Dr Cricket wrote:yuppie wrote:mikesiva wrote:I watched the delivery that hit Elgar and IMHO it didn't misbehave. He just played it badly. It was a short pitched delivery he should have ducked.
The ball itself was not to bad, but had the pitch made him think it would do more. Obviously you must play each ball on its merits, but had he got it into his head that the pitch would play up more?
yeah that probably the best summary so far.
holding said CSA would want the game to carry on as well, so a lot of politics will be involved now, if the game is abandoned he said Johannesburg can't host the Australian test match.
Agreed.
IMHO modern day batsmen don't play the short ball as well as they did in the 1980s. Back then there were no helmets and I believe batsmen did a better job of handling the short ball. With all these batting roads around modern batsmen seem deficient in these defensive skills.
The old pitches of Perth Bridgetown and Kingston are not what they used to be. So when these batsmen come across a pitch like this they don't seem to know what to do.