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    So how was Root's not out, and this one out? I thought there was a fairly clear, but small, spike as the ball passed the bat.

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    Incredible scenes.

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    Fucking hell, why is Leach playing that shot?

    Given the pitch is the same for both team (essentially) why are so many people complaining and saying that it isn't a test-match standard? Do they only want pitches that will result in 5 days tests and 5,000 runs?

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    While a match being over inside two days feels wrong (and this one will be) a minefield that lets Joe Root take 5-8 is lol enough to get a pass.

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    How have I only just clocked it’s being played at the Narendra Modi stadium?

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    Quote Originally Posted by John Arne View Post
    Fucking hell, why is Leach playing that shot?

    Given the pitch is the same for both team (essentially) why are so many people complaining and saying that it isn't a test-match standard? Do they only want pitches that will result in 5 days tests and 5,000 runs?
    They want pitches that meaningfully reward skill and produce interesting matches.

    lol as it might be, Joe Root bowling in with 5-8 on day 2 of a test doesn't fit that criteria.

    17 wickets for what, 120 odd runs in 2 sessions? Yeah, sign me up.

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    Aye, Brumble has just explained it will on the Radio.

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    Indian nationalism is at a stage where you can't question anything they do.

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    Triple figures with 7 left still to bat.

    You been up for the whole thing, Jimmy?

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    Have I fuck.

    Overnight in WI v SL, Akila Dananjaya had a stormer: hat-trick (including Chris Gayle) in his second over, then hit for six sixes in his third.

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    I don't understand what Pope has appealed there. Is it that he couldn't feel it because it hit the very top of his pad and so he thought it'd gone off the ground (I thought he'd gestured to his pad when talking to Lawrence so I assume not)? Or is there some rule I'm unaware of his appeal hinges on?

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    Looks like the umpires just decided to refer it to make sure. Pope seemed to be wandering off as the review was happening, I think he was just a bit dumbfounded that he got out in that manner.

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    Ahh, okay. I thought he'd reviewed it himself.

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    I really hope we persist with Lawrence at home. He's a proper punchy player with personality and his own method. Would far rather watch him than another churned out indoor school type player with pretty cover drives. Which, incidentally, is not what Ollie Pope is either, even though people seem to have decided he bats like Ian Bell (he bats nothing like Ian Bell).

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    Well this is better than I expected to be waking up to. Just in time to see Leach get Ashwin as well.

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    Bulls at the Gabba is very rare these days. I might drift up the street and try out the beer at the Gabba.


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    I'm sorry to say this but Bess is a bit of a pie thrower.

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    This has taken a rather unpleasant turn.

    Anderson getting smeared all over the ground for fours isn't exactly what I was hoping for from the new ball.

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    All stems from Bess being dogshit and failing to control the left hander. Yeah Pant's good but we've completely let him get away with a run of freebie overs.

    Should have played Amar Virdi probs, even though he is a comedically bad fielder.

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    I can only imagine the horror of seeing this happen.

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    Thank god, a positive jinx for once. Need to run through these now to at least ensure we can make them bat again.

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    Root bowling with the second new ball ffs

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    Embarrassingly bad batting performance again.

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    He's not the only culprit, but Bairstow surely for the knacker's yard.

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    There aren't many batsmen coming out of this with any credit.

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    Dan Lawrence is...

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    Yep, he needs to stay in the team.

    And Bairstow gone forever, ideally.

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    The same Ed Cowan who claimed they would win 4 - 0 against India before a ball was bowled. Say nothing cunt!


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    One of the greater bantermen, definitely.

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    https://www.theguardian.com/sport/bl...f-pain-and-joy

    Liew makes some decent points here but he doesn't really touch on how Bairstow probably doesn't do himself any favours sometimes either.

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    Absolutely loving the Road Safety World Series, having just spotted it on Cricinfo.

    https://www.espncricinfo.com/series/...full-scorecard

    India Legends will be trembling in their boots at the sight of that English batting lineup.

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    What is a Phil Mustard?

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    Only the best condiment based wicketkeeper batsman to come out of the north east since, erm, Nigel Horseradish was smearing it over Chester-Le-Street as a young buck.

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    Even Darren Maddy at 3 is an all rounder, but Chris Schofield at 4 (average leg spinner and nuggety county number 8 from the early to mid noughties) and Gavin Hamilton at number 5, a dogshit all rounder from West Lothian who England decided to poach from Scotland in the late nineties because, well, who knows, provides a real statement to the likes of Tendulkar, Sehwag and Yuvraj in the opposition.

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    Hoggard strikes!

    Monty opening the bowling is all sorts of

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    Where is this being broadcast?

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    I'm just following it on the cricinfo live text.

    Monty!

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    Sachin chewing, they're on the ropes here. This would definitely make up for losing the Test series.

    EDIT: THE PRESSURE TELLS Sachin Tendulkar st †Mustard b Panesar 9 (9b 2x4 0x6) SR: 100

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    Proof, if proof were needed, that Tendulkar is just too short.

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    Yuvraj to finish 150* after Broad is snuck on to bowl.

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    Is Tredwell/Panesar, even now, a lot worse than the spinners we had in the Tests? I doubt it.

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    Probably better.

    Having had no real idea of this as a thing half an hour ago I'm right into it now after reading England were only drafted in as late makeweights and Australia have cried off due to covid.

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    Astonished they were able to get Phil Mustard at such short notice.

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    So Chris Tremlett is large.

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    He's like that giant trying to invade Winterfell towards the end of GoT.

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    Surely that body shape isn't conducive to fast bowling? I mean I know he's not doing that regularly any more but fucking hell.

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    Fitness and body shape are only the last 10% or so of being able to bowl. If you have the ability to bowl 'fast' you never really lose it, much like if you don't, you can never really get it through gym work.

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    That ended up a lot closer than I thought it would.

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    Last edited by Queenslander; 10-03-2021 at 04:35 AM.

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    I forgot how mental this was.

    Last edited by Queenslander; 11-03-2021 at 05:46 AM.

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