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  • The second says that there would be nothing further lost see previous parentheses by giving the team a chance of redemption from what was as much a fourth-innings aberration as total technical and mental breakdown.

    England must select Eoin Morgan over Ravi Bopara for final Dubai Test 2012

  • Notts may be the chirpier side after battling back into a game that seemed lost at the end of the first day, but having seen Yorkshire keep their cool impressively in fourth-innings run chases against Warwickshire and Durham earlier this season, I'd back messrs Rudolph, McGrath and Gale to do the business again.

    County cricket - as it happened! 2010

  • Despite the praise from Clarke, the fourth-innings heroics of the under-fire trio may not be enough to save their Test careers.

    NEWS.com.au | Top Stories 2011

  • Andrew Strauss' tourists must therefore contemplate a fourth-innings target significantly in advance of the one which proved well beyond them on the way to series defeat in Abu Dhabi last week.

    WalesOnline - Home WalesOnline 2012

  • The highest successful fourth-innings run chase was achieved by Steve Waugh's Australia in

    BBC News - Home 2011

  • We're well into highest successful fourth-innings run chase territory, here, though England are content to land a few more punches before coming in.

    The Guardian World News Alan Gardner 2011

  • Andrew Strauss' tourists must therefore contemplate a fourth-innings target significantly in advance of the one which proved well beyond them on the way to series defeat in Abu Dhabi last week.

    Evening Standard - Home 2012

  • England had to banish memories of their previous failings here to have any chance of pulling off the second-highest fourth-innings chase in their history.

    Evening Standard - Home 2012

  • England needed nine wickets today to take a 1-0 series lead after setting India a world record fourth-innings victory target of 458.

    The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed 2011

  • Had Tasmania chased down the victory target, it would have been the highest successful fourth-innings Shield run chase at the WACA, and sixth highest in Australia.

    NEWS.com.au | Top Stories 2011

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