Wheels wrote:Bat as long as we can on Day 4 with the light being offered unusually early?
Shouldn't we be putting them in 20 minutes before lunch (hopefully with a lead of around 200...) if we need to bat last?
You think England could have scored 160 runs before lunch and have 20 mins to bowl at SA?!!
We should look to bat at least until lunch and probably an hour afterwards. We need time to bowl out SA but we also need the runs. This morning started slowly but Prior and Bell have now got going. Prior just gone for fifty odd and Bell is in his nineties. Personally I would bring in Swann now and have a real tilt, the lead is 134. If we can get to 250 lead by an hour after lunch then I would declare. The pitch suggest is will be a draw as it is not really misbehaving, Swann is the key. A couple of wickets with the new ball and then Swann getting some turn is what we need. The pressure of saving a Test match is also in England's favour. I still fancy a draw.
