Time for a deeply dispiriting Ashwin ton.
Edit: instajinx.
Time for a deeply dispiriting Ashwin ton.
Edit: instajinx.
Boycott was trowelling the sarcasm on pretty thick yesterday when talking about that "brilliant idea."Originally Posted by Max Power
Dropping Kohli twice hasn't exactly helped matters here. Still should get a draw out of it unless we bat like retards in the second innings.
Our players look awfully tired, which I suppose shouldn't be a surprise after six more or less consecutive Tests in the heat.
I know it didn't happen here, but I will say that Ashwin getting big runs against your side is one of the most dispiriting things to see. I think it's a bit like when Jason Gillespie would get fifties.Time for a deeply dispiriting Ashwin ton.
Edit: instajinx.
This England v India series should really have been 0-0 if our top order had brought their underpants along. Both sides bat to, like, 10, with proper batsmen too, not just bowlers who can bat well.
What's happened here then? I don't even want to look at the scorecard.
Feel like I've seen this match somewhere before.
Can we just put Moeen back down where he scores all his runs now?
With Hameed and Jennings looking like they might be worth a go at the top (albeit Keaton could have had a pair here), and 1 and 4 picking themselves it's just a specialist 5 they need to find (Stokes, Bairstow, Moeen, Woakes, Broad, Anderson) when they get back into semi-normal conditions. Why oh why did wee Jimmy Taylor have to go and almost die?
"Rewerse your decision [you cunt]."
I saw the one Bairstow reviewed when he was given out caught at short leg walking down the pitch and the umpire's reaction when he insta-reviewed it was classic. He just turned away in disgust, as well he might, having given him when the ball missed the bat by about 3 feet. He knew it was a shocker without needing to be told so you wonder why he bothered giving it in the first place.
I wish people would stop calling Kohli a genius. He's not, he's the opposite in fact, just mechanically excellent. The only geniuses since the war have been Warne and Sobers.
God. At least make them work for it.
EDIT: Guardian was talking about how well they resisted earlier in the match, and how this was a "great toss to win" for India. Just try saying the words "outplayed in every facet of the game". It's tough, but you'll work it out in time.
In the face of the Indian bullshit assault that inevitably comes with them winning a series, we must resist all forms of grace and humility. Take it to the bastards.
It was awfully fucking quiet when we won there in 2012-13.
Incidentally, I think India are better than us in these conditions and would win this series 99 times out of 100, but our players must be completely out of juice by now. They've done 6 Tests in 6 weeks in 30+ degree heat. I wouldn't be surprised to see us lose by an innings and 200+ in the next match.
I did notice the Guardian bringing up fatigue. Quell surprise.
That said, I'm furious that we put a bilateral ODI series against NZ between test series against South Africa and Pakistan. Throttle that golden goose, gents.
The English and Australian boards are joint world champions at smashing their own players into the dirt. We really need the overarching structure ASAP.
More noise about Cook jacking it in.
Give it Rooteh til end of season.
I'm really unsure about Root, I'm sure he'll be brilliant but I don't want us to ruin his batting. Give it to Broad and watch the world burn.
Chef has done it for 4 years, time to focus on scoring runs.
Looks like yellow and red cards are on their way to cricket.
Thoughts? I'm for it.
Also, Amir looks to have injured his knee, which is bad. Memories of Simon Jones.
If they're down to three bowlers, one of whom (Rahat Ali) is all over the place, it'll take some magic from Pakistan.
I'm pro yellow and red cards too. I used to be against but there was an incident in a club competition near me a couple of years ago in which a bloke literally whacked a kid with his bat, and yet there was nothing the umpires could do to sanction him (in-game, at least) so the only way the situation was resolved was by the victim's team walking off the pitch and 'forfeiting' the match, although I think it was later awarded to them or scrubbed out.
I also do a lot of umpiring and the amount of abuse you get is going steadily upwards, a direct influence from football I think.
