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***Official*** India in New Zealand 2013/14

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SOLID MATTIC

Cricket Spectator
You can be dissapointed with the batsmen, but enforcing the follow-on is always a more risky decision than it appears on the surface. The combination of bowlers becoming tired and having to bat last means most of the time its safer to just put some quick runs on the board to set a large/huge target while the bowlers have a rest and the pitch deteriorates.

Not working out atm, but the decision isn't that bad. Commentators on the outside will always complain and whine like Gower and Key are right now, but when they were actually out there they would be making the same decision 9 out of 10 times.
 
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Athlai

Athlai

Not Terrible
SOLID MATTIC said:
You can be dissapointed with the batsmen, but enforcing the follow-on is always a more risky decision than it appears on the surface. The combination of bowlers becoming tired and having to bat last most of the time means its safer to just put some quick runs on the board to set a large/huge target while the bowlers have a rest and the pitch deteriorates.

Not working out atm, but the decision isn't that bad. Commentators on the outside will always complain and whine like Gower and Key are right now, but when they were actually out there they would be making the same decision 9 out of 10 times.
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Haha yeah I was thinking this to myself, Gower and Key acting like there is never a reason to not declare the follow on. They even reasoned that Anderson and Wagner hadn't bowled that much so they could do the bulk of the overs.

Misses the point a bit.
 
hendrix

hendrix

Hall of Fame Member
Papps for Fulton wouldn't be bad as like-for-like. I'd like for him to be in consideration before we go back to Guptill.
 
Flem274*

Flem274*

123/5
im surprised the likes of chris rogers never did a ronchi. we keep getting all these middle order batsmen, allrounders, keepers and bowlers yet no opportunistic openers?
 
straw man

straw man

Hall of Fame Member
McMillan making a good point that Taylor probably mistakenly thought he was the one running to the danger end

A Taylor century here should make up for that
 
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