England tour of South Africa

[Durhamfootman]

142-3 to 150-6

That almost never happens

[meninblue]

5 catches to Quinton out of 6 wickets to be dismissed. Chance of breaking all time record.

[Durhamfootman]

5 tickles behind and a yawning gate

[Durhamfootman]

Curran falls on 176 and England's last 3 only have 20 runs in them, so expect a sub 200 score

[Durhamfootman]

3 walking wickets, so Buttler has to prove he can marshall a tail

[Arthur Crabtree]

With Archer and Broad in the tail, don't expect too much.

England are convinced that Buttler and Bairstow are world class bats. It's going to take a lot of evidence to convince them otherwise.

[Arthur Crabtree]

With Archer and Broad in the tail, don't expect too much.

England are convinced that Buttler and Bairstow are world class bats. It's going to take a lot of evidence to convince them otherwise.

Now Archer and Broad are together.

The invisible phenomenon Big Vern gets JB2.

[Arthur Crabtree]

Big Vern has a better average than anyone to take 100 wickets in the teens. You find him in anyone's team of the decade though.

http://stats.espncricinfo.com/ci/engine ... pe=bowling

SA have three of the top four.

[Arthur Crabtree]

Broad goes.

[Arthur Crabtree]

QDK equals SA record for dismissals in an innings.

[Arthur Crabtree]

According to someone on obo in the Guardian, Ed Smith is on record as saying Foakes has to get a Big Bash contract before he will be considered again for Tests.

Might be a joke. I'm not sure.

[Durhamfootman]

80 run first innings lead for SA, I reckon

or 103

England were that good

[Durhamfootman]

Curran falls on 176 and England's last 3 only have 20 runs in them, so expect a sub 200 score

turns out the 20 from the last 3 wickets was the number of balls not runs

[Durhamfootman]

4 wickets for 5 runs

how good is that?

or 39 runs for the last 7 wickets if that makes things look better

[Arthur Crabtree]

4-16 from Big Vern. Handy lead for SA with England batting last. Good Boxing Day Test home entertainment for the home crowd. England a long was from out of it given the match situation. But a long way out of it given how badly they are playing.

How did it come to be that Joe Denly is their key batter? Though he was dropped on zero.

7-39 at the end for England.