just let it go

[rich1uk]

I'd suggest writing a letter to the icc if it's that much of a concern

Not posting the same thing over and over and over

We all want teams to bowl their overs faster, you really don't need to keep banging the drum

I almost never come on here anymore because of this, every England test match discussion is just full of the same posts from the same poster

We get it, but we can't do anything about it, so just let it go

much more polite than i was going to be if my patience ran out

[backfootpunch]

I'd suggest writing a letter to the icc if it's that much of a concern

Not posting the same thing over and over and over

We all want teams to bowl their overs faster, you really don't need to keep banging the drum

I almost never come on here anymore because of this, every England test match discussion is just full of the same posts from the same poster

We get it, but we can't do anything about it, so just let it go

much more polite than i was going to be if my patience ran out

I used to enjoy coming on here when I was watching the cricket

Now I just don't see the point as most posts from a certain poster fill half of every page with the same points

[sussexpob]

Hello guys.....



What? Bhav is talking about over rates again? Oh darn, I think I left my oven on, best dash...

[Arthur Crabtree]

Great day for SA, turning the screw. Well done to them. Good effort to come back from the horrorshow at Lord's.

[rich1uk]

I'd suggest writing a letter to the icc if it's that much of a concern

Not posting the same thing over and over and over

We all want teams to bowl their overs faster, you really don't need to keep banging the drum

I almost never come on here anymore because of this, every England test match discussion is just full of the same posts from the same poster

We get it, but we can't do anything about it, so just let it go

much more polite than i was going to be if my patience ran out

I used to enjoy coming on here when I was watching the cricket

Now I just don't see the point as most posts from a certain poster fill half of every page with the same points

you would have been fine last week as he was strangely missing for most of it as England were doing well

[backfootpunch]

Great day for SA, turning the screw. Well done to them. Good effort to come back from the horrorshow at Lord's.

They actually played good cricket in the first game just let down by the fielding and bowlers overstepping

Had duminy or the sub fielder caught root it would be 2-0 to them