Another wonderful batting display by Bairstow with another 100, he keeps pulling us out of the ****e.
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I feared this chase would be too much and it still might be but that's a cracking start by Lees and Crawley - century opening partnership
Finely poised.
Would actually love to see another Bairstow 100, but this time made from 200 deliveries.
Would actually love to see another Bairstow 100, but this time made from 200 deliveries.
I think you've got too much time on your hands.
possibly, but england played only about 10 games in 1930 and most didn't include 4th innings chases of 200 or more runs, so it didn't take that long. i do know where to go directly to the scores.
http://www.howstat.com/cricket/statistics/Matches/MatchScorecard.asp?MatchCode=0271
Three second innings centurions in that match, but match drawn.
http://www.howstat.com/cricket/statistics/batting/Batting4thInnsHundreds.asp
Three second innings centurions in that match, but match drawn.
http://www.howstat.com/cricket/statistics/batting/Batting4thInnsHundreds.asp
that was the match, thank you - either i misheard or the commentator said it wrong. i've just been on the cricinfo site and noticed it mentioned 1939, so i was about to look and noticed your post.
that was one of the (in)famous "timeless tests" where the idea was that they would play until one team won. a draw wasn't meant to be the conclusion and it's difficult to believe anything other than an england victory would have been the outcome, had they not stopped with england only 42 runs short with five wickets left.
the reason the game ended as a draw - after ten days of play, over 680 overs (i suspect they were 8-ball overs), and 2025 runs - was that england's ship home awaited. i'm sure that nobody had expected nine days of play to not produce a result, although an 11th would have done. geoff boycott would have loved to play in a timeless test.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeless_Test
that was one of the (in)famous "timeless tests" where the idea was that they would play until one team won. a draw wasn't meant to be the conclusion and it's difficult to believe anything other than an england victory would have been the outcome, had they not stopped with england only 42 runs short with five wickets left.
the reason the game ended as a draw - after ten days of play, over 680 overs (i suspect they were 8-ball overs), and 2025 runs - was that england's ship home awaited. i'm sure that nobody had expected nine days of play to not produce a result, although an 11th would have done. geoff boycott would have loved to play in a timeless test.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeless_Test
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I've often heard about the timeless tests and instances of them still being a draw due to getting the boat home. Does anyone know if that means only the last tests of the tour were timeless? Surely the other ones had to fit into a schedule even if it was more spread out than modern series?
the wiki page in the previous post goes into more detail. apparently all tests in australia were timeless up to a certain date (though two draws happened in those games). as for the tour when England's boat interrupted, it was the 5th test and three of the first four were drawn, so it looks like it was the only timeless one on that tour. england had won the other game by an innings to take the series 1-0.
https://www.espncricinfo.com/series...rica-vs-england-3rd-test-62655/full-scorecard