Off Topic India v England 3rd Test

England win toss and do their best to throw away the advantage. 124-4 with Stokes and Bairstow again trying to rescue it...

 

A decent recovery now at 203-5 with Bairstow again holding the innings together and Buttler justifying his selection. England will need 350 to be competitive.

 

268-8 close, poor days batting, seen the wickets some poor dismissals there.

 

England were looking in trouble at tea with India dominating but three quick wickets have evened things up. Kohli still there as the big danger but this is now looking a proper match...

 

England letting this slip a bit, strong 7th wicket partnership putting India in charge. We badly need a late wicket...

 

India got far too runs from the position they was in, no England look like throwing it away 54-2

 

78-4 at the close. We've simply been outplayed in the 2nd and 3rd tests. We should just about avoid the innings defeat but don't bank on it...

 

To sum it up, we are fooked!

 

Perhaps we should add the England team to the 'RIP' thread...

 

It only goes to prove that English players can't cope on a spinning wicket. Can't see us surviving tomorrow.

 

It wasn't turning on day one. We should have scored 350-400 at least batting first.

A wonderful innings from Hameed this morning has taken the England lead to 100. It's a case of what might have been.

 

Should have come in higher up.

 

He would have done but had an injury I believe.

 

Didn't see anything of day one, the commentators have just said exactly the same thing. Self inflicted then.

 

That's where we lost on day batting, ball wasn't spinning a lot & pitch good, just very poor shots.

 

Batted second innings with a broken finger.

 

Having just looked at the scorecard it would appear that in England's second innings only Root, Hameed and Woakes offered any resistance.