Do yourselves a favour - go out, enjoy the day, and forget about this waste of time.
Glad I didn't take your advice Trig!
Do yourselves a favour - go out, enjoy the day, and forget about this waste of time.
Do yourselves a favour - go out, enjoy the day, and forget about this waste of time.
Do yourselves a favour - go out, enjoy the day, and forget about this waste of time.
We need to put the brake on them scoring as they could still win. I expect it to fizzle out to a draw, but who knows a good 30 mins after lunch by either side could change the outcome.
Glad I didn't take your advice Trig!
Predictions are not your strongest quality either....
You're welcome.and miss one of the great England test wins?!
8 down now.
View attachment 77013Well that was a great day. £16 to get in, great cricket and lovely weather.
I said Pakistan were skittleable. So it proved.
Holding was saying we should have given them a total that was chaseable, so they'd take shots on - Willis was saying we should have declared earlier to have more runs - Cook said a total that looks out of reach can make a team defend for a draw, and that can cause nerves etc. Cook was right, credit to him.Great result and sensible declaration by Cook, we won with 14 overs to spare so a shade under one hour of play. Too many times in the past we've wasted time piling on unnecessary runs, I think Cook's captaincy is improving with age.
Holding was saying we should have given them a total that was chaseable, so they'd take shots on - Willis was saying we should have declared earlier to have more runs - Cook said a total that looks out of reach can make a team defend for a draw, and that can cause nerves etc. Cook was right, credit to him.
The stats also say you've only got a 3% chance of winning after conceding a 100 run lead in the first innings.As an accountant I'm guided by the stats, so if they say no team has successfully chased over 300 in the 4th innings to win a test at Edgbaston then the probability is once you've got a 300 lead you've probably done enough.
Try this stat on for size: We batted on and got a lead of 342, and we won with time to spare.I get the fact that big lead enable a captain to set attacking fields whilst the batting team's mentality is completely defensive, but the overriding factor is time and the 10th wicket pair hung around for long enough last night to show that batting on that wicket was not so hard.
Great result and sensible declaration by Cook, we won with 14 overs to spare so a shade under one hour of play. Too many times in the past we've wasted time piling on unnecessary runs, I think Cook's captaincy is improving with age.
Holding was saying we should have given them a total that was chaseable, so they'd take shots on - Willis was saying we should have declared earlier to have more runs - Cook said a total that looks out of reach can make a team defend for a draw, and that can cause nerves etc. Cook was right, credit to him.