How long will India bat on for...? Probably have enough already but certainly don't think we'd be able to chase down anything more than 250-280.......and that's with Root Foakes & Stokes all getting in & getting 50's.
We don't have great spinners but have the best 2 fast/seamers in the world. Drop the spinners for the next Test & go in with Stone, Archer, Broad & Anderson. I bet they don't go for 4 an over like Moeen has. Root can bowl decent spin.
What's happened in this match is what I feared would happen last week.
An awful lot of undercooked players out there, it's hard enough to play in India without doing so having played so little cricket. It's so hard to compete when your spinners keep giving away easy runs
The toss is a major thing to lose in these tests. This wasn't as good a track as the first test and India posted nothing more than a respectable score because Rohit attacked. I expected England to bat as they did.
The toss is a major thing to lose in these tests. This wasn't as good a track as the first test and India posted nothing more than a respectable score because Rohit attacked. I expected England to bat as they did.
Going forward it'll be interesting what team we pick for the 3rd Test. Crawley will come back in, but he didn't look good in Sri Lanka so may not be much better than Lawrence
What's happened in this match is what I feared would happen last week.
An awful lot of undercooked players out there, it's hard enough to play in India without doing so having played so little cricket. It's so hard to compete when your spinners keep giving away easy runs
We won the first test and we played a couple of tests in Sri Lanka.
India were still celebrating their fantastic series win in Australia and were slow out the blocks in the first test which was a pussycat in comparison to this tiger of a "prepared" pitch.
Home advantage in cricket, and especially in India is off the scale unless the other side have world class bowlers or batsmen.
Roots and Anderson were world class in the first test. Joe got a top edge going for the sweep which he played so well in first test and Anderson wasn't playing.
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How long will India bat on for...? Probably have enough already but certainly don't think we'd be able to chase down anything more than 250-280.......and that's with Root Foakes & Stokes all getting in & getting 50's.
As you'd expect we have got less out of it with bat and ball.
Bordering on cheating
Absolute fucking disgrace.
This umpire is watching a different match.
No way was he playing a shot.
Just not getting the breaks.
Oh was there some other cricket?
An awful lot of undercooked players out there, it's hard enough to play in India without doing so having played so little cricket. It's so hard to compete when your spinners keep giving away easy runs
We won the first test and we played a couple of tests in Sri Lanka.
India were still celebrating their fantastic series win in Australia and were slow out the blocks in the first test which was a pussycat in comparison to this tiger of a "prepared" pitch.
Home advantage in cricket, and especially in India is off the scale unless the other side have world class bowlers or batsmen.
Roots and Anderson were world class in the first test.
Joe got a top edge going for the sweep which he played so well in first test and Anderson wasn't playing.