Show only key events Please enable JavaScript to use this feature Jack Leach, who had a good day”: “We’re back in the game but we’ve stuck to it really well. Trying to get wickets, it’s hard to summarize at the moment, but we could have had a few more. We ended up creating half the chances, we have to stick to that. “I can feel Stokesy in the middle, I feel that belief in me and I’m trying to make the most of it. It’s a mixture of things, confidence after playing enough Test cricket to learn through those games and belief from the performances.” It felt like a mini-epic – defiantly South Africa’s day, but endlessly entertaining from England who bowled it. After keeping things tight after that opening partnership with the South African, and Stokes whipping himself almost into the dust, Jensen and Maharaj took South Africa’s lead from useful to important.
Stumps: South Africa 289-7, lead by 124 runs
77th over: South Africa 289-7 ( Jansen 41, Rabada 3) Stokes screams for the final over of the day, but Jansen holds on and turns at five, pulling Stokes past a diving Bairstow on the rope. It falls safely under the final bogeyman and that’s stumps! 76th over: South Africa 285-7 ( Jansen 37, Rabada 3) Leach goes for the last over of the day but is actually so quick that they squeeze in another edge off Rabada off the last ball but he squeezes slip and picks up two . 75th over: South Africa 283-7 ( Janssen 37, Rabada 1) Stokes gets his man, but not before the pendulum swings. Why do England look so tired @tjaldred? They have bowled only 72 overs and it is not exactly hot. Most had weeks to prepare for it. — Gary Naylor (@garynaylor999) August 18, 2022 I have no answer to that! Maybe it’s just that Test cricket that’s exhausting when you’re not in the groove?
WIRELESS! Maharaj c Potts b Stokes 41 (South Africa 282-7)
This looks a bit like a wicket bought – 41 off 49 balls and a very serviceable innings, which ends with a blind flurry on a Stokes bouncer, well caught by Potts in the eye of the setting sun. 74th over: South Africa 277-6 ( Jansen 39, Maharaj 34) Oh dear. Maharaj shows no pity for his former Lancashire colleague, making two immaculate fours. Hello Tanja, Hello Eva! “I’m not surprised that the comment box experiment has been temporarily suspended – I always feel that OBOers are like Archers listeners: they don’t want to change. I wonder how much overlap these two groups have…I much prefer the e-mail option, btw!” I think the venn diagram would be interesting! What else would you add to the mix? Real beer? 73rd over: South Africa 269-6 ( Jansen 34, Maharaj 31) Stokes has had enough, and in the manner of an older brother who can’t bear to let his siblings incompetently complete a task, grabs the ball. But it doesn’t come out enough. Jansen bowls him to long-off where Jimmy Anderson chases him down for four runs. Some more in the same direction are being chased by Stokes as there are no fielders on this unorthodox pitch. Jansen picks up a six off a short one and then another four. The lead extends to 104. 72nd over: South Africa 253-6 ( Jansen 18, Maharaj 31) When all else fails, turn to Anderson. Mahara drives him to covers for four, then leans back and pancakes him for another four. In the last four overs, South Africa got 27. 71st over: South Africa 243-6 ( Jansen 18, Maharaj 21) The dam is probably leaking here in the last half hour. Seven off Leach, including a burly loft from Jansen to the long-on boundary. Updated at 18.43 BST 70th over: South Africa 236-6 ( Jansen 14, Maharaj 18) Maharaj and Jansen are probably milking Potts here, four each as the lead goes up to 71. A good crowd stays to watch the final flurry in the sun as the rain falls outside my window. Updated at 18.43 BST 69th over: South Africa 227-6 ( Jansen 10, Maharaj 12) And from the stand end this time, with half an hour left in the day, Jack Leach. His last ball almost squeaks through the gap between Jansen’s bat and pad. Updated at 18.42 BST 68th over: South Africa 226-6 ( Jansen 10, Maharaj 12) A maiden from the sumptuous Potts. 67th over: South Africa 220-6 ( Jansen 10, Maharaj 12) The shadow of a floodlight bisects the batting and the slips. Maharaj hits two boundaries in three balls from Broad, one on the edge through the slips that has Broad down in his pockets, the other cuts a pie. In defense of Bazball by Tim Maitland, “Before we all start writing obituaries about Bazball, doesn’t the state of this test match depend on the toss and the huge difference in bowling conditions from day one to day two? “Had South Africa batted first, they too would have struggled to avoid being put in a losing position by now.” 66th over: South Africa 216-6 ( Jansen 9, Maharaj 3) Potts plows on as the afternoon winds down. Each run is worth double. 65th over: South Africa 215-6 ( Jansen 9, Maharai 2) Jansen takes a catch but there is no slip and the ball falls into the shade. Broad keeps Maharaj on his toes. The camera pans back and the red-sprinkled crowd looks like fruit on a happy cherry tree. Lead creeps up to fifty. Hi Daniel Lees: “I kid you not. Every time I leave the room to cook dinner for me and the boss, plus the kids (two separate plates of pasta…successful parents we are not) we get a wicket. Given the late afternoon consumption of rose wine, you can expect the remaining 4 wickets to fall before the end of the game. After that, I’ll cross my legs and stay in the room, I promise!’ 64th over: South Africa 210-6 ( Jansen 6, Maharaj 0) A 6:3 pitch down leg as Potts runs to Maharaj, formerly of Lancashire and Yorkshire. Just the one run. 63rd over: South Africa 210-6 ( Jansen 6, Maharaj 0) Somewhere in the ether someone, sorry if it was you, sent a great message about how games under Stokes’ captaincy don’t drift. Now I can’t find it but it was very observant. England, inspired by their captain, latched onto this South African innings with both hands, desperate not to let it slip away. And the lead is down to 45.
