We've got three keepers, four off break bowlers, one left arm orthodox, one leggie and just two seamers in the side
So now we have to bowl the Indians out for sub 200 with the chances that the 38 year old and/or a bowler who can't bowl because of his knees/back etc etc, developing a niggle or even breaking down with the consequence that we have to then ask Foakes to take his pads off and bowl some off cutters. Not that I think he can bowl off cutters!
Trouble is 300 gives them a lead of more than 100. And when we will struggle to get 150 in the 2nd innings that will mean that they will need 50 to win. And I think they will get that!
Two of England’s top order batsmen out trying to slog a spinner in the first two sessions of a test. Thank goodness Boycott isn’t on comms, he’d be apoplectic!
In 5 innings against India we've managed just 696 runs in what have been extremely challenging batting conditions - that's an average of 139 per innings. Today's pitch, however, was not a 200 one.
In those innings Root has amassed just 80. Against Sri Lanka, in 4 innings, he scored 426 with the rest of the batsmen making just 534 runs in total.
It isn't this series that has exposed our frailties. It is the one against Sri Lanka that demonstrated, certainly against spin, we are wholly reliant on one batsman.
We've got three keepers, four off break bowlers, one left arm orthodox, one leggie and just two seamers in the side
So now we have to bowl the Indians out for sub 200 with the chances that the 38 year old and/or a bowler who can't bowl because of his knees/back etc etc, developing a niggle or even breaking down with the consequence that we have to then ask Foakes to take his pads off and bowl some off cutters. Not that I think he can bowl off cutters!
And there you have it - Stokes is having to bowl with a stomach bug. This could get very messy!!!
I said Stokes looked knackered when batting which was weird on the first day of the test.
Him having to bowl on day 1 (when you've won the toss and batted) is hardly ideal at the best of times, let alone when he is ill.
i think root's gonna bowl more than stokes tbh
Agree but the fact that Indai bowled their seamers so much suggests to me that they think there is something in the pitch for the seamers. We should be using 2 seamers for the new ball at least.
Stokes is someone you bring on nowadays to buy yourself a wicket with that surprise delivery. Not to throw the new ball to.
We pick three front line seamers on a bunsen burner and one on a pitch that might offer some assistance to them. Where does this thinking come from? Our coach was a fast bowler and you'd think he'd be able to read a pitch!
The sense you get is that if England treated these games as limited overs matches, they would probably score more runs on these wickets. Root's decision to put the game out of reach for India in the first test probably helped win that.
Some wickets it should be about trying to get as many runs as you can as quickly as you can before that ball that gets you out comes along.
The sense you get is that if England treated these games as limited overs matches, they would probably score more runs on these wickets. Root's decision to put the game out of reach for India in the first test probably helped win that.
Some wickets it should be about trying to get as many runs as you can as quickly as you can before that ball that gets you out comes along.
i think england's problem for the last couple of years in test cricket is we've been doing that and having very average results.
The sense you get is that if England treated these games as limited overs matches, they would probably score more runs on these wickets. Root's decision to put the game out of reach for India in the first test probably helped win that.
Some wickets it should be about trying to get as many runs as you can as quickly as you can before that ball that gets you out comes along.
i think england's problem for the last couple of years in test cricket is we've been doing that and having very average results.
Yes, and here are pitches we should be doing it on.
Kieron Pollard struck six sixes in one over off Akila Dananjaya, who had earlier taken a hat-trick, in West Indies' extraordinary four-wicket Twenty20 defeat of Sri Lanka.
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So now we have to bowl the Indians out for sub 200 with the chances that the 38 year old and/or a bowler who can't bowl because of his knees/back etc etc, developing a niggle or even breaking down with the consequence that we have to then ask Foakes to take his pads off and bowl some off cutters. Not that I think he can bowl off cutters!
a fucking run out nearly
In those innings Root has amassed just 80. Against Sri Lanka, in 4 innings, he scored 426 with the rest of the batsmen making just 534 runs in total.
It isn't this series that has exposed our frailties. It is the one against Sri Lanka that demonstrated, certainly against spin, we are wholly reliant on one batsman.
Him having to bowl on day 1 (when you've won the toss and batted) is hardly ideal at the best of times, let alone when he is ill.
We pick three front line seamers on a bunsen burner and one on a pitch that might offer some assistance to them. Where does this thinking come from? Our coach was a fast bowler and you'd think he'd be able to read a pitch!
Some wickets it should be about trying to get as many runs as you can as quickly as you can before that ball that gets you out comes along.
i think england's problem for the last couple of years in test cricket is we've been doing that and having very average results.
Kieron Pollard struck six sixes in one over off Akila Dananjaya, who had earlier taken a hat-trick, in West Indies' extraordinary four-wicket Twenty20 defeat of Sri Lanka.