No excuses !

All this whinging about Ramdin decision to Bowl !!


Michael Holding made an undeniable observation on television commentary : It was that the

all-conquering teams of the 1980s would not have been quite so dominant had he and his

proliferation of pace partners been repeatedly betrayed by their fielders

as are the present, appreciably weaker, West Indies.

Almost invariably, when Holding and his accomplices found edges that flew into slips and gully,

any combination of Viv Richards, Clive Lloyd, Alvin Kallicharran, Lawrence Rowe, Roger Harper,

Richie Richardson and Gordon Greenidge were there to latch on to them ;  :-*

the two Murrays, Deryck and David, and Jeffrey Dujon gloved the thin snicks.

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Faf du Plessis was let off on 8 by Marlon Samuels, two-handed to his left in the gully

off Taylor, and at 26 by the flying Devon Smith from an edged drive off Benn.

enn's following delivery had left Dean Elgar, then on 48, stranded down the pitch,

but Denesh Ramdin muffed the stumping.

Elgar got away with a suicidal single when Peters' throw from midwicket missed

the bowler's stumps by inches.

Amla was on 5 and a long way down the pitch, backing up, Holder's throw from a sitting

position at mid-on was as close as Peters' - but not close enough.

There can be no excuses for shoddy fielding.

Except deflect : by blaming the Captain for bowling after Toss win !

Mapoui , you can come out , now  ::LOL::

I come out!  look mih here

this side will field shoddy regardless.
Tactically speaking when does it pay to send the opposition in on winning the toss....every time?
is there a valid reason for consistently sending the opposition in in RSA?

depends on which Pitch as I labor on about here : dat 22 yards 

Centurion like Gabba , is their FORTRESS .

But here at Port Elizabeth is Flat as a pancake after Day 1 : hence the decision to Bowl !

just hold on to your 4 chances