whufc wrote:So how could we realistically look at winning the test...…..
If we bat well enough today we could realistically get to say 4/490 by tea (1/110 each session).
Start to go a bit quicker after tea and score say 3/150 finish day 4 at 7/640 a lead of 170.
Maybe get a quick fire 30 runs on the morning of day 5 and declare with a lead of 200 and hope the pitch has turned into a minefield.
Watch us get bowled out for 350 now.
This is where having a bowling skipper can retard us, not that there is a realistic chance at all for an outright.
It would be pretty deflating for him to keep running in and getting nothing out of the pitch, he'd lose faith in himself and the bowling group to be able to bowl them out for bugger all.
I doubt that they'll get through two full days anyway without pulling up stumps early for bad light, we have the trophy so the pressure is on Pakistan to take it from us, we may aswell see if Marnus or Smith can get a triple.