sam_ahm
First Class Captain
- Joined
- Nov 11, 2012
- Runs
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I was thinking that it is very rare these days that you see a counter attacking knock in test cricket.
Many times in the past we used to see a team after 4 or 5 wickets down, could often counter attack and the game used to get interesting... These days it is almost same type of players that play tests. Anyone who is of attacking nature is termed as a T20 or LOI specialist.
Gilchrist, Andrew Flintoff, Chris Cairns, Lance Klusener, Andrew Symonds, Abdul Razzak, Shaun Pollock, Shahid Afridi, K Akmal, Many such players came lower down the order and changed the game.
Even some top order batsmen like Jayasuriya, Hayden, Gayle, Ponting, Peterson played fast paced innings. Remember Nathan Astle's fastest ever 200 against England?
I can only remember a few knocks, Ben Stokes in that 2019 Ashes test, Kusal Perera in that 1 wicket win over RSA (He didn't have an option) , Rishabh Pant recently in AUS, but otherwise, counter attacking is rare these days.
Many times in the past we used to see a team after 4 or 5 wickets down, could often counter attack and the game used to get interesting... These days it is almost same type of players that play tests. Anyone who is of attacking nature is termed as a T20 or LOI specialist.
Gilchrist, Andrew Flintoff, Chris Cairns, Lance Klusener, Andrew Symonds, Abdul Razzak, Shaun Pollock, Shahid Afridi, K Akmal, Many such players came lower down the order and changed the game.
Even some top order batsmen like Jayasuriya, Hayden, Gayle, Ponting, Peterson played fast paced innings. Remember Nathan Astle's fastest ever 200 against England?
I can only remember a few knocks, Ben Stokes in that 2019 Ashes test, Kusal Perera in that 1 wicket win over RSA (He didn't have an option) , Rishabh Pant recently in AUS, but otherwise, counter attacking is rare these days.