WIRELESS! Verreynne c Foakes b Broad 11 (South Africa 210-6)
Rocking, rocking: Verreynne caught in two minds at the crease, some extra bounce and a slip of an edge. Stuart Broad’s 100th Test at Lord’s! Stuart Broad dismisses Kyle Verreynne. Photo: Gareth Copley/Getty Images Updated 18.06 BST 62nd over: South Africa 210-5 ( Jansen 6, Verreynne 11) Out of nowhere, Verreynne keeps hitting, trips Leach and slogs him nasty and wide for three. Almost, almost, but not a cigar. 61st over: South Africa 206-5 ( Jansen 5, Verreynne 8) Did I mention slips? England still has a lot. Four for Stuart Broad but no reward. With an hour or so to go, the lead is 41. England are playing swashbuckling, teasing cricket. I think the new box has now been retired for the day – so feel free to email me at the usual address: [email protected] 60th over: South Africa 202-5 ( Jansen 3, Verreynne 5) One off Leach’s over, and they stop for the last drinks break of the day. Harry scratches with a pencil. “By my (admittedly out of date) grade B in GCSE maths, if Jimmy is still bowling in internationals early next year he will be closer to 60 than he was (21) when he first bowled debut (vs Zimbabwe, 22 May 2003). (Quite remarkable – although it would be handy to have a version of his early self bowling this afternoon to kick things up a notch) 59th over: South Africa 201-5 ( Jansen 3, Verreynne 5) Time for Stokes to rest the knee and Stuart Broad to pick up the tab. The sun on his bronze face briefly turns him into a modern-day Botticelli angel. He accepts the temptation, but the towering Jansen resists. “This,” writes Jon D, “is a tough South African team and won’t go as easily as NZ and India. He will drop England’s middle order against South Africa’s top order. I think South Africa will get it as their technique is superior to England’s.” 58th over: South Africa 200-5 ( Jansen 3, Verreynne 5) Verreynne cuts Leach through point and over the rope to release the tension. 57th over: South Africa 195-5 ( Jansen 2, Verreynne 1 ) Ooooff, Stokes leg doesn’t look pretty. He gives up on the follow through after one ball and then slopes back to his mark. A final no-ball tests his patience but he duly lights up the thunder once more. Surely that must be it for this (wonderful) spell. “Hello from the People’s Republic of South Yorkshire (Sheffield),” writes Nick. “England’s batting, for all the magic we’ve seen in the last four Tests, is still clearly deeply flawed and against a proper pace attack, they fare miserably. ||I remember a few months ago McCullum said that Crawley would never be a consistent player but he would back him 100%. But is it still possible to have a successful career as an inconsistent test opener? There are only so many times a team can find themselves at 20-2 and 50-4 and recover, before they finally start to break out from good bowling attacks.||Already in this Test we see justifications for Eng’s first innings, with commentators saying that most of the batsmen took good balls. But the Eng have bowled a lot of good balls and won the edge themselves, so why are the South African batsmen not coming so easily to them? At some point you have to question their concentration as well as their techniques.”
WIRELESS! Van der Dussen lbw Stokes 19 (South Africa 192-5)
And the new ball works! Stokes hits VDD on VDD’s knee-roll, which causes such a jolt that it starts one of the most despairing reviews on record. It’s a short way down and Stokes is in one of his magic spells. Ben Stokes appeals for the wicket of Rassie van der Dussen. Photo: Julian…
title: “England V South Africa First Test Day Two Live England V South Africa 2022 Klmat” ShowToc: true date: “2022-10-22” author: “Neva Law”
Show only key events Please enable JavaScript to use this feature Jack Leach, who had a good day”: “We’re back in the game but we’ve stuck to it really well. Trying to get wickets, it’s hard to summarize at the moment, but we could have had a few more. We ended up creating half the chances, we have to stick to that. “I can feel Stokesy in the middle, I feel that belief in me and I’m trying to make the most of it. It’s a mixture of things, confidence after playing enough Test cricket to learn through those games and belief from the performances.” It felt like a mini-epic – defiantly South Africa’s day, but endlessly entertaining from England who bowled it. After keeping things tight after that opening partnership with the South African, and Stokes whipping himself almost into the dust, Jensen and Maharaj took South Africa’s lead from useful to important.
Stumps: South Africa 289-7, lead by 124 runs
77th over: South Africa 289-7 ( Jansen 41, Rabada 3) Stokes screams for the final over of the day, but Jansen holds on and turns at five, pulling Stokes past a diving Bairstow on the rope. It falls safely under the final bogeyman and that’s stumps! 76th over: South Africa 285-7 ( Jansen 37, Rabada 3) Leach goes for the last over of the day but is actually so quick that they squeeze in another edge off Rabada off the last ball but he squeezes slip and picks up two . 75th over: South Africa 283-7 ( Janssen 37, Rabada 1) Stokes gets his man, but not before the pendulum swings. Why do England look so tired @tjaldred? They have bowled only 72 overs and it is not exactly hot. Most had weeks to prepare for it. — Gary Naylor (@garynaylor999) August 18, 2022 I have no answer to that! Maybe it’s just that Test cricket that’s exhausting when you’re not in the groove?
