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Lets make no bones about it, it has been a pretty dismal day once again for England fans, and unfortunately the rain didn't come as heavy or for as long as any England fan would have liked. At the close, England trail by 195 runs with 7 wickets remaining, but SA still have an innings to play.
Trott continues in his poor run of form with the bat, but to be honest it really doesn't matter how many runs our players score now, or for how long they stay at the
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While I am aware that ranting about it on this blog does very little, I feel I need to get it out of my system.
How, at the top level of cricket, is an obvious nick behind not given out. Well this is what happened today in the 15th over when South African captain Graeme Smith was on 15 runs.
You could hear the edge on the replays. Well, I could but third umpire Daryl Harper couldn't because he forgot to turn his speaker on. What an absolute
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That wasn't great, was it?
Andrew Strauss faltered again. So did Cook, and I kind of wish Jonathan Trott and Kevin Pietersen were in the South African side at the moment. In fact the only contribution worth noting was a 47 from Paul Collingwood.
We didn't look convincing with the ball either, with Anderson putting on his low-confidence body language.
We are in real trouble of losing this series if we are not careful, and if our bowlers look lively and swing the ball as
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It seems all of a sudden we have a remarkable knack of holding on for draws in tests which we have no right to save, at Cardiff in the Ashes and at Centurion in the first test of this series.
Today's remarkable result is very much down to the focussed batting displays from Paul Collingwood who made 40 and Ian Bell who made 78, with the four batsmen surrounding Colly and Bell on the scorecard failing to get into double figures.
However tailenders Graeme Swann and number
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The day didn't begin as badly as I might have feared it would. With Graeme Smith flying and Jacques Kallis just beginning at the close last night, it didn't look good.
Smith only added 21 to his overnight score before he went caught at deep backward-square for 183 by Paul Collingwood off a short Graham Onions ball. While Jacques Kallis made 46 before going out, it could have been a lot worse for England fans. Two more 'helpful' contributions in the 30s came from the middle order batsmen AB de Villiers and JP
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