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Out! Kohli holes out to a full toss from Swann! 65-4. Excellent!

 

Yuvraj has gone now! Panesar has his 3rd wicket. 78-5. England really should win from here.

 

Dhoni has gone! Caught at slip off Panesar. India now 92-6!!

 

Monty has bowled very well this test! Wonder how the groundsmen will set up the next pitch?

 

India's scorecard:

Gambhir not out 40
Sehwag c Swann b Panesar 9
Pujara c Bairstow b Swann 6
Tendulkar lbw b Panesar 8
Kohli c Sub b Swann 7
Yuvraj c Bairstow b Panesar 8
Dhoni c Trott b Panesar 6
Ashwin not out 1
Extras 6b 2lb 8
Total for 6 93

Apart from Gambhir:

 

Great stuff from England! Hope they don't throw it away.

 

They won't throw it away now. 110-7. Panesar has 5-61!

 

Excellent!

 

Stumps. India - 117-7 lead by 31 runs. England should wrap it up tomorrow.

 

Serious answer: Become an intern. Intern at a law firm of some kind and that'll help get your foot in the door. Who knows, it may even lead to a full time position. Seems to do with other people, not myself though. And I'm sure, since you did something useful, you won't have much difficulty finding a job, unlike myself. Geography, yeah that was a great idea

 

Well done Monty - fully deserves it.

 

Pleased for both England in general and Monty in particular! I'll tell a little tale related to someone's warped attitude! Went to a pub in the Fareham area a few years ago with a chap with whom I was friends with at the time. He makes a comment to the then manager beomoaning the fact that England's team consisted of players whose names were non-English! I looked at this "friend" incrediculously whilst the manager made the "friend's" pronouncements sound foolish, which they were!

Poor "friend" also had many other deluded ideas such as being against women priests, the ordained order where we should be ruled by those born to rule ie the aristocractic people of the world and that Pompey were a more famous team than Liverpool in the 50s(who apparently were a non-entity at the time when he was growing up). Sadly for him, his brain has remained in that time!!

 

Well, I suppose he got the last bit right. Liverpool were very much an old 2nd division so-so club. Then Bill Shankly came along and the rest, as they say, is history.

 

I will always love Monty after his dropped catch a few years back, which was rapidly followed by an almost identical ball. The look on his face like a rabbit in headlights and then his sheer joy when he caught it. Glad he's back in the fold.

 

I love Monty because you can just tells he loves the game and every moment, he's always just so happy, although I think he does have butterflies in his stomach when he's patrolling the boundaries 'please don't come my way please don't come my way'. And his appeals and celebrations are brilliant.

Still can't understand why we didn't select him for the first game.

 

If anybody has kids who go to St Johns Primary and Nursery Schools in Southampton, they are closed tomorrow due to the classrooms being flooded.

Got that off Radio Solent.

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