Should We Have Declared Earlier?

[paco]

The advance of one dayers and recent trend of result oriented aggressive test matches, as steve waugh said very eloquently the other day, may make one forget that test cricket has produced many many enthralling draws.

Indeed - in my opinion, this was as enthralling as they come - from being in a perilous position of 94-6, we were able to bat out almost the entire day (who knows, even Tarek might've gotten a century if we kept batting on).

Absolutely nothing wrong with this draw.

[mafizraju]

We have to remember one thing that is no team including west indies will ever give up when they have a chance to win. So declaring at a stage when west indies needed 260 to win from 50 overs might have been given us a very exciting game. But the problem is we still dont have either the mental power or firepower to take all the west indian wickets in 50 overs when west indies already have got the smell of victory. So I would say have couple of more draws, let these guys to adjust with the mental pressure of the final day of test and then I guess we will be able to play little more agressevly.