WIRELESS! Maharaj c Potts b Stokes 41 (South Africa 282-7)
This looks a bit like a wicket bought – 41 off 49 balls and a very serviceable innings, which ends with a blind flurry on a Stokes bouncer, well caught by Potts in the eye of the setting sun. 74th over: South Africa 277-6 ( Jansen 39, Maharaj 34) Oh dear. Maharaj shows no pity for his former Lancashire colleague, making two immaculate fours. Hello Tanja, Hello Eva! “I’m not surprised that the comment box experiment has been temporarily suspended – I always feel that OBOers are like Archers listeners: they don’t want to change. I wonder how much overlap these two groups have…I much prefer the e-mail option, btw!” I think the venn diagram would be interesting! What else would you add to the mix? Real beer? 73rd over: South Africa 269-6 ( Jansen 34, Maharaj 31) Stokes has had enough, and in the manner of an older brother who can’t bear to let his siblings incompetently complete a task, grabs the ball. But it doesn’t come out enough. Jansen bowls him to long-off where Jimmy Anderson chases him down for four runs. Some more in the same direction are being chased by Stokes as there are no fielders on this unorthodox pitch. Jansen picks up a six off a short one and then another four. The lead extends to 104. 72nd over: South Africa 253-6 ( Jansen 18, Maharaj 31) When all else fails, turn to Anderson. Mahara drives him to covers for four, then leans back and pancakes him for another four. In the last four overs, South Africa got 27. 71st over: South Africa 243-6 ( Jansen 18, Maharaj 21) The dam is probably leaking here in the last half hour. Seven off Leach, including a burly loft from Jansen to the long-on boundary. Updated at 18.43 BST 70th over: South Africa 236-6 ( Jansen 14, Maharaj 18) Maharaj and Jansen are probably milking Potts here, four each as the lead goes up to 71. A good crowd stays to watch the final flurry in the sun as the rain falls outside my window. Updated at 18.43 BST 69th over: South Africa 227-6 ( Jansen 10, Maharaj 12) And from the stand end this time, with half an hour left in the day, Jack Leach. His last ball almost squeaks through the gap between Jansen’s bat and pad. Updated at 18.42 BST 68th over: South Africa 226-6 ( Jansen 10, Maharaj 12) A maiden from the sumptuous Potts. 67th over: South Africa 220-6 ( Jansen 10, Maharaj 12) The shadow of a floodlight bisects the batting and the slips. Maharaj hits two boundaries in three balls from Broad, one on the edge through the slips that has Broad down in his pockets, the other cuts a pie. In defense of Bazball by Tim Maitland, “Before we all start writing obituaries about Bazball, doesn’t the state of this test match depend on the toss and the huge difference in bowling conditions from day one to day two? “Had South Africa batted first, they too would have struggled to avoid being put in a losing position by now.” 66th over: South Africa 216-6 ( Jansen 9, Maharaj 3) Potts plows on as the afternoon winds down. Each run is worth double. 65th over: South Africa 215-6 ( Jansen 9, Maharai 2) Jansen takes a catch but there is no slip and the ball falls into the shade. Broad keeps Maharaj on his toes. The camera pans back and the red-sprinkled crowd looks like fruit on a happy cherry tree. Lead creeps up to fifty. Hi Daniel Lees: “I kid you not. Every time I leave the room to cook dinner for me and the boss, plus the kids (two separate plates of pasta…successful parents we are not) we get a wicket. Given the late afternoon consumption of rose wine, you can expect the remaining 4 wickets to fall before the end of the game. After that, I’ll cross my legs and stay in the room, I promise!’ 64th over: South Africa 210-6 ( Jansen 6, Maharaj 0) A 6:3 pitch down leg as Potts runs to Maharaj, formerly of Lancashire and Yorkshire. Just the one run. 63rd over: South Africa 210-6 ( Jansen 6, Maharaj 0) Somewhere in the ether someone, sorry if it was you, sent a great message about how games under Stokes’ captaincy don’t drift. Now I can’t find it but it was very observant. England, inspired by their captain, latched onto this South African innings with both hands, desperate not to let it slip away. And the lead is down to 45.
WIRELESS! Verreynne c Foakes b Broad 11 (South Africa 210-6)
Rocking, rocking: Verreynne caught in two minds at the crease, some extra bounce and a slip of an edge. Stuart Broad’s 100th Test at Lord’s! Stuart Broad dismisses Kyle Verreynne. Photo: Gareth Copley/Getty Images Updated 18.06 BST 62nd over: South Africa 210-5 ( Jansen 6, Verreynne 11) Out of nowhere, Verreynne keeps hitting, trips Leach and slogs him nasty and wide for three. Almost, almost, but not a cigar. 61st over: South Africa 206-5 ( Jansen 5, Verreynne 8) Did I mention slips? England still has a lot. Four for Stuart Broad but no reward. With an hour or so to go, the lead is 41. England are playing swashbuckling, teasing cricket. I think the new box has now been retired for the day – so feel free to email me at the usual address: [email protected] 60th over: South Africa 202-5 ( Jansen 3, Verreynne 5) One off Leach’s over, and they stop for the last drinks break of the day. Harry scratches with a pencil. “By my (admittedly out of date) grade B in GCSE maths, if Jimmy is still bowling in internationals early next year he will be closer to 60 than he was (21) when he first bowled debut (vs Zimbabwe, 22 May 2003). (Quite remarkable – although it would be handy to have a version of his early self bowling this afternoon to kick things up a notch) 59th over: South Africa 201-5 ( Jansen 3, Verreynne 5) Time for Stokes to rest the knee and Stuart Broad to pick up the tab. The sun on his bronze face briefly turns him into a modern-day Botticelli angel. He accepts the temptation, but the towering Jansen resists. “This,” writes Jon D, “is a tough South African team and won’t go as easily as NZ and India. He will drop England’s middle order against South Africa’s top order. I think South Africa will get it as their technique is superior to England’s.” 58th over: South Africa 200-5 ( Jansen 3, Verreynne 5) Verreynne cuts Leach through point and over the rope to release the tension. 57th over: South Africa 195-5 ( Jansen 2, Verreynne 1 ) Ooooff, Stokes leg doesn’t look pretty. He gives up on the follow through after one ball and then slopes back to his mark. A final no-ball tests his patience but he duly lights up the thunder once more. Surely that must be it for this (wonderful) spell. “Hello from the People’s Republic of South Yorkshire (Sheffield),” writes Nick. “England’s batting, for all the magic we’ve seen in the last four Tests, is still clearly deeply flawed and against a proper pace attack, they fare miserably. ||I remember a few months ago McCullum said that Crawley would never be a consistent player but he would back him 100%. But is it still possible to have a successful career as an inconsistent test opener? There are only so many times a team can find themselves at 20-2 and 50-4 and recover, before they finally start to break out from good bowling attacks.||Already in this Test we see justifications for Eng’s first innings, with commentators saying that most of the batsmen took good balls. But the Eng have bowled a lot of good balls and won the edge themselves, so why are the South African batsmen not coming so easily to them? At some point you have to question their concentration as well as their techniques.”
