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THE 5TH TEST...

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Originally posted by invigorate
SA have relied too heavily on Ntini Pollock and Kallis.
Very true, but England (in this series at least) have relied heavily on Strauss, Tresco, Flintoff and Hoggard.
But Enland's 'individuals' have given match winning performances, where SA's have not.

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for the most part i think we are all saying the same thing...
AB and Kallis look to be ensuring the draw...

just look at the score card for Eng under 19 v India under 19, not pretty reading if you are english..

daniel

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Great effort by SA this morning.

100 ahead at lunch with still just the 2 wickets down.

Almost certainly too little too late but who knows !

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mmmm, 3-1 it maybe a sporting declaration by smithy...
185 off 44 interesting....

daniel

must admit i am glad to see that, trying to draw the series but at the risk of losing the test....

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Originally posted by dan182
mmmm, 3-1 it maybe a sporting declaration by smithy...
185 off 44 interesting....

daniel

must admit i am glad to see that, trying to draw the series but at the risk of losing the test....
Yes good stuff, makes a game of it instead of playing out the overs.

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Strauss has gone for 0 🙁

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16 - 2

hmm.........

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this could be very interesting,

one thing that has not been seen this tour is the traditional english batting collapse, could this be the day ?????

game defo in the balance now....

daniel

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3 down

Dangerous game England are playing, should be safe though.

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Job done.

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Originally posted by kw72uk
Strauss has gone for 0 🙁
Still got Man of the Series.

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Originally posted by Varg
Still got Man of the Series.
Don't know how he managed that. Kallis was a better candidate 625 runs, HS 162 avg. 69.44 3 100's 2 50's and 8 catches.
Strauss made 656 runs HS 147 avg. 72.88 3 100's 1 50 and 5 catches.

But Kallis bowled as well with figures of:
96 Overs 20 Mdns 303 Runs 4 Wkts Avg 75.75 Best 3-93

Which is a much better all round performance than Strauss.

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Originally posted by Crowley
Don't know how he managed that. Kallis was a better candidate 625 runs, HS 162 avg. 69.44 3 100's 2 50's and 8 catches.
Strauss made 656 runs HS 147 avg. 72.88 3 100's 1 50 and 5 catches.

But Kallis bowled as well with figures of:
96 Overs 20 Mdns 303 Runs 4 Wkts Avg 75.75 Best 3-93

Which is a much better all round performance than Strauss.
But Strauss was on the winning side, maybe that affected it?

Interestingly, although Flintoff was pretty mediocre with the bat, he beats Kallis in the all-rounder measurement of runs x wickets (as used by PWC/LG).
Flintoff: 227r x 23w = 5221
Kallis: 625r x 4w = 2500

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Originally posted by Varg
But Strauss was on the winning side, maybe that affected it?

Interestingly, although Flintoff was pretty mediocre with the bat, he beats Kallis in the all-rounder measurement of runs x wickets (as used by PWC/LG).
Flintoff: 227r x 23w = 5221
Kallis: 625r x 4w = 2500
Probably because he was on the winning side, yeah.

Kallis should be taken off any all-rounder lists. He's a batsman who knows how to bowl.
Interesting algorithm. Looks a bit simple, shouldn't averages come into play?

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Originally posted by Crowley
Probably because he was on the winning side, yeah.

Kallis should be taken off any all-rounder lists. He's a batsman who knows how to bowl.
Interesting algorithm. Looks a bit simple, shouldn't averages come into play?
http://www.cricketratings.com/

The website has just changed and I can't see that it says how they calculate the all-rounders now.
Anyhow, Kallis is apparently number one Test all-rounder but doesn't feature as a ODI all-rounder!

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