villa89 Posted February 16, 2023 Share Posted February 16, 2023 The advantage of bowling under lights/at night seems to be huge. I guess it's the same as day cricket when the weather changes but more predictable. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bannedfromHandV Posted February 18, 2023 Share Posted February 18, 2023 England continuing to shine and looking nailed on to finish the first game in the early hours of the morning. In the second innings, Wagner finished with 110 runs off 13 overs, 8+ an over, in a test match. Broad absolutely rolling back the years skittling 4 of their top 5 clean bowled. An unbelievable team at the moment. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KentVillan Posted February 18, 2023 Share Posted February 18, 2023 On 16/02/2023 at 10:13, villa89 said: The advantage of bowling under lights/at night seems to be huge. I guess it's the same as day cricket when the weather changes but more predictable. Yeah has there ever been a decent day / night test? The few I can think of were basically won on the toss 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest av1 Posted February 18, 2023 Share Posted February 18, 2023 5 hours ago, bannedfromHandV said: England continuing to shine and looking nailed on to finish the first game in the early hours of the morning. In the second innings, Wagner finished with 110 runs off 13 overs, 8+ an over, in a test match. Broad absolutely rolling back the years skittling 4 of their top 5 clean bowled. An unbelievable team at the moment. It just goes to show how important the mental side of sport is. This is the same group of players that couldn’t buy a win before McCullum and Stokes took over. They were good players before so they haven’t suddenly improved technically, it’s just down to attitude and the feeling of freedom. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villa89 Posted February 18, 2023 Share Posted February 18, 2023 2 hours ago, KentVillan said: Yeah has there ever been a decent day / night test? The few I can think of were basically won on the toss But the ball is pink, its a cross between white and red so everything is balanced.... aledgely.. TBH its a farce. Day night is not the way to save test cricket. Give meaning to the matches, have a knockout test cricket world cup or something like that. Random test matches every now and then mean nothing. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rjw63 Posted February 19, 2023 Share Posted February 19, 2023 Anderson 4/18 Seems like he will go on forever Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KentVillan Posted February 19, 2023 Share Posted February 19, 2023 1 hour ago, rjw63 said: Anderson 4/18 Seems like he will go on forever Interestingly was just looking at the test bowling records, and didn’t realise Anderson had a similar strike rate to Murali and Warne. Obviously just doesn’t bowl as many overs in a test as a spinner so has taken him longer to match Warne’s haul (he’s only 20ish wickets behind now). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bannedfromHandV Posted February 19, 2023 Share Posted February 19, 2023 15 hours ago, villa89 said: But the ball is pink, its a cross between white and red so everything is balanced.... aledgely.. TBH its a farce. Day night is not the way to save test cricket. Give meaning to the matches, have a knockout test cricket world cup or something like that. Random test matches every now and then mean nothing. They have the test championship now so they do all count toward something. Whether it means anything or not is another question, NZ are the current (and inaugural) Test Champions. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blandy Posted February 19, 2023 Moderator Share Posted February 19, 2023 15 hours ago, villa89 said: Day night is not the way to save test cricket Well, no. Not on its own, but in hot countries it's a crowd puller. Anything that gets more people in to matches is good for the survival of Test cricket. The problem is, as you allude to, the ball hooping all over the place in the twilight and night parts, and doing now't in the daytime - so it rigs the game towards teams bowling in those periods. Which makes NZ's decision to bowl first baffling, particularly given they pretty much know England would go after the ball as soon as they were put in, (try) and get 300+ fast, and then declare and have a bowl. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xela Posted February 19, 2023 Share Posted February 19, 2023 Crawley is still shit. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blandy Posted February 19, 2023 Moderator Share Posted February 19, 2023 11 minutes ago, Xela said: Crawley is still shit. Famine or feast with him. It would help if he could catch, too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest av1 Posted February 19, 2023 Share Posted February 19, 2023 I don’t really have any alternative to offer, but I’ve always wondered if a simple toss of a coin is the best way to decide who bats/fields first given its importance to most test matches. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sharkyvilla Posted February 19, 2023 Share Posted February 19, 2023 12 minutes ago, av1 said: I don’t really have any alternative to offer, but I’ve always wondered if a simple toss of a coin is the best way to decide who bats/fields first given its importance to most test matches. It's been suggested that the away team should get the choice to bat or bowl first, that way if a groundsman produces a pitch that favours the home team then at least the away team can try and get the best of the conditions possible. I think they may have trialled it in county cricket but it never really took off. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest av1 Posted February 19, 2023 Share Posted February 19, 2023 1 minute ago, sharkyvilla said: It's been suggested that the away team should get the choice to bat or bowl first, that way if a groundsman produces a pitch that favours the home team then at least the away team can try and get the best of the conditions possible. I think they may have trialled it in county cricket but it never really took off. Just thinking about it, how about simply alternating over a series? One team gets to choose in test 1, the other in test 2 etc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post theunderstudy Posted February 20, 2023 Popular Post Share Posted February 20, 2023 Jimmy Anderson is an all-time cricketing great. McGrath and Marshall were more threatening, Steyn burned brighter... but Jimmy has been relentingly consistently excellent and has somehow got more effective as time has gone on. The fact he is approaching Warne's total and could maybe get to Murali's (although unlikely) is absolutely staggering when most pacers can't hack it after being about 32. We are lucky to get to watch him. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OutByEaster? Posted February 23, 2023 Moderator Share Posted February 23, 2023 Not the best start. 21-2 and a couple of others reviewed - I must admit I thought Root was plumb - he was a lot more sure he was not out than I was! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OutByEaster? Posted February 23, 2023 Moderator Share Posted February 23, 2023 21-3 Trouble. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
choffer Posted February 24, 2023 VT Supporter Share Posted February 24, 2023 1 hour ago, OutByEaster? said: 21-3 Trouble. Looking slightly more promising now but I’ll have to check the score when I wake up. Watching test matches was so much easier when I was actually in NZ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rodders Posted February 24, 2023 Share Posted February 24, 2023 313/3 wow. Brook is such a good player. Pleased for Root too Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post OutByEaster? Posted February 24, 2023 Moderator Popular Post Share Posted February 24, 2023 Erm...I meant trouble for the Kiwis. 1 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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