The Cricket Thread

Jeez this pitch is making Root look like Shane Warne.

 

I am just a little bit worried for our batting line up in the 2nd innings

 

At last, the new ball.

 

Normally a score of 300-6 at stumps would be regarded as a finely balanced day, but India seem to be well on top.

 

I'm concerned enough about our 1st innings, let alone our 2nd.

I'm inclined to already totally write off our 2nd innings.

 

Another Joe Root double hundred coming up in an England total of 262 all out

 

No need to panic . Rest assured I will tell you when there is!

 

Root taking the new ball tells you how well he thinks his spinners bowled. Is it not possible for our so called front line spinners to work out they needed to bowl a bit quicker on that track..?
They have already got a hundred too many..

 

Just put your trust in Jack! Stokes did!!

 

India all out for 329 . Moment took two wickets in two balls .

 

We are 0-1 burns out 3rd ball .

 

This match underlines the need to remove the toss. Away team should automatically choose. Prepare a pitch like this and you should definitely forfeit the toss.

 

Yes I agree .

 

Dear oh dear Ollie, caught down the leg side.

 

We all saw this coming

 

England's secret weapon Broad coming in at 11 to smash the bowling all over the park! Or more likely he hits a couple of big shots then loses his off stump.

 

Well that was entirely predictable.

 

134 all out.

If this pitch was at Taunton Somerset would be relegated.

 

Hard to work out if our batting made this pitch look worse than it is or if our spin bowling is just crap.

Considering Root looked to be getting the most out of the pitch I'm leaning toward the latter!

 

Yep, which is why I'm not fussed in the slightest. This game was over on day one.

I also personally don't see the toss as being an issue in this test. It was clearly helpful in the 1st test - as it so often is on the sub-continent - but in this test, there has never been a time that it was good to bat on.

I could easily have seen us bowled out for 134 on day one, let alone day two. India have better spinners, and better batsmen against spin. So when the pitch is like this from ball one, they should always be beating us. Bat or bowl first.