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3rd Test at Melbourne - December 26 - 30

ashley bach

Cricketer Of The Year
batsmen are at their most vulnerable while they are starting out, don’t want your aces to have to “start” twice, once during that night and again when dawn breaks

it’s not very wild logic
if your a batsman you should be able to hold on for 5 minutes, rather than screw up the batting order.
have always believed a night watchman is farcical.
 

halba

International 12th Man
maybe aus should rest their bowlers more when they play us at home. they might win a series once some time again this century
no india's batting is much better than australia. its always been top shelf on batting. australia will never beat india in a test series for atleast the next 5 years. reason is brittle batting.
 

Bijed

International Regular
totally understand where you're coming from, but can't be convinced on this one.
will still say night watchman is one of the dumbest inventions in cricket.
They definitely get misused sometimes, by over-doing how bad a batsman they send out/how long before close they send them out so that there's a pretty good chance of the batsman just having to come out again. Today was a fair enough use imo (although I guess you'd disagree on principle, and you're certainly not the only one), Leach basically had to survive 2 balls to save Stokes (not always they greatest starter in the past) from coming out, which isn't a big ask, he just... didn't
 

ashley bach

Cricketer Of The Year
They definitely get misused sometimes, by over-doing how bad a batsman they send out/how long before close they send them out so that there's a pretty good chance of the batsman just having to come out again. Today was a fair enough use imo (although I guess you'd disagree on principle, and you're certainly not the only one), Leach basically had to survive 2 balls to save Stokes (not always they greatest starter in the past) from coming out, which isn't a big ask, he just... didn't
yeah maybe Jack saved Ben tonight, who knows?
one point is though, if you don't try to ''save'' you never have to worry about how many balls left, how much time left etc.
that way you can never **** it up, never mind the batting order.
 

CodeOfWisden

U19 Cricketer
Night Watchman is the best thing to happen to cricket.
If we opened with Shami and Bumrah we could have won the BG trophy first match too.

According to me, Whenever you think that conditions are a bit difficult, just reverse the batting order.

I once played cricket at 6 am in winter and chose to bat, my team also got out on 36.
I wasn't even able to spot the ball, and that too from a spinner.
 

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