Major up and down bounce already.
Ashwin drops the dolly of all dollies, Cook at midwicket.
Major up and down bounce already.
Ashwin drops the dolly of all dollies, Cook at midwicket.
He is having a nightmare. Fucker is going to take 9 for about 15 later on
That slide
But yeah, bound to clean up later so going to get my laughs in now.
Oh well, game over then. Another big deficit on first innings on the cards.
FFS England sometimes I really can't be arsed with these predictable failures.
255 all out. India 580/5d. England 220 all out (125 overs)
Wish Bairstow was coming in at 7 to bat with Bairstow.
Clicking it on and being greeted by Ben Stokes saunterng past a straight one.
The odd ball turning, the odd ball keeping low. Would have been a good toss to win... Oh wait.
Absolutely gifted them four wickets today
Our 6th wicket partnerships really are something.
Those 2016 stats are just ridiculous, as, I would imagine, are Bairstow's generally.
Shame about the top order.
A sub 300 score on this pitch is an absolute disgrace
This is going to be very similar to the Visakhapatnam pitch I think, so we really need 300 or at least to bat until lunch tomorrow.
Even if they do it's still a massively missed opportunity. Should be racking up 450+ and dictating the match.
Unforgivably soft dismissals from all but Hameed.
Dharma is so lol on the third umpire gig. Thank god he didn't go into commentary.
That rhythm which Indians seem to use for every single chant really irks me for some reason.
Fuck offffff... fuck off.
Just seen the wickets from earlier, how has Moeen managed to get out on the hook?
Fucking Buttler's as well.
Sky just re-ran the wickets. Some absolute beauties in there. I missed the Stokes one but it sounds like a proper Brand of Cricket affaor from the live text.
Has Hameed made an arse of that delivery or just copped a slightly unfortunate one?
It looked like it leapt off a length but I can't recall another ball that has done so maybe he misjudged it a bit.
The Root one is the worst for me. Especially for a player of his class.
I wouldn't write us off here, we've got something vaguely OK on the board on a pitch that will deteriorate, and have a better six-man attack than in the last game. They have one man in form really.
Amla and Bavuma using up utterly insane reviews. I honestly can't understand how they thought it was going to accomplish anything.
Some cracking facial expressions from Willis on the Verdict when talking about the England wickets. Still, at least the Sydney Morning Herald should be singing our praises for going after some shots, eh?
First time I've heard of the term 'send-off' in cricket terms, I think, and they've said it loads of times here on the Verdict.
I've always hated send-offs. England and Australia are both absolutely dreadful for it. Anderson, Mitchell Starc are the worst two I can think of, just scream in the departing batsman's face.
Gareth Batty's scream is more of a general scream than a send-off.
You've already got him out, what's more to be said?
Only setting yourself up for a fall next innings imo.
Batty is a bastard for a send offOriginally Posted by Jimmy Floyd
Batty's entire career is based around being an angry little northern fuck who pisses everyone off though (I really want him to get Kohli out and scream at him). It's pretty hilarious how much Somerset fans hate him, first from mankading one of their batsmen, then from having some sort of ridiculous fight with Peter Trego and finally from being selected ahead of Jack Leach for this very tour.
Jimmy Anderson has 450 Test wickets. He doesn't need to do it.
I fucking hope so. c Stokes B Batty please
There's a familiar feeling of inevitability about this.
Woah, they selected Parthiv Patel? I assumed I'd never see or hear from him again. 83 tests since his last, apparently.
That runout from Buttler was a bit special.
Not waking up to watch Ravichandran Haddin take India into a decisive lead.
Well, it wasn't Ashwin, but waking up to see Jadeja plundering his way to a three figure lead is very much sub-optimal.
India should just pick Kohli, a wicket-keeper and 9 spinners, seeing as spin bowlers also appear to be their best batsmen.
The only silver-lining is that when tail end twats bat for hours on end without looking particularly troubled then there really can't be that many daemons in the pitch, but I'm sure we'll do our best to find them. Probably do need to have some 'intent' () when we bat again.
As if we let (ho ho ho) Green Jayant get 50 as well as the other pricks.
We're still in this if we get 350. Really just need to bat for as long as humanly possible.
So the plan is get to 100/0 then lose 6 and stumble to 150?
All out tonight.
I wonder whether the future for us (given we don't have any more of these spinny type series for a while) might be to build the team around the Woakes-Stokes axis. The boy you want your daughter to bring home, and boy you absolutely don't. Having both of those in allows you to pick extra specialists either side, as required.
I wonder if they would even allow us to get away with picking Adil in England instead of *insert disappointing seamer here*. Probably not.
With no Hameed, surely Moeen will bat 3 which I reckon means he's batting every spot from 1-9!
I'm sure the technology guys deliberately delayed the ball tracking there so we could hear Dharma's sultry tones for five whole minutes.
STILL VAITING MARRAY
Cook is such a lucky boy. Big score needed. I'm fairly sure they just made up the ball tracking on that Jadeja one, as it looked absolutely stone dead.
I imagine Dharma punches the air when other umpires get overturned.
Who is the best umpire around these days. Aleem Dar was always a lock but he seems to be a bit shit now as well.
Richard Kettleborough innit, although we never see him as England watchers.
Most of them are toilet. S Ravi ffs.
I just don't understand how you can miss that.
Joe's top trolling to no avail. |Needs to back up his banteriffic behaviour with some runs now.
I've only got Cricinfo commentary but that alone is absolutely terrifying. White men can't play spin.
Counter attack needed.
Game over. Lost it in the first innings again. Can't chase the game in India.
We need Stokes to do a Botham really. Rapid 180* and ten wickets in the match. Then preferably to clone himself before the fourth Test to replace three or four of our other players.
Oh and if Has has done a finger, I literally can't wait for Ben Duckett to be recalled to the opening berth in Bombay.
What's annoying is that for all the pessimism pre series we've not played THAT badly. Bowled fairly well, all the batsmen have made a score at least once. It's just we've lost 1 (soon to be 2) matches by chucking wickets away when it's flat.
Compton is in India...
The Lions are in doobuy, let's see who the openers are, oh look it's 'Gubbo' and Keaton Jennings. I would actually advocate flying one of them in tbh, despite my general dislike for 'he's a great player outside the tour' thinking.
Bell-Drummond as well, he's a wristy little fuck, and right handed to boot.
Christ, I see Meaker is out there. That is the very definition of wishful thinking.
I think Ballance deserves another go, he's been in the wilderness long enough. Hitting them well in the nets.
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