South Africa Test Series

[Des]

[Chelsea4thewin]

another 100 for hughes, what a start to a test career

[Scotty]

Without checking, I assume he wasn't named in the one-day squad (if it's even been named yet).

Is he a chance to muscle his way into an opening position there as well?

[bennymacca]

Without checking, I assume he wasn't named in the one-day squad (if it's even been named yet).

Is he a chance to muscle his way into an opening position there as well?

i would think its a formality, given that we have been playing makeshift openers for the last few games (although haddin has done well since being promoted)

marsh may even make way, and i doubt warner will play any ODIs

they would be silly not to include him, he is in great form and is aggressive and scores his runs at a good rate

[maccatak11]

Hughes out for 160.

Last over hughes and clarke TWICE ran byes to the keeper. They are just rubbing the proteas face in the dirt now.

Lead by almost 550 now, still no declaration in sight. Players are still unchanged in the viewing area, although surely it cant be too far away.

[bennymacca]

no hughes for the limited overs games??????

WTF

http://content.cricinfo.com/rsavaus2009 ... 94911.html

[David]

Ahhh... would be nice but eh, it's limited overs cricket.

Doesn't bother me in the slightest as long as he stays in the test team (a given) and is good to watch.

My god, I love nothing more than a night on the couch watching the cricket.

Well, maybe a day, with a BBQ, and beer on ice.

[David]

Good article, I thought;

http://content.cricinfo.com/rsavaus2009 ... 94689.html

I like this opening.

The headwear gave them away. Ricky Ponting and Phillip Hughes sat together after Australia's win in Durban and the most obvious sign of the generational gap that divides them was the state of their baggy green caps. Ponting's was battered and faded, a victim of sweat-drenched toil and booze-soaked celebrations from 130 largely successful Tests. Ponting's was baggier but Hughes' was, appropriately, greener.

Whereas Hughes' cap - one of ten handed out over the past year - has seen only the eastern half of South Africa during the past two weeks, Ponting's has travelled the world for nearly 14 seasons. It has been sprayed with so much beer that it must smell like a bar-room dishcloth. Most of those celebrations came with a familiar group of faces: Shane Warne, Glenn McGrath, Adam Gilchrist, Justin Langer, Matthew Hayden, Damien Martyn, to name just a few.

It was a squad that Ponting inherited from Steve Waugh who, in turn, had accepted it from Mark Taylor and, before him, Allan Border. It was a group that struck fear into the hearts of those who faced it and forged the greatest cricketing dynasty Australia has known. It was a squad that, over the past few years, eroded steadily with each retirement.

The departures of so many luminaries left Ponting with the youngest and most inexperienced side he has ever led. Ponting has captained Australia for five years but only now, with a new generation at his command, does he have the chance to create his own distinct legacy for the next captain. The "Ponting Age" has truly begun

[David]

Just don't read the comments. Dodgy Sub-Continentals hijack all stories on there - painful to read.

[Scotty]

Read that earlier in the week, and thought it was a great article.