A strategy for Pakistan's Pink Ball First Test at Brisbane

[On_the_up]

Pakistan never conform to any script anyway.

Normality will be resumed for next year's ashes day/nighter.

 

[Junaids]

In the final session, with 8 extra overs and a new ball and tail enders to bowl at, Pakistan still scored a mammoth 3/179. I think we can consider this 'batting under lights = disaster" theory thoroughly debunked by the events of tonight as well as on the first day where Australia didn't lose a wicket in the night session.

Sorry, but WHAT?

Nobody said "batting under lights = disaster".

Go back to my first post.

I wrote that the first hour of increasing darkness is hard, then it gets easier.

On Day 2 Pakistan lost five wickets in that FIRST hour of darkness, then Sarfraz and Amir survived the final hour.

The difference on Day 4 is that because of the rain storms, Dinner was moved back an hour from the usual 1720-1800 to 1820-1900.

That meant that 40 minutes of the difficult hour did not exist - the players were at Dinner.

So instead of the usual evening ratio of 60 minutes difficult conditions to 60 minutes easy, on Day 5 Pakistan got 20 minutes difficult to 150 minutes easy.