Aussies v. Proteas Test series.

[Pies4shaw]

430 to win. Cakewalk.

[Donny]

All out.

Aussies need 430, to win.

[Donny]

0/29.

Bancroft 18*, Warner 11*.

[Donny]

0/47 at tea.

Bancroft 22*, Warner 25*.

[Donny]

Bancroft run out with a Faf direct hit.

1/57. Warner 31*.

[Donny]

Warner departs for 32.

Enter Steve Smith.

2/59.

[Donny]

Now, Khawaja - for 1.

3/59.

[Pies4shaw]

Just 323 to get, now. Plenty of time left, too.

[K]

^ Indeed, if they bat within their limitations, they may knock them off half-way through day one of the first Test of the next tour to SA, if cricket has not destroyed itself by then, drowned in its own moral turpitude.

[Donny]

Fourth Test. Wanderers, Johannesburg.

March 30-April 3.

[Dave The Man]

Aussies will get Destroyed in the 4th Test and No Aussie will Probably watch it

[Donny]

Scenarios for the 4th. Test team.

1. Renshaw and Burns to open. Handscomb replaces Smith at #4.

2. Renshaw and Burns to open. Maxwell replaces Smith at #4.

3. Renshaw & S Marsh to open. Handscomb at #4. Maxwell at #5.

4. Renshaw & Khawaja to open. Maxwell at #3. Handscomb at #4.

5. Renshaw & Burns to open. Maxwell at #3. Handscomb at #4. Khawaja's double failure in the 3rd. Test could see him dropped. Unlikely.

All of the above sees M Marsh, Paine, Cummins, Starc, Lyon and Hazlewood retained.

[Pies4shaw]

How about Maxwell bats at 1, 2 and 4?

[Donny]

Hard to work out why CA sent THREE batsmen, bearing in mind, Handscomb is already there, as the spare batsman.

Is Khawaja for the chop ?

If Khawaja or S Marsh are to partner Renshaw, why send Burns over there ?

If the 2 Q'landers open and Handscomb bats at #4, why send Maxwell ?

[Piethagoras' Theorem]

scenario no. 5, please - or anything that involves the dropping of Khawaja.