Bad light and a wet outfield have prevented play from starting on the fourth day of the second test between India and South Africa at Eden Gardens in Kolkata on Wednesday.
Yesterday VVS Laxman and MS Dhoni saw off the tricky period with the second new ball, put together the second double-century stand of the innings, and virtually batted South Africa out of the Test. It was only the second instance of four Indian batsmen scoring centuries in the same innings. It was also Laxman’s fourth hundred in nine Tests at Eden Gardens, taking his tally at his beloved ground to 1041 runs at 94.63.
South Africa 296 & 6/0 (0.5 ov)
India 643/6d
South Africa trail by 341 runs with 10 wickets remaining
South Africa: 1 Graeme Smith (capt), 2 Alviro Petersen, 3 Hashim Amla, 4 Jacques Kallis, 5 AB de Villiers (wk), 6 JP Duminy, 7 Ashwell Prince, 8 Paul Harris, 9 Wayne Parnell, 10 Dale Steyn, 11 Morne Morkel.
India: 1 Virender Sehwag, 2 Gautam Gambhir, 3 M Vijay, 4 Sachin Tendulkar, 5 VVS Laxman, 6 S Badrinath, 7 MS Dhoni (capt/wk), 8, Harbhajan Singh, 9 Zaheer Khan, 10 Amit Mishra, 11 Ishant Sharma.
9.40 am The next inspection is at 10.00 am. Join us then for more updates. The light too is slightly dull.
9.35 am The umpires are out there inspecting the wet areas. Some areas are being filled with saw dust and the ground staff are at work. The umpires are having a discussion with the curator.
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8.45 am Wet outfield delays start. Welcome to day 4 and I am afraid there is some bad news. Overnight intermittent light showers have left the bowler’s run-up area slightly damp. There will be an inspection at 9.30 am to see whether it has dried up by then. There is no rain now nor was the overnight rain heavy. Super-sopper is at work. So 9.30 am it is, join us then for more updates.
10.07am The latest news is, the play is scheduled to start at 10.30am
Super, See we are 12/0
Now is the time we really need out batsman to come out and bat and bat well for the team.
Must have been plenty rain over this morning to have started late.
early morning for me .. typo!! out = our
Morning Puman and Superbul
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amper bly geword met die reen, miskien kan ons nog hulp van bo kry.
ek is nou oppad werk toe geniet die dag
Morning Coach, Sorry was at the tv. How you doing? Hope well.
We now 32/0 going well at the moment.
7 – Super, Think that rain helped us a lot. Now the batsmen must do their work. So far it looks good.
and there goes Smith for 20……………awesome innings :poop:
Morning Tripp, Yip we needed him to bat the whole day today. Now hope the others can do the work.
Cheers out of here now, off to a meeting in Centurion.
Catch up later.
Seems like the elements might save us….here’s to hoping…
Go Amla !!!
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See we have been saved by the rain. Good sometimes we need a bit of luck. May it rain for the rest of today and tomorrow 😀
Ouens Sharks span is genoem…kan julle dit glo, en dit is nie eers donnerdag nie….Plum was bang vir daai plastic cup brigade vrydag
Puma, did you see the team?
18 – Fires, No been in a meeting all morning. Only got back now. Will go and check.
puma @ 16
tomorrow’s forecast is sunny … hope that it rains for the rest of today though … seems that their draining system isnt up to scratch!!
20 – Ash, If rains for the rest of today and their drainings system is not up to much, just maybe it will delay play for tomorrow too 😀
We probably wont draw this but just hope we don’t lose by a innings. Pity we never got those runs in the first innings. A draw here would have been just fine to win the series.
puma @ 21
dont think we’ll see any play for the rest of today, puma
sooooooo we’ll be going into the last day with 7 wickets standing … if we cant draw from THERE, then we certainly dont deserve the number one ranking!!
from cricinfo
3.49 pm Dim Murky light. All the covers are back on. It looks highly unlikely that we would get any play. And meanwhile, Morne Morkel and Wayne Parnell are giving some fielding practice to nine and 10-year olds.
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And Eric Simmons is giving catch practice to Gary Kirsten and Paddy Upton. And fwiw, Gary and Paddy are not dropping any catches. 😆
22 – Ash, Who has gone out. Have not seen much of the crici today. Know that Smith went for 20. Then I had to go out to a meeting came back and saw play delayed and 3 wickets down. Depends if the out of from batters come to the party tomorrow. This just might be the time they do and get a big score. Or just keep batting the whole day and not lose their wickets.
hehehe, unfortunately its the out-of-form-batsmen that need to save us now!! 😆
Hi all. All I can say is that I hope we get a full day in tomorrow. Its empty is we draw the game because of weather,if we want to draw the game we must bat all day tomorrow.
Naand se dames, kruip julle nou weer daar by julle ‘zef’ hangouts weg…tune mar daai cortina xr tjom, dit gattie die nulle spped oppie wing gee nie… 😆
26 – Morning Winston, so far so good. Amla and Prince still there. Need to keep focused against the spinners.
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