Except this is never the case, because the time wastage is almost always when teams are stuffing around when they're bowling badly. Like England in the 21/22 Ashes, unless you consider Chris Woakes overseas ''quality fast bowling'.
Marsh got hit on the head trying to hit the ball over the Swan River with a front foot pull. Like, had he not been trying to score at a Bazball rate he might have simply got out of the way.
wrong, literally has happened when teams are behind the over rate
Maybe try reading my comment again. When have we seen 'high quality' fast bowling taken off? We've seen fast bowlers taken off when teams haven't been going well, yes, but the goes against the point as it can't be high quality and poor. Teams that are going well tend to stuff around with the field less too, which reduces time wastage.
Now you're just playing semantics. Point is it can, and probably will, lead to lower quality cricket with more overs from spinners than better fast bowlers for a lot of teams. Regardless of whether you want to classify the bowling as "poor" or any other adjective
Classic TJB cop out. Thing I didn't account for is semantics.
It's not playing semantics. Your argument doesn't stack up when teams are bowling rubbish. In some cases - like Pakistan in this test - putting on the spinner actually helps bring things under control.
Maybe try reading my comment again. You think I said it would happen every time? I don't care about when teams are "bowling rubbish", or when they have really good spinners. That's not relevant to the scenario I put forward, which has happened, and will again
And when has it happened? Certainly not a common thing, if it has. My scenario covers what I actually see happening, yours is one that gets dragged up time again but seems to be much less in evidence.
I didn't say it was common, but this clearly is likely to make it more common.
Why? You're just making an argument based on some theoretical possibility rather than what actually happens.
Yes which was very clear in my initial post.
It's a poor argument/concerned prediction, because of what I said - teams tend to get through the overs slower when their bowling is bad. You're probably not losing 20 overs of 'high quality fast bowling' as in your example.
Yeah but is it really better for cricket if you get five overs of Root bowling darts than three overs of Woakes bowling crap medium pace with the old ball?
Remember the first cycle? That was bliss
Aus didn’t qualify for Finals because of slow over rate in BG Trophy 2020-21 iirc .