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About to win again to take the series. Will be the first Asian side to win a series in South Africa, after India was the first Asian side to win in Australia a month ago.

Can we just play the West Indies every series? Every game a cracker.

Looks like the BCCI could ask for Pakistan to be banned from the World Cup. That would be a terrible move.

He’s always slow to get going, but he was worse than usual today. Those 55 dots he played looking like the difference here.

That's the way to get your 100.

Mali are broke as fuck in the new expansion. Got so much gold you can just buy everything, get the right Great People, which you can also buy, and they are unstoppable.

Pro Piacenza in Serie C lost 20-0 today. Only had 7 youth team players as they had to let all the paid players go.

Also, this is not fixed. Neither is being shot round corners.

What the fuck are this weeks assignments, honestly? The last one is ridiculous, been sat at 19 kills for a day now. It's not a challenge, it's just random and tedious. It's impossible to get a tank at the start of the round, so you are reliant on trying to do it in a halftrack, and you can't even drive the thing as it doesn't register as a kill. Think this is the least fun I've ever had trying to do a game mission, and I used to play World of fucking Warcraft.

Amazing Test in South Africa. Sri Lanka need 7 more with one wicket left. EDIT: and they did it, record tenth wicket partnership of 78 in a successful chase.

Why was di Maria getting such abuse?

Shame for Denly but great to see Root get his century. Should win from here.

Watched a fair amount of random games this weekend from France and Italy. Over four games, I’ve seen four marginal goals disallowed thanks to VAR. All of them had to be rewatched five or six times before any decision could be made, and I could a strong argument that each decision was wrong. Don’t think it’s really going to bring much benefit to a lot of matches, ruling out howlers is fair enough, but goals are hard enough to come by in a lot of games as it is without coin toss decisions getting overturned.

Curran didn’t deserve to be dropped either, he was sensational over the summer. It’s a bit wierd at the moment, Jennings shouldn’t be near the team, but if we were in India he should be opening the batting. Lots of fringe players that can come in and look amazing for short times but seem to be limited to that performance in one country. Would not be shocked to see Stoneman and Vince back in the side before long.

Yeah, to be fair though I think Broad has been very unlucky this tour, bowled a lot better than his figures indicate.