the thing is though, it's such a highway that even if you do that and your lead's only 100 england are only a collapse away from aus having a big sniff at a chaseable target on what seems like a real featherbed!
Fair question.
Yeah that decision has put us behind the game
They'll start smoking after about 90 overs.
ok but how often do australian cricket teams actually get picked through perfectly sound logic and not through silly little rules and customs and over-thinking it? Afterall, a week ago the attack was gonna be Starc/Haze/Cummins, and now they've blinked. Given how defensive they started out, I don't think a combo of silly rule #1 ("don't change a winning team" [which in this case would mean retroactively pretending that Haze/Cummins/Boland was the preferred attack for the WTC final which is absolutely something they'd do]) and Starc's possible higher economy rate spooking them is that unbelievable
Because Starc was bowling ****. You're really overthinking this
If this information is available to England, and you'd have to hope that all available analytics are, it makes the decision even crazier.
In terms of starting twice, both are off the mark and had a glimpse of how the pitch is playing. Plus the bowlers slept well last night knowing they might have their feet up all day. Even now I categorise it as one of the biggest, most arrogant fails of all time. Not really like a 100m runner who celebrates too early near the finish line, more like the 100m runner who gets out of the blocks early, thinks it's in the bag and relaxes, potentially gets overtaken and has to do too much at the end. We'll see if that analogy fits. I like it better than SillyCowCorner's one about flopping their **** out, at this stage.
They didn't look vaguely likely to taking a wicket though. I don't think a single ball moved off the straight.
haha.. is 21 the drinking age there too? Might end up being a long night, esp. at your age.
You also have to factor in that the top batsmen from other countries in world cricket , don't get to play the volume of test matches that Joe Root plays , so it's never gonna be a level playing field despite that being a brilliant return for Root. For example a player from New Zealand even if he played every match for his country in that period would still have played atleast 15-17 test matches less than Root which is huge .
Ya Fre**** Eng played more test than anyone
No it's 18haha.. is 21 the drinking age there too? Might end up being a long night, esp. at your age.
