Test Cricket

I've been watching the international cricket match between the Republic of South Africa and Australia. It's taking place in Durban, RSA. Yesterday's match took an interesting turn when one of the best RSA bowlers, Dale Steyn, took to bowling straight at one of the Aussie batter's head. He hit him twice, intentionally, and then had the audacity to trash talk him in front of the wicket. The batter fell to another bowler in the next over, and the Aussies were bowled out fairly soon after that.

When the Aussies began bowling, they made it very clear two could play that type of game. Throughout the rest of the day, they bowled directly at the RSA batters. Two batters were injured; one got a broken finger and the other was retired because some bowled it into his chin and opened up a nasty cut that required stitches. And it went on from there. Fast, nasty, taking it directly to the body.

In baseball terms, it was like a pitcher throwing one to the head. Not something you really want to get a reputation for, really. And to give you an idea, these guys are throwing balls at 90mph, so that is going to hurt really bad, either a baseball or a cricket ball.

This kind of play might be legal, but it's ugly, and hopefully the South Africans will think twice about doing that again. Or they may not...it will be interesting.

In any case, Australia at the end of the first innings is 214 up. And at the first over of the third day, the Aussies bowled out two wickets. So, we'll see how this plays out today.

Not So Social Networking

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