Originally Posted by delmbox
I know exactly where you are coming from and to many the game seems ludicrous.
A game that goes on for 5 days and ends in a draw.
Test match cricket though is the best form of cricket and although many games can be pretty boring affairs in terms of dot balls, few boundaries or not getting a result, there is always something that will have you sat in your chair watching it for hours.
Take Steve Smith. Rightly booed IMO every time he touches the ball for doing the worst act possible in cricket, blatant cheating. Not just bending the rules a bit, the worst cardinal sin possible.
Blatant cheating at cricket. It's just not done.
Yet the man is head and shoulders the best batsman around and carried his country to victory single handedly in the first test.
You have to admire the man's ability, thick skin and self belief.
This test will be remembered, maybe not for the drama of Botham's Headingly test innings in 81 or Bob Willie's scintillating spell in the same match, but considering it was rain spoiled for 2 days, this one was very nearly as dramatic.
Had Roy taken the relatively simple slip catch of Stokes TOBW mentioned, it would have been up there with it no question.
At the start of the day, a draw was probably the best that many England players and fans could hope for but then in comes someone, Stokes (again not many people's favourite person), who turns the game on its head with a cavalier innings and England go very close to squaring the series.
Test match cricket, particularly England v Australia. You just can't beat it
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