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England test tour of Pakistan December 2022
- Thread starter theegyptian
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ashley bach
Cricketer Of The Year
Hell of a generous declaration, guess they're counting on bad light coming early again the next 2 days.
ParwazHaiJunoon
First Class Debutant
I have not seen runners for a long time. I think they are banned now.
OverratedSanity
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Warne would've loved this team confirmed
Howe_zat
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It's a bit annoying because it means they'll have to win by tea tomorrow to stop the chase, so they've not really saved themselves any time. And if they win they'll be praised for it, but it's still mistimed regardless of outcome I would think.
Kinda feel vindicated about disagreeing with comments of 'nailed on draw' at tea on day 2 though. Those people can do one.
Kinda feel vindicated about disagreeing with comments of 'nailed on draw' at tea on day 2 though. Those people can do one.
Red_Ink_Squid
Global Moderator
Stokes is a mad lad.
Shady Slim
International Coach
even putting the pitch aside, that england put on 657 at 6 an over to open the test and are in a position where not winning is on the cards is
it's wow
it's wow
wpdavid
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Maybe a total of 90 overs left in the game? Still looks generous, especially if Pakistan's openers do their usual thing.
Darwin Award
U19 Cricketer
The amount of times this year alone it's been in danger has been quite a few..
Brook not only missed out a massive chance but to also really smash it by some margin by almost the equivalent of 2 overs or so in deliveries and make the new record much more harder to break.
Then again,given the way Stokes bats with zero f....s these days he'll probably bump it down to about 58 balls or thereabouts by the time he's done playing test cricket.
Red_Ink_Squid
Global Moderator
Reminds me of the Shai Hope Headingley Test where Root declared so early it meant they had less time to bowl WI out because the target was chased with time to spare.
As Daemon points out though, they're only getting ~75 overs a day here, so Pakistan will have to bat at least somewhat aggressively (though nothing like England speed) to chase this.
Bijed
International Regular
Yeah, very reminiscent of Headingley actually - good shout. One of those times where I don't think there was much to be lost just by sending out the tail to have a swing and try to get a few more quick runs
TheJediBrah
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This is a real Steve Waugh style declaration
BazBall21
International Captain
Yeah. I’m surprised anyone is shocked. Everyone knows England’s new principles. I think we will lose this and I still can’t really fault it. Dedication to winning.
Howe_zat
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It seems such a basic analysis to think 'how long would they need to chase this total' instead of 'how long do we want to bowl them out' because declaration only becomes relevant when you stop trying to defend runs and start being against the clock.
As it is they will be measuring the wickets against runs and not time for the entire rest of the test, so it's a bad declaration. This seems... really simple to understand? But it'll only be talked about as a bad call if they lose.
Anyway, hopefully it doesn't matter. It normally doesn't matter very much, like every other captaincy decision, compared to how well they play.
Darwin Award
U19 Cricketer
Well,a somewhat brave declaration but if Pakistan do in fact chase it down it'll take the final run aggregate to 1842 runs scored in the match.