Monday, January 4, 2010

Live - South Africa v England

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By Tom Fordyce

ENGLAND FIRST INNINGS

From Chris in gloomy (and cold) Dartford, TMS inbox: "50 runs behind and 50 degrees c too - who's up for a wager that we catch up more runs than degrees this morning then?"

0832: WICKET Anderson c Smith b Morkel 0, Eng 241-9
Out for a duck

Déjà vu. Two words, but what pain they bring - what pain...

0832: WICKET Swann c Smith b Morkel 5, Eng 241-8
Wicket falls

Morkel, white zinc cream smeared along his lips - short, brutal lift - oh no....

0825: Here come the players, roared onto the pitch by the sweltering spectators - looks like Morne Morkel to open out, M'sieur Swann to receive...

From Dave, Brighton, TMS inbox: "Coffee brewed, eggs for omelette whisked and ready, phone call to work made (terrible food poisoning). Come on Swanny and Prior, lets see it thrashed like a Victorian schoolboy."

0821: If you get the chance, take a gander at the pics of former Aussie opener Michael Slater decked in an all-pink suit for Australia's second Test match against Pakistan in Sydney. It's truly a work of art - it makes Huggy Bear look like Compo off Last of the Summer Wine. It's all in honour of the McGrath Foundation to raise cancer awareness. Nice touch.

0810: What's that? It's going to be 40 degrees C in Cape Town? Have they stolen our degrees?

0806: Deficit of 50, three wickets in hands, gleaming cherry, wearing wicket. You'd have to think that England need to be at least level before South Africa come out to bat again - there's a result in that there track...

0800: Now then. This is massive. Series-deciding session coming up, you'd have to think...

о 9:01 PM

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