2nd Test: Bangladesh vs South Africa

As South Africa attempt to reassert their dominance against Bangladesh, an out of form Quinton de Kock is expected to make way for Dane Vilas. More rain is expected, though reports suggest that this time around there won't be whole days lost. Here's hoping there will be enough time to get a result.

Well South Africa has been okay with the ball so far to have taken 8 wickets for less than 300 runs. I hope the rain stays away so that I can see a South Africa win in this match.

Duminy took three wickets :O
Can someone tell me how,were those real good balls,or was it all a fluke ??
I can see steyn picking up three as well,but at least that sure would have been real cracker of a ball.


Can anyone brief me pls....Like a live commentary.I missed the match today

Dale Steyn became the 13th bowler to take 400 Test wickets

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Duminy took three wickets :O
Can someone tell me how,were those real good balls,or was it all a fluke ??
I can see steyn picking up three as well,but at least that sure would have been real cracker of a ball.


Can anyone brief me pls....Like a live commentary.I missed the match today
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I wouldn't rate myself the best judge of quality bowling, but the commentators rate Duminy pretty highly and on the day they felt the way he was bowling was a lot better suited to conditions than the way Harmer was. His figures certainly support that view. Even Elgar did better on the day.

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Dale Steyn became the 13th bowler to take 400 Test wickets
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Tied with Sir. Richard Hadlee for the second quickest to this milestone. Impressive stuff.

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Tied with Sir. Richard Hadlee for the second quickest to this milestone. Impressive stuff.
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In terms of the number of games, that's true. But this morning our TV channel put up a list of the most wickets taken by the top players when they'd bowled the number of balls it took Steyn to reach 400 wickets, and nobody even came close.  Next on the list was Glenn McGrath with 323 wickets followed by Richard Hadlee with 322. Remarkably Muralitharan doesn't feature in the top 10 on that list at all.

[quote author=Gina145 link=topic=99208.msg648898#msg648898 date=1438340600]
In terms of the number of games, that's true. But this morning our TV channel put up a list of the most wickets taken by the top players when they'd bowled the number of balls it took Steyn to reach 400 wickets, and nobody even came close.  Next on the list was Glenn McGrath with 323 wickets followed by Richard Hadlee with 322. Remarkably Muralitharan doesn't feature in the top 10 on that list at all.
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Impressive stat. Thanks for passing that along, Gina.

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Well South Africa has been okay with the ball so far to have taken 8 wickets for less than 300 runs. I hope the rain stays away so that I can see a South Africa win in this match.
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And other full day lost to rain.  I hope this isn't going to be another draw. Why was this series arranged during monsoon season?

what a drag ....