| Cricket 04:21 - Feb 15 with 2472 views | vapour_trail |
Brilliant from Foakes and Leach.
What a start. |  |
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| Cricket on 04:31 - Feb 15 with 1991 views | vapour_trail |
Foakes on fire! | |
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| Cricket on 04:51 - Feb 15 with 1969 views | Coastalblue |
Great to go down with a fight but sadly whatever England manage to do is going to be academic at this point. |  |
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| Cricket on 05:05 - Feb 15 with 1947 views | vapour_trail |
| Cricket on 04:51 - Feb 15 by Coastalblue |
Great to go down with a fight but sadly whatever England manage to do is going to be academic at this point. |
Yeah right. 250ish ahead already. Needs a monsoon.
Leach a menace this morning though. | |
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| Cricket on 07:33 - Feb 15 with 1866 views | Steve_M |
Good start today clearly but this partnership is just rubbing it in now. Hopefully England can make a decent score in the fourth innings and make some runs ahead of the next two Tests. |  |
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| Cricket on 07:40 - Feb 15 with 1850 views | Herbivore |
| Cricket on 07:33 - Feb 15 by Steve_M |
Good start today clearly but this partnership is just rubbing it in now. Hopefully England can make a decent score in the fourth innings and make some runs ahead of the next two Tests. |
Yeah, I think the best we can hope for now is to save face with a battling fourth innings. See if the openers can stick around for a bit, maybe a couple of other batsmen dig in and get a score. Go into the final test with a bit of momentum at least. Much as the pitch is awful, some of our batting in the first innings was fairly ordinary. |  |
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| Cricket on 07:56 - Feb 15 with 1798 views | bluewein |
| Cricket on 07:40 - Feb 15 by Herbivore |
Yeah, I think the best we can hope for now is to save face with a battling fourth innings. See if the openers can stick around for a bit, maybe a couple of other batsmen dig in and get a score. Go into the final test with a bit of momentum at least. Much as the pitch is awful, some of our batting in the first innings was fairly ordinary. |
All I've learned from this test is that it's perfectly fine to complain about green wickets and clouds for three years, but pointing out a wicket falling apart at lunch on day 1 is a definite no-no... |  |
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| Cricket on 08:16 - Feb 15 with 1738 views | Herbivore |
Ben Foakes actually missed a chance, I've seen it all now. | |
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| Cricket on 08:19 - Feb 15 with 1730 views | Steve_M |
| Cricket on 07:40 - Feb 15 by Herbivore |
Yeah, I think the best we can hope for now is to save face with a battling fourth innings. See if the openers can stick around for a bit, maybe a couple of other batsmen dig in and get a score. Go into the final test with a bit of momentum at least. Much as the pitch is awful, some of our batting in the first innings was fairly ordinary. |
Seems that the consensus is that the ball goes softer after 30 overs or so and batting becomes a bit easier. Be good to get through that and aim to bet this third innings score to start with.
Yes, England never got a partnership going - Sibley and Root both failing didn't help - until they were five down. It was a it late then. | |
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| Cricket on 08:23 - Feb 15 with 1716 views | Herbivore |
| Cricket on 08:19 - Feb 15 by Steve_M |
Seems that the consensus is that the ball goes softer after 30 overs or so and batting becomes a bit easier. Be good to get through that and aim to bet this third innings score to start with.
Yes, England never got a partnership going - Sibley and Root both failing didn't help - until they were five down. It was a it late then. |
Yeah, it does seem that once the ball goes soft and you get in on the pitch it is possible to get a decent partnership going. If we can get a couple of those and try to get past 250 at least, that'd be a respectable effort. We've bowled fairly well today, spinners still inconsistent at times and that's probably the big difference between the sides on this pitch. | |
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| Cricket on 08:24 - Feb 15 with 1714 views | jimsymBLUE |
| Cricket on 07:56 - Feb 15 by bluewein |
All I've learned from this test is that it's perfectly fine to complain about green wickets and clouds for three years, but pointing out a wicket falling apart at lunch on day 1 is a definite no-no... |
We've been completely outplayed but I firmly believe had we won the toss this game would be much tighter. We're fighting hard but this game was effectively over at tea on Day 1.
It should be hard to beat SC teams away but this pitch is p!ss poor.
