Yea we will all just sit back and not debate it when Cook costs England 10-15 win % simply by making another terrible, stereotyped decision.
FMD. Do you really think this was Cook's decision alone?
I'm not, but he really does deserve it.
Probably not terrible. But it really was the perfect opportunity to destroy us when we were on the mat. Anderson was in his element, all the bowlers were fresh, you have the new ball and a big lead ... Should've enforced without a doubt.
The arguments for not enforcing the follow-on are it gives big girl's blouse Broad a chance to put his feet up for another 3-4 hours so they don't have to listen to him whinging at lunch after having all night to rest up. And the other one is batting last might be fractionally harder than batting today - although that's dubious given the heavy roller.
How does one go about getting all access passes to the England rooms?
This I definitely agree with. We can afford to drop a few wickets here......need to be going at 4rpo min.
No India can't take overs out of the game tomorrow because a minimum 90 overs have to be bowled. The laws are there to cover teams taking the piss on the final day - I still remember England's win in the dark at Karachi.
What time did Eng start their innings? Haven't been paying much attention to the over rate but the Indians don;t appear to be too slow to me.......certainly not taking the piss. Only break was a short one when the groundsman brought the wacka thing on.
He shouldn't be telling the media they're 100% not going to enforce the follow-on, even if they are 100%.
Was about 390 IIRC