WIRELESS! Van der Dussen lbw Stokes 19 (South Africa 192-5)
And the new ball works! Stokes hits VDD on VDD’s knee-roll, which causes such a jolt that it starts one of the most despairing reviews on record. It’s a short way down and Stokes is in one of his magic spells. Ben Stokes appeals for the wicket of Rassie van der Dussen. Photo: Julian…
title: “England V South Africa First Test Day Two Live England V South Africa 2022 Klmat” ShowToc: true date: “2022-12-15” author: “Jonas Pearson”
Show only key events Please enable JavaScript to use this feature Jack Leach, who had a good day”: “We’re back in the game but we’ve stuck to it really well. Trying to get wickets, it’s hard to summarize at the moment, but we could have had a few more. We ended up creating half the chances, we have to stick to that. “I can feel Stokesy in the middle, I feel that belief in me and I’m trying to make the most of it. It’s a mixture of things, confidence after playing enough Test cricket to learn through those games and belief from the performances.” It felt like a mini-epic – defiantly South Africa’s day, but endlessly entertaining from England who bowled it. After keeping things tight after that opening partnership with the South African, and Stokes whipping himself almost into the dust, Jensen and Maharaj took South Africa’s lead from useful to important.
Stumps: South Africa 289-7, lead by 124 runs
77th over: South Africa 289-7 ( Jansen 41, Rabada 3) Stokes screams for the final over of the day, but Jansen holds on and turns at five, pulling Stokes past a diving Bairstow on the rope. It falls safely under the final bogeyman and that’s stumps! 76th over: South Africa 285-7 ( Jansen 37, Rabada 3) Leach goes for the last over of the day but is actually so quick that they squeeze in another edge off Rabada off the last ball but he squeezes slip and picks up two . 75th over: South Africa 283-7 ( Janssen 37, Rabada 1) Stokes gets his man, but not before the pendulum swings. Why do England look so tired @tjaldred? They have bowled only 72 overs and it is not exactly hot. Most had weeks to prepare for it. — Gary Naylor (@garynaylor999) August 18, 2022 I have no answer to that! Maybe it’s just that Test cricket that’s exhausting when you’re not in the groove?
WIRELESS! Maharaj c Potts b Stokes 41 (South Africa 282-7)
This looks a bit like a wicket bought – 41 off 49 balls and a very serviceable innings, which ends with a blind flurry on a Stokes bouncer, well caught by Potts in the eye of the setting sun. 74th over: South Africa 277-6 ( Jansen 39, Maharaj 34) Oh dear. Maharaj shows no pity for his former Lancashire colleague, making two immaculate fours. Hello Tanja, Hello Eva! “I’m not surprised that the comment box experiment has been temporarily suspended – I always feel that OBOers are like Archers listeners: they don’t want to change. I wonder how much overlap these two groups have…I much prefer the e-mail option, btw!” I think the venn diagram would be interesting! What else would you add to the mix? Real beer? 73rd over: South Africa 269-6 ( Jansen 34, Maharaj 31) Stokes has had enough, and in the manner of an older brother who can’t bear to let his siblings incompetently complete a task, grabs the ball. But it doesn’t come out enough. Jansen bowls him to long-off where Jimmy Anderson chases him down for four runs. Some more in the same direction are being chased by Stokes as there are no fielders on this unorthodox pitch. Jansen picks up a six off a short one and then another four. The lead extends to 104. 72nd over: South Africa 253-6 ( Jansen 18, Maharaj 31) When all else fails, turn to Anderson. Mahara drives him to covers for four, then leans back and pancakes him for another four. In the last four overs, South Africa got 27. 71st over: South Africa 243-6 ( Jansen 18, Maharaj 21) The dam is probably leaking here in the last half hour. Seven off Leach, including a burly loft from Jansen to the long-on boundary. Updated at 18.43 BST 70th over: South Africa 236-6 ( Jansen 14, Maharaj 18) Maharaj and Jansen are probably milking Potts here, four each as the lead goes up to 71. A good crowd stays to watch the final flurry in the sun as the rain falls outside my window. Updated at 18.43 BST 69th over: South Africa 227-6 ( Jansen 10, Maharaj 12) And from the stand end this time, with half an hour left in the day, Jack Leach. His last ball almost squeaks through the gap between Jansen’s bat and pad. Updated at 18.42 BST 68th over: South Africa 226-6 ( Jansen 10, Maharaj 12) A maiden from the sumptuous Potts. 67th over: South Africa 220-6 ( Jansen 10, Maharaj 12) The shadow of a floodlight bisects the batting and the slips. Maharaj hits two boundaries in three balls from Broad, one on the edge through the slips that has Broad down in his pockets, the other cuts a pie. In defense of Bazball by Tim Maitland, “Before we all start writing obituaries about Bazball, doesn’t the state of this test match depend on the toss and the huge difference in bowling conditions from day one to day two? “Had South Africa batted first, they too would have struggled to avoid being put in a losing position by now.” 66th over: South Africa 216-6 ( Jansen 9, Maharaj 3) Potts plows on as the afternoon winds down. Each run is worth double. 65th over: South Africa 215-6 ( Jansen 9, Maharai 2) Jansen takes a catch but there is no slip and the ball falls into the shade. Broad keeps Maharaj on his toes. The camera pans back and the red-sprinkled crowd looks like fruit on a happy cherry tree. Lead creeps up to fifty. Hi Daniel Lees: “I kid you not. Every time I leave the room to cook dinner for me and the boss, plus the kids (two separate plates of pasta…successful parents we are not) we get a wicket. Given the late afternoon consumption of rose wine, you can expect the remaining 4 wickets to fall before the end of the game. After that, I’ll cross my legs and stay in the room, I promise!’ 64th over: South Africa 210-6 ( Jansen 6, Maharaj 0) A 6:3 pitch down leg as Potts runs to Maharaj, formerly of Lancashire and Yorkshire. Just the one run. 63rd over: South Africa 210-6 ( Jansen 6, Maharaj 0) Somewhere in the ether someone, sorry if it was you, sent a great message about how games under Stokes’ captaincy don’t drift. Now I can’t find it but it was very observant. England, inspired by their captain, latched onto this South African innings with both hands, desperate not to let it slip away. And the lead is down to 45.
