Umqeqeshi Australian Mickey Arthur uwise ndlebe apho wathi yena ubecinga ukuba uhlaselo yangoku eqengqwe Australian yeyona ilungileyo kulo lonke ihlabathi! Ndiza kuthatha oku umoya zemveli "Glenn McGrath" pre-uthuthu ngumoya up intetho, kodwa u-Arthur khange atsho ukuba babengcono kune-England bowling kuhlaselo (ngehlazo ngokwaneleyo ngokwayo) kodwa ngcono kunawo onke amanye apha ehlabathini. Ngoko ke kufuneka England ngokwenene ukuba bengcangcazela iibhutsi zabo?
Aka ukuqala nehlabathi uvavanyo lwangoku #1 Icala uMzantsi Afrika uze uthelekise italente yabo eqengqwe kunye Aussie yangoku line-up
uVernon Philander: 16 iimvavanyo, 89 iiwikethi @ 17.13
Morne Morkel: 49 iimvavanyo, 175 iiwikethi @ 29.97
Dale Steyn: 65 iimvavanyo, 332 iiwikethi @ 22.65
uJacques Kallis: 162 iimvavanyo, 288 iiwikethi @ 32.43
ngokubanzi: 292 iimvavanyo, 884 iiwikethi @ 26.74
James Pattinson: 10 iimvavanyo, 40 iiwikethi @ 23.37
peter Siddle: 41 iimvavanyo, 150 iiwikethi @ 28.84
Nathan Lyon: 22 iimvavanyo, 76 iiwikethi @ 33.18
Mitchell Starc: 9 iimvavanyo, 30 iiwikethi @ 34.03
Ryan Harris: 12 iimvavanyo, 47 iiwikethi @ 23.63
ngokubanzi: 94 iimvavanyo, 343 iiwikethi @ 28.91
Ngoko - kuhlaselwa eMzantsi Afrika ziye zaba 3 amaxesha iimvavanyo ezininzi phakathi kwabo (nakuba siqhathanise 4 abadlali ukuba 5) asabamba iiwikethi ezininzi ngakumbi kwezi zinto zatshintshwayo ephantsi. Kwaye kwakhona ngoku umhlaba 1 kwaye musa ukufumana apho ngaphandle kokuba ukuhlasela yakho eqengqwe ingohlobo. Njengokuba kude njengokuba mna concerened akukho ngxoxo oluyimfuneko. Kodwa kukuvumela ubone indlela eNgilani anayo ...
James Anderson: 82 iimvavanyo, 307 iiwikethi @ 30.14
Stuart Broad: 57 iimvavanyo, 195 iiwikethi @ 30.93
Steven Finn: 22 iimvavanyo, 88 iiwikethi @ 28.73
Graeme Swann: 52 iimvavanyo, 222 iiwikethi @ 28.50
ngokubanzi: 213 iimvavanyo, 812 iiwikethi @ 29.73
The England attack has played more than twice as many Tests and taken more than twice as many wickets. The Aussie’s have a slight edge in the averages but there’s very little in it (0.8 luqalisa ngoothinti ngalinye, okanye 16 runs ngomdlalo). I Aussie line-up nalo ubhetyebhetye kangako (i.e. Swann i spinner engcono kakhulu nantoni na Aussies ukuba anikele). Arthur kwakhona sithetha ngayo amandla ngokunzulu, kodwa Bresnan nazo ziyafumaneka, kunye nezinye neespin bhowula top iyafumaneka eNgilani nazo amandla ekongeni ubunzulu. Xa iimeko IsiNgesi le neespin bhowula eNgilani ngokusengqiqweni kulindeleke ukuba babe inzuzo - ngokukodwa impumelelo kangaka ngokuchasene-zasekhohlo Graeme Swann (The Aussies baye 5 ekhohlo-sasekhohlo Abaqhokri ebantwini-16 zazo squad - Hughes, Warner, Cowan, Khawaja and Wade)
Kanjalo, i Aussies ufuna ukuthetha ngohlaselo eqengqwe ngenxa yokuba kuxhalaba kutyhulu malunga kokuthandabuza bamacandelo up. Bendiya ukwenza uthelekiso, kodwa akukho nokuba ecacileyo Aussie line-up uya kuba yintoni. Ngokoluvo lwam ke batsman kuphela Aussie owayeza kungena kwicala England ngumthetheli lwabo owenzakeleyo Michael Clarke. Cook, Trott, P. and Ingcambu zonke iliwa kwaye Matt Ngaphambi yeyona ilungileyo umgcini-batsman kwihlabathi ngalo mzuzu.
Ekuphetheni: eqengqwe line-ups zinokuthi ngokufanelekileyo ngokulinganayo ofanayo, kodwa iyonke akukho contest - England ezithandwa kakhulu yaye kufanele kube njalo. Kakade Australia unalo ithuba endilisekileyo - kodwa kuza kufuneka eminye luck kwicala labo ngenxa yokulimala, itosi, okanye IsiNgesi yemozulu ehlotyeni. Ngenxa akukho ukwenzakala kwaye aphuke zezulu itosi ndilindele England ukuphumelela nje kamnandi njengokuba benzayo Australia ngexesha lokugqibela ngeenxa - ubuncinane 2 matches. Call it 3–1 or better.
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