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Listed below are comments made by stepheast between Wednesday, 30th July 2008 and Friday, 1st August 2008.

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Pietersen fails to complete rescue operation 8:17pm on 01 Aug 2008 As all have said above brilliant response from Paul Collingwood. He can now cement his place by guiding England to a good lead. Equally Ambrose must support Collingwood for a substantial period in the morning.
I hope England are taking note of South Africa's behaviour there is not just an arrogance but a distain about this South African team just look at Nel when he dismissed Cook or Harris when he dismissed Pietersen. It seems pretty clear this nastiness is an attempt to disguise a lack of talent and when put under pressure this South African side will wilt. They are gutless, talentless playground bullies and there is only one way to deal with them and that is to concentrate on the basics ignore the hype and watch their true character come to the fore.
Brilliant Flintoff brings Test back to life 8:08pm on 31 Jul 2008 Flintoff showed today that England means business and the most precious aspect was Boucher visibly cowering. This South African team are overrated and Freddy knows it. They are very beatable but it is going to take the rest of the England team to show the heart and determination in a controlled manner to prove it.
Frail batting costs England again 9:58pm on 30 Jul 2008 Regards Nel, if there is one thing that should fire up England it is the sight of his taunting Cook after he was out. I certainly hope that little performance is remembered when England take the field tomorrow and is paid back in the best way possible i.e by calmly whipping South Africa session after session after session. Nel clearly has a chip on his shoulder and is temperamental, push that temperament and he I feel he will lose the plot.
Frail batting costs England again 9:03pm on 30 Jul 2008 AfricanProtea
"A mediocre South African side? What evidence do you have for stating this? If you have a look back over our track record for the last 2 years, I think you will find that we are deservedly number 2 and considerably ahead of England."

from what I can see South Africa managed to just about win in Pakistan, Just about beat India at home and that is about it. South Africa should beat the Windies, Bangladesh and New Zealand regularily. This is hardly a world beating side and there is not a single bowler in South Afica's lineup that looks world class, from what I have seen in this series alone. This is a mediocre SA side that we should be beating.
Frail batting costs England again 8:23pm on 30 Jul 2008 England have clearly had a bad day, but there needs to be some grit shown tomorrow. The first thing to do is stop giving what is frankly at best a mediocre South African side so much respect. Then Flintoff and Monty need to lead the attack tommorrow. Sidebottam is clearly not fit and Anderson has spent his entire career flattering to deceive. At the end of this Match room needs to be made for Simon Jones, Broad and Harmison. We won the Ashes in 2005 due to our formidable bowling attack we need to start rebuilding that attack.

As for our batsmen the time has come for Vaughan to make a century or else his place I feel is under pressure. Equally Collingwood century or gone and the same with Ambrose. Strauss and cook need to start building 100 partnerships like trescothick and Strauss used to. Time to bring back Prior as Ambrose has completely failed but most of all time to increase the scoring rate and build partnerships.

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