WIRELESS! Verreynne c Foakes b Broad 11 (South Africa 210-6)
Rocking, rocking: Verreynne caught in two minds at the crease, some extra bounce and a slip of an edge. Stuart Broad’s 100th Test at Lord’s! Stuart Broad dismisses Kyle Verreynne. Photo: Gareth Copley/Getty Images Updated 18.06 BST 62nd over: South Africa 210-5 ( Jansen 6, Verreynne 11) Out of nowhere, Verreynne keeps hitting, trips Leach and slogs him nasty and wide for three. Almost, almost, but not a cigar. 61st over: South Africa 206-5 ( Jansen 5, Verreynne 8) Did I mention slips? England still has a lot. Four for Stuart Broad but no reward. With an hour or so to go, the lead is 41. England are playing swashbuckling, teasing cricket. I think the new box has now been retired for the day – so feel free to email me at the usual address: [email protected] 60th over: South Africa 202-5 ( Jansen 3, Verreynne 5) One off Leach’s over, and they stop for the last drinks break of the day. Harry scratches with a pencil. “By my (admittedly out of date) grade B in GCSE maths, if Jimmy is still bowling in internationals early next year he will be closer to 60 than he was (21) when he first bowled debut (vs Zimbabwe, 22 May 2003). (Quite remarkable – although it would be handy to have a version of his early self bowling this afternoon to kick things up a notch) 59th over: South Africa 201-5 ( Jansen 3, Verreynne 5) Time for Stokes to rest the knee and Stuart Broad to pick up the tab. The sun on his bronze face briefly turns him into a modern-day Botticelli angel. He accepts the temptation, but the towering Jansen resists. “This,” writes Jon D, “is a tough South African team and won’t go as easily as NZ and India. He will drop England’s middle order against South Africa’s top order. I think South Africa will get it as their technique is superior to England’s.” 58th over: South Africa 200-5 ( Jansen 3, Verreynne 5) Verreynne cuts Leach through point and over the rope to release the tension. 57th over: South Africa 195-5 ( Jansen 2, Verreynne 1 ) Ooooff, Stokes leg doesn’t look pretty. He gives up on the follow through after one ball and then slopes back to his mark. A final no-ball tests his patience but he duly lights up the thunder once more. Surely that must be it for this (wonderful) spell. “Hello from the People’s Republic of South Yorkshire (Sheffield),” writes Nick. “England’s batting, for all the magic we’ve seen in the last four Tests, is still clearly deeply flawed and against a proper pace attack, they fare miserably. ||I remember a few months ago McCullum said that Crawley would never be a consistent player but he would back him 100%. But is it still possible to have a successful career as an inconsistent test opener? There are only so many times a team can find themselves at 20-2 and 50-4 and recover, before they finally start to break out from good bowling attacks.||Already in this Test we see justifications for Eng’s first innings, with commentators saying that most of the batsmen took good balls. But the Eng have bowled a lot of good balls and won the edge themselves, so why are the South African batsmen not coming so easily to them? At some point you have to question their concentration as well as their techniques.”
WIRELESS! Van der Dussen lbw Stokes 19 (South Africa 192-5)
And the new ball works! Stokes hits VDD on VDD’s knee-roll, which causes such a jolt that it starts one of the most despairing reviews on record. It’s a short way down and Stokes is in one of his magic spells. Ben Stokes appeals for the wicket of Rassie van der Dussen. Photo: Julian…
title: “England V South Africa First Test Day Two Live England V South Africa 2022 Klmat” ShowToc: true date: “2022-12-03” author: “Cameron Stavros”
Show only key events Please enable JavaScript to use this feature Jack Leach, who had a good day”: “We’re back in the game but we’ve stuck to it really well. Trying to get wickets, it’s hard to summarize at the moment, but we could have had a few more. We ended up creating half the chances, we have to stick to that. “I can feel Stokesy in the middle, I feel that belief in me and I’m trying to make the most of it. It’s a mixture of things, confidence after playing enough Test cricket to learn through those games and belief from the performances.” It felt like a mini-epic – defiantly South Africa’s day, but endlessly entertaining from England who bowled it. After keeping things tight after that opening partnership with the South African, and Stokes whipping himself almost into the dust, Jensen and Maharaj took South Africa’s lead from useful to important.
