India recovered beautifully today.
Ably assisted by a third day first day pitch, the Indians clawed their way back into a contest that captain grumble bum and Amla were quickly putting in their back pocket.
When Smith departed the score was 152 for 2, and at that stage the Wisden International Cricketer of the year, Mrs Cindy Nel, strode to the crease.
But Amla fell at the other end starting a chain reaction of South Africans looking a bit out of their depth against the spin of Harbhajan and Chawla (I like the boy), with 5 wickets between them.
Not to be outdone the Adam’s Apple of Sharma took three wickets and the comeback was complete.
Some knob head said Bhaji would take 14 wickets this test, which leaves him 11 to get in the last innings.
Probable, but not likely you’d have to say.
Even though India have not batted yet, you would have to say they could scunge 350 on this deck depending on whether Yuvraj and Dhoni spend as much time looking at the ball as they do looking at their own reflections each morning.
Then South Africa could fall apart in the second innings and my call of a draw would be right.
Guessing the final score line of a test series is heaps easier with only one test to play, I should have tried this months ago.www.cricketwithballs.com "Practice Sehwagology and kill the Probots"
No comments:
Post a Comment