England v South Africa, 2nd Test, Headingley, 3rd day

David Lloyd: de Villiers was clinical

July 20, 2008

AB de Villiers played a superb knock, little bit out of character but he did the job for his team. South Africa, after a fine batting performance, have nipped in two wickets before close and now England have a huge task to bat out the remaining six sessions in this Test

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Comments have now been closed for this article The guys will never learn the lesson! Last time when India toured England, they provoked Zaheer Khan by the 'jelly bean' controversey. Zaheer ripped them apart by bowling with passion and aggression. Some people will get pumped up by this kind of adverse situations and they in most of the circumstances will come up with killer punch like this! Posted by sasikochi on July 21 2008, 11:08 AM GMT The effort by De Villiers was supreme, despite the heckling and booing he was subjected to (still not sure why) and was just what South Africa needed in the circumstances. England surely have an uphill battle to save this test match now and it will be interesting to see how they tackle the task at hand over two days on a wicket that is likely to become more and more uneven in terms of bounce and carry through to the wicket keeper. What a pity though that the two captains could not agree on catches during the series, as this has already caused some controversy! Mores the pity that we can no longer accept the fielders word, but the incidents that arose during this march regarding catches shows that we can't!! Ian Posted by IanG on July 21 2008, 09:48 AM GMT de Villiers, "rose to the occasion" after the incident with Strauss. Why was no fuss made about the Vaughan "catch". South Africans are tough competitors, and the sooner opposition realise that "verbal attacks" actually inspire us, they may wake up!! Go de Villiers, you boytjie!!! Posted by Hatch on July 21 2008, 08:54 AM GMT of course divilliers has played a magnificent innings and he deserved that. i think now south africa can make it 1-0 at this test and go one up and put England under huge pressure to save the series. Posted by AbidMahmood on July 21 2008, 03:53 AM GMT Top ^

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