Pom gives IPL opener massive send-off after getting sweet revenge for first-ball four
After Rajasthan opener Yashasvi Jaiswal hit a boundary off the first ball, the Punjab player got revenge a few balls later - and ultimately…
While listening to the Australians playing South Africa in the first test, I noticed Sarwan made 291 and West Indies 9/749. This was only a couple days after Younis Khanmade 316 for Pakistan against Sri Lanka and Pakistan 6/765.
I looked up on Cricinfo and found that the rate at which sides scored more than 700 runs prior to the year 2000 was eight innings out of 5349. Since 2000, there have already been eight such innings out of 1573.
So the rate has more than tripled.
Also, this decade has produced the highest ratio of test triple centuries.
Prior to first test between Pakistan and Sri Lanka in Karachi, only one Test match in history had both sides scoring over 600 in an innings. It was an Ashes Test in 1964 (which ended in a draw). Now, with the Karachi Test (draw) and the Barbados Test, that total is at three.
If Test cricket is going to continue to produce these high scoring matches, there will come a time when a side will just bat all five days. And with these lifeless wickets, the great Test batsmen will average more than 70, not 50, which is considered the benchmark of greatness.
I wonder what Bradman would think if he was still alive.
It’s time for the ICC to step in, otherwise the history of Test cricket will be destroyed.
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