Cricket Thread

waspish said:
If India was 7 down and one of there players was on 86 would they have not shook stokes hand for the game to be over and a draw!? Or would England thought they would get the other 3 wickets in the next hour?

You see no one could win the game they game was dead a draw so it’s was just for the players ego to a mile stone!

Maybe if England player is on 74 the games heading for a draw and with an hour left on the final day that player might think I have at least 12 overs in next hours to get my ton so am staying here to get it!

Unless they bring a rule in that says with an hour left and there will be on result apart from a draw, the game end then!
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Sorry mate but that’s nonsense, especially as they get off the field at any and every opportunity already.
Final test match starts on Thursday and India had every right to keep England out in the field for as long as they could.
Lastly on this but, after India didn’t walk off, had England taken 2 quick wickets and Pant unable to bat, had the next Indian batsman walked in and gone to shake Stokes’ hand he’d have been left in no doubt that England were going nowhere…
 
EastMidlandsBlue said:
www.bbc.co.uk

England v India: Gautam Gambhir involved in confrontation with Surrey ground staff over Test pitch

Video footage emerges on social media of a confrontation between India head coach Gautam Gambhir and Surrey's head of ground staff, Lee Fortis.
www.bbc.co.uk www.bbc.co.uk

India head coach angry at being told to keep off the test match wicket at the oval! Heard it all now
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Now that is a shocker. Apparently he told the groundsman he was ‘just a groundsman, nothing beyond that.’ Disrespectful arse.
 
Hehe bit of needle down at the oval. India assistant had a point though, they're in rubber shoes pacing about, it's going to have two teams smashing about on it in 2 days, for 5 days!! It's fine.

Bit of stress from Gambhir and Fortis, that's all. Gambhir should be careful of his demeanor in future, but perhaps the groundsman was a bit over zealous, this lads do know cricket.
 
Zak Crawley, Ben Duckett, Ollie Pope (captain), Joe Root, Harry Brook, Jacob Bethell, Jamie Smith (wicketkeeper), Chris Woakes, Gus Atkinson, Jamie Overton, Josh Tongue.

Stokes injured.
No specialist spinner.

Atkinson - 1 second XI match since May
Overton - 1 first class match since May
 
Let’s hope it Brook as captain not Pope who is not good captain and his batting is suspect! Brook got more about him as captain
 
BringBackSwales said:
Yes the good news is that the team in second place, who they haven’t catch, is Glamorgan and we have to play them twice. The bad news is 2 of our 4 remaining games are at OT where I think there’s been a lot of drawn games this season
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I see what you mean now..........defeat is looking more likely as we speak unfortunately
 
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