AUs-vs-RSA, 2nd Test, 2nd day at Jo'burg
Tahir with Steyn.
Top class leg spin with express pace.
Joyous to see both bowlers make the ball talk on same pitch, on same day.
It could be called a great session of Test cricket, if only we had batsmen brought up on better stuff than T20...batsmen who "don't look at 3rd slip fielders as aliens encroaching their space" [to borrow the commentators' words]. Pathetic state of things. And ominous when seen with Eden crowd not crossing 10000 on any day. Tells us that a generation of skilled Test batsmen and their spectators are all bidding adieu across the world hand in hand.
Pink ball day-night first class cricket must be tried next season, if not this one. It can't be worse for either cricket or cricketers than this...and it can always be eased out after letting the 'evening cricket' generation have a taste of cricket in whites.
[adopted from my FB wall post]
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