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Originally posted by Jon
I don't understand cricket, but has i see it. We played 6 men and then declared. The Ozzies played the full monty |
Because Vaughan decided he had enough runs on board to defend and had enough time left in the match to bowl us out.
He didn't need to use more batsman - it's a positive.
I would have preferred that we got where we did without using more batsmen. If we got to say 300 runs this innings, and were chasing 130 odd runs with around 10-13 overs to go they could afford to have a dash at it because there were wickets in hand if they got out.
England kept the pressure on by taking wickets regularly throughout the day and stopped Aus from launching that final assault at the end. Even so, you could see that Ponting was thinking of winning at a couple of stages in his innings but after he lost Warne he decided that it was gone and that a draw was the best possible result.
It was a great game.
[Edited on 15-8-2005 by TP]
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