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Message: [QUOTE="BroncsFan, post: 3341439, member: 9052"] I'm thinking that is along the lines of thinking that if an ODI team can score 350-400 runs in 50 overs than why does it matter if you try and graft out the same score over 2 days?? If that is the case then I would say that in test cricket you need that score for two straight innings to be successful in a single match, which could be very rare... but maybe in some tests getting that score in 1 innings is enough. The other issue to me would be that test cricket field placements are completely different to ODI field placements... and I know that's not what you're suggesting, but I think test cricket is just a completely different beast. To me the intent of test cricket is to take 20 wickets... the intent of limited overs games is to limit runs. In test cricket they will figure out what gets you out and stack the field and bowl the lines to do it.... Steve Smith knows that 2 slips, a gully, a leg slip, short leg, long square leg & deep fine leg means that the ball is coming at his rib cage. He could try to hook it for 6 every ball, but one of them is going to have his name on it and he would end up becoming a walking wicket with a 20 avg. On the flip side of all that is the Dave Warner / Sehwag type player who can be ultra aggressive against the opponent's aggressive fields and still be successful... which I think is along the lines of what you're suggesting ie. stack the team with 5-6 aggresive Warner style players... but those players are rare and teams will be happy to concede 20-30 runs if you're going to give them multiple chances every innings, because at the end of the day test cricket is about getting 20 wickets. England already have Bairstow and Buttler in the batting lineup, and Malan (a previous no. 1 T20 batsmen)... and I believe they've had Vince and Roy in their teams as well... so they've kind of already tried that path, although perhaps they havent said go out there with a license to score however you want as long as it's keeping the game moving forward. I guess an example of a team that have been given that license as a collective is the Brisbane Heat who fail far far more than they succeed and also make losing winnable games an art form [/QUOTE]

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