England's cricket tour to South Africa

I have posted a seperate thread for this one because we can discussed about england's performances against south africa also i will post the results aswell.

The twenty20 matches was 1-1 and todays 1st ODI was match abandoned.

2nd ODI Centurion

South Africa 250/9 off 50 overs

England 252/3 off 46 overs

England won by 7 wickets

At one stage England were 45/2 but Johnathan Trott and Paul Collingwood shared 162 runs for the 3rd wicket and Johnathan Trott went for 87 Paul Collingwood finished on 105* as England won by 7 wickets with 4 overs to spare.

http://www.cricinfo.com/rsaveng09/engine...87566.html

3rd ODI Cape Town

South Africa 354/6 off 50 overs

England 242 all out off 41.3 overs

South Africa got off to a flyer as Hashim Amla and Graeme Smith put 107 runs for the 1st wicket but Graeme Smith departed for 54 the top scorer is AB de Villers 121 off just 85 balls. England got off to a decent start but lost a few wickets earlier on and they were always behind the run rate.

http://www.cricinfo.com/rsaveng09/engine...87567.html

4th ODI Port Elizabeth

South Africa 119 all out off 36.5 overs

England 121/3 off 31.2 overs

England won by 7 wickets

James Anderson was on fire today he took 5/23 from 10 overs and bowled 3 maidens also he was not 100% fit as he came over a knee injury.

http://www.cricinfo.com/rsaveng09/engine...87568.html

The 5th ODI was match abandoned so England won the ODI Series 2-1 only the second team to win in South Africa i was very pleased as English cricket does get a lot of stick for not performing well in ODI cricket.

First Test Day 1 Centurion

South Africa 262/4 off 90 overs

England got off to a good start by dismissing Graeme Smith for a duck and took early wickets as South Africa were struggling a 93/3 but Jacques Kallis score a century and remains 112* not out but England are not out of it as South Africa are scoring at a slow run rate.

http://www.cricinfo.com/rsaveng09/engine...87570.html

First Test Day 2 Centurion

South Africa 418 all out off 153.2 overs

England 88/1 off 23 overs

England managed to dismissed Jacques Kallis early on and went for 120 but South Africa batted for long periods and plenty of batmens scored in double figures but England best bowler was Graeme Swann he took 5/110 and England lost just one wicket that was Alastair Cook he went for 15 but still have 9 wickets in hand.

http://www.cricinfo.com/rsaveng09/engine...87570.html

First Test Day 3 Centurion

England 356 all out off 104 overs

South Africa 2nd innings 9/1 off 4 overs

England were playing mediocre cricket but Graeme Swann and James Anderson put on 106 runs for the 9th wicket to make thing more competitive as Graeme Swann top scored with 85 runs very useful innings and England took an early wicket as South Africa are 9/1 England i would say are now back in the game but we still have 2 days to go.

http://www.cricinfo.com/rsaveng09/engine...87570.html

First Test Day 4 Centurion

South Africa 2nd innings 301/7dec off 85.5 overs

England 2nd innings 11/1 off 6 overs

England got off to a great start by taking 4 early wickets as South Africa were struggling at 46/4 but then Hashim Amla, AB de Villiers, Mark Boucher and Morne Morkel all scored useful runs but Hashim Amla was top scorer 100. Then England had to face a tricky 6 over spell by South Africa and are already 11/1 losing the skipper Andrew Strauss for 1 England have 9 wickets in hand need to chase 364 so England fans should they go for the win or play it for a draw.

http://www.cricinfo.com/rsaveng09/engine...87570.html

Thanks for the scores mate.
Its certainly going be a tricky day tomorrow especially first thing. They certainly dont want to lose the game so the Draw will probable be thier first priority.

I think they should just bat normally (easier said than done) and then review things as they go along.If they lose early wickets then I fear the worse.

But if (and its a BIG if ) they could get to around Tea with wickets in hand then they could prehaps considering going for the win.
Scoring 353 on the last day is a huge (impossible?) task but if KP could play himself fully into form and others chip in then who knows.

Lots of "ifs"......

I'm not sure of the weather forecast tomorrow so that might save England (or South Africa )