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Originally posted by Aelia Jusa:
Was great to see! I think Bat was about 360 or so and one of the radio commentators was pondering whether Tugger thought the 700 odd they had was enough - seriously! 
Interesting to see that Heath seems to be learning from the Nasser school of toss-winning
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Ain't it great how history repeats itself
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Still, you have to admit that these opposing captains probably take one look at our batting line-up headed by "The Bat" and with Gilly a lowly number 7 and think that perhaps the only way to dismiss us twice is to PRAY that there is some life in the wicket in the first session. If you have an attack full of seamers with no real spinning talent (ie rule out pretty much everyone else but India's spin twins and Sri Lanka's "Murrali") then it is not surprising that so many teams try this tactic on us.
I sort of wonder if there isn't perhaps a hint of a tactic knowing that OZ always plays for the win. By having us bat first a side can always pray that the test match gets shortened badly by rain. When this is the case they usually benefit from sporting Australian declarations that set gettable targets to try and force a result. I seem to recall one or two sides in the past 5 years (England on at least one occasion - possibly more than once) being successful over us in these cirumstances. Maybe the tacticians are analysing the pattern of our losses and have come up with this as a 15% winning formula.