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What are the possible reasons for Multan Sultans' failure in PSL X?
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This is an ODI comparison thread. All stats exclude minnows (Canada, Kenya, Ireland, Namibia, Bangladesh, Netherlands, Zimbabwe etc). Steve Waugh, Sehwag, Mark Waugh and Gilchrist were originally in this post, but I deleted them because their numbers werent good enough. I'm still calculating Bevan's stats minus not-outs.
Some startling revelations in ACSU report as posted by Lalit Modi about BPL - raises some worrying issues.
Discuss!
It's an interesting hypothetical to raise.
The declaration was quite clearly delayed to give Ballance an opportunity to score a century.
And England ended up drawing the match due to a lack of time with only one last wicket to take.
I can recall in the last Ashes series, Clarke declaring overnight on Warner and telling Cook only 15 minutes before the start of play which disrupted the English preparation and Cook was out very quickly.
On the other hand Atherton once declared on Hick when Hick was 98* or 99* in an Ashes test.
Ballance of course is playing his second test and had never scored a test century and was not secure in the team whilst Warner has scored test centuries and indeed had already scored a century in the previous test.
It's a very difficult ballance between the team need and player management. Declaring on Ballance could have destroyed not only Ballance's confidence but team moral
so what are your thoughts on the matter?
Dale Steyn is almost 31 years old, he has played 72 matches and has taken 362 wickets 362. At this rate he will hit 500 at the end of 100 test matches SAF likely to play 25-28 test matches in the 3 years.
James Anderson is almost 32 and has played 93 matches and taken 350 wickets. At this rate he will end up with 480 after 120 tests ENG will likely to play 30 test matches in the next 3 years
Discuss!
Today we've seen a Test match drawn that if England had got through their overs quicker they would have ended up winning.
Time and again we see fielding sides dawdling through their overs, oblivious to the over rate and seemingly not bothered about the paying public.
Again and again 90 overs aren't bowled in a day's play.
What can the ICC do about this?
So that last session (which is around equivalent in length to a football match) of the England vs Sri Lanka Test match was much more exciting than any football match in my opinion the 2014 World Cup has had to offer so far.
One of the best test match finishes certainly over the last couple of years.