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Listed below are comments made by jdoug88 between Tuesday, 22nd July 2008 and Saturday, 2nd August 2008.

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Outstanding Smith deserves his success 10:56pm on 02 Aug 2008 45. At 10:15pm on 02 Aug 2008, MagpieRH wrote:

AB DV grounded the catch. He knew it, Smith knew and Sidey knew it. That's why he stayed in.

As for Smith, he would've known he gloved the catch - he should have walked.

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Are you saying Athers should have walked when he gloved one off donald to boucher?

Get over it already. Umpiring decisions even themselves out.

Colly was plum lbw in morkel's second over of today. Had he been given SA would have chased 220, game over before tea. And as for cook's lbw decision off nel's first ball - england 0/1 with captain fantastic vaughan in next, who knows SA may have never had to bat again.

As for ABDV, call him a cheat or whatever you want - he is on a winning test team which won fair and square. I would be interested to see your reaction had morkel been the bowler the batsmen had trouble seeing the ball from and he got KP and Belly with some full tosses. He would have been labelled a cheat and no doubt booed trhoughout the rest of the series.

England lost. to a better team. get over it.
Outstanding Smith deserves his success 9:07pm on 02 Aug 2008 Get over the umpiring decisions - things always even out over time... Lets not forget Javed Akhtars part in the last England vs SA series over here. What goes around comes around. And besides, it was England who turned down the referral system (even if the referral system was in place, would they have referred Smith's gloved catch?? Nobody around Smith seemed convinced!)

Bottom line is England lost to a better team. Collingwood should still be in the last chance saloon - could you wait another year for his next century?

Flintoff has done okay I guess on his return - but England have lost the last 8 tests he has played in...

England need to get real - stop blaming pitches/umpires/selectors and have a reall hard look at the setup - if they do not make changes now it will be an embarassing ashes come 2009.

Give some youngsters a chance, and get rid of vaughan - he runs his team like a dictator. If the youngsters/debutants aren't made to feel welcome, England will never challenge Australia again.
Five batsmen not enough for England 09:56am on 22 Jul 2008 Interesting.

If the selectors bow down to the blogs and the forums, and drop ambrose, vaughan, flintoff and pieterson and bring in the preferred players (foster, key, shah, harmison, etc etc) and England get spanked again at Edgbaston, what will all of you say then??

As a neutral I hope that the changes are made as demanded here, and that South Africa obliterate England again next weekend!! It would be great to be able to read the reaction of all these 'cricket experts'...

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