After 3 days of good cricket, south africa is poised to win the match in leeds comfortably provided there is no rain. England is 50-2 at the end of day 3 trailing by 250+ runs, if England has to save the match from here it should be the rains or a life time knock from the england top order. SouthAfrica is sitting pretty with all the top bowlers striking, Ntinin who was out of sorts in the 1st test and in the 1st innings but struck twice in quick time.
I think Prince is playing his best cricket ever with back to back hundreds and both coming when the team most needed them. Prince innings was controlled aggression and near flawless but for few close calls for LBW from flintoff. He played the england bowlers with much ease and struck mighty blows of panesar. AB de Villiers played an important and patient knock to reach his hundred and carried on to score 174 and propelled the lead over 300+.
Not many journalists mentioned about the un-sporting stuff from both the team in day 1 at leeds. I am sure if the team involved was an Asian nation, the whole lot of english press would have painted black for the actions. de Villiers and Vaughan claimed catches which they did not take properly and both the occasion the 3rd umpire had to turn down the appeal. From what we could see in the TV, i am sure the fielders will know that they have not taken it cleanly but still chose to make a claim, its sad that cricket is turning out to be a very un-sportive game these days.
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Vasu..
It not unusual for Ntini to look out of sorts in the first test of a series and come back to his best from the next one on. visit the below link which gives a stat on the difference in his performance in the first test and the rest of the series. http://content-ind.cricinfo.com/magazine/content/story/361550.html
Thanks for the link good stats, the average per wicket is the most consistent with the leading bowlers and thats what is missing from our indian bowlers.
You can see how Steyn and Morkel just bowl their heart out, its just too good. Compare our own R.P.Singh and Sreesanth with them, these guys just pale.
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