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By Tom Fordyce
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ENGLAND SECOND INNINGS
From Nicholas Agg-Manning, TMS inbox: "Think Rourke's Drift was a very honourable draw - we certainly did not lose it - but we did the one-dayer staged the day before at Isandlwana..."
0839: Eng 133-3
Morkel now, the big danger-man on this track, you'd think - tall, cantering in - oh, that's a dirty brute of a delivery, jagging back in at blistering pace and cannoning straight into Trott's crackerjacks. Even the stony-faced Kallis at slips allows himself a small wince. Trott, rattled and teary of eye, wafts at one that straightens outside off and nearly thins through to Boucher. 332 needed for the win...
Morkel now, the big danger-man on this track, you'd think - tall, cantering in - oh, that's a dirty brute of a delivery, jagging back in at blistering pace and cannoning straight into Trott's crackerjacks. Even the stony-faced Kallis at slips allows himself a small wince. Trott, rattled and teary of eye, wafts at one that straightens outside off and nearly thins through to Boucher. 332 needed for the win...
From Gary Jones, TMS inbox: "Morning and sorry to be a prophet of doom but my daughter has a purple crystal ball thing you ask a question to, shake and it gives you the answer in a lit up triangle on its screen. So I asked it if England would win or save the Test and it replied "I don't think so, silly". Assuming it must not have mis-understood my question I tried again and added a bit of extra info on Trott's average and Swann's purple patch of late. It answered "smelly feet".
0833: Eng 133-3
Here we go - Jonathan 'They Shall Not Pass' Trott, accompanied by James 'They Probably Will At Some Stage' Anderson. Big noise from flag-waving fans around the ground - it'll be Dale Steyn to come tearing in... straight, defended doughtily by Trott. 539 balls to go - knock 'em off, boys, knock 'em off. Single dinked away to leg, and the chase is on. Ish.
Here we go - Jonathan 'They Shall Not Pass' Trott, accompanied by James 'They Probably Will At Some Stage' Anderson. Big noise from flag-waving fans around the ground - it'll be Dale Steyn to come tearing in... straight, defended doughtily by Trott. 539 balls to go - knock 'em off, boys, knock 'em off. Single dinked away to leg, and the chase is on. Ish.
0826: A possibly spurious 'fact' from a colleague to my right: England have never lost a tight Test in a town/city beginning with the the letter 'C'. Cardiff. Centurion. Erm, Colchester. Who said Calcutta?
0820: The great rearguard actions of all time - Cardiff '09, Jo'burg '95, Rourke's Drift - hold on, did we lose Rourke's Drift?
0816: Come on - I was never going to miss this, was I?
0815: No sooner had I typed those words than in walked the man himself. So while he divests himself of associated pieces of snow-repellant apparel, let me remind you of the situation - England are 1-0 up in the series and need to bat through the final day to keep that lead heading into the final Test at Johannesburg, while South Africa need seven wickets to even things up. Alternatively - and don't get too excited at this stage - England need to score another 334 runs for the greatest victory since Test cricket began.
0810: Oh the weather outside is frightful, but the fire is so delightful, and since some of you have no place to go.......yes, it's the final day of the Cape Town Test, so clean those fingernails and prepare to chew. Mr Fordyce isn't here yet, but a search party has been sent out from TVC and I expect the witty wordsmith of W12 to be with us shortly.
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