I don’t think I can recall when a side has declared on day one of a test match. I understand why they have done it and hope it works out!
Day/Night tests are weird. I find it hard to see why you'd want to introduce something which makes the conditions both teams face so very different.
Quote from: Risso on February 16, 2023, 10:16:06 AMDay/Night tests are weird. I find it hard to see why you'd want to introduce something which makes the conditions both teams face so very different.I don't think the players are big fans of it either. I suppose the idea is you can get more people tuning in to watch after work, but it's not a true sporting contest if the result hinges on what time of day you have to bat.
Surprised Broad was sent out as a night watchman, he tends to give his wicket away quite cheaply.
Broad isn't a nightwatchman. He's the mystical nighthawk who goes out to play shots at the end of the day, although he did employ some standard time wasting tactics to get them to close of play.
Broad has done half of the job. Part 2 is to survive 6-7 overs in the morning.The reason he gets the nod over Jimmy though is that we don't want the run rate to drop too heavily. The whole point of how we play now is to apply scoreboard pressure by going at 5-6 an over so we force teams to always be trying to take wickets because if they drop off we just stack runs quickly.Broad isn't a great batsman anymore (for reasons VfL covered) but this is a guy who has scored 13 50s at international level so he's definitely capable of hanging around for 10-12 overs and scoring at a decent lick when there's not really any pressure on him losing his wicket.
Quote from: paul_e on February 17, 2023, 10:21:16 AMBroad has done half of the job. Part 2 is to survive 6-7 overs in the morning.The reason he gets the nod over Jimmy though is that we don't want the run rate to drop too heavily. The whole point of how we play now is to apply scoreboard pressure by going at 5-6 an over so we force teams to always be trying to take wickets because if they drop off we just stack runs quickly.Broad isn't a great batsman anymore (for reasons VfL covered) but this is a guy who has scored 13 50s at international level so he's definitely capable of hanging around for 10-12 overs and scoring at a decent lick when there's not really any pressure on him losing his wicket.IIRC he was looking almost like a genuine all rounder early on, then caught a whack and seemed to really struggle after that for a long while