State of SA

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Brilliant test match unfolding here. Fantastic hundred from KL and Elgar and de Zorzi so far surviving a deadly accurate and hostile spell of bowling.

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The SuperSport coverage is great btw, I wish we could give our broadcast rights to them

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Pommie interviewing their director of cricket over lunch, challenging him and holding him to account on a number of things. Really interesting - would literally never ever happen here.

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Shit I missed that. Was too busy rewinding Pollock's take on Kohli's technique. Will try and rewind it

Bedingham finally gets a shot after waiting a long time in the wings. He's better than a lot of players in that SA line up

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So does this mean Bedingham now has to play county as an overseas after today? He’s good enough to anyway.

Brilliant innings from Elgar. What a shame he is retiring. I assume he is off to England as well?

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Well played Mr Elgar. What a way to sign off. A couple more innings yet, but nonetheless.

Ya that makes Bedingham an overseas henceforth.
Ya maybe Elgar will play a couple of years of County, he's 36.

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It seems like maybe he's been told to hang it up?
They play so few tests he might be wondering at what he does in between.
Bavuma being captain ahead of him is not square.
At some point they'll have to hand captaincy of all formats to the right guy- Markram.

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India have blue go fast stripes on their whites, that's not ok

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I don't know why they don't make all helmets with the metal pieces behind the ears instead of those stupid rubber things that always fly off.

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One article says he has ancestral rights and plays as a local but you can't. I'm fairly certain he's played as an overseas for a while, so nothing will change.