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Post by coverpoint on Feb 15, 2021 7:52:46 GMT
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Post by coverpoint on Feb 15, 2021 9:51:42 GMT
Finally some sense from an Englishman:
@ryansidebottom
This isn’t a bad pitch ... 550 runs from India in this match. Proving you can score runs, be a great test for England to dig deep and score runs. There’s always gonna be home advantage by playing to your strengths, like Greener wickets in England #testcricket #INDvsENG
Other tweets
Whether a pitch is good or bad can’t be judged from one team’s lack of skill to play on it. And if a Test ends in less than 5 days because of that inability, don’t blame the pitch. To me a poor pitch is one that can’t produce 40wkts or one that risks injuries for batsmen #IndvEng
5 Indians have scored half centuries with one daddy hundred on what is touted as an unplayable pitch! Rohit Ajinkya Rishabh Virat and Ashwin.
Players to a score a hundred & take a five-wicket haul in a Test
Ian Botham - 5
Garry Sobers - 2
M Mohammad - 2
J Kallis - 2
R Ashwin - 2
Shakib Al Hasan - 2
Ashwin's looking become the only player after Ian Botham to achieve this double on more than two occasions.
Alistair Cook in 2010:
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Post by coverpoint on Feb 16, 2021 7:43:51 GMT
I would drop Burns, Lawrence, Broad and Stone and bring in Crawley, Bess, Archer and Anderson and bat Moeen at 3 like we did the last tour.
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Post by gmdf on Feb 16, 2021 8:05:46 GMT
I would drop Burns, Lawrence, Broad and Stone and bring in Crawley, Bess, Archer and Anderson and bat Moeen at 3 like we did the last tour. Isn't Moeen expected to return home now? |
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Post by coverpoint on Feb 16, 2021 9:21:26 GMT
I would drop Burns, Lawrence, Broad and Stone and bring in Crawley, Bess, Archer and Anderson and bat Moeen at 3 like we did the last tour. Isn't Moeen expected to return home now? What was the point of bringing him in for one test? I would certainly bring back Anderson, Archer and Bess for Ali, Broad and Stone. I would also expect Crawley to come back in for Burns. |
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Post by gmdf on Feb 16, 2021 9:48:27 GMT
Isn't Moeen expected to return home now? What was the point of bringing him in for one test? I would certainly bring back Anderson, Archer and Bess for Ali, Broad and Stone. I would also expect Crawley to come back in for Burns. He's been on tour in a bubble (or in quarantine when he tested positive for Covid) for 6 weeks, and it was always planned that he would return home (to a young family, I believe) at this point. |
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Post by coverpoint on Feb 16, 2021 12:43:47 GMT
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Post by joe on Feb 16, 2021 20:46:42 GMT
I’d go with that but don’t think we’ll need 2 spinners under lights with the pink ball so I’d swap Bess for Wood/Stone. |
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Post by liquidskin on Feb 16, 2021 22:06:59 GMT
Win toss, win game. Moeen & Leach turning it square on day one, with some not turning which makes it even trickier. Uneven bounce too. 350, 285, 220, 175. Give or take. Optimist Yep, pattern was right though. We won the first test cos we won the toss, they won the second cos they did. Hopefully that pattern can change if the next one is a day/night pink affair. Wondered why it's starting five hours later. Might have to bunk off work. |
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Post by flashblade on Feb 17, 2021 9:26:54 GMT
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Post by liquidskin on Feb 24, 2021 12:00:59 GMT
Christ on stilts I bunked off work for this debacle of a batting display. So many batsmen playing for spin that isn't there, shambolic. Well & truly back down to earth over the second and third tests for this very ordinary England test team.
Leach goes, 98-8.
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Post by joe on Feb 24, 2021 12:37:55 GMT
Good grief 😳
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Post by coverpoint on Feb 24, 2021 13:19:00 GMT
Why is Bess not playing when India's spinners have taken nine wickets?
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Post by liquidskin on Feb 24, 2021 13:39:28 GMT
Why is Bess not playing when India's spinners have taken nine wickets? I thought India played one too many and England played one short - 3 & 2 seemed right to me, so they should have played Bess. It is in India after all but they went dizzy with the pink ball and the day/night thing I reckon. On this evidence India should have played five spinners cos England are clueless. Top order batters missing slow straight balls, astonishing. The ball's turning sharp about one in 30. Play for the 29 that don't and let the one spin off elsewhere you morons. Ever heard of moving your feet too? Get down. Too late now, done for. Game over. |
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Post by liquidskin on Feb 24, 2021 13:41:45 GMT
And to make matters worse, Stokes clearly grasses a chance and England moan like crazy at the right decision of not out. Very poor.
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