Stumps: South Africa 289-7, lead by 124 runs
77th over: South Africa 289-7 ( Jansen 41, Rabada 3) Stokes screams for the final over of the day, but Jansen holds on and turns at five, pulling Stokes past a diving Bairstow on the rope. It falls safely under the final bogeyman and that’s stumps! 76th over: South Africa 285-7 ( Jansen 37, Rabada 3) Leach goes for the last over of the day but is actually so quick that they squeeze in another edge off Rabada off the last ball but he squeezes slip and picks up two . 75th over: South Africa 283-7 ( Janssen 37, Rabada 1) Stokes gets his man, but not before the pendulum swings. Why do England look so tired @tjaldred? They have bowled only 72 overs and it is not exactly hot. Most had weeks to prepare for it. — Gary Naylor (@garynaylor999) August 18, 2022 I have no answer to that! Maybe it’s just that Test cricket that’s exhausting when you’re not in the groove?
WIRELESS! Maharaj c Potts b Stokes 41 (South Africa 282-7)
This looks a bit like a wicket bought – 41 off 49 balls and a very serviceable innings, which ends with a blind flurry on a Stokes bouncer, well caught by Potts in the eye of the setting sun. 74th over: South Africa 277-6 ( Jansen 39, Maharaj 34) Oh dear. Maharaj shows no pity for his former Lancashire colleague, making two immaculate fours. Hello Tanja, Hello Eva! “I’m not surprised that the comment box experiment has been temporarily suspended – I always feel that OBOers are like Archers listeners: they don’t want to change. I wonder how much overlap these two groups have…I much prefer the e-mail option, btw!” I think the venn diagram would be interesting! What else would you add to the mix? Real beer? 73rd over: South Africa 269-6 ( Jansen 34, Maharaj 31) Stokes has had enough, and in the manner of an older brother who can’t bear to let his siblings incompetently complete a task, grabs the ball. But it doesn’t come out enough. Jansen bowls him to long-off where Jimmy Anderson chases him down for four runs. Some more in the same direction are being chased by Stokes as there are no fielders on this unorthodox pitch. Jansen picks up a six off a short one and then another four. The lead extends to 104. 72nd over: South Africa 253-6 ( Jansen 18, Maharaj 31) When all else fails, turn to Anderson. Mahara drives him to covers for four, then leans back and pancakes him for another four. In the last four overs, South Africa got 27. 71st over: South Africa 243-6 ( Jansen 18, Maharaj 21) The dam is probably leaking here in the last half hour. Seven off Leach, including a burly loft from Jansen to the long-on boundary. Updated at 18.43 BST 70th over: South Africa 236-6 ( Jansen 14, Maharaj 18) Maharaj and Jansen are probably milking Potts here, four each as the lead goes up to 71. A good crowd stays to watch the final flurry in the sun as the rain falls outside my window. Updated at 18.43 BST 69th over: South Africa 227-6 ( Jansen 10, Maharaj 12) And from the stand end this time, with half an hour left in the day, Jack Leach. His last ball almost squeaks through the gap between Jansen’s bat and pad. Updated at 18.42 BST 68th over: South Africa 226-6 ( Jansen 10, Maharaj 12) A maiden from the sumptuous Potts. 67th over: South Africa 220-6 ( Jansen 10, Maharaj 12) The shadow of a floodlight bisects the batting and the slips. Maharaj hits two boundaries in three balls from Broad, one on the edge through the slips that has Broad down in his pockets, the other cuts a pie. In defense of Bazball by Tim Maitland, “Before we all start writing obituaries about Bazball, doesn’t the state of this test match depend on the toss and the huge difference in bowling conditions from day one to day two? “Had South Africa batted first, they too would have struggled to avoid being put in a losing position by now.” 66th over: South Africa 216-6 ( Jansen 9, Maharaj 3) Potts plows on as the afternoon winds down. Each run is worth double. 65th over: South Africa 215-6 ( Jansen 9, Maharai 2) Jansen takes a catch but there is no slip and the ball falls into the shade. Broad keeps Maharaj on his toes. The camera pans back and the red-sprinkled crowd looks like fruit on a happy cherry tree. Lead creeps up to fifty. Hi Daniel Lees: “I kid you not. Every time I leave the room to cook dinner for me and the boss, plus the kids (two separate plates of pasta…successful parents we are not) we get a wicket. Given the late afternoon consumption of rose wine, you can expect the remaining 4 wickets to fall before the end of the game. After that, I’ll cross my legs and stay in the room, I promise!’ 64th over: South Africa 210-6 ( Jansen 6, Maharaj 0) A 6:3 pitch down leg as Potts runs to Maharaj, formerly of Lancashire and Yorkshire. Just the one run. 63rd over: South Africa 210-6 ( Jansen 6, Maharaj 0) Somewhere in the ether someone, sorry if it was you, sent a great message about how games under Stokes’ captaincy don’t drift. Now I can’t find it but it was very observant. England, inspired by their captain, latched onto this South African innings with both hands, desperate not to let it slip away. And the lead is down to 45.
