Australia v. Pakistan. 2 Tests.

Post by **Pies4shaw** » Sat Nov 23, 2019 3:19 pm

Marnus goes for 185. He has been throwing the bat since tea. There’s a declaration in the offing, it seems. Starc and Cummins in now. 7/546.

Post by **Pies4shaw** » Sat Nov 23, 2019 3:24 pm

Yasir has the distinction of being the highest scorer this innings. He’s snuck past Marnus.

Post by **Pies4shaw** » Sat Nov 23, 2019 3:33 pm

Starc gone. 8/563. 323 the lead.

With a nice 4, Lyon takes Yasir to 195.

Post by **Pies4shaw** » Sat Nov 23, 2019 3:39 pm

Cummins snicks one. 9/567. That’s a 327 lead.

Australia have lost 4/35 since Tea chasing fast runs. It hasn’t really worked.

Post by **Pies4shaw** » Sat Nov 23, 2019 3:45 pm

Hazlewood brings up Yasir’s 200. 9/574.

Post by **Pies4shaw** » Sat Nov 23, 2019 3:54 pm

All out for 580. That’s a 340 lead.

Post by **Donny** » Sat Nov 23, 2019 4:06 pm

K wrote:Let me repeat that this sort of pitch is bad for cricket. Who would want to be a bowler?

Do these names ring any bells, mate: Starc, Hazlewood, Cummins ? Did you not see the first day's play ?

K · Post by K » Sat Nov 23, 2019 4:19 pm

^ Commentators said Pakistan's effort was disgraceful. I agree!

This is just an example of the bigger point I've been making about the death of Test batting and its relation to dead pitches. It's like a death spiral.

Post by **Pies4shaw** » Sat Nov 23, 2019 4:25 pm

This has been a remarkable pitch - easy at the start, impossible to bat on in the middle session of the first day, suddenly easy and then impossible again in the last session, a road on the second day, a road while Marnus was batting today but somehow full of demons for everyone else.

It can’t possibly be the differences in skill, can it?

Post by **Pies4shaw** » Sat Nov 23, 2019 4:26 pm

Starc has a wicket. Pakistan is 1/-315.

Post by **Pies4shaw** » Sat Nov 23, 2019 4:28 pm

Funny, that. Starc has a second. 2/25, Pakistan.

Post by **Pies4shaw** » Sat Nov 23, 2019 4:40 pm

3/25. Cummins gets Shafiq. A wicket-maiden. Quelle surprise!

Post by **Pies4shaw** » Sat Nov 23, 2019 4:45 pm

Shaan snicks one from Haze just short of Marnus at 2nd slip.

Post by **Pies4shaw** » Sat Nov 23, 2019 5:10 pm

Pakistan 3/52. Lyon into the attack.

K · Post by K » Sat Nov 23, 2019 5:17 pm

Pies4shaw wrote:This has been a remarkable pitch - easy at the start, impossible to bat on in the middle session of the first day, suddenly easy and then impossible again in the last session, a road on the second day, a road while Marnus was batting today but somehow full of demons for everyone else.

It can’t possibly be the differences in skill, can it?

It's been a road the entire Test match, as commentators agree. That doesn't prevent one set of batsmen being worse than another set playing in their own conditions.

That's another problem facing Test cricket. (It could be related too.) Every Test nation is incapable of playing overseas.

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Australia v. Pakistan. 2 Tests.