01-09-2018, 08:34 AM
(01-09-2018, 07:49 AM)ElwoodBlues1 link Wrote: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.....
South African pitches usually gives the batsmen and bowlers an even chance. Not alot of roads there. Best pitches around in my opinion. We bat well on it as the ball on to the bat nicely and doesn't swing and seam like in England but will do something, and bowl well on it because they are quick, hence means our bowlers are suited. Means simply if you play good cricket you do well.
Not sure they'll risk juiced up green top which bounce and seam alot. Cummins and Hazelwood can nip it off the seam quite a bit, which will be very handy there. Hazelwood will love it there and we've seen Cummins there before as an 18yo dominate. Our bowlers always bowl well in South Africa. Even going back quite a few years, Johnson, Siddle and Hilfenhaus used to love their pitches and bowled us to victory only to struggle in England a few months later. McGrath and Stuart Clark loved it there too. Neither barely swung a ball in their lives but could seam it and make it bounce.