Cricket Thread

[McNamara That Ghost...]

260-2, Bresnan gets Smith!!

What a way to go.

[Syn]

Thank god for that. Hopefully Kallis/De Villiers play some shots.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

It's Kallis.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

277-2 at tea.

[Cripps_orig]

SL 86-2

Tharanga goes

Ashwin with the wicket

Sehwag with a great catch

[Syn]

"True this pitch is slow, but that isn't the reason for the edge Broad produced not carrying to what would have been a second slip," says Herman. "The reason is his bowling is just flat, he's bowling at 75 mp/h... Should we start the Darren Sammy or Paul Collingwood comparisons?"

SA 295/2

SL-Ind is a close game as long as Sangakkara's in and settled (on 55*) and Mahela Jayawardne's at the crease too.

[Cripps_orig]

SL 128-3

Chandimal gone

Caught Dhoni, bowled Yadav

[Syn]

Actually it's not Mahela, it's his brother. Cricinfo cocked that up but corrected now.

132/4

[Cripps_orig]

132-4

Jayawardene goes

[Syn]

Not saying it's easy but this hasn't been good enough from SA run-rate-wise. If they plan on winning this match, they needed to knock England's lead off by the end of the day (and ideally gained some sort of lead). Now by the time they might work their way up to 380, they'll have about 30 overs to hit 150+ runs.