England V India cricket
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It must be demoralising. Most batting teams are more or less dead and buried by the time you've got wicket number six or seven. That extra hundred is going to be absolutely crucial, especially if Kohli gets established in the crease.
I know it's a dead rubber but both teams still look to want to win this, even if for pride, the chef or personal reasons. I'm glad Cook got a good first innings total, Jennings and Ali did manage to hang around for a fair length of time and keep the pressure off the middle order, shame Root and Bairstow are in the doldrums. England need to learn how to play themselves out of a hole and they've seemingly achieved this several times during this series. Whether this has happened by luck or by judgement it is hard to tell.
I know it's a dead rubber but both teams still look to want to win this, even if for pride, the chef or personal reasons. I'm glad Cook got a good first innings total, Jennings and Ali did manage to hang around for a fair length of time and keep the pressure off the middle order, shame Root and Bairstow are in the doldrums. England need to learn how to play themselves out of a hole and they've seemingly achieved this several times during this series. Whether this has happened by luck or by judgement it is hard to tell.
WindyCommon said:
Jimmy hoping that Buttler won’t let him down again...
I know, it’s shocking. Jimmy’s only weakness is his doesn’t know how to bat with tailenders. He persistently let Buttler have the strike, when really Anderson should have been keeping it for himself as the more secure batsman. Anyway Jimmy stranded again, whilst in the process of closing in on his hundred.
WindyCommon said:
I find it hard to warm to Gramme Swann. I do like his stints on TMS but i just can't get to like him for some reason.Maybe it's the way he retired mid Ashes series when we were getting a good shoeing a few years ago that still grates with me .
Boycott wanted to vote him out of strictly on TMS yesterday which was amusing.
I tend to find a lot of ex cricketers annoying.
Darren Gough is a shock jock, Freddie Flintoff is a flat earth society muppet. Michael Vaughan is like Geoffrey Boycott's mini me. I don't mind Boycott these days, he's obviously being told to cheer up or suffer the same fate as John McCririck.
Graeme Swann is a bit smug in my opinion, although I don't think he is purely to blame for England's subsequent lack of a decent spinner.
Darren Gough is a shock jock, Freddie Flintoff is a flat earth society muppet. Michael Vaughan is like Geoffrey Boycott's mini me. I don't mind Boycott these days, he's obviously being told to cheer up or suffer the same fate as John McCririck.
Graeme Swann is a bit smug in my opinion, although I don't think he is purely to blame for England's subsequent lack of a decent spinner.
Dr Z said:
Good to see our lower order frustrate your lot for once.
England still just ahead in the game.
As an England fan I agree. I've got something slightly tedious to do tomorrow (first day of a two week long archaeological excavation) which a day's test cricket would certainly enliven.England still just ahead in the game.
I keep saying it but this test series has been an absolute joy, because the teams are very evenly matched.
spikeyhead said:
warch said:
That begs the question; who are we going to pick as our openers?
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