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You must admit, it was great to watch AB bat last night, he looked a class above everyone else, and made batting look easy on that wicket when clearly its not

Rabada knocks over M.Marsh in the first over of the day this Test will be done by lunch today!

BH; bloody hell -- I am just about to put on

Anch: Smith was criticised after the Adelaide test and rightly so too, by both BH, Freeze and myself, among others whom know their cricket on this site.

Definitely not the start Aust needed....150 lead will be a god send....will still lose with that most probably, but at least it could give the bowlers a sniff....time Cummins and Starc to show their all rounder potential.......

It seems to me AB treats Aust bowlers like Rabada treats Aust batsmen...mere playthings......perhaps the greatest tactical move Smith has ever done as Aust captain is let Rabada bump into him in the first innings......if Rabada goes SA will be struggling to replace him.....

weak as piddle -- obviously all of our tail end batsmen have the middle names of 'donald george bradman', given the way they played?

anch: thanks -- I must say I am a bit disappointted today, as you can tell from my posts.

Smith's current field placings being my case in point.............

Why would you when defending a measly 100 runs would you have only 2 slips and have men out on the boundary with a brand new cherry FFS?????

And why is Mitch Marsh at 1st slip?

Smith is obviously a bit short of intelligence - Lyon catches Elgar and what does Smith do ??? - turn around & mouth off to the dismissed batsman , it's no wonder we are getting flogged

Anch: well summed up indeed. It is good to see your friend Paine made sure he got himself the 'red ink' with the 'not out' -- well deserved.

BH yes, you wold not say that Smith is over-attacking. Don't worry about Marsh, as long as he avoids dropping them when he is in the slips for WA.