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*Official* New Zealand in England 2015

Stapel

Stapel

International Regular
Can't blame the umpire for not giving it. A very very faint nick it was.

Broad's the next man. Can I place a bet? I say he won't face a dozen balls......
 
GIMH

GIMH

Norwood's on Fire
Scoring rate been 4/over all test. Never known a home or away skipper to declare with close to a full day at Lord's with less than 400 on the board. Laying into Cook at this point isn't fair IMO.
 
G

greg

International Debutant
Zinzan said:
lol @ England still batting. :laugh: Test match at home... wow
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IMO all this "dangling a carrot" stuff is nonsense. Under 4 runs an over isn't dangling a carrot - it means that you will probably lose if you don't bowl them out. It's not even like they would have to take risks to score at that rate. You don't do that on a pitch as flat as this. You've got to get to a level where the batting sides actually need to take real risks to get the runs, and more runs mean more attacking fielders.
 
Zinzan

Zinzan

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GIMH said:
Scoring rate been 4/over all test. Never known a home or away skipper to declare with close to a full day at Lord's with less than 400 on the board. Laying into Cook at this point isn't fair IMO.
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You have to be joking right? Nothing under 400 with just 80 overs remaining in the day?
 
Spark

Spark

Global Moderator
greg said:
IMO all this "dangling a carrot" stuff is nonsense. Under 4 runs an over isn't dangling a carrot - it means that you will probably lose if you don't bowl them out. It's not even like they would have to take risks to score at that rate. You don't do that on a pitch as flat as this. You've got to get to a level where the batting sides actually need to take real risks to get the runs, and more runs mean more attacking fielders.
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1st Test: Australia v India at Adelaide, Dec 9-13, 2014 | Cricket Scorecard | ESPN Cricinfo

That's the exception rather than the rule, but it takes a hell of an effort to score 4 an over for three sessions.
 
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