English cricket thread

England walking this now. Easy 6-7 wicket win.
 
I'm loving the tongue in cheek confidence on here. For me its gone from 90/10 India to 80/20 India.
 
There is nothing in the pitch and we have shardul bowling. So that should tell everything
 
Just casually noticed Kohli hasn't scored a century since November 2019 - his sledging average gone well up in that time apparently though. His form has fallen off a cliff, dude doesn't even average over 30 since then, drop the scrub.
 
So are solution to having rubbish opening partnerships, is for our openers to bat like they're in the middle order.
 
Still have to back India here. Too much nous and the bowlers haven’t bowled much yet.
 
England have knocked off 100 runs from the total without losing any wicket and their best batsman are yet to come and you still think India have India at an 80% chance to win :lol:
Yes, because in cricket 1 brings 2 and this England line-up have as much chance of collapsing as firing. Its very easy to get carried away. England need another 280 and in history there have only been 11 chases of 280+ runs in England, so yes, I still put India as strong favourites.
 
England have knocked off 100 runs from the total without losing any wicket and their best batsman are yet to come and you still think India have India at an 80% chance to win :lol:

England are very good at batting collapses, wouldn't rule it out.
 
Even if England don’t win this, it’s refreshing to see them bat with an intensity again.
 
Couldn’t remember but great chase on day 5.

I think the comparison is very good -- I felt like 2008 England got fooled into setting a lower target than needed for India on a flat deck that time

This has similar vibes now
 
Fair play to Lees and Crawley, even if they're both dismissed now you can say they've done their job here. Scoring at this rate you wouldn't expect many/any overs with the 2nd new ball.
 
Hopefully one of these two get a big one. Would be big for their confidence. Not sure it's good enough to say you've done your job at 50. If you're getting out to good balls as openers which is inevitable and then not going on when you play well it's hard to be a good test batsman. Pretty sure we'll win if one gets a century.
 
England still huge favorites.
 
WinViz with England at 90-0:
England - 47% India - 50%

WinViz is an absolute joke and needs banning from cricket. If a wicket changes the percentage so dramatically, then it should never have been that percentage initially.