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Perfect to see us in to the footy season then. Finish this test and go straight into Rnd 1
Border Gavaskar Trophy, India v Australia, 4th Test 9-13 March, 1430hrs at Ahmedabad
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Nobody would torture themselves for that long.
What are you doing Step-Granny
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That pitch saw 24 wickets in 5 days. This one is currently sitting at 21 wickets (including one run-out, so 20 wickets to the bowlers).
MCG Pitch Receives Worst Ever Rating From ICC
"Such a rating is extremely disappointing," Cricket Australia chief executive James Sutherland said.
longest Test match in 1939..
CLOSE OF PLAY
Fri, 03 Mar - day 1 - South Africa 1st innings 229/2 (Pieter van der Bijl 105*, Bruce Mitchell 4*)
Sat, 04 Mar - day 2 - South Africa 1st innings 423/6 (Dudley Nourse 77*, Ronnie Grieveson 26*)
Sun, 05 Mar - rest day
Mon, 06 Mar - day 3 - England 1st innings 35/1 (Leonard Hutton 24*, Eddie Paynter 6*)
Tue, 07 Mar - day 4 - England 1st innings 268/7 (Les Ames 82*, Doug Wright 5*)
Wed, 08 Mar - day 5 - South Africa 2nd innings 193/3 (Dudley Nourse 1*, Ken Viljoen 1*)
Thu, 09 Mar - day 6 - England 2nd innings 0/0 (Leonard Hutton 0*, Paul Gibb 0*)
Fri, 10 Mar - day 7 - England 2nd innings 253/1 (Paul Gibb 78*, Bill Edrich 107*)
Sat, 11 Mar - day 8 - no play
Sun, 12 Mar - rest day
Mon, 13 Mar - day 9 - England 2nd innings 496/3 (Wally Hammond 58*, Eddie Paynter 24*)
Tue, 14 Mar - day 10 - England 2nd innings 654/5 (218.2 ov) - end of match
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History
There were 99 timeless Tests between 1877 and 1939.[1]Until World War II all Tests in Australia were timeless.[2] Only two of these matches were drawn, both against England in 1882, when the matches had to be left unfinished owing to shipping schedules.[3] Pitches were left uncovered during matches, and in the Australian climate the well-watered prepared pitches would dry out and crack and crumble as the match progressed, usually making batting more difficult by the fourth or fifth day.[4] The longest Test match in Australia was the Fifth Test between Australia and England in Melbourne in 1929, which lasted for eight playing days. Australia won by five wickets in front of an eighth-day crowd of 20,000.[5][6][7]
The ninth match of the 1912 Triangular Tournament, between England and Australia, was the first timeless Test to be played in England.[8] Some series outside Australia had the final Test changed to a timeless Test if the series result depended on the outcome of the match. This is what happened in Kingston in 1930, when the Fourth (and final) Test between West Indies and England lasted for seven playing days and had to be abandoned owing to shipping schedules, and at The Oval in 1938, when England batted for the first two and a half days of the Fifth Test and made 903 for 7 before declaring and dismissing Australia twice by the end of the fourth day,[9][10][11] and in Durban in 1938-39.
The first timeless Test in South Africa was held in Durban in February 1923, when the series between England and South Africa was undecided after four matches. England won early on the sixth day of play. The start of one day's play was delayed while groundstaff removed frogs from the coconut matting.[12]
The last timeless Test was the Fifth Test between England and South Africa at Durban in 1939,[13] which was abandoned as a draw after nine days of play spread over twelve days, otherwise the England team would have missed the boat for home.[14] This match had started on 3 March. South Africa had set a target of 696 for England to win. By the time England had to leave to catch their boat home, on 14 March, England had reached 654 for 5 (the highest ever first-class fourth innings score).[15] This is the longest Test cricket match on record. The match had not been expected to take more than five days, but rain and rolling rejuvenated the pitch three times during the match, and it was still in good condition for batting when the match was abandoned.[16]
The ICC was considering implementing a timeless Test for the final of the ICC World Test Championship.[17]
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Imagine Haydos calling on Day 10
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**** no.
Kuhnemann would have been not out if he reviewed?
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England only had 40 odd runs to go to win, but famously the match had to be declared a draw because England had to leave to catch the boat back home.
I would have slit my throat by day 8 if had to listen to Haydos for that long
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Stay your hand FF1978
Yes but we didn't want to waste a review on a #11
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Gill is bowling now.
Makes sense
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Apart from the obvious problems with pitches being produced 'on spec' from the home team/board, a main side effect is that the decks will always tend towards extreme or one dimensional conditions.
Once you remove the autonomy of the curator, they can't afford to take any risks with the pitch shifting or evolving unpredictably over the 5 days lest they fail to meet the expectations of their overlords.
Once you remove the autonomy of the curator, they can't afford to take any risks with the pitch shifting or evolving unpredictably over the 5 days lest they fail to meet the expectations of their overlords.
If Australia can make 12/665 in India it's a bad wicket.
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If were 12 down its bad umpiring
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