My only gripe today is why we haven't tried to take Ashwin out, Stone should aiming for his digits, at times we're a bit too nice. |  |
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| Cricket on 08:27 - Feb 15 with 1691 views | GlasgowBlue |
Ben Foakes dad was my PE teacher at high school. A lovely bloke who died too young.
He stood in for our English teacher when he was off sick once. Peter Foakes told us all to read our assigned book and then proceeded to sit with his feet on his desk and read a daily newspaper for the entire lesson. |  |
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| Cricket on 08:41 - Feb 15 with 1650 views | Chrisd |
| Cricket on 04:51 - Feb 15 by Coastalblue |
Great to go down with a fight but sadly whatever England manage to do is going to be academic at this point. |
I’d be really surprised if England matched their first innings total. |  |
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| Cricket on 09:34 - Feb 15 with 1574 views | gainsboroughblue |
Broad hasn't bowled much in this test. I wonder if they'll be tempted to abandon the planned rotation and play him and Jimmy together for the day-nighter along with possibly Woakes. |  |
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| Cricket on 09:44 - Feb 15 with 1546 views | Herbivore |
If we can keep the chase to under 500 I reckon we're still well in the game. | |
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| Cricket on 09:46 - Feb 15 with 1540 views | vapour_trail |
| Cricket on 09:34 - Feb 15 by gainsboroughblue |
Broad hasn't bowled much in this test. I wonder if they'll be tempted to abandon the planned rotation and play him and Jimmy together for the day-nighter along with possibly Woakes. |
He was bowling well when I went to bed just before lunch.
Ashwin on the verge now. | |
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| Cricket on 09:48 - Feb 15 with 1532 views | Nthsuffolkblue |
Doesn't appear to be a lot of social distancing in a lot of the crowd.
The only way we stand a chance in this match is if all menace leaves the pitch that turns incredibly flat. |  |
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| Cricket on 09:49 - Feb 15 with 1532 views | Reuser_is_God |
| Cricket on 09:34 - Feb 15 by gainsboroughblue |
Broad hasn't bowled much in this test. I wonder if they'll be tempted to abandon the planned rotation and play him and Jimmy together for the day-nighter along with possibly Woakes. |
A fairly pointless selection in hindsight. |  |
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| Cricket on 09:50 - Feb 15 with 1529 views | Reuser_is_God |
| Cricket on 09:44 - Feb 15 by Herbivore |
If we can keep the chase to under 500 I reckon we're still well in the game. |
Haha. | |
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| Cricket on 09:54 - Feb 15 with 1513 views | Reuser_is_God |
Show some fight in the second innings & go again in the 3rd which is the pink ball game. | |
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| Cricket on 10:00 - Feb 15 with 1505 views | Sharkey |
| Cricket on 08:16 - Feb 15 by Herbivore |
Ben Foakes actually missed a chance, I've seen it all now. |
I'm sorry to say, he missed a routine stumping yesterday. He's very good, but he ain't Foster. |  | | |
| Cricket on 10:06 - Feb 15 with 1489 views | Sharkey |
India really do the most ridiculous review requests. I hope none of these non-strikers ever go on to be umpires. | | | |
| Cricket on 10:06 - Feb 15 with 1484 views | Nthsuffolkblue |
| Cricket on 09:44 - Feb 15 by Herbivore |
If we can keep the chase to under 500 I reckon we're still well in the game. |
Seems to be the Indian thinking. Going to bat us right out of it.
Siraj swinging very successfully. | |
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| Cricket on 10:10 - Feb 15 with 1473 views | Ace_High1 |
| Cricket on 10:06 - Feb 15 by Nthsuffolkblue |
Seems to be the Indian thinking. Going to bat us right out of it.
Siraj swinging very successfully. |
I like the look of Siraj. Very good in Australia and playing well with bat here, also got a wicket first ball in our innings.
Looks a bit of a rockstar character, a bit like Jadeja. Shame he is out as he is box office, would have got a hatful of wickets on this pitch. |  | | |
| Cricket on 10:14 - Feb 15 with 1467 views | Nthsuffolkblue |
Wife just asked "is it finished? Is it half time?" | |
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| Cricket on 10:28 - Feb 15 with 1446 views | Nthsuffolkblue |
Sibley 50 n.o. and Burns 400 n.o. win by 10 wickets? | |
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