Commentators talking about scores on this pitch and they think 300 would be a very good score. Sounds about right to me, this doesn't look like a big scoring pitch, there's been lots of movement and and the footholes already look big after less than 70 overs. Anderson and Ali will both be looking forward to bowling on this.
Quote from: paul_e on July 28, 2017, 11:56:53 AMCommentators talking about scores on this pitch and they think 300 would be a very good score. Sounds about right to me, this doesn't look like a big scoring pitch, there's been lots of movement and and the footholes already look big after less than 70 overs. Anderson and Ali will both be looking forward to bowling on this.Reading the BBC coverage, the general consensus is that the pitch is becoming a bit easier to bat on. Sounds obvious, but I think we need to squeeze as many first innings runs as possible. Going to come down to Stokes and Ali to do it, as I can't really see the remainder of the side adding too many.
It will be a difficult 20 minutes or so before tea for the South African batsmen. Hopefully we can eke a couple of them out.
If we haven't taken 4-5 by the close then our bowlers will have failed in my opinion, there's plenty to work with here.