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***India v England 4th Test***
***India v England 4th Test***
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Perfidious Albion once again under it(why do you keep winning the toss,Joe?
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Wow over 194.5 and over 197.5 just landed oh Jimmy Jimmy!
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England actually now have their 2 best batsmen at the crease..rope-a-doping these Indians
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What a pitiful innings, 205. We'll soon see what use that is.
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Daresay there will be complaints about the pitch again
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What are the batting coaches paid to do?
Worse than useless! |
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Here's the good news: we've stopped our run of declining scores in this series: 578/178/134/164/112/81.
End of good news. |
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Stokesie stomach bug infected others as well..it's not a stomach bug ..it has to be Covid,innit!
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height?
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Gill looked the b0llocks in Oz..gone off the boil back on home sures but i like the way he plays
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So Stokes is taking the new ball?
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Stokes totally redundant as a bowler..get the spinners on,esp Joe
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There has been a very sad inevitability about the England batting. Without Root in the first test chances are every score would have been well under par. Even he looked really uncomfortable in today's short stay. The odd 40 or 50 here and there isn't going to win you anything.
The gamble of playing the extra batsman has already failed and the bowling line up looks threadbare. It is getting harder and harder to believe that they actually won a test. |
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We are too reliant on Root or Stokes getting a score as yet again a very poor batting effort as nothing wrong with that pitch on the 1st day and a score of 300 should have been obtained
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I don't understand these are professional batsmen. They can pay people to bowl at them all day long. Pujara bats against spinners in the nets for up to six hours in a day! How can you not have a plan to counter spin bowling. Why would you try sweeping as an exercise just because your Captain did it successfully? When did the Brains Trust decide the way to play was coming down the wicket? Had they prepared for more than 2 days?
Some of these players have such glaring deficiencies in their technique, don't they want to become better players or is that " the way I play " ? On the other hand the Indian spinners were magnificent great at bowling straight at the stumps. I am a little surprised I was never called up to play for England. I could bowl straight by the age of 12! |
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Nice to see the media looking pathetic again though
After the 1st test it was "the greatest side to tour India"... That escalated quickly (As per usual with the media) |
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this could go one of two ways..India either bat well,our spinners prove to be relatively toothless and they get nearly 400 and all but win by an inns
or we've been prematurely written off and they only get 250ish and we get ourselves a baw game just have a feeling it may be nearer the latter |
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Not feeling the love for The Engerland tbh but some think this game is still there for the taking. I just can't see England taking it. Not sure Stokes will get any wickets! Bess cpould be hit out of the attack that leaves Leach who is half decent, Root who is better than many think and Anderson who if he was Pakistani would be revered as a God.
I think today I shall wait and see if there is a response from England otherwise I expect India to compile well over 300. |
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Funny enough Sonts I think England are an excellent side and will give Aussie some trouble down under but they are good in " conventional " conditions. They have been undone in the membrane here. India is a difficult place and they have a magnificent team.
Both Lawrence and Pope imho are Test Match standard. I am still not sure about England openers although despite this tour do have mental fortitude. Aside from Root and Stokes they all have flaws in their technique but on non spinning wickets they are kwality enough. The seam bowling attack is up there. The spinners are not but Leach is ok.The balance of the England team is pretty good generally. I have been extremely disappointed with everything England have done in India from the management to the players, absolutely hopeless! |
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Eng all over these choking Indians thx 2 the 'redundant' Stokes..terrible shot by the hubristic Kohli
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No crowd! How is that?
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fielding in cricket is superb these days, i personally think that bowling was better in the 70s and 80s, but my god there is no doubt that test match batting is woeful now.
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India gonna score plenty this session
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u beauty Stokes..bowling way better than y'day..got my sharma and 5th wkt lay in
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Bess is a liability..less than useless..India gorging on him
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England time wasting tactics make sense as with just 2 seamers + useless Bess, fewer overs bowled per session the better
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This is highly engrossing!
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Proper Test Match, despite the incessant fall of wickets.
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due to
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some rash Indian money around the run line. Made some good money laying 250 at odds-on (no longer!)
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Selection committee need to take a dram from their favourite whisky, sit at their bureau and open the second draw down!
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some rash Indian money around the run line. Made some good money laying 250 at odds-on (no longer!)
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No, johnny, not due to. The number of wickets falling, as last time, means there's no earthly possibility of a 5 day Test. Anything shorter than 4 days isn't right, you know that.
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Bess back on. India licking their lips.
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It's also tough to work out why a team in India's position in this match can possible justify 1.36. Madness, surely?
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numero nueve..i beg to differ..wkts falling makes it more intriguing..tests take the time it takes to get a result or not..no God given 'right' to last 5 days
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jammy c@nt..unlucky Bess
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India have had the best of Umpires call for most of the series!
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It's also tough to work out why a team in India's position in this match can possible justify 1.36. Madness, surely?
Erm I think the punters have seen England bat on this but yes! |
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Whatever the pitch these have been excellent matches to watch I think
Schadenfreude would be lovely, India batting last on this but can England post a total? |