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    Going be great watching us let this last pair put on 50 before surrendering a first innings lead.

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    India well on top here.

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    Yeah I'm a bit worried about the 30 run lead they'll have when they come back in to bat their second innings.

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    130 all out, Root 78*

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    Bold prediction to assume we'll get 40 extras, Max.

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    My eyes are seeing the score here and my brain is refusing to process this information.

    A good opening, being built on well, Root not having to come out 10 overs in. Someone other than him with a 50. What madness is this?

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    Century opening partnership does truly signal end times. Great day.

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    I love that even given the state of the game we have a night watchman ready to go.

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    I've not seen any of this today, what were conditions like early? I'm not sure there's another ground in the world where it can go from 78 all out to serene batting conditions in such a short space of time. I still have bad memories of us being rolled by South Africa in the morning gloom, only for the sun to come out for 2 days whilst they compiled a massive total, before rolling us again for not a lot when the gloom duly returned.

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    India have us right where they want us.

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    Fucking hell! That’s all.

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    I loved this bit of the BBC livetext:

    39 overs
    Eng 108-0
    Lead by 30

    India and Mohammed Siraj are unhappy as a little pink ball works its way onto the outfield. They complain to Richard Kettleborough at square leg who just kicks it back into the boundary rope.

    Siraj walks down to the Western Terrace and signals 1-0 with his fingers.


    How daft do you have to be to do that?

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    Quote Originally Posted by niko_cee View Post
    I've not seen any of this today, what were conditions like early? I'm not sure there's another ground in the world where it can go from 78 all out to serene batting conditions in such a short space of time. I still have bad memories of us being rolled by South Africa in the morning gloom, only for the sun to come out for 2 days whilst they compiled a massive total, before rolling us again for not a lot when the gloom duly returned.
    Conditions were fine, a little bit of cloud but the sun was peeking through in the opening overs. We just bowled very disciplined lines to tie them down. Pant played a particularly stupid shot (classic Pant, I'm still not sold on him being the 2nd coming of Gilchrist), but Jimmy was the key to it all with a truly brilliant opening spell.

    Very much shades of Melbourne 2010 today. Trent Bridge 2015 also very similar but we had lost wickets by the close of play in that match. Bloody hell, we were actually 274-4 at the end of Day 1 in that one, that'd be a decent day's work even if we hadn't bowled them out for 60.

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    Not that Siraj was being chippy about it.

    Quote Originally Posted by niko_cee View Post
    I've not seen any of this today, what were conditions like early?
    It was swinging nicely. Not round corners or anything but doing enough to keep our bowlers very happy. And as Thommo said, much more disciplined bowling than we normally do helps.

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    I'm not sure there's another ground in the world where it can go from 78 all out to serene batting conditions in such a short space of time.
    The reverse of this happens all the time in our games it's just usually England making it look that way not our opposition.

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    Neesham fending off angry asians (they seem to be the only people who Tweet him) and anti-vaxxers today.

    Fighting the good fight.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Max Power View Post
    Overton over Mahmoud. A victory for racism and mediocrity.
    A decent decision, evidently.

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    Getting rid of India’s tail clearly sufficient to cancel out unrepentant racism.

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    I don't really want anything out of today except a Hameed hundred.

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    Yeah I was genuinely delighted when he got to 50 and would love him to get to a century.

    But of course he and Burns will both be out by 11.04.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Max Power View Post
    Getting rid of India’s tail clearly sufficient to cancel out unrepentant racism.

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    I think it's just a delight for Joe Root not to be coming in at 30/3 after 15 overs. In other news today could be the perfect day where the stars align for the Bairstow/Buttler/Moeen counter-attack.

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    630/3 dec, bowl them out for 100 again with the seamers, Moeen tfc.

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    Ted Dexter gone. From what I read I feel he would have been my favourite player if I were a youngster in the early 60s.

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    I see Kohli's batting average last year and this (so 11 tests, I think) is pretty shit.

    I assume even if that continues he's basically untouchable if the results keep coming?

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    I remember once listening to a fascinating passage of radio commentary from the 60s (with John Arlott etc) in which I think it was the first ever one day final at Lord's, and Dexter's Sussex team were playing. The concept of, say, a bowler having a limited number of overs he could bowl, or the batsmen needing to get on with it because they only had so many balls/overs left and there was no draw available, were completely new things and had blown the commentators' minds. Obviously Dexter had it all worked out and his mob took the win.

