And yet we all love him so much, oh wait......Flem hates the Poms more than the average Kiwi, I feel
Genuinely think that a big part of the historic difficulty of chasing 250+ totals in the 4th innings is down to psychological factors. Don't get me wrong, chasing these sorts of totals is difficult and teams will fail most of the time. But that fact often leads teams into a negative, "conserve wickets and take it deep" mindset that often leads to sides passing up scoring opportunities, which only makes things harder when they get the inevitable unplayable delivery that exposes the new batsmen to a buoyed bowling attack and tricky conditions.What's got me ****ed is that for nearly 150 years test cricket has been played under the false premise that batting last is difficult??? And yet it turns out it's realy quite easy. Amazing when you think about it tbh.
Nah, he's just read a few too many Burgey postsFlem hates the Poms more than the average Kiwi, I feel
No, I hate the Poms since 2013 tour here.Nah, he's just read a few too many Burgey posts
Haha. I think you'll find we were pretty realistic about how poor we were.And it’s amusing seeing Kiwis trying to justify their recent belting based on this game
i think the idea isn't that wickets don't deteriorate whatsoever, obviously it's a factor on most pitches (though like as you point out not on all), more that there's also a timidity teams approach chases with that makes things more difficult and means that the bowling team can front-run when they get one or two wicketsBrahs in the course of history the wickets tend to deteriorate a lot more making batting last difficult. The last few games conditions haven't gotten that much worse for batting by the end of the game, not surprising chasing hasn't been as hard as you would normally expect
I'm just saying you can't look at the last few games and say "oh geez chasing isn't that hard not sure why everyone makes a big deal out of it for all these years"i think the idea isn't that wickets don't deteriorate whatsoever, obviously it's a factor on most pitches (though like as you point out not on all), more that there's also a timidity teams approach chases with that makes things more difficult and means that the bowling team can front-run when they get one or two wickets
a game that happened here comes to mind on this one, excellent game that it was. india australia at adelaide 2014.i think the idea isn't that wickets don't deteriorate whatsoever, obviously it's a factor on most pitches (though like as you point out not on all), more that there's also a timidity teams approach chases with that makes things more difficult and means that the bowling team can front-run when they get one or two wickets
which incidentally is exactly what happened in the game i mentioned above - saha departed at six down with not many to get but it was already over at that pointOn that point everyone’s talking like the game is over, but with England’s long tail an India win is still very possible. Bumrah and Shami should be fresh enough to bowl for an hour unchanged in the morning, if they can make a couple of breakthroughs early then it could all unravel very quickly.
Bazball is just some guy with sunglasses and a hat sitting on a balcony while everyone speculates endlessly about what this all really means, man.
Did you think my post was serious?I'm just saying you can't look at the last few games and say "oh geez chasing isn't that hard not sure why everyone makes a big deal out of it for all these years"
Like try doing it on a ****ed pitch with massive cracks and footmarks with one ball an over rolling