Not true. If you don't take the wickets in the first session you've pretty much thrown the match straight away. It's the right call as long as we bat well and I guarantee the Aussies would have done the same.
Not looking a good call now like.

Not true. If you don't take the wickets in the first session you've pretty much thrown the match straight away. It's the right call as long as we bat well and I guarantee the Aussies would have done the same.

Bit of a shambles to be perfectly honest.
I know it is literally a 50/50 call but more than one of us thought bowling was the way forward and that was even before we saw the weather. If only to put the pressure on, which is now on us.
Daft.
We're back to ****ing sunshine tomorrow as well. Dropping into the convict's lap. It's OK Swann coming in and making a quick cameo 40 odd, but you always need at least one of the main batsmen to make a big ton. Bairstow could possibly have done it, but at best, he's going to run out of partners before he gets there. If he doesn't get out trying to accelerate the scoring.
The positive is both Cook and Pietersen are very good at second innings batting. Cook probably the best 2nd innings batter in the world, off the top of my head.
(for the uninitiated, 2nd innings is far, far more difficult than first)

Not looking a good call now like.![]()
I reckon two (at most) were down to the conditions and even then you could discount the Root dismissal which was a yorker.Did you read the bit where I put "if we bat well"? It doesn't matter what the conditions are if you give 4 wickets awayI reckon two (at most) were down to the conditions and even then you could discount the Root dismissal which was a yorker.

Did you read the bit where I put "if we bat well"? It doesn't matter what the conditions are if you give 4 wickets awayI reckon two (at most) were down to the conditions and even then you could discount the Root dismissal which was a yorker.

Stop trying to dig yourself out of a hole![]()

haha, that was a bit of a 'cover all bases' caveat that mate
The fact is that the conditions favoured the bowlers today & I'm pretty sure we'd have had a similar result had we had the ball. Now we've handed the initiative to the convicts & they tend to press home an advantage when they get a sniff.
Paulpowersleftfoot:4992070 said:.
(for the uninitiated, 2nd innings is far, far more difficult than first)

Gerrez:4992555 said:So we might actually get a winner before the fifth day
Does anyone believe it could be all over by tomorrow?
Clarke gone for 0 and three down.
Looks I'll be getting a refund on my ****ing ticket.
You could do with these two having a partnership of about 60 that takes a day and a half 