01-09-2018, 07:49 AM
(01-09-2018, 07:39 AM)laj link Wrote:Indian pacemen knocked SA over for bugger all too. If they use tracks like that no side will make over 200 for the whole series. Our aggressive bowlers could kill someone on those tracks. Tracks will be nothing like that when we come over. SA aren't stupid. Be just like the regular ones we have batted and bowled well on in the past. Be nothing like the movement seen in this Test. I think both our batting and bowling are better and we handle genuine fast bowling well. Philander tends to falls away mentally if there's not so much in the track. A few opposition batsmen have actually pointed that out.
Their bowlers swing and seam the ball more IMO...ours tend to get more bounce and life out of flat wickets but apart from Starc dont really bowl the big boomerang swingers.
I reckon they would rather low scores on dodgy wickets and take their chances rather than giving us more roads that only our blokes can get any life out off.....
They will have watched the series out here and seen how hard players like Smith are to remove on flat true wickets and I cant believe they would be silly enough not to add some extra spinach to their pitches...
Still think we will win but I'd expect SA to be far more competitive than the English who were more like a National Lampoons holiday team.....