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[The Light Was Yellow Sir]

Suicidal batting from Stokes. Needs to be more controlled.

His innings v Australia in 2019 showed how he can bat properly. Took plenty of time to start with and then got brutal later on.
Scored 3 from his first 73 balls, but his last 84 came from 67.

 

[melrose40yarder]

If we can get it to 100/130 behind it be a good first innings with us being 5 down for 80

Then its down to Leach to bowl em out.Parity needed.

 

[jimharri]

If we can get it to 100/130 behind it be a good first innings with us being 5 down for 80

I'd take the draw right now, given we conceded over 400 in the first innings, and were 5 down for relatively fuck all in reply. The Indians are no mugs, and are a class above the Kiwis.

 

[andyhinch]

Just think stokes believed he could clear the man but you look at Bairstows batting it’s more controlled playing the right shot at the right time..

He’s in great form.

 

[Dr Jacoby]

I'd take the draw right now, given we conceded over 400 in the first innings, and were 5 down for relatively fuck all in reply. The Indians are no mugs, and are a class above the Kiwis.

Bit harsh. They defeated India in the World Test championship final last year.

 

[Lovebitesandeveryfing]

He was brilliant at Woodstock, never knew his full name, here is one of his best

It's very cool that that's one of his names, isn't it? I suppose I've watched that clip (the full version, with Michael Shrieve's complete solo, naturally) getting on for fifty times. It's staggering. And I'm not even particularly a Santana fan.

 

[Gabriel]

Bit harsh. They defeated India in the World Test championship final last year.

Think that New Zealand side peaked last year. The New Zealand commentators openly acknowledged that both before and during the recent series. It’s not disparaging, just accepting that sides go through natural peaks and troughs.

 

[jimharri]

Bit harsh. They defeated India in the World Test championship final last year.

Maybe. I'd still rate the Indians as a more complete team. Not saying that NZ are shite; far from it. Boult and Southee are class bowlers, and Mitchell and Blundell are cracking middle order batsmen.

 

[domalino]

Suicidal batting from Stokes. Needs to be more controlled.

Not entirely sure what point he’s trying to prove now.

We get it, Bazball and Stokes means attacking cricket and taking on bowlers but you’re 250 runs behind and 5 wickets down, take a breather, get your eye in before you go after them.

The fact Bairstow is doingso well down the other end getting 500+ runs off his last 350 balls in test cricket really highlights how stupid it is but imagine if Bairstow wasn’t bailing them out with centuries every innings!

 

[domalino]

Bit harsh. They defeated India in the World Test championship final last year.

Think that New Zealand side peaked last year. The New Zealand commentators openly acknowledged that both before and during the recent series. It’s not disparaging, just accepting that sides go through natural peaks and troughs.

The NZ side that England beat didn’t have Jamieson, didn’t have De Grandhomme, Williamson had only just recovered from injury and was out of form with no cricket behind him, Nicholls was injured and came back mid series, Conway had covid.


They were a shadow of the side they were 12 months earlier.

 

[Nightmare Walking]

The NZ side that England beat didn’t have Jamieson, didn’t have De Grandhomme, Williamson had only just recovered from injury and was out of form with no cricket behind him, Nicholls was injured and came back mid series, Conway had covid.


They were a shadow of the side they were 12 months earlier.

England had all their 90+ mph bowlers missing.

 

[Gabriel]

England had all their 90+ mph bowlers missing.

Don’t they almost always?

 

[Nightmare Walking]

Don’t they almost always?

The Valeri Bojinovs of the cricketing world.

 

[Don Karleone]

Played Jonny

 

[waspish]

Be nice to have 2 player in the form of Bairstow in the same match!

 

[Lovebitesandeveryfing]

What a summer Jonny's having. Stokes is a bit brain dead at times, though, isn't he? I think he confuses swashbuckling with just downright stupid, sometimes.

 

[Ajm1985]

 

[jimharri]

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Staggering stats, really. Regularly coming in when the pressure's on, and delivering.

 

[Gabriel]

Pressure is going to be on the England bowling attack in the next innings.

 

[Lovebitesandeveryfing]

When Jonny goes — which he will, because he may be a Yorkshireman, but he's only human — it would be nice to think that the tail could pick up 50, or so — as India's tail did yesterday — and makes India's lead less utterly damaging. Unfortunately, I fear that Bumrah will just mow them down.