Off Topic Cricket Thread

What with that win and the windies beating the Aussies, let’s hope the football has the same outcome for us

 

Wow, wow, wow, wow, wow.....

Possible the finest win in India..... Until now India had never lost a home test when they had a 1st innings lead of 100 or more.....

Hold my hand up..... my post about doing well to make India bat again on day 2 hasn't aged well....

Now just need the R's to do the business...

 

Sensational win

 

Fantastic win. Our spinners mostly put the ball in the right place it seems, as opposed to the first innings.
Sets up the series a treat.

 

Most of us agreed mate.
Stunning win.
Kholi will no doubt make a difference though.

 

Last over?

 

Of the day pal

 

Sensational win, and probably our best under Stokes and McCullum. Pope's innings one of tge best I've seen, and without doubt his best. For Hartley to overturn what happened to him in the 1st innings was quite remarkable and will surely set him up for a great England career. To tell the truth I'm in shock at what I've seen, never saw it coming at all ! Added to it that the Aussies lost to the Windies and its been a great day, so far ! Marvelous

 

There'd have been an extra half hour.

 

We claimed that pal, it was getting seriously dark

 

Unless the cognac had made me see things !

 

Ah, ok.

 

**** the football, I'm going to try to forget today's ****show and glory in England's fantastic win in India. An utterly brilliant performance.

Hopefully there'll be a highlights show to enjoy later.

 

Cheers mate. I actually watched the remainder of England's innings (I set my alarm for 4am like a proper saddo) and saw most of India's innings post-tea, so I only really missed lunch till tea, when I went back to sleep. So much to be encouraged about by this performance.

 

Thanks for that. What a shame the ground was half empty. There was every chance that India would win and still they didn’t turn up. The IPL really is killing the format.

 

The last test is being played at Dharamshala, a hill station on the way up to the Himalayas.
I’m determined to see a game of cricket at this ground before I peg it.

 

There were 28,000 there on day 4.
The test was quite well attended.

 

It has a capacity of 55,000 and regularly gets 37,000 for IPL games. For the 4th day of a Test India looked very likely to win I would have expected a lot more.