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can someone ELI5 to me why what england are doing is wrong and bad
Its a trade off, we have to take 10 Indian wickets to win the game.
On the other hand India have to score more than (currently) 387. There are 3.x sessions left (x is around 8).
4 sessions is more often than not sufficient to bowl a team out in their last innings, 100 runs per session is not an unobtainable amount of runs
Its a balancing act. But also the longer a test match goes, in general the harder it is to score, given the deterioration of the pitch. If we declare now we should win, but Bangladesh thought exactly the same 2 days ago and came unstuck!
Btw I have Scottish ancestors,and after time even I managed to understand cricket to some extent.
Sifta
can someone ELI5 to me why what england are doing is wrong and bad
I don't know anything about cricket I'm scottish. I'm just here to pad the terrestrial viewing figures ; )