How much does scoreboard pressure benefit bowlers?

[Ali TT]

How much of it is scoreboard pressure and how much is due to keeping the opposition out in the field for longer, draining the energy and potentially making a top order breakthrough easier. Referenced the Lara 400 test yesterday and England's reply was poor (other than Thorpe) and I suspect a good chunk of that was due to having been kept out in the field in the heat for 200 overs. Their 2nd innings - under very similar scoreboard pressure - was much more reflective of the flatness of the pitch.

That Windies innings was 202 overs, 22 more (so I guess about ninety minutes longer?) than the innings when he scored 375 a decade earlier. In the former, England were bowled out for 280 off 99 overs, in the latter they equalled the Windies score and batted for 200 overs. Both games dead rubbers but England were the series winners in 2004, the Windies in 1994.

 

[ankitj]

Aside from the physical exhaustion from being on the field for a long time, we cannot know if there is anything else to the scorecard pressure.

 

[subshakerz]

Aside from the physical exhaustion from being on the field for a long time, we cannot know if there is anything else to the scorecard pressure.

Pressure chasing or having to play for a draw too.

 

[ankitj]

Pressure chasing or having to play for a draw too.

Pressure when the chase is alive is real but in that case the target can't be too high and the pressure can't be attributed to scorecard possibly.

 

[subshakerz]

Pressure when the chase is alive is real but in that case the target can't be too high and the pressure can't be attributed to scorecard possibly.

Chasing in the past something like 300 or so will induce pressure wickets.