by Durhamfootman » Sun Apr 14, 2024 7:42 pm
It occurs to me that, even without the daft decision at the toss, we might still be in this situation heading onto day 4
Had we batted first and had we even batted nearly as well as Warks, we probably wouldn't have kept going until we reached 700. I reckon if we'd got to the end of day one just shy of 500 we'd have declared either very early on day 2 or maybe even late on day one. They could easily have scored 700 anyway and we'd still be going into the final day 150 behind and 2 down
and you'll notice that we stuck with our attack throughout and only brought on a 6th bowler after about 60 overs, despite conceding nearly 6 an over, whereas Warks bowled us out by employing 9 bowlers, 7 of whom took wickets
So what I'm saying is the toss probably hasn't completely changed the match situation.... we've just been comprehensively out played and out thought
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