The Umpire there spending more time on whether Ashwin cleanly collected the balls or not and not focusing on the fact that Root was well within the crease. Moron.
England in India 2021
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Is that the first test wicket for Bumrah in India?
Yeah, that was bizarre.
Yeah, it's his first test in India!
What's the deal with that? Has he had injury problems?
Not a pitch where you throw wickets away
edit: Suppose no pitch is, but you really have to make your first dig count on these pitches is what I meant
Workload management and injury problems.
Ive had this on for 20 mins and the commentators have not stopped talking yet.
This is super bowling from Ashwin.
Yes - the quality of the commentary and the level of analysis is just not great. I think the analysis has been fine the last 20 mins re spin but generally speaking, you'll find that pretty average too
32 overs and Bumrah has bowled about 10 off it. Need to give Nadeem a spell with two righties.
Pitch is dead. With the amount of injuries we have I don't see us getting 20 wickets here.
Ishant is bowling some spell this.
I am. Agree - all of them are bowling very well. It's just not easy to take 20 wickets with 3 bowlers unless they are Warne / McGrath / Gillespie.. We have had bad luck with the ball falling short too.. But my point is 20 wickets on a pitch like this (bowling first) won't be easy.
If these two can break the back of Indias bowlers I can see Stokes and Buttler making big runs on this. Looks like a road.
Just realized that channel 4 is also streaming the match on it's app . That's pretty amazing tbh
HAving 5 bowlers (3 spinners) should help keep us relatively fresh. It's about how well Sundar and Nadeem bowl.
Dont see England not making 500 here
Certainly looks to me like England are gonna target Washington.
Same as Trump supporters then?
Think I'll switch to Sundar. Could be a very long series otherwise...
Sub 400 imo. Expect a collapse.
That's beautiful(don't check Sundar's English translation)
Hopefully we are wrong, as I’m expecting the same
Two quick wickets and we would be likely to get rolled for 300.
So much rests on Root.
So much rests on Root.
Beautiful Washington, huh?
There's a bit of KP in Sibley - not in his intent but the way he plays his shots.
High quality cricket here, better than what I saw in Australia so far. India have bowled & fielded brilliantly on a pitch offering nothing so far for the seamers and spinners. You feel there’s always a wicket round the corner. Their mentality is top class as well. But England are putting in a dogged shift and slowly wearing the Indian attack out with the meat of England’s batting still to come. Fascinating stuff but India just edging it.
There is. Both play the ball without a trigger movement.
Class from England now.
Great to see players finally being picked up for no balls. There's going to be a notable increase.
The seamers have been really good.
Something weirdly hypnotic about Sibley's batting technique.
He looks as if he shouldn’t be playing league cricket let alone test cricket. He hardly has any shots as well. Yet he seems to somehow be able to manufacture scores and wear the bowlers out.
This match is on a knife edge. 2 wickets in the final session and India will feel they’re right in the match. Yet their 3 main strike bowlers have already bowled far more then Kohli would have ideally liked.
Cricket is a funny old game, 1 bad shot/great ball, 1 mix up in running and the match is flipped on its head. I wouldn't even consider 500 until they are past 350 with batting to come. I'd snap your hand off for 400 still.
It really is a terrible pitch. Slow and flat.
is that not always largely the case? Can we expect any lively pitches this tour?