Cricket - 2nd test

Who'd be a cricket coach at any other test side right now? They'll all be watching with interest. Is this going to be the new way to play test match cricket or will someone eventually find it out a bit?

You don't want to be too late to the party (like England and one day cricket) but hard to change, particularly if you're currently successful. In a way was easy for England to rip it up and start again, we were absolutely dire, particularly at batting and had nothing to lose.

Probably a lot of food for thought for Australia, good to sow a seed of doubt into their minds/preparation. Certainly not going to be anything like the challenge they were expecting 12 months ago!

I think this approach (or similar) will become the norm personally. Batting has evolved massively over the last decade, but seems test cricket is still catching onto that fact. There aren't many players like Alistair Cook around these days.
 
festa5 said:
Who'd be a cricket coach at any other test side right now? They'll all be watching with interest. Is this going to be the new way to play test match cricket or will someone eventually find it out a bit?

You don't want to be too late to the party (like England and one day cricket) but hard to change, particularly if you're currently successful. In a way was easy for England to rip it up and start again, we were absolutely dire, particularly at batting and had nothing to lose.

Probably a lot of food for thought for Australia, good to sow a seed of doubt into their minds/preparation. Certainly not going to be anything like the challenge they were expecting 12 months ago!

I think this approach (or similar) will become the norm personally. Batting has evolved massively over the last decade, but seems test cricket is still catching onto that fact. There aren't many players like Alistair Cook around these days.
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Mike Atherton interviewed Ramiz Raja discussing Pakistani cricket and the security of visiting nations. He goes on to discuss the test and said he mentioned to the selectors that England has T20 players in their lineup and Pakistan should do the same (8:30 on the link). He goes on to say no one wants to see boring 5 day games and if England's style is the future of test match cricket.

Someone on here mentioned if England could be the saviour of test cricket, continue like this and it will certainly bring the crowds back.

P.S. I love the test cricket format.


 
BigUnit said:
Just love watching us under Stokes.
8 test wins from 9 is incredible.
Fearless , exciting test Cricket.
Very similar to the Boro
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Tbf, under Wilder at the start of the season. We could have played for 5 days and still not looked like winning!
 
festa5 said:
Who'd be a cricket coach at any other test side right now? They'll all be watching with interest. Is this going to be the new way to play test match cricket or will someone eventually find it out a bit?

You don't want to be too late to the party (like England and one day cricket) but hard to change, particularly if you're currently successful. In a way was easy for England to rip it up and start again, we were absolutely dire, particularly at batting and had nothing to lose.

Probably a lot of food for thought for Australia, good to sow a seed of doubt into their minds/preparation. Certainly not going to be anything like the challenge they were expecting 12 months ago!

I think this approach (or similar) will become the norm personally. Batting has evolved massively over the last decade, but seems test cricket is still catching onto that fact. There aren't many players like Alistair Cook around these days.
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It's the way forward to keep Test cricket relevant, for both players and fans. Will be interesting to see how this works on our nemisis tours, which appear to be Australia and India.
 
Otto42 said:
It's the way forward to keep Test cricket relevant, for both players and fans. Will be interesting to see how this works on our nemisis tours, which appear to be Australia and India.
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Absolutely. And of course you can still beat it playing a more "traditional" test style, so would expect both those sides to just back themselves to stand up to it at this point.

The big advantage for England of course is we have some of the finest white ball batsmen in the world and it brings most of them into the equation as good options for the test side.
 
Norman_Conquest said:
Mike Atherton interviewed Ramiz Raja discussing Pakistani cricket and the security of visiting nations. He goes on to discuss the test and said he mentioned to the selectors that England has T20 players in their lineup and Pakistan should do the same (8:30 on the link). He goes on to say no one wants to see boring 5 day games and if England's style is the future of test match cricket.

Someone on here mentioned if England could be the saviour of test cricket, continue like this and it will certainly bring the crowds back.

P.S. I love the test cricket format.


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yeah, saw that & really interesting interview & hopefully - many nations - will decide attacking Test Cricket is the way to go... lots of stroke players in the team & attacking intent.
 
BobUpnDown said:
yeah, saw that & really interesting interview & hopefully - many nations - will decide attacking Test Cricket is the way to go... lots of stroke players in the team & attacking intent.
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Not many teams have the LOI batting stocks of England though, certainly not Pakistan. Their only hope is to play attritional cricket and take games into day 5.

Having said that, I'm not sure if bazball will work on seaming/swinging tracks. Pakistani pitches are generally flat as a pancake for the majority of the game so you can get away with it. But I can imagine some daddy collapses on SENA pitches.
 
I expected to get up and find they had knocked those runs off. Its a really good watch these days seeing our way of playing test cricket.
It's exciting and I hope other teams follow. You can get results even if plenty of time has been lost due to rain.
 
Zain said:
Not many teams have the LOI batting stocks of England though, certainly not Pakistan. Their only hope is to play attritional cricket and take games into day 5.

Having said that, I'm not sure if bazball will work on seaming/swinging tracks. Pakistani pitches are generally flat as a pancake for the majority of the game so you can get away with it. But I can imagine some daddy collapses on SENA pitches.
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to an extent I'd disagree.. look at England prior to Stokes (who I wouldn't have picked as Captain - only due to injury concerns & missing games through them) England were on a terrible run of losses, players couldn't score, bowling was limited & were were heading down, fast.

With pretty much the same players we've turned it around with a far more positive mentality & attitude to the game. I think a country like Pakistan where cricket is - so much more woven into the daily lives of the people - changing their attitude to an attacking philosophy.. esp at the academy & younger levels of the game could have a sudden & dramatic impact on their game... they have always had ability & depth of players is far more than most countries, they just need to bring them through..

Possibly the key thing would be how they would take defeat - if things don't go as they have for England. Would it be seen, wrongly IMHO: as a national failure [ it's just sport & about time people realised that ] or would they be allowed to entertain, learn & lose for the bigger & brighter future ahead??
 
No highlights anywhere on Terrestrial TV.
How do they think the game, especially the Test Format, will grow outside of wealthy Sky Subscribers if the wider public don't have access to it?
 
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