Cricket: 2014 India tour of England, 9th July-7th September

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Big chance, Ballance should have been gone.

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4 down, Root gone.

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Nice way to get off the mark

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If India don't want DRS, why should that stop the other team from not having it?

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Plunkett on fire, hat trick ball coming up

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Ben Stokes is having a poor time with the bat too. Tomorrow will be good, India currently have 145 runs lead, they will be looking to get at least another 150 runs, early wickets will be the key for England.

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Flipping hell.

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105-4 at stumps. Disappointing.

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Alastair Cook is a broken man.

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Big day today, India are on top, but it isn't over yet for England, Root and Moeen Ali are good players, if they can hang in and score runs, change the strike regularly, England can draw or even win. Plus dangerman James Anderson is still here

Alastair Cook misused Moeen Ali. Moeen Ali is a pretty handy spinner, picks up wickets, and as he plays on, he can get better, but England do need a proper spinner.

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Cook needs to go ASAP, his being treated too kindly, poor captain.

Stokes is in piss poor form, bring back Chris Jordan, and Matt Prior is in horrible form too.

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Eoin Morgan should be the new Captain.

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Leithen said:

Fishtigua said:

This time last year we were thrashing the Aussies, what's gone wrong in just one year?

You can only paper over cracks for so long.

Oh and Australia got their st together.

When they beat Australia 3-0 in the home ashes, the selectors should have seen the problems, plenty of players were outta form, but the 3-0 win got to their heads.

Ian bell is out of form badlu too. This is the same Ian Bell who scored three centuries in the home ashes series.

27 innings without a half century for Alastair Cook, never mind a century. Since the start of the 2013 ashes, he's averaged 23, and this year his average is 14.

Liam Pl

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England were undone by the short ball. The worst dismissal was Ben Stokes, why, why WTF would you play that shot?! His recent scores read like a foreign telephone number. 6 ducks in his last ten innings, including 4 in a row. His just living off the century he scored against the Aussies in the Ashes.

Liam Plunkett, Ballance, Moeen Ali and Joe Root have done alright IMO.

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Adil Rashid?

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IMO Cook is being treated too kindly, if he wasn't captain, he would have been out of the side ages ago. I don't know what Graeme Swann has been smoking;

"He's standing tall and refusing to buckle. It's brilliant from him," Swann, who retired at the end of 2013, told BBC Sport.

"He has an inner steel, stronger than anyone else I've ever known. He's going to fight like hellfire to change it round."

'Brilliant'. Really??

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I think Prior has played his last test match. He isn't 100% fit, so I have no idea why the selectors picked him.

England and Alastair Cook have become the laughing stock of the cricket world.

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Squad for third test, I'd drop Stokes and bring Jordan back.

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Samit Patel wants to be play for England in the tests.

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Ravindra Jadeja fined 50% of his match fee
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