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Message: [QUOTE="BroncsFan, post: 3343858, member: 9052"] To me the only real issue with that period of play was the speed / intent that Uzzie and Green were batting with straight after tea. They were either always batting to a time or batting to a score, but I think the captain and coach could've given them a nudge to start teeing off a bit earlier. Straight after tea I think they were still tapping it around for singles or playing somewhat conservatively... but the lead was only about 270 at that point and as a bare minimum they would've wanted 350 before declaring... so still needing 80 or so runs. It just took them a while to inch closer to that mark... and when they got there Uzzie wasnt far off his 100. I dont think Clarke would've declared at that point, at best he might've sent a message to show some urgency The question would then become do you go recklessly for the 350 run lead and hope the batting holds up.... But if you fall short then you are leaving the door ajar for England. They did draw their way to 270 runs in the end... so a score closer to 300 or 350 and more time on the clock to chase it down might've been dangerous with Stokes, Bairstow, etc.... also largely unnecessary to give your opponent a chance to chase something down in a dead rubber that has WTC points on the line. I'd say another 5 overs and we win that game so I dont think the declaration was all that far off... but I think they could've given Uzzie and Green the hurry along once we got over 300 or 320 and look to declare that little bit earlier. In the end we were always only getting 3 to 3.5 sessions to bowl them out... pretty tough ask on a pitch that was giving nothing and in reality we would've only needed 4 sessions to win it. [/QUOTE]

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