Absolutely disgraceful. I’ve only managed to catch a bit of the game cause I’m at work but I’ve found myself becoming increasingly exasperated at our inability to see off the tail enders. For India to get themselves into a position from which to declare was absolutely unreal. Then we have the two most pathetic opening batsmen in a generation to come in and make absolute prats of themselves. Just **** off, we will be clinging on for a draw by tea.
No because they’ve all been playing white ball cricket. it’s mad that the ECB focussing on white ball cricket and then wondering why batsman can’t play the long game anymore.
England second innings batting is the equivalent of an England penalty shoot out. No matter if they are saving a game, chasing a win, they mostly fail ****ing miserably
See my point above. A lot of these lads have played very little county championship cricket. That can’t be good for them. If their mindset has been crash bang wallop it doesn’t translate to proper test cricket.
India played a warm up game before this series plus the test championship final. They are better prepared than England.
13 overs left to hang on... i remember people wanting boycott out of the team as he did not get runs fast enough, so they brought tavare in...he could stop in all day but would only manage 20 or 30 runs, openers are, i thought, there to take the shine off the ball and build a good start, tire the bowlers a wee bit...any bowlers get a couple of early wickets and it fires them up but if they have a couple of batsmen they cannot shift they lose some of that fire, england have surrendered wickets far too easily recently.
