Cricket
England v India (3rd Test) Trent Bridge
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why aint woakes bowling with the new ball ffs, I am sick of banging on about this
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What an absolute runway!
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mkt got a hard on for India now
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eng have 2015 in their mind imo but TB bat 1st for me
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how quickly has the Eng price drifted?says to me the mkt has FA confidence in the Eng batting if India get any reasonable sort of total
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My super reverse jinx worked a treat!
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Have India picked the wrong bowling attack 2 tests running?!
It's gotta spin later on. |
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VV...they've tinkered with the toss in the CC and away teams have actually done worse in the 3 years since the toss change has been made compared with the previous 3 years
That may be the case but can you really compare a home -advantage over an overseas team to a County team familiar with the climactic conditions whose only disadvantage is an hour or two's travel before play? |
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get woakes on ffs
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i havent had a bet yet thank god, i would definatley of made the wrong move
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I don’t really see all the rage about Curran missing out. It’s obviously an unusual situation but if you’re deciding Stokes is available, Curran is really the only logical option to miss out. That’s we’ve got two very dodgy specialist batting picks in the side in Jennings and Buttler plus two other marginal ones, in Cook and Pope, is basically irrelevant: you don’t keep a bowling all rounder in for a batsman to make way. We already had more bowling options than we really needed three of the four innings we’ve bowled. Once you’re lining him up against a batsman, the extra bowling sixth bowler gives you means nothing, apart maybe from in subcontinental heat when you don’t trust your spinners but still have to pick two or three of them. So then you’ve got Woakes, who’s clearly better than Curran or Rashid, who isn’t and whom I wouldn’t have in the side ahead of Ali but again isn’t really in the firing line as it’s a different role.
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My super reverse jinx worked a treat!
Why am i not surprised..............  |
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In case the ball starts to swing later, is it not wise to keep one of your best swing bowlers fresh for now? I already have the feeling that it is going to be much harder to take wickets on this strip.
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We are about to find out.
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looks like Rashid might have something to do in this match
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I quite like home field advantage in sports though and I see no reason for people wanting to diminish it (especially with arbitrary measures)
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the beauty of test cricket is cricketers throughout the world get the chance to test themselves against teams in all types of conditions
not sure I agree with (for example) being able to rock up in india and have a bat every time is the test it should be |
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good 1st over woakes
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Would get a bit boring if England went to India and batted first in all 5 matches
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The big issue is the trend to produce pitches suited to the home team which adds to the bias against the visitors. They already face a different climate, different ball, different food etc. so the toss would only help if the pitches were all prepared to be as similar as possible across countries.
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didnt England win the toss in all five matches in the Ashes? and still got pumped
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India would have been doing a f*ck-site better if they'd prepared properly for the conditions.
otoh if the heatwave had continued, it's unlikely the series score would be the same. Also had they had a fit bhuvi and won the toss at Lord's it may have been a very different result. Small things, rather than something intrinsically wrong. Eng going to be batting last on this  . Series still very much still alive.And wtf is Honey-G doing commentating on Sky? |
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So much tick nicking lies ahead of me on this, could be my 1st 4000+ trades market.
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no aus won toss in melbourne & batted 1st
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Rob Key on commentary now, how many on the sky gravy train it's getting ridiculous.
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and again re toss. The side trailing in the series should have the choice. Toss if the score is level
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It's Honey G, not Rob Key.
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yes me too
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