Which team will chase down 500 in Tests?

[JackPot]

definitely not australia....may be aus will be the losing team in the test match where 500 plus is chased to win

 

[Furball]

I don't think it's sensible to expect 500+ to be chased-down - ever. Only once has 500+ ever been scored in the fourth-innings, in a freak timeless game on what could only have been a pitch that flattened-out to be flat with the best of them.

It might, possibly happen someday. But 400+ has been chased-down just 3 times in 60 years. It might well be 20 years (or more) before that even happens again.

That 500+ will never happen is far from inconceivable.

5 years ago one would have thought that the idea of 1 side, never mind 2, scoring more than 400 in an ODI was impossible.

Regardless of how unlikely the scenario seems, it's even less sensible to dismiss the idea out of hand.

 

[zaremba]

It will happen, and it will happen within the next 2 years.

Never forget that one team - whose name shamefully has been omitted from the options in the poll list - once scored 654-5 chasing 696 to win.
Lucky Saffers sneak a draw

 

[silentstriker]

It will happen, and it will happen within the next 2 years.

Never forget that one team - whose name shamefully has been omitted from the options in the poll list - once scored 654-5 chasing 696 to win.
Lucky Saffers sneak a draw

Well, if we have timeless tests again, perhaps it would happen.


But I do think it'll happen eventually, though I don't think it's particularly imminent.

 

[GIMH]

Well I can forgive Craig for leaving us out as we are obviously unlikely to ever be set such a target due to possessing possibly the ten best bowlers in the world

 

[Precambrian]

Or that a 500 target is deemed as unnecessary given England's batting lineup?

I think it will require totally "inconsistent" cricket from both sides for such a scenario to happen. So I guess one of the teams will be Pakistan. The other side, given their penchant for having lost games after enforcing follow-ons, might be Australia.

 

[TT Boy]

Maybe not.

That's what happens when you bring Katich into the side...

 

[itduzz]

1 word ....Afridi

 

[Richard]

5 years ago one would have thought that the idea of 1 side, never mind 2, scoring more than 400 in an ODI was impossible.

Regardless of how unlikely the scenario seems, it's even less sensible to dismiss the idea out of hand.

Yeah, hence no-one in their right mind would dismiss the idea out-of-hand.

 

[Richard]

Never forget that one team - whose name shamefully has been omitted from the options in the poll list - once scored 654-5 chasing 696 to win.
Lucky Saffers sneak a draw

I really do wish that that game had had the time to be completed, as had it done so, a record would've been set which, presuming timeless Tests are never reinstated, would never, ever have been broken.

 

[Xuhaib]

1 word ....Afridi

Its 500 not 5.

 

[SJS]

Its 500 not 5.

Are you sure he can be relied upon to score 5 runs when it is REALLY required ?

 

[popepouri]

Bangladesh.

 

[tooextracool]

Not really. The team that will score 500 has to have the best batting card in the world that is capable of scoring big and that does not always correlate with the best team in the world. For example, it is fair to say that even before this series, India would have been in with a fair shout of this target because they have many players who can score big scores. That does not necessarily mean that they were/are the best team.

 

[Xuhaib]

Are you sure he can be relied upon to score 5 runs when it is REALLY required ?

on 2nd thoughts should have kept the 00's and left the 5 out.

 

[SJS]

on 2nd thoughts should have kept the 00's and left the 5 out.

 

[pasag]

Another chance tomorrow, unlikely but possible.

 

[Richard]

First they thought they could chase 400... and they did. Then they thought they could chase 450... and they didn't.

Now the question is 550? It's just getting more and more ridiculous. How does this keep happening?

 

[TT Boy]

First they thought they could chase 400... and they did. Then they thought they could chase 450... and they didn't.

Now the question is 550? It's just getting more and more ridiculous. How does this keep happening?

**** bowling (from the South Africans).

 

[Richard]

Yet they keep batting really well at the start of the fourth-innings to follow it. Even if, in the second (and probably third, but we can dream) case, they bat poorly later on and waste that.