Mini-session Analysis 3rd test Eng SA Lord's, London 2012

Here is the final mini-session analysis for the third test between England and South Africa at Lord's, London, England.

A mini-session is (normally) half a session, either between the start of the session and the drinks break or the drinks break and the end of the session. Occasionally a long session will have 3 mini-sessions where it will be broken up with 2 drinks breaks.

1-1a	South Africa 27/1 off 13	England
1-1b	South Africa 38/3 off 11	England
1-2a	South Africa 40/1 off 14.1	draw
1-2b	South Africa 46/0 off 16.5	South Africa
1-3a	South Africa 50/1 off 15	South Africa
1-3b	South Africa 61/1 off 17.4	South Africa
2-1a	South Africa 45/2 off 13	England
2-1b	South Africa 2/1 off 0.4	South Africa
	England 29/1 off 10.4
2-2a	England 25/3 off 12.4	South Africa
2-2b	England 40/0 off 14.4	England
2-3a	England 48/0 off 14	England
2-3b	England 66/1 off 20	England
3-1a	England 35/1 off 14	South Africa
3-1b	England 34/2 off 11	South Africa
3-2a	England 38/2 off 10.3	South Africa
3-2b	South Africa 33/0 off 15	draw
3-3a	South Africa 37/2 off 15	England
3-3b	South Africa 75/1 off 20	South Africa
4-1a	South Africa 38/1 off 13	South Africa
4-1b	South Africa 33/0 off 13.4	South Africa
4-2a	South Africa 52/2 off 14.2	England
4-2b	South Africa 38/1 off 16	England
4-3a	South Africa 39/1 off 15	England
4-3b	South Africa 6/2 off 2.2	South Africa
	England 16/2 off 13
5-1a	England 29/2 off 13	South Africa
5-1b	England 75/0 off 14	England
5-2a	England 54/2 off 15	South Africa
5-2b	England 47/1 off 15	England
5-3a	England 73/3 off 12.5	England

South Africa win the mini-session count 14-13, and they close out the match and the series.

This was the closest of the 3 matches, but South Africa were still clearly better than England. The overall mini-session count for the series was 47-31 to South Africa. They clearly deserved to win the series.