Ben Stokes dealing in sixes here could we see a record being broken?
England in India 2021
- Thread starter TheGame
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The Indian top order place too much importance in their wickets, and consistently have ridiculously slow starts. It works fine when you convert those into knocks with 120+ SR later in the innings, but that is an exception rather than a norm these days. The game has changed, as Eoin Morgan said, and teams must adapt. Aggression from the word go is the blueprint. Changed balls and modern powerplays, emergence of a T20-centric mindset (was it Morgan who also mentioned modern 'bats' ?), micro-analysis of bowler actions/variations with modern technology - all of it leads to an enviroment where fearless stroke-filled batting is rewarded more richly than the desire to conserve wickets. Moreover, you cannot expect the Pants and the Pandyas to walk in every time and score 100 runs in the last 10 overs - it's not sustainable at all.
Australia, England, New Zealand - all of them have quick-scoring openers who don't mind if they get out trying to play shots. India should take a leaf out of their books, and have a more aggressive approach to opening. Rohit has perhaps earned his right to pace his innings, but his opening partner has to be attacking. We've been so used to Kohli fluently converting his starts that the need for this change of mindset was never as pressing before - we must not forget it once Kohli inevitably finds form.
Australia, England, New Zealand - all of them have quick-scoring openers who don't mind if they get out trying to play shots. India should take a leaf out of their books, and have a more aggressive approach to opening. Rohit has perhaps earned his right to pace his innings, but his opening partner has to be attacking. We've been so used to Kohli fluently converting his starts that the need for this change of mindset was never as pressing before - we must not forget it once Kohli inevitably finds form.
You love watching England lose series'?
The game was done half an hour ago.
Ha. I won’t disagree today.
This is ridiculous. Honestly ridiculous.
Ben Stokes in this form is playing a different game to everyone else
Also Stokes shouldn't even be out there. Awful umpiring saved him.
Forget video game. This is worse than stick cricket. 
England should bat first and give a lesson to our batsmen what intent actually means. Meanwhile ours can just talk about intent while doing jackshit.
England should bat first and give a lesson to our batsmen what intent actually means. Meanwhile ours can just talk about intent while doing jackshit.
Dhawan has to go so should these spinners. But kohli is too loyal to them and won't let his ego admit that he was wrong dropping ashwin.
Cos our batsman didn't even try anything.
More or less glad that we are losing this. Our approach is fecking shit.
I posted earlier that India play by numbers. It will win them a lot of games and keep up a high ranking, but can you win a tournament this way?
You have waited for a long time to post this. Feel sorry for you tbh
England finally turn up on the tour when they're preparing to leave for the airport.
Yeah mate. You only got thumped in the tests and lost the T20s. 1 ODI win must do so much for you.
Little Englander mentality is so difficult to understand
I am furious that we let Moeen Ali complete his quota with an economy of 4.7 on this pitch.
I think fours have been banned from this game now.
Good to see the umpire didn’t bottle the no ball call. Ridiculous shot thought.
Forget video game. This is worse than stick cricket.
England should bat first and give a lesson to our batsmen what intent actually means. Meanwhile ours can just talk about intent while doing jackshit.
Bit harsh, this is a must win game for us and they've really turned up.
T20 series was close enough if a little dull.
Test series was no contest.
As if losing is gonna make the coach or captain change their ways. They're hopelessly thick.
Last 5 ov (RR)
88/0 (17.60)
88/0 (17.60)
This is brilliant batting. But kohli will not like it as he thinks batting slow pays dividends.
Feels like we are a Mourinho team being swept away by Klopp's Liverpool.
Yeah probably was.
This was inevitable though. We've no answer to the England batsmen other than hoping for them to collapse. Our team is so dumb for thinking this could work. We needed about 600 today.
Ben Stokes was 50 off 40 balls. He is now 95 off 50.
Agreed.
Looks bad for Rohit.
This reminds me of that awful Australian series in 2013 where James Faulkner looked like prime Viv Richards.
Comeback is on!
Shame for Stokes but he should have been run out TBH.
Stokes.
Cheeky £10 on India win?
Consecutive dot balls! GET IN THERE!
https://www.redcafe.net/threads/we-won-a-throw-in-get-in-there.182559/
https://www.redcafe.net/threads/we-won-a-throw-in-get-in-there.182559/
Don't blame our bowlers too much. These pitches/grounds are primed for minimum 400 and we're still living in the 90s where 300 is an awesome total.
Sunil Chudaskar "anything above 300 is really tough to chase"
I've been complaining about this since the shit show in the WC. How we still win games with this shit formula is beyond me. Makes it even funnier than England choked the last match - batting wont ever be easier and India wont change their approach.
Is it wrong I wanted Ben Stokes to get his 100? That was just beautiful clean hitting.
Traditional middle order collapse incoming.
Oh god...
Choooooooke.
It was unfortunate, you're not the only one. His innings today was reminiscent of what Yuvraj used to do for us in his prime.