Spark
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I don't think he would have planned on 5/67 in the second dig though.
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*Official* First Test at Lord's
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Cevno
Hall of Fame Member
Yep. That is what i meant that he will have to wait. I think it is half an hour in the first session?
Was just speculating in any case. Won't happen.
hazsa19
International Regular
2nd innings dismissal was worse.
Themer
U19 Cricketer
I did.
silentstriker
The Wheel is Forever
I still think it was a good aggressive declaration. You need to win by two Test matches, so it's very heartening to see him go for it. Obviously going for it means it could potentially backfire but in my opinion, you add a lot of confidence to your team when you pull it off.
Prior will counter-attack, not sure he knows anything else to be honest. I expect Morgan to be relatively circumspect by his standards.
wpdavid
Hall of Fame Member
Alternatively, it's being able to look beyond the scorecard after the first two innings. All that being said, kudos to Sharma of course. But that shouldn't disallow folks from taking a proper look at how England have performed to date.
It's just one bad session!
Talk about an overreaction!
Spark
Global Moderator
It takes some serious logical fallacies to twist a 200 run first innings lead to anything other than you've outplayed the opposition fairly thoroughly, tbh.
hazsa19
International Regular
I don't get this. Did we ever say we wanted to be number 1 by september 2011? Winning the series is the priority.
Burgey
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They were eight down, weren't they?
Howe_zat
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Yeah, but KP was there and hitting it like a beach ball. What would they give for an extra 30 runs now?
flibbertyjibber
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He and Broad are very similar.
Son Of Coco
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Yeah exactly. If you had those sort of figures in your head you'd never declare...ever.
Uppercut
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Obviously the fact that India have come back strong doesn't make it a poor decision. But when it comes to cricketing tactics I'm always inclined to give the tangibles much more weight than I do the intangibles. "Making a statement" looks like a bit of a silly aim when you're considerably increasing the chance that you'll lose the test match.
smash84
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I had said back then KP should have been allowed to hole out rather than declare
Cevno
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Actually it came at about the right time for India too. Perhaps could have done with another couple of overs, but with both batsman on 5 there and both seamers maxed almost , Dhoni would have ran out of options.
This gives a chance to recover for one more burst after Lunch.
Woodster
International Captain
You can't say it was a shocking first innings declaration, because at the time it wasn't, even with hindsight I still don't think it was.
Excellent morning session for India which has given them a slight sniff of turning this game around, and Ishant and Praveen have made Zaheer's absence easier to take with the way they've bowled. If only, from India's point of view, Ishant could bowl like this on a consistent basis, but he is still only 22 years old.
England need to re-group this lunchtime and work on a plan to get themselves out of this second innings wobble. I expect Prior will launch some form of counter-attack, Gilchrist-esque, in theory.
Excellent morning session for India which has given them a slight sniff of turning this game around, and Ishant and Praveen have made Zaheer's absence easier to take with the way they've bowled. If only, from India's point of view, Ishant could bowl like this on a consistent basis, but he is still only 22 years old.
England need to re-group this lunchtime and work on a plan to get themselves out of this second innings wobble. I expect Prior will launch some form of counter-attack, Gilchrist-esque, in theory.