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***Official*** India in Australia 2014-5

Cabinet96

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Declaring in the first innings is stupid unless you have 700 or there's been rain or something. Batting more in the first innings actually saves you time because you don't need to bat again ffs, why do commentators not realise this.
Yeah, throughout the years my opinion of a deceleration score has just gone up and up. If you're batting well first innings, why force yourself to get good quick runs when conditions and circumstances are different in the second dig?
 

Spikey

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Slater raises a good point, these Melbourne ****s shouldnt get to enjoy this innings by TPC
 

Burgey

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Jeez, they didn't bring the field up for the last ball of the over? That's cod ordinary.
 

Spark

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The comms go on about Clarke's declaration at Adelaide without remembering we batted for two days (rain-shortened) there
 

OverratedSanity

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Yeah, spread the field more why don't you, you ****s? Spread it enough that Ishant ****s off the ground and gets his vegetarian lunch.
 

Daemon

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Yeah, throughout the years my opinion of a deceleration score has just gone up and up. If you're batting well first innings, why force yourself to get good quick runs when conditions and circumstances are different in the second dig?
It can be good to get a team in on day 2 when you have a huge total up, just so that they feel that there's an impossible amount of time left to bat out in the test match. Batsmen not called AB or Faf will usually end up failing under that sort of pressure.
 

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