if you come in, second test,...ball darting around you from the pitch, the clouds overhead making the ball dance above ground, through the air, things tight and wickets down....and before you hit a ball you have to mek sure it will be there when your bat arrives at the projected point of contact... you have to be careful, very careful indeed.BallOil wrote:What about occupation of the crease..? After all this is test cricket.. Shiv came in the 33rd overs and went in the 78th. in that period, Shiv faced 145 balls (24.1 overs) from 45 overs... If Shiv didn't hold an end West Indies would have collapsed already ..right?
but when you come in like last night when the skys are clear, the bowling unfocused, no tricks from weather nor pitch, and wickets up and runs on the board, what you going to do?
if you wont attack in those condtions when the hell will you attack?
if you dont attack in those conditions you are actually keeping that attack in the game not so...an attack with a couple of bowlers who have already proven if they run into focus they could be unplayable ..what are you going to do...give them that chance?
well...that is what shive gave them last night!
I give sknash a kudo for his attacking approach. he clearly understood the conditons of the ground, weather and state of the match and played the right game.
no matter what the state of the damm game shive plays the same way. no wonder they call him selfish-paul!
look here nuh. if you spend 3 hours at the crease and come out with 50 runs, in those conditions, leaving the score still under 300 and only tailenders to come what does your occupation of the crease mean?
absolutely nothing positive thats what!
beat the damm ball man!, when the ball is there to be beaten.
imagine if it was sangy what would have happened to westindies bowling. and after he had scored plenty and very quickly, westindies would really have been up against it.
westindies can still lose this match. if Mendis cleans up the tail toninght and westindies just make around 3 hundered, over or under...and lanka races off to a big lead it would take less than a day to run through the westindies second time...on a fifth day wicket with the bowlers focused and looking for a win
the lankans know this. they are convinced that after the first 4-5 westindies is strictly tail so sit back and watch how little shives fifty and occupation can or may mean in the scheme of things .
in these conditions shive shud have beaten the ball. it was not shrewed or tactical at all that he did not even try