    It felt like a bigger shift for them than anything like T20/Hundred has been for us.

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    So am I reading too much into this / coming to a nonsensical conclusion or did Burns really benefit from having somebody at the other end trying to also get some runs on the board? I feel like normally he either finds his way into the match and starts getting runs early or just gets out having done nothing but with Hameed there doing a bit (rather than Sibley just blocking everything) it allowed him to feel his way into the innings a bit more and get his eye in. At one point he was 15 runs off 55 or something which I feel he perhaps doesn't get the luxury of a slow start because he knew Sibley was unlikely to pick up the slack and felt the pressure to score.

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    There might be something in that, as long as we don't follow it down the 'logical' path which led them to think Jason Roy would be a good choice to open our 2019 Ashes batting.

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    Roy and Hales. Both freeing each other up to really go for it, 350-0 by tea every day, Ashes secured.

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    Root is batting on a different planet atm. Imperious.

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    In a nice intersection of topics I enjoyed some heads have gone viewing today seeing the [lady] camera operator 100ft up in the air on the crane, on her own, wearing a face mask.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Luke Emia View Post
    . In other news today could be the perfect day where the stars align for the Bairstow/Buttler/Moeen counter-attack.

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    Got to be worth 30 minutes at them here.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Ian View Post
    Yep… if they didn’t manage it today they are never going to. I think Buttler needs a rest. Bairsy to wicket keep as well surely at this point.

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    Fooooooakes.

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    Root looked knackered by the end. Ironic that it's his back after carrying the team recently. Get Jimmy on ice and see how much further it can build tomorrow. India starting 350 down with 3 days to go should be fine if the weather report is clear.

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    Somerset vs Lancs was a classic tonight. Off to finals day again.

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    It's a shame Karthik has to bugger off and train for the IPL. He's been really good this series, comes across well and has good rapport with the other pundits.

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    I’m thinking we could end up chasing 200 or so here and completely fucking it.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Jimmy Floyd View Post
    India well on top here.
    I knew.

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    Will need a cheeky 56* from Lord Joseph Root chasing 143 on day 4.

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    All a carefully laid plan to swell the Yorkshire coffers over the weekend.

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    At last. Now get into them.

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    This has been excellent so far.

    EDIT: And that's a corker from Moeen.
    Last edited by Gray Fox; 28-08-2021 at 11:19 AM.

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    Mo.

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    Given he's such a seething, chippy bastard on the field Kohli does speak well and graciously whenever I hear him.

    I suppose it's what you want from your captain to an extent.

    Great result though. And for a test that finished before lunch on the 4th day I thought it was quite a fun one with both teams having periods where they were on top.

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    I was trying to find the clip of Kohli talking about Sachin after the 11 World Cup final (the 'carry him on our shoulders' line) and couldn't do so but in the process I found this four ball run of Sachin playing Brett Lee in an ODI in Australia.



    The scenes shown in the Indian fans there are unreal, especially for cricket. Proper going off, in a way I'm not sure they do even for their current heroes.

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    Root has surpassed Michael Vaughan as England's most successful test captain; 27 test wins.

    Not sure how many test matches each have captained, but fair play to the fella. A special player.

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    What was the gist of the Kohli quote, Jimmy? Was it going to totally disprove my point?

    @Dquincy by chance I posted above this the other day.
    Quote Originally Posted by Ian View Post
    I saw that he's got our joint-most wins as England captain with Vaughan however he's also got our third-most defeats (he's captained one more test than Vaughan and lost eight more games) and days like yesterday where we can't bat through two sessions are part of the reason, plus the aforementioned inability to reign in fucking Shami and Bumrah.

    Of course he's not helped by having dreadful batsmen around him but it feels like the wins under root have come when the stars align and a handful of players manage to have a good game at the same time rather than through how the match is managed or by design.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Ian View Post
    What was the gist of the Kohli quote, Jimmy? Was it going to totally disprove my point ?
    No it was going to prove it. Basically just after they won the 2011 World Cup at the Wankhede, Tendulkar was hoisted onto players' shoulders for a lap of honour around the stadium. While this was going on, a fairly young Kohli was pulled aside to do a pitchside interview with I think Nasser Hussain, and came out with the line: 'Well, he has carried the hopes of a nation for twenty years, it's about time we carried him on our shoulders'. I thought it was lovely and respectful and spoke of Sachin in human terms rather than the deification he usually gets/got.

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    Then there is also this kind of dignity (from yesterday)...




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