Quote from: Chris Jameson on August 29, 2017, 06:11:48 PMAnd yet I've just heard Michael Atherton and Michael Holding saying what a good declaration it was and no blame should be attached there.Nobody on here ever seems happy with the timing of the declaration!Yes, there seems a lot of opinion on the BBC feed that Root did the right thing and well done the Windies for chasing it down.I wonder if the opinion would be the same had it been Australia in the Ashes instead of the plucky little Windies...
And yet I've just heard Michael Atherton and Michael Holding saying what a good declaration it was and no blame should be attached there.Nobody on here ever seems happy with the timing of the declaration!
Quote from: Ad@m on August 29, 2017, 06:22:39 PMQuote from: Chris Jameson on August 29, 2017, 06:11:48 PMAnd yet I've just heard Michael Atherton and Michael Holding saying what a good declaration it was and no blame should be attached there.Nobody on here ever seems happy with the timing of the declaration!Yes, there seems a lot of opinion on the BBC feed that Root did the right thing and well done the Windies for chasing it down.I wonder if the opinion would be the same had it been Australia in the Ashes instead of the plucky little Windies...Pretty sure he wouldn't have declared if it was against the Aussies. The declaration was presumably linked to the fact they have barely won a game for ages and that they had been rolled over twice recently for not very many by England.Hats off to the West Indies - a great game of (proper) cricket.
There's nothing wrong with deploying difficult tactics against different opponents. Had we been one up in a series against the Aussies, we probably wouldn't have declared. It doesn't mean it was the incorrect decision on this occasion.
Quote from: aev on August 30, 2017, 08:49:36 AMQuote from: Ad@m on August 29, 2017, 06:22:39 PMQuote from: Chris Jameson on August 29, 2017, 06:11:48 PMAnd yet I've just heard Michael Atherton and Michael Holding saying what a good declaration it was and no blame should be attached there.Nobody on here ever seems happy with the timing of the declaration!Yes, there seems a lot of opinion on the BBC feed that Root did the right thing and well done the Windies for chasing it down.I wonder if the opinion would be the same had it been Australia in the Ashes instead of the plucky little Windies...Pretty sure he wouldn't have declared if it was against the Aussies. The declaration was presumably linked to the fact they have barely won a game for ages and that they had been rolled over twice recently for not very many by England.Hats off to the West Indies - a great game of (proper) cricket. Precisely my point. It was the cricketing equivalent of sending the reserves out in a cup game against lower league opposition and losing 3-0.
Quote from: Ad@m on August 30, 2017, 08:53:10 AMQuote from: aev on August 30, 2017, 08:49:36 AMQuote from: Ad@m on August 29, 2017, 06:22:39 PMQuote from: Chris Jameson on August 29, 2017, 06:11:48 PMAnd yet I've just heard Michael Atherton and Michael Holding saying what a good declaration it was and no blame should be attached there.Nobody on here ever seems happy with the timing of the declaration!Yes, there seems a lot of opinion on the BBC feed that Root did the right thing and well done the Windies for chasing it down.I wonder if the opinion would be the same had it been Australia in the Ashes instead of the plucky little Windies...Pretty sure he wouldn't have declared if it was against the Aussies. The declaration was presumably linked to the fact they have barely won a game for ages and that they had been rolled over twice recently for not very many by England.Hats off to the West Indies - a great game of (proper) cricket. Precisely my point. It was the cricketing equivalent of sending the reserves out in a cup game against lower league opposition and losing 3-0.No it wasn't.
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