Alviro Petersen earns praise from Stuart Broad – Cricket News Update
Having scored a brilliant century in the second of the three-match Test series against England at Headingley, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/SCJ-Broad-c2465, who believes that the right-hander played
out of his skin.
On day one, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/AJ-Strauss-c964 won the toss and invited the Proteas to bat first under cloudy conditions. The visitors however, showed their class with the bat and negated the threat posed by the English bowling attack, making it look
ordinary once again, after a brilliant show at the Oval.
Petersen, who was dismissed cheaply in the first match, rose to the occasion and scored a fantastic 182 off 365 balls, in which he struck 23 boundaries. The right-hander held the South African innings together and sealed the advantage
for his side.
Broad admitted that his team was expected to bowl the opposition out on day one after winning the toss but claimed that the pitch is a flat one, not offering a lot to the seam bowlers.
The fast bowler was all praise for the South African opening batsman for showing a lot of character under pressure, although Petersen looked vulnerable at times.
"There's always that expectation and pressure when you win the toss and bowl," Broad said. "But wicket-wise, I don't think it was that dangerous to bat on. It took a fantastic knock from Petersen, with 180. He played and missed a
huge amount, but obviously played fantastically well to get there. It took that to stop us bowling them out a little bit cheaper."
At the close of play on day one of the second Test, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/England-c56013 had scored 48 runs without losing any wicket, needing another 371 runs to avoid a first innings deficit. The 26-year-old cricketer hopes that perfect weather will be witnessed
on day three and four of the match at Leeds, helping the English batsmen post a mammoth total on the board.
"We hope the weather will be good to us. We hope it is either sunny, or raining, because we don't want that heavy cloud. We'd be in a bit of trouble then," said the cricketer from Nottnigham.
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