WIRELESS! Verreynne c Foakes b Broad 11 (South Africa 210-6)
Rocking, rocking: Verreynne caught in two minds at the crease, some extra bounce and a slip of an edge. Stuart Broad’s 100th Test at Lord’s! Stuart Broad dismisses Kyle Verreynne. Photo: Gareth Copley/Getty Images Updated 18.06 BST 62nd over: South Africa 210-5 ( Jansen 6, Verreynne 11) Out of nowhere, Verreynne keeps hitting, trips Leach and slogs him nasty and wide for three. Almost, almost, but not a cigar. 61st over: South Africa 206-5 ( Jansen 5, Verreynne 8) Did I mention slips? England still has a lot. Four for Stuart Broad but no reward. With an hour or so to go, the lead is 41. England are playing swashbuckling, teasing cricket. I think the new box has now been retired for the day – so feel free to email me at the usual address: [email protected] 60th over: South Africa 202-5 ( Jansen 3, Verreynne 5) One off Leach’s over, and they stop for the last drinks break of the day. Harry scratches with a pencil. “By my (admittedly out of date) grade B in GCSE maths, if Jimmy is still bowling in internationals early next year he will be closer to 60 than he was (21) when he first bowled debut (vs Zimbabwe, 22 May 2003). (Quite remarkable – although it would be handy to have a version of his early self bowling this afternoon to kick things up a notch) 59th over: South Africa 201-5 ( Jansen 3, Verreynne 5) Time for Stokes to rest the knee and Stuart Broad to pick up the tab. The sun on his bronze face briefly turns him into a modern-day Botticelli angel. He accepts the temptation, but the towering Jansen resists. “This,” writes Jon D, “is a tough South African team and won’t go as easily as NZ and India. He will drop England’s middle order against South Africa’s top order. I think South Africa will get it as their technique is superior to England’s.” 58th over: South Africa 200-5 ( Jansen 3, Verreynne 5) Verreynne cuts Leach through point and over the rope to release the tension. 57th over: South Africa 195-5 ( Jansen 2, Verreynne 1 ) Ooooff, Stokes leg doesn’t look pretty. He gives up on the follow through after one ball and then slopes back to his mark. A final no-ball tests his patience but he duly lights up the thunder once more. Surely that must be it for this (wonderful) spell. “Hello from the People’s Republic of South Yorkshire (Sheffield),” writes Nick. “England’s batting, for all the magic we’ve seen in the last four Tests, is still clearly deeply flawed and against a proper pace attack, they fare miserably. ||I remember a few months ago McCullum said that Crawley would never be a consistent player but he would back him 100%. But is it still possible to have a successful career as an inconsistent test opener? There are only so many times a team can find themselves at 20-2 and 50-4 and recover, before they finally start to break out from good bowling attacks.||Already in this Test we see justifications for Eng’s first innings, with commentators saying that most of the batsmen took good balls. But the Eng have bowled a lot of good balls and won the edge themselves, so why are the South African batsmen not coming so easily to them? At some point you have to question their concentration as well as their techniques.”
WIRELESS! Van der Dussen lbw Stokes 19 (South Africa 192-5)
And the new ball works! Stokes hits VDD on VDD’s knee-roll, which causes such a jolt that it starts one of the most despairing reviews on record. It’s a short way down and Stokes is in one of his magic spells. Ben Stokes appeals for the wicket of Rassie van der Dussen. Photo: Julian…
title: “England V South Africa First Test Day Two Live England V South Africa 2022 Klmat” ShowToc: true date: “2022-11-17” author: “Peggy Garcia”
Show only key events Please enable JavaScript to use this feature Jack Leach, who had a good day”: “We’re back in the game but we’ve stuck to it really well. Trying to get wickets, it’s hard to summarize at the moment, but we could have had a few more. We ended up creating half the chances, we have to stick to that. “I can feel Stokesy in the middle, I feel that belief in me and I’m trying to make the most of it. It’s a mixture of things, confidence after playing enough Test cricket to learn through those games and belief from the performances.” It felt like a mini-epic – defiantly South Africa’s day, but endlessly entertaining from England who bowled it. After keeping things tight after that opening partnership with the South African, and Stokes whipping himself almost into the dust, Jensen and Maharaj took South Africa’s lead from useful to important.
Stumps: South Africa 289-7, lead by 124 runs
77th over: South Africa 289-7 ( Jansen 41, Rabada 3) Stokes screams for the final over of the day, but Jansen holds on and turns at five, pulling Stokes past a diving Bairstow on the rope. It falls safely under the final bogeyman and that’s stumps! 76th over: South Africa 285-7 ( Jansen 37, Rabada 3) Leach goes for the last over of the day but is actually so quick that they squeeze in another edge off Rabada off the last ball but he squeezes slip and picks up two . 75th over: South Africa 283-7 ( Janssen 37, Rabada 1) Stokes gets his man, but not before the pendulum swings. Why do England look so tired @tjaldred? They have bowled only 72 overs and it is not exactly hot. Most had weeks to prepare for it. — Gary Naylor (@garynaylor999) August 18, 2022 I have no answer to that! Maybe it’s just that Test cricket that’s exhausting when you’re not in the groove?
