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Showing posts with label SA-in-ENG:2012. Show all posts
Showing posts with label SA-in-ENG:2012. Show all posts
Tuesday, 24 July 2012
Tuesday, 24 July 2012
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England v South Africa, 1st Investec Test, The Oval, 5th day
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| Dale Steyn celebrates his fifth wicket as South Africa closed in on victory |
South Africa 637 for 2 dec (Amla 311*, Kallis 182*, Smith 131) beat England 385 (Cook 115, Trott 71, Prior 60, Morkel 4-72) and 240 (Bell 55, Steyn 5-56) by an innings and 12 runs
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Monday, 23 July 2012
Monday, 23 July 2012
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England v South Africa, 1st Investec Test, The Oval, 4th day
England 385 and 102 for 4 (Bell 14*, Bopara 15*) trail South Africa 637 for 2 dec (Amla 311*, Kallis 182*) lead by 150 runs
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Scorecard and ball-by-ball details
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| Morne Morkel added to a wonderful day for South Africa by removing Kevin Pieterse |
South Africa enjoyed the type of day teams dream of which ended with England staggering on 102 for 4 after being overwhelmed by the insatiable hunger of two batsmen. Hashim Amla scored the country's first triple century in Tests, building an overwhelming stand of 377 with Jacques Kallis, as South Africa amassed a lead of 252. The visitors then made major inroads into a dispirited England side who lurched to the close with a huge task ahead to leave The Oval with the series level.
England v SA, 1st Investec Test, The Oval, 4th day
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| England's troubles in this match may have been created by their failure to take a solid position into a big first-innings score |
It was surely after watching his team suffer a day the like of which England endured on the fourth day at The Oval that inspired Edvard Munch to paint The Scream. England were humiliated. Had this been a boxing contest the referee would have stopped it; had it been horse racing the jockey would have pulled-up their mount; had it been swimming, England would have drowned. Had Graham Gooch, England's batting coach, simply muttered "The horror; the horror" when he was brought out to speak to the press at the close of play, he could not have summed up his side's position more aptly.
Sunday, 22 July 2012
Sunday, 22 July 2012
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South Africa 403 for 2 (Amla 183*, Kallis 82*) lead England 385 by 18 runs
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Scorecard and ball-by-ball details
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| Graeme Smith became the seventh batsman to score a hundred in his 100th Test |
Graeme Smith wrote himself another place in the history books with a century in his 100th Test and Hashim Amla batted throughout the third day to finish unbeaten on 183 as England were subjected to 98 overs of toil at The Oval.
England v South Africa, 1st Investec Test, The Oval, 3rd day
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| Graeme Smith leaves the field after scoring a tone-setting hundred for South Africa |
Graeme Smith is due to leave England before the second Test to attend the birth of his first child but, as he marked his 100th Test with a century, his wife, the Irish singer Morgan Deane, joked on Twitter that her waters had broken already.
Saturday, 21 July 2012
Saturday, 21 July 2012
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England v South Africa, 1st Investec Test, The Oval, 2nd day
South Africa 86 for 1 (Smith 37*, Amla 47*) trail England 385 (Cook 115, Trott 71, Prior 60, Morkel 4-72) by 299 runs
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Scorecard and ball-by-ball details
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| Dale Steyn removed Ravi Bopara for a duck during a fired-up spell |
South Africa were a team transformed on the second day at The Oval. The intensity and aggression, lacking for most of Thursday, was back in the bowling as they limited England's ambitions to 385 - not an insignificant total on pitch likely to offer increasing turn, but nowhere near enough to close out the match - then Graeme Smith and Hashim Amla gave an early indication of the sturdiness of South Africa's top order.
Sri Lanka v India, 1st ODI, Hambantota
He may profess to being just another member of the attack but Dale Steyn once again showed that leadership comes naturally
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| Dale Steyn rediscovered some of his talismanic intensity on day tw |
Dale Steyn maintains that he does not want to be a hero. Having started life in a small town where idols was more than just a bad reality television show, Steyn understood what it was to worship, because he did it all the time. He knew that it meant leaving people with little room to live as reverence so often turned into suffocation.
Wednesday, 18 July 2012
Wednesday, 18 July 2012
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South Africa in England 2012
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| No distractions: James Anderson insists talk about Kevin Pietersen's future has not bothered the dressing room |
South Africa represent the toughest test of England's credentials as the No. 1 ranked Test side, according to James Anderson. However, Anderson insisted that, while in the past England may have allowed the pressure of such a high-profile series to affect their performance, they now had the weapons and the confidence to overcome the tourists.
Sunday, 15 July 2012
Sunday, 15 July 2012
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South Africa in England 2012
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| Ravi Bopara had a productive series against Australia and will now have the chance to cement a Test spot |
Ravi Bopara's return to England's Test team will be confirmed on Sunday when he is slotted in for the No. 6 role against South Africa. He will be the one significant change from the team which took on West Indies earlier this season by replacing Jonny Bairstow in the middle order.
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