Not sure why the girls do not get to play 5 day tests, it doesn't make sense to play 4 days and still require a team to take 20 wickets to get a win.
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As an aside, there is a suggestion floating around that for all test cricket (men and women) test innings should be limited in length, like capped at 120 overs or some other arbitrary value.
I do not agree. I can understand how the cap works at the start of a test, it helps sets up the test for a result, but I can't see it being a valid result in the last hours of day 5 if they get to some arbitrary over limit, perhaps one teams needs a wicket or a handful of runs, and they walk off for a draw!
What if only a the 1st innings was subject to an over cap, no test is decided on 1st innings anyway?
The for argument is that in some respects this has already partially happened, when we changed from 8 to 6 ball overs there was already a reduction in the number of balls bowled in a day with more changeovers consuming time, and time is balls bowled.
There are quite a few other suggestions floating around in the cricket sphere, I'd like to see some trialled in a 3-test series somewhere before they are globally applied to something like The Ashes.
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As an aside, there is a suggestion floating around that for all test cricket (men and women) test innings should be limited in length, like capped at 120 overs or some other arbitrary value.
I do not agree. I can understand how the cap works at the start of a test, it helps sets up the test for a result, but I can't see it being a valid result in the last hours of day 5 if they get to some arbitrary over limit, perhaps one teams needs a wicket or a handful of runs, and they walk off for a draw!
What if only a the 1st innings was subject to an over cap, no test is decided on 1st innings anyway?
The for argument is that in some respects this has already partially happened, when we changed from 8 to 6 ball overs there was already a reduction in the number of balls bowled in a day with more changeovers consuming time, and time is balls bowled.
There are quite a few other suggestions floating around in the cricket sphere, I'd like to see some trialled in a 3-test series somewhere before they are globally applied to something like The Ashes.
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