A defensive strategy used in Cricket where a team defends as many balls as possible until end of play in order to avoid a defeat.
Often used in 5-Day Test Cricket when you trail by a huge margin or when you are in dire straits of losing the match, employing the strategy of not scoring but trying to spend as much time so you can get to the end of the day-five without a result. A draw is always better than a loss in Cricket.
Often used in 5-Day Test Cricket when you trail by a huge margin or when you are in dire straits of losing the match, employing the strategy of not scoring but trying to spend as much time so you can get to the end of the day-five without a result. A draw is always better than a loss in Cricket.
With the 'blockathon' being the need of the hour for the Proteas, De Villiers took 33 balls to score his first run.
South Africa attempt to salvage extraordinary draw with blockathon
South Africa attempt to salvage extraordinary draw with blockathon
by ebeyah December 29, 2015