It'll also lead to comical scenes involving Ben Stokes, so what's not to like.
Amir's back on the field. Great news.
Smith looks so comfortable. He's seeing it like a beach ball.
James Anderson ruled out of the final Test with 'general soreness'. You'd think the press officer could have worded it better.
"Quickest to N runs" is a stupid measurement.
The only speed measures that matter are innings or tests. Duration of time just means we're scheduling lots of tests, which we all already know.
Young Joe sawn off in his prime. Ho hum.
Liam Dawson is such a fucking awful selection it hurts.
Why do Indian fans always have such deplorably terrible opinions?Shrey: "Root's inability to convert his 80s/90s into big daddy hundreds is possibly the difference between a wretched 4-0 loss vs a respectable series loss for Eng."
Root does have an odd habit of getting out in the 70s and 80s even when he's looking great, thought he'd cracked it with that double against Pakistan but alas. Not the difference between the two sides in this series though.
Liam Dawson has got to be the least deserving Test cap of recent years? Incredibly modest first class record and no discernable 'X-Factor' talent. Just meh.
Yes Mo
Haven't checked but I reckon his five Test hundreds have come at four different positions in the order,
There are no ills that a Moeen hundred cannot cure.
Three at number 7, one each at 4 and 5.
Funny how he doesn't have one at six as it's probably his best position.
One of them was actually at 6 but demoted because of a nightwatchman. All five against Asian teams.
The new ball has been taken
85.3
Sharma to Ali, FOUR, and the first ball with the new cherry races away to the boundary. Full and wide outside off, slapped to the deep point boundary. Uppish but no one there
85.4
Sharma to Ali, FOUR, just wide of Pujara at cover. Languid from Moeen. Full outside off, Moeen wafts away from hos body and the ball flies past Pujara's right.
Languid from Moeen is the must buy fragrance this Chistmas.
If they put home Tests on free to air I genuinely think it would do a massive amount for inter-faith relations in this country, and decrease UKIP's share of the vote. That's how much of a hero he is.
Kohli could probably have a dint at the world record on this pitch if he fancies it.
We'll have to take two wickets first.
Yeah, I thought that just after I'd typed it. I guess you have to be top 3 to really have a shot at that (Lara batted 3 didn't he?). If a pitch is flat enough to do it on, you aren't going to get too many top order batsmen falling over to let you in, and it can't be England, who's top order could assist in any conditions, because traditionally we are bowling when these things happen.
Parthiv Patel 401*
If I wake up to a Pakistan win tomorrow I convert to Islam lads...
Pakistan are gradually starting to threaten this chase of 490. Only 40ish runs to get, with the centurion still in and set.
EDIT: We got him. But this has been one of the more tense finishes I can remember. Series well-poised.
I see the horror show is well under way in Chennai. 15 wickets in 3.5 days. I'm sure we can manage to lose 10 in a session when the time comes.
Fucking riveting, this.
Pakistan are absolute dons, rattled out for 140 in the first innings and then nearly chase 490 in the second. Quite, quite mad.
This England tour has been a roaring success. Fortunately we don't have to visit Asia again for ages.
India to chase 1,000 given they are 3-0 up in the series?
I dunno about that but if they bat on there's a very real chance that Karun Nair could break Lara's record.
Our spinners have bowled at the time of writing 112 overs, 7 maidens (), 3 for 445.
I was of the opinion that the long break after this Test until the South Africa series meant that Cook wouldn't resign but this is such an absolute shoeing I think he might, especially if we lose tomorrow.
He hasn't been arsed since Mohali. Wants to be back with his kid.
I wonder if Jadeja hadn't gotten out whether they might have considered letting him bat on.I dunno about that but if they bat on there's a very real chance that Karun Nair could break Lara's record.
Our spinners have bowled at the time of writing 112 overs, 7 maidens (
Kohli should have declared when he got out so he could have another go.
Here we go.
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