Quote from: panju1 on December 02, 2017, 06:36:47 PM

Quote from: katarin2030 on December 02, 2017, 01:48:32 PM

Both England and Australia shared the 1st day of 2nd test match played at Beautiful Adelaide oval, tomorrow an exciting day ahead, if Australia scores more than 400, then England might find difficult to score as much as scored by Australia

Australia are 209/4 and the match is interestingly poised. I think the problem for England is that when you elect to bowl first, you expect to take quick wickets. The pitch didn't favour the bowlers that much and the call taken by Root to bowl first does seem to be a bit of a gamble. If England manage to get Australia for under 350, I think Root may escape being criticized for not batting first.

I think on the first day Australia take an advantage because when a team wins the toss and elects to bowl first they need to take quick wickets which England were not able to do and to be honest did get lucky after the rain delay with a run out. That kind of sparked them up and they did bowl a bit better getting Warner out. They also got Steve Smith in the night session where batting is difficult but I think Australia played well and I put them in front right now. The key to England getting Australia out for under 400 is to take quick wickets in the 1st session and for Australia to get to at least 350+ the key man is Marsh as he is the most experienced out of the 2 batsman at the crease. If he goes onto making a century then it could be tough for England as they will most likely be batting in the night session where like I said batting is tough and even tougher with a new ball.