******Cricket Thread******

[MillionMilesAway]

I did. But India seem happy to keep batting. Plenty of time for England to lose heavily, though .

Maybe they've been asked to make day 4 reasonable length?!

Given the tight timetable, there is value to India in wearing England down more, as well as batsmen getting decent scores. I expect 100 each will keep them happy, which won't be before tea, I'd think.

 

[Wretched Vengeance]

Maybe they've been asked to make day 4 reasonable length?!

Given the tight timetable, there is value to India in wearing England down more, as well as batsmen getting decent scores. I expect 100 each will keep them happy, which won't be before tea, I'd think.

I'd agree with all of that.

 

[Wretched Vengeance]

They've finally declared with a huge lead of 520.

England have 9 overs to negotiate.

 

[jimharri]

521 runs to win, in two days and a bit. Should be a piece of piss. Double centuries for Cook and Root and a 50+ for Buttler. That nice Stokes fella to see them home.

 

[bavarian blue]

521 runs to win, in two days and a bit. Should be a piece of piss. Double centuries for Cook and Root and a 50+ for Buttler. That nice Stokes fella to see them home.

Summed it up perfectly.

 

[waspish]

Livened the series up now it’s 2-1 root made quite a few mistakes in this test number 1 is not batting first 2 picking stokes 3 not dropping Jennings who is one of the worse test match cricketers we have seen for a long time he has cost us fcuking loads of runs because he can’t bat and dropping nearly every fcuking chance that comes to him. He needs to be dropped after this test match.

 

[remember arthur mann]

Over-cooked again, flirt him !

 

[waspish]

just drop Jennings who is fcuking shite and get a another young cricketer in the team transition period incoming.

 

[lancs blue]

10 out of 12 innings gone for the top 6 England batsmen, nobody over 30 so far with Bairstow missing and Buttler and Stokes still at the crease. Shambles.

 

[Dr Jacoby]

The flattering 2-0 scoreline somewhat papered over the figurative cracks as England’s batting has been distinctly average for sometime now.

Even though you would think he’d have two or three years left at the highest level, Cook seems to be pretty much finished as an International cricketer.

Much like Stoneman, Malan and Robson, Jennings doesn’t appear to be good enough for test cricket.

I like the look of Pope but he’s probably batting too high at this stage of his career.

Out of the top five, I only believe Root and Bairstow should be certain starters.