Your best bowler turns an ankle in warm up, the pitch is dead and slow due to the lack of sunlight during the preparation of the wicket and now your key bowler is your legspinner and you win the toss.
What do you do?
You BOWL?!?!
Bloody hell Mr Ponting what have you done…
We are lucky that the Poms did bat relatively poorly by throwing away wickets at a constant regularity. I really think they should have been 2/350 and not all out for 407 at stumps and by being all out in a day, the Poms have given Australia enough of a window to rescue this match by being able to bat themselves for the best part of two days and get a lead, but seriously, why did we bowl??
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I can only think Punter misread the pitch to be honest. I agree, if the surface was flat and not offering much, we should have gone out there bat in hand.
In fact, considering McGrath had been injured in the warm up, it should have been a certainty.
Maybe he wants to 'make a game of it'?
:)
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