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Its Summer! - the Fever Cricket Thread. (Part 2)

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Posted June 11, 2014 04:56 · last edited March 18, 2021 07:29

hlmphil wrote:

4/91 is not a bad return on debut for Craig. Making me eat my words about him a little bit.

Interesting call again not to enforce the follow on. With two spinners on a flat pitch I would have done it personally.

I think that on this pitch it was the right call. It is already taking a lot of turn, we have two spinners making the most of it, and we have a propensity to cock up badly in our second innings. I'd rather not risk having to chase, especially if batting is going to get harder. It's not like the last couple of summers here where the pitches have been basically the same on day five as on day one. The way things are set up we can look to be fairly positive, put on 150 and challenge them to get 400 on a turning pitch with increasingly variable bounce.

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hlmphil wrote:

4/91 is not a bad return on debut for Craig. Making me eat my words about him a little bit.

Interesting call again not to enforce the follow on. With two spinners on a flat pitch I would have done it personally.

I think that on this pitch it was the right call. It is already taking a lot of turn, we have two spinners making the most of it, and we have a propensity to cock up badly in our second innings. I'd rather not risk having to chase, especially if batting is going to get harder. It's not like the last couple of summers here where the pitches have been basically the same on day five as on day one. The way things are set up we can look to be fairly positive, put on 150 and challenge them to get 400 on a turning pitch with increasingly variable bounce.