Pakistan in SA

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> Good call Hoender .....105 not out and I see
> Shafiq also just got his ton
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> New ball due. Hope we can break this partnership.

Tomorrow will be Kallis day. He will get a huge score to get SA back into the match after this new Pakistani opening bowler gets rid of Smith and Peterson. He is over 7 foot tall.

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> > > Pakistan won't collapse as they did in the
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> > Shafiq also just got his ton
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> Tomorrow will be Kallis day. He will get a huge
> score to get SA back into the match after this new
> Pakistani opening bowler gets rid of Smith and
> Peterson. He is over 7 foot tall.

Saw him on tv...Will see tmo what he can do. And they say test cricket is boring??? Hope the Proteas lift the spirit for us in SA tmo. Very sad day.

Ouryperd

I enjoy ODI and sort of like the 20/20. But give me Test cricket everytime. Its the purest form of the game and we can thank Ponting and his team for making it so exciting cause as you may well remember not that long ago teams were happy to finish the first day on around 250/4. Pontings team saw average 1st day scores of around 330/5. Every other nation took note and have boosted the scoring rate to around 3.5 to 4 an over. Great for the us the fans.

Big Vern dismantling them early on!

score update please

268/8

Vernon taken 5 wickets

Ou Ryperd Wrote:

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Thanks OR. It's funny how all the wickets seem to fall early morning. Anyway, Steyn to steamroller the last 2 batsmen out and Petersen to score a 100 today still (tu)

I hope Smith's decision to bat 2nd don't bite him in the back-side. The spinner already giving our batsmen trouble. We need someone to put up a big score.

Can't believe the groundsman prepares a 'spinners' paradise at Newlands.

Kallis dismissal was 'mistake'

Cape Town - The playing control team in charge of the second Test between South Africa and Pakistan admitted on Friday that a mistake had been made when star home batsman Jacques Kallis was given out.

Kallis was given out caught at short leg off spinner Saeed Ajmal by umpire Steve Davis but the batsman immediately sought a review, which went to television umpire Billy Bowden.

Replays showed the ball had not touched Kallis' bat before looping to Azhar Ali.

The sequence of events after that was not clear but after numerous replays Kallis was given out leg before wicket.

That was because the pitch map replay indicated the ball would have brushed the outside of his leg stump, which is within the area known as "umpire's call" where the benefit of the doubt goes according to the decision made by the on-field umpire.

Kallis made two as South Africa struggled to 139 for five in reply to Pakistan's 338.

The International Cricket Council issued a statement from Dubai acknowledging that "an honest error" had been made.

"The umpires followed usual umpiring principles in giving Kallis out lbw on umpire's call. The review was for the batsman out caught. This is because the normal principle is that an appeal covers all forms of dismissal," said the ICC.

"However the playing conditions state that when the third umpire observes that the batsman could be out by another mode of dismissal, the decision being reviewed using DRS should be as if the batsman had been originally given not out.

"Therefore in this instance Kallis, as the point of impact was umpire's call, should not have been given out."

Kallis appeared astonished when he was given out and stayed at the wicket, appearing to seek an explanation, before reluctantly heading to the dressing room.

Before the ICC statement was issued, South African team manager Mohammad Moosajee said he could not comment in detail because there was a code of conduct regarding the decision review system.

"All we did was seek clarity from the umpire, which we were happy with," he said.

Exactly OR. In a previous post I said that every pitch here must be green,fast and suit our bowlers. The groundsman or whoever requested a pitch like this should be fired!:X

Bit rough on Kallis to be dismissed for 2 runs in his "special" match ... and incorrectly dismissed at that. Funny old game, Test cricket, just like life.