WIRELESS! Maharaj c Potts b Stokes 41 (South Africa 282-7)
This looks a bit like a wicket bought – 41 off 49 balls and a very serviceable innings, which ends with a blind flurry on a Stokes bouncer, well caught by Potts in the eye of the setting sun. 74th over: South Africa 277-6 ( Jansen 39, Maharaj 34) Oh dear. Maharaj shows no pity for his former Lancashire colleague, making two immaculate fours. Hello Tanja, Hello Eva! “I’m not surprised that the comment box experiment has been temporarily suspended – I always feel that OBOers are like Archers listeners: they don’t want to change. I wonder how much overlap these two groups have…I much prefer the e-mail option, btw!” I think the venn diagram would be interesting! What else would you add to the mix? Real beer? 73rd over: South Africa 269-6 ( Jansen 34, Maharaj 31) Stokes has had enough, and in the manner of an older brother who can’t bear to let his siblings incompetently complete a task, grabs the ball. But it doesn’t come out enough. Jansen bowls him to long-off where Jimmy Anderson chases him down for four runs. Some more in the same direction are being chased by Stokes as there are no fielders on this unorthodox pitch. Jansen picks up a six off a short one and then another four. The lead extends to 104. 72nd over: South Africa 253-6 ( Jansen 18, Maharaj 31) When all else fails, turn to Anderson. Mahara drives him to covers for four, then leans back and pancakes him for another four. In the last four overs, South Africa got 27. 71st over: South Africa 243-6 ( Jansen 18, Maharaj 21) The dam is probably leaking here in the last half hour. Seven off Leach, including a burly loft from Jansen to the long-on boundary. Updated at 18.43 BST 70th over: South Africa 236-6 ( Jansen 14, Maharaj 18) Maharaj and Jansen are probably milking Potts here, four each as the lead goes up to 71. A good crowd stays to watch the final flurry in the sun as the rain falls outside my window. Updated at 18.43 BST 69th over: South Africa 227-6 ( Jansen 10, Maharaj 12) And from the stand end this time, with half an hour left in the day, Jack Leach. His last ball almost squeaks through the gap between Jansen’s bat and pad. Updated at 18.42 BST 68th over: South Africa 226-6 ( Jansen 10, Maharaj 12) A maiden from the sumptuous Potts. 67th over: South Africa 220-6 ( Jansen 10, Maharaj 12) The shadow of a floodlight bisects the batting and the slips. Maharaj hits two boundaries in three balls from Broad, one on the edge through the slips that has Broad down in his pockets, the other cuts a pie. In defense of Bazball by Tim Maitland, “Before we all start writing obituaries about Bazball, doesn’t the state of this test match depend on the toss and the huge difference in bowling conditions from day one to day two? “Had South Africa batted first, they too would have struggled to avoid being put in a losing position by now.” 66th over: South Africa 216-6 ( Jansen 9, Maharaj 3) Potts plows on as the afternoon winds down. Each run is worth double. 65th over: South Africa 215-6 ( Jansen 9, Maharai 2) Jansen takes a catch but there is no slip and the ball falls into the shade. Broad keeps Maharaj on his toes. The camera pans back and the red-sprinkled crowd looks like fruit on a happy cherry tree. Lead creeps up to fifty. Hi Daniel Lees: “I kid you not. Every time I leave the room to cook dinner for me and the boss, plus the kids (two separate plates of pasta…successful parents we are not) we get a wicket. Given the late afternoon consumption of rose wine, you can expect the remaining 4 wickets to fall before the end of the game. After that, I’ll cross my legs and stay in the room, I promise!’ 64th over: South Africa 210-6 ( Jansen 6, Maharaj 0) A 6:3 pitch down leg as Potts runs to Maharaj, formerly of Lancashire and Yorkshire. Just the one run. 63rd over: South Africa 210-6 ( Jansen 6, Maharaj 0) Somewhere in the ether someone, sorry if it was you, sent a great message about how games under Stokes’ captaincy don’t drift. Now I can’t find it but it was very observant. England, inspired by their captain, latched onto this South African innings with both hands, desperate not to let it slip away. And the lead is down to 45.
WIRELESS! Verreynne c Foakes b Broad 11 (South Africa 210-6)
Rocking, rocking: Verreynne caught in two minds at the crease, some extra bounce and a slip of an edge. Stuart Broad’s 100th Test at Lord’s! Stuart Broad dismisses Kyle Verreynne. Photo: Gareth Copley/Getty Images Updated 18.06 BST 62nd over: South Africa 210-5 ( Jansen 6, Verreynne 11) Out of nowhere, Verreynne keeps hitting, trips Leach and slogs him nasty and wide for three. Almost, almost, but not a cigar. 61st over: South Africa 206-5 ( Jansen 5, Verreynne 8) Did I mention slips? England still has a lot. Four for Stuart Broad but no reward. With an hour or so to go, the lead is 41. England are playing swashbuckling, teasing cricket. I think the new box has now been retired for the day – so feel free to email me at the usual address: [email protected] 60th over: South Africa 202-5 ( Jansen 3, Verreynne 5) One off Leach’s over, and they stop for the last drinks break of the day. Harry scratches with a pencil. “By my (admittedly out of date) grade B in GCSE maths, if Jimmy is still bowling in internationals early next year he will be closer to 60 than he was (21) when he first bowled debut (vs Zimbabwe, 22 May 2003). (Quite remarkable – although it would be handy to have a version of his early self bowling this afternoon to kick things up a notch) 59th over: South Africa 201-5 ( Jansen 3, Verreynne 5) Time for Stokes to rest the knee and Stuart Broad to pick up the tab. The sun on his bronze face briefly turns him into a modern-day Botticelli angel. He accepts the temptation, but the towering Jansen resists. “This,” writes Jon D, “is a tough South African team and won’t go as easily as NZ and India. He will drop England’s middle order against South Africa’s top order. I think South Africa will get it as their technique is superior to England’s.” 58th over: South Africa 200-5 ( Jansen 3, Verreynne 5) Verreynne cuts Leach through point and over the rope to release the tension. 57th over: South Africa 195-5 ( Jansen 2, Verreynne 1 ) Ooooff, Stokes leg doesn’t look pretty. He gives up on the follow through after one ball and then slopes back to his mark. A final no-ball tests his patience but he duly lights up the thunder once more. Surely that must be it for this (wonderful) spell. “Hello from the People’s Republic of South Yorkshire (Sheffield),” writes Nick. “England’s batting, for all the magic we’ve seen in the last four Tests, is still clearly deeply flawed and against a proper pace attack, they fare miserably. ||I remember a few months ago McCullum said that Crawley would never be a consistent player but he would back him 100%. But is it still possible to have a successful career as an inconsistent test opener? There are only so many times a team can find themselves at 20-2 and 50-4 and recover, before they finally start to break out from good bowling attacks.||Already in this Test we see justifications for Eng’s first innings, with commentators saying that most of the batsmen took good balls. But the Eng have bowled a lot of good balls and won the edge themselves, so why are the South African batsmen not coming so easily to them? At some point you have to question their concentration as well as their techniques.”
WIRELESS! Van der Dussen lbw Stokes 19 (South Africa 192-5)
And the new ball works! Stokes hits VDD on VDD’s knee-roll, which causes such a jolt that it starts one of the most despairing reviews on record. It’s a short way down and Stokes is in one of his magic spells. Ben Stokes appeals for the wicket of Rassie van der Dussen. Photo: Julian…
