South Africa's tour of England 2012 l Build up and Discussion Thread

[Geordie Ahmed]

Originally Posted by Inziquicksingle No longer true

lol, nice bump

In just 1 innings it now is just 1 English batsman that has a higher batting average than him

[cric]

Originally Posted by James Mark Ramprakash is more talented than most of the world's batters. Doesn't mean a thing. Records are records and several England players have a better one than Hashim Amla. Overhyped on PP for obvious enough reasons - always has been.

This overhyped and overrated batsman won the man of the series. He just doesn't score at home but he scores in away series too. The so called England best batsmen in the world entire team can't even score 300 runs let alone one batsman scoring tripple hundred. indeed England bastmen are better then Amla. But i would take this overated Amla every day of the week.

[Anfield]

how series panned out.

Smith Vs Strauss--> Smith
Petersen Vs Cook--->>Pietersen
Amla VS Trott--->>Amla
Kallis VS Pietersen---->> Kallis
Duminy VS Bell-->Duminy
Rudolph Vs Bairstow----------------->> Bairstow
Devilliers Vs Prior ->>Prior
Steyn Vs Andersen--------------->> Steyn
Morkel Vs Broad-->> Morkel
Philander Vs Bresnan -----Philander
Tahir Vs Swann--> Tahir

Really disappointing stuff from England. They were no match to Saffers. The gap between the both team was really wide. South Africa outplayed England in every department heck even Tahir out bowled Swann. In the hindsight we can say 3 match series was about right.

[LegCutter]

Originally Posted by Anfield Really disappointing stuff from England. They were no match to Saffers. The gap between the both team was really wide. South Africa outplayed England in every department heck even Tahir out bowled Swann. In the hindsight we can say 3 match series was about right.

Amla and the bowlers were the difference between the two teams.

[Robert]

Well, at the beginning of the series I predicted:

1st test: big SA win

2nd test: draw

3rd test: SA to choke and England to equalise.

Two out of three ain't bad, and while the Prior-Swann stand was on I was still predicting the latter!

But the difference between these Saffers and some their countrymen who have come to the UK is that they seem to have immunised themselves against the Choke Virus. The hand of Coach Kirsten has been crucial I think, as is the presence of both Amla and Philander.

Rare to see England outplayed in all three departments as even in the UAE setback they were bowling well.

Can SA now go on to dominate as the Windies and Aussies did for long periods? I think their spinner will have to improve for that to happen. Kallis will retire soon so that will unbalance their attack.

A word on Kallis. I have been highly critical of him in the past, calling him a stats monster who performs against minnows and folds against good teams. But his batting has become more reliable under pressure, and he keeps chipping good batters out, while remaining the world's best current slipper. He seems to get better and better with age, so I'm forced to accept that he is a great all-rounder in the mould of Hammond and Sobers.