Graeme Smith likens playing Australia to Groundhog Day
The fatigue is setting in amongst the South Africans as Graeme Smith has likened 4 months of play against Australia to the repetitive movie Groundhog Day. The situation is similar to Australia in the 80's where we played tour after tour against the rampaging West Indies. What was the reasoning behind that? Perhaps it was a pre-emptive punishment from the ACB for World Series Cricket.
Nevertheless, Graeme Smith has a point seeing his team repeatedly making the same mistakes, dropping the same batsmen who go on to score the same big hundreds, getting dudded by the same umpiring mistakes and getting beaten by the same guys day after day for 4 months. It seems the South Africans have as much chances of defeating the Aussies as Bill Murray has of getting lucky with Andy McDowell. No, wait, they won their home one day series. Sorry, Bill.
| Posted by JC on Fri 31 Mar |  2 comments |
I am sick an tired of hearing about the South Africans and their incessant complaining about all and sundry. Fatigue by South Africa? What a joke!! After Australia finished the Ashes, they then went straight into a 3 ODI and a Supertest against the ICC XI, followed by a 3 test series against the west Indies followed by the Chappell-Hadlee series, then three tests against the South Africans followed by the VB Series, which they made the finals of therefore condemning them to two extra games. No break, straight to South Africa for 5 ODI's and three more tests and then still no break for two more tests and 3 ODI's against Bangladesh. All South Africa had prior to their Australian tour was 5 ODI's against India. Get real you complaining Jarpies!!
Not to be outdone with that, they complain ceaselessly about umpiring decisions, which by the way, over the course of the series both home and away evened themselves out anyway, and they complained about light (with regard to the Durban test). I've had a gutful!!
Australia should have won all six tests and deservedly so. The only blemish was Perth, where an earlier declaration would have seen Australia home. Melbourne was a no brainer, Aus just too good. The only game that South Africa might have some cause to state a case would have been Sydney where the weather and the state of the series brought about their declaration. However Australia still got the runs losing only two wickets. The South Africans (and more importantly Graeme Smith) backed themselves into a corner there by saying early on they would be giving ?it? and some more to the Australians, thereby putting themselves in the unenviable position where instead of playing for an honourable draw, they would have been ridiculed for doing so because they openly said they wanted to play attacking cricket. They fell for the three card trick. How Dumb are they?
On to the SA leg. Aus beat SA inside three days in Cape Town, completely dominated Durban and beat SA with only nine men in J'berg (Langer couldn?t bat and Kasper couldn?t bowl). SA only had to take 18 wickets to win the match and they couldn?t even do that!!
So South Africa, stop complaining. You talked the talk (as per usual) but couldn?t walk the walk. You were completely outplayed by an opposition that was superior to you in every aspect of the game. The cr?me de la cr?me was when Graeme Smith said the South Africa would have beaten any other side in world cricket had they been playing any other team apart from Australia. Get real you obnoxious person or people. You lost to England the previous summer at home!! Don?t you remember that?? Furthermore Pakistan, India and Sri Lanka have beaten you in your most recent played test series against them. I bet any of those nations would have something to say about that statement. England will destroy South Africa when they next tour there.
I find the South Africans to be the most humourless of people, the most arrogant, the most self centred and the most unimaginative. The sooner South Africa recognise they are not as good as they think they are, pro-active action may take place. But I doubt it?humility is not a South African?s strong suit.
Posted by Dc_Diesel on 2006-04-24 00:49:58
Not to be outdone with that, they complain ceaselessly about umpiring decisions, which by the way, over the course of the series both home and away evened themselves out anyway, and they complained about light (with regard to the Durban test). I've had a gutful!!
Australia should have won all six tests and deservedly so. The only blemish was Perth, where an earlier declaration would have seen Australia home. Melbourne was a no brainer, Aus just too good. The only game that South Africa might have some cause to state a case would have been Sydney where the weather and the state of the series brought about their declaration. However Australia still got the runs losing only two wickets. The South Africans (and more importantly Graeme Smith) backed themselves into a corner there by saying early on they would be giving ?it? and some more to the Australians, thereby putting themselves in the unenviable position where instead of playing for an honourable draw, they would have been ridiculed for doing so because they openly said they wanted to play attacking cricket. They fell for the three card trick. How Dumb are they?
On to the SA leg. Aus beat SA inside three days in Cape Town, completely dominated Durban and beat SA with only nine men in J'berg (Langer couldn?t bat and Kasper couldn?t bowl). SA only had to take 18 wickets to win the match and they couldn?t even do that!!
So South Africa, stop complaining. You talked the talk (as per usual) but couldn?t walk the walk. You were completely outplayed by an opposition that was superior to you in every aspect of the game. The cr?me de la cr?me was when Graeme Smith said the South Africa would have beaten any other side in world cricket had they been playing any other team apart from Australia. Get real you obnoxious person or people. You lost to England the previous summer at home!! Don?t you remember that?? Furthermore Pakistan, India and Sri Lanka have beaten you in your most recent played test series against them. I bet any of those nations would have something to say about that statement. England will destroy South Africa when they next tour there.
I find the South Africans to be the most humourless of people, the most arrogant, the most self centred and the most unimaginative. The sooner South Africa recognise they are not as good as they think they are, pro-active action may take place. But I doubt it?humility is not a South African?s strong suit.
Posted by Dc_Diesel on 2006-04-24 00:49:58
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