Mohit: "What's a "Cricinfo bunker"?" Just the inbox, saw the phrase during a live blog from Alagappan Muthu once and I've been oddly smitten by it since.
11:48am: Nortje and Ngidi are in smiles as they talk with Maharaj while leaving the field. Andrew McGlashan, in the Cricinfo bunker says, 'a decent chance this finishes today. South Africa could get rolled for 130-150 and Aus knock off the runs tonight". And that does seem plausible but the visitors have done well to fight back after Green started well and Head continued to further the flow from yesterday. Carey's 22 is handy for Australia. Rabada has been expensive but helped knock over the tail. Ngidi bowled wonderfully and arguably opened the door for Rabada to do his thing. The lead is 66. Australia ahead for now. Whether Elgar and co can fight back, we'll find out. But the situation offers a good thought experiment for now.
NM Lyon c van der Dussen b Rabada 0 (9m 4b 0x4 0x6) SR: 0.00
Ponting just said on Seven "Talking to some of the Australian batters today, they felt this was one of the toughest Test wickets they have ever batted on." pings Alex Malcolm
END OF OVER:50 | 3 Runs | AUS: 217/9
- Nathan Lyon0 (2b)
- Alex Carey21 (29b)
- Lungi Ngidi9-1-35-1
- Kagiso Rabada17-1-75-3
"Don't think this is anywhere near even. South Africa are going to have to battle to get anywhere over 200 and even then they are gonna need more than that. The 4th innings factor doesn't really play much of a part when it's going to be on day 2 or 3" reckons sam
