Uninspired first test

The first test match between England and South Africa at Centurion Park has been an uninspirational affair.

The home team has set a first innings score of 418 thanks to a Jacques Kallis century and some nice contributions from Prince, Duminy, Boucher and some stubborn contributions from Paul Harris and Friedel De Wet at the bottom of the order.

De Wet then managed to get Alastair Cook out to leave the poms at 88/1 at the end of the second day.

The things that stood out for me:

• A scoring rate of 2.73 per over is really slow for the Proteas and while it might be enough runs to put pressure on the English its not exactly setting the world alight... especially considering that Centurion Park is supposed to be a good batting strip
• The English bowled aggressively - no shortage of bouncers from their quicks
• I like this scrapping spirit - maybe it could be an interesting test match series after all
  
• De Wet hasn't exactly looked on song on his debut - why didn't Morkel take the new ball?
• I still think we are going to regret that we didn't play Parnell
• Graeme Swann bowled well - will be interesting to see how Harris does on this track

Anyway we will keep on watching to see how it all plays out