Time for Jack Leach to block out 3 sessions for 3 runs 
England in India 2021
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He hasn't mate. In fact he's hardly played in the Championship. He's been great in the white-ball comps but has hardly played red-ball (an example of the problems we've chatted about earlier, regarding a lack of opportunity for young English spinners).
He's gonna score a double hundred. Quote me.Time for Jack Leach to block out 3 sessions for 3 runs
Leach out!
feck this for a game of soldiers.
Ok
Well done! You at least got one zero correct.
Win some, you lose some.
Meaningless in the longterm, but you don't send out a nightwatchman on this wicket. That was inevitable/makes your better batsmen look weak.
I was born in India. The UK has been my home for most of my life. My maternal grandparents are from Pakistan. Basically, I'm a confused soul.
Surely Virdee from Surrey is next in line to be given a shot and he plays regularly for Surrey and has been playing really well.
Root saved by the bell
If that was an English batsman, he'd have been out, right @Ayush_reddevil
That was out, to be honest.
That's so bad by the umpire. If he thought he nicked the ball it's out, if he didn't then it's out LBW.
That looked out to me.
Pure incompetence. Root saved by the bellend.
They thought impact was outside off but to the naked eye, it looked out.
Root escaped one, though at this point it hardly matters
Wow umpires again saving the home team.
I'll be getting up about three hours into tomorrow's play. Can't see it still going when I turn the TV on.
England just need to find some positives tomorrow. They've already got Stone's performance. Would be great if Lawrence could kick on and get a 50 and Pope can get back into form.
Otherwise, it's a foregone conclusion. India just too strong on this pitch.
England just need to find some positives tomorrow. They've already got Stone's performance. Would be great if Lawrence could kick on and get a 50 and Pope can get back into form.
Otherwise, it's a foregone conclusion. India just too strong on this pitch.
That looked so out.... & here's Kohli behaving like a captain should. Root would just have smiled & got on with it.
We want players intimidating umpires now do we?
The impact DRS rule is so stupid. It's completely and utterly factual, either it's hitting them in the line or it isn't (and I don't care if you decide it should be 51% of the ball in line or 1% of the ball). There's no reason for umpires call to be there.
Eh? what are you on about? Root was respectfully querying the 3rd umpire decision yesterday with the on field umpires. Should he be jumping up and down?
Think Foakes's performance with the bat in the 1st innings and the gloves has been good. Think Leach has done ok. But yeah we really need to get as many positives in this innings going into the next match.
Don't want captain's behaving like Kohli did there
Kohli was bang out of order, seems to think he can do whatever he wants.
Of course the umpire is so bad that he didn't even realize it hit the pad , he just gave it not out because of caught behind .
Are you genuinely suggesting home umpires favouring the home team is not an actual thing ? There's a reason the ICC decided on neutral umpires in the first place. They might not do it on every occasion but that doesn't change the fact that subconscious bias exists
Kohli treats Indian umpires like his subordinates, another reason for not having Indian umpires
Not intimidating, no. Questioning them definitely.
He should be more vociferous imo, yes. As should Silverwood.
In hindsight, maybe yes. I'll confess to not seeing all the pictures on this one until just not. I stand by the fact England are & have been too nice earlier in this Test.
But he's not entitled to do that and neither is Silverwood. Is the decision going to be changed if they shout and scream? no. So they just get on with it.
Definitely - Without doubt (used for emphasis).WTF does that even mean?
There you go.
There is a video of the first test with Kohli shouting "Oye Menon look at this guy " from first slip when Root was running on the pitch . They are like highschool buddies
My opinion England are too nice when decisions are perceived to go against us.
It's just intimidating & trying to put pressure for future decisions
Class performance by Ashwin. I felt he was doing disservice to his batting but since the Aussie series he is coming back to be the all rounder he once was. I was never his huge fan but looking at his career he is a special cricketer and probably under appreciated. If he continues like this he will retire with some insane numbers.