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RE: Cricket's Greatest Comebacks: Botham's Ashes
Great article. Sometimes the smallest totals are the most challenging. 130 doesn't seem like much but the pressure is on the fielding team to get things right as they don't have much to play with. There was another game in Australia against South Africa and Australia failed to make the 112 needed for victory.
The funny thing about yesterdays game was Michael Holding was the only one who said it is not over as it was literally a third day pitch and not a day 4 or day 5 pitch which was in England's favor. We forget about the time lost and lack of wear and tear on the pitch.
At least anecdotally speaking, it feels like Australia have historically struggled to score smaller 4th innings totals to win