South Africa v England Series

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101 All Out, dearie me!

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101 All Out, dearie me!

You did call it yesterday Hutchy.

Not finishing series the way they can/should gives their critics a stick to beat them with.

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You did call it yesterday Hutchy.

Not finishing series the way they can/should gives their critics a stick to beat them with.

Aye, it had that feel about it for pretty much the entire match.

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You did call it yesterday Hutchy.

Not finishing series the way they can/should gives their critics a stick to beat them with.

Very disappointing after playing so well in the first three Tests.

Botham was saying that this Test didn't matter, that the series had been won and it was a tremendous achievement to beat the world #1's on their own patch (which it was), but when supporters spend a lot of money to fly out to support you they deserve better than that limp display.

I'm inclined to agree with Bob Willis on The Verdict - England have a team half of whom are very good indeed, and the other half we just don't know yet.

In another sense Botham was right - they've won the series comfortably and done the job they were sent to do and nothing should take that away from them.

Still ....

Just a thought - what about those supporters who were singing all through the session? Didn't they deserve better than an abject surrender like that?

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England take a 2-0 lead in the 5 match ODI series winning by 5 wkts.

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England manage to lose the series 3-2.