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SPR Feb 2024 3:58pm, 4 Feb 2024 43,571 posts	Quote Pin SPR I don't think playing overly defensively is the way to go. Keep an aggressive mentality but don't play reckless/ premeditated shots.
Cerrertonia Feb 2024 4:19pm, 4 Feb 2024 20,509 posts	Quote Pin Cerrertonia This game from 2022 has England beating India from a similar situation. espncricinfo.com
jda Feb 2024 4:27pm, 4 Feb 2024 16,388 posts	Quote Pin jda Yes with this team it’s a small chance but still a chance. 5/1 sounds about right, they’ve pulled off a lot of startling results in recent years. Thinking back to my childhood, you’d expect it to be all over by lunch or thereabouts. It still might be of course.
SPR Feb 2024 5:35pm, 4 Feb 2024 43,572 posts	Quote Pin SPR Would definitely be a bigger result to achieve in India.
rf_fozzy Feb 2024 5:38pm, 4 Feb 2024 21,504 posts	Quote Pin rf_fozzy As clearly outstanding as that Birmingham result was, there's a difference between trying to score nearly 400 on an Edgbaston pitch that's likely to have become flatter over the test and in India on a pitch that's going to break up tomorrow and is providing spin and bounce. I predict all over by mid-afternoon. India to win by 150runs.
Oscar the Grouch Feb 2024 9:22pm, 4 Feb 2024 7,199 posts	Quote Pin Oscar the Grouch I agree.
Oscar the Grouch Feb 2024 9:26pm, 4 Feb 2024 7,200 posts	Quote Pin Oscar the Grouch Athers 185* over nearly 11 hours was the one that sprang to mind. But still not two whole days.
rf_fozzy Feb 2024 9:30pm, 4 Feb 2024 21,507 posts	Quote Pin rf_fozzy Thing is that if they'd just bat normally at ~3 rpo and didn't try to score from every ball, you'd get to 400 in 4 sessions.
rf_fozzy Feb 2024 9:35pm, 4 Feb 2024 21,508 posts	Quote Pin rf_fozzy You can bat positively without trying to smash every ball to the boundary.
rf_fozzy Feb 2024 9:36pm, 4 Feb 2024 21,509 posts	Quote Pin rf_fozzy But it's not the bazball way...