Didn't see a thread
WTF 😯 England are battering the No 1 test nation in their own backyard ! 😀
1 wicket to get
Was just about to start a thread on this!
An excellent performance so far, isn't it? Oh, and the cricket is going well, too!
The standard of TMS Waffle has been marvellous.
had to turn off last night, when boycott started his Gary Player practise eulogy.
Dale Steyn out of next test so a series victory on the cards too.
fat lady is clearing her throat
laaaaaaaaaaaaaa
good start from the lads 50 up for no wickets
they're getting bored now talking about beach cricket @ Whitby in December 🙂
head protection
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24 off the first 2 overs 😯
Stokes making hay in the sun.
100 up for Stokes..... flaying it to all parts 45 in 4 overs
Glad I got up early to listen this morning! Saw Stokes' knock against the kiwis at lords and this is almost at that level, he's pure box office!
maiden over 🙁 the wheels have come off !
As an aside. Great knock by bairstow. It'd be so easy for him to have lost his game. Hope he can stay there and get a ton.
No way Amla can survive the series with this rotten captaincy, surely?
been good cricket by the pair of them, running them ragged in the field with sharp singles then belting the bad ball.
150 for stokes, 50 up in 5 posts 😀
Indeed! He's got his third 50 in a single mug of coffee!
Quality.
Just woken up to turn on TMS. Incredible!
It's times like this when access to Sky Sports would be welcome. Is there any free to view available?
Wow certainly beats the series here Oz vs WI has highlights of rain
stuck everyone on the boundary so he (Stokes) has to hit sixes 🙂
On another note, how good has Graeme Smith been on TMS? A great cricketer and seems to have a real love of the game.
100 before lunch for stokes 🙂
Oh good, Stokes has managed to go up through the gears.
¡Ay caramba!
A day for record breaking- cricinfo in meltdown
I think Swann is growing into his role in TMS, I have not been his biggest fan on the radio but this series he seems decent.
It's been a good Christmas for me as we have spent a lot of time with the in laws from Durban. Seeing them again today which should be nice.
Edit.... Misread that. My eyes read Smith but my head said Swann.
A few overs of bish bash bosh after lunch then get 'em in?
out of the ground LOL
3 out of the 4 main bowlers have gone for over 100.
Record stand for a pair of gingers?
LOL forward defensive
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Loving the Stokes Reminds me of tweets
Hasn't Kevin Pietersen been quiet recently!
no he's chirping all over the Big Bash, that bloke certainly has some opinions
Fantastic day for English cricket. Tempered by the sad news of Matt Hobden. Thoughts are with his family and colleagues.
And in the Telegraph a few days ago.
I feel a bit for Amla. I believe he was a political appointment as Captain, but I don't think it's a role he is naturally suited to. Let him bat, and give it to someone else.
I'm liking Smith too on commentary, and I despised him as a player!
I'm liking Smith too on commentary, and I despised him as a player!
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tenuous enough?
I like your sunglasses.
I held Smith in high regard, surprised when he was appointed captain at IIRC when he was just 22. One of the few cricketers who never seemed to lose his form when assuming the responsibility and always formidable opening bat.
stat attack
It's fair to say there was steam rising from the computer of TMS stats man Andrew Samson during that session...Most runs in a pre-lunch Test session by a single batsman (130 by Stokes)
England's highest Test partnership for the sixth-wicket
The partnership has the highest run rate of any in Tests over 250 runs
First England century at Newlands since 1965
The highest score for an England batsman at Newlands, beating Jack Hobbs' 187 in 1910
The highest score by an England number six. The previous best was Graeme Hick's 178 against India in Mumbai in 1986.
The last England player to score 100 runs in a session before lunch was Ian Bell, against Bangladesh at Chester-le-Street in 2005
And to put that in perspective at on point in the big bash the heat needed stokes score in about that number of balls to win...
bowling wides now
Better than getting hit for 6
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Hasn't Kevin Pietersen been quiet recently!
Kevin WHO??
Go Johnny go go go
Hasn't Kevin Pietersen been quiet recently!
Well it must be hard to see a part timer go past your highest test score.
blimey an appeal
He's currently doing commentary with Flintoff on the big bash, don't thing they are showing them it or giving them their phones
350 partnership, I can't remember a scorecard moving so quickly 😯
More and more with ease
Crackin'
Get the 600, declare and rattle 3 out before end of play
Why on earth would they declare anytime soon? At least not until they get to 700, which will be before tea at current scoring rate.
So when do we declare stokes on 300 or bairstow 290.
And 6
declare on 750 🙂 just for the bantz.
got to plan on not batting again shirley... 3.5 days still to go...
And the big 600, wisden will need a chapter for this game
Dropped LOL
Dropped and 4....
so what other records are on the horizon?
Ha!
coming up to 300 runs in the day
Most miserable safrican since kp? Shortest lived sa captain? Runs in the day/session?
hur hur hur. you go and get it 😉
Dropped and out. 259 and wow
Ha and Bugger!
Got to be going for the stokes 300 then that happened.... Declaration when Johnny gets 200?Stokes to get a rest then get the cherry in his hand?
6-6-W-6
well played
Amazing days 150no no batting collapse
Test match cricket at 5 an over.
Go ginger!
This game could still be a draw... 😯
Great score but south africa are a poor bowling attack with steyn and philander playing,
Bah, I didn't think I was more cautious than Cook - I wouldn't have declared there, not with Bairstow flowing and Ali/Broad don't exactly hang around.
7-1
Oh dear oh dear, they don't I've it up em
Methinks Van Zyl wanted to spend time out of the sun...
And for Smith in the commentary
Respected him from when I watched this test
And a very good energetic start for England
seems like there's a bit of bounce for Moeen