(03-14-2022, 11:12 AM)Mav date Wrote:WTF? All out for 148 and 408 runs behind and Cummins won't enforce the follow-on ...I'd bat again, just to freshen up the bowlers there is still two days and another test to go.
None of our bowlers have raised a sweat. Why bat again?
I do think Cummins made a mistake, but it wasn't batting again.
The Pakistanis used the light roller prior to batting, that would have been to preserve the wicket assuming they could mount a defence over the remaining three days, they have local knowledge.
Cummins should have bat again just to use the heavy roller on the wicket, make it break up and deteriorate faster, give the Aussies only a handful of overs to bat out of the two remaining days. If the heavy roller was the right one to settle down the wicket the Pakistanis would have used it already and they didn't! Then after using the heavy roller I'd bat 15 or 20 overs and then declare to get 4 or 5 overs at them tonight.
"Ruck, ruck, ruck, ruck ....... Ruck, ruck, ruck, ruck"