Declaring right on the dot

[GoldenAsif]

Re: Declaring right on the dot

@brahmachari99

In the ongoing Pak/Ban 1st Test, Pakistan declared their innings at 594/5 as soon as Younis Khan reached exactly 200. Shouldn’t the captain give a 4-5 run margin before declaring, in case there has been an error/discrepancy by the scorer? **It would be a shame to leave the batsman stranded at 199 because of a scoring error. **I remember such an instance when in the 1999 tour of India, Inzimam scored a 100 in a side match, and as soon as he got the 100, the innings was declared. It turned out later that the scorecard on the ground had an error, and Inzimam had actually scored 99.

That’s a very valid point and I totally agree with you..

@Iconoclast

I agree, there is quite a lot of time, he could go on for few more overs.

+2

Misbah could have and should have waited an over or two before declaring. In any case Bangla look dead and buried and another 5-10 minutes w’d have made zilch difference to the outcome of the game