Hope we don't end up needing to chase too many over 150. Preferably below that.
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Broad is fine against spin and medium-pace. He only struggles when someone's bowling 90mph at him. Could easily clobber a few against this attack.
Come on England, lets at least make this interesting.
50 for Curran.
Fantastic knock
Fantastic knock
Turning Sam Curran into a bowling and batting superstar in the same match, even by our standards it's mighty impressive.
We're toast here chasing 200.
We're toast here chasing 200.
Likely to be 60+ runs to short for England
193 to win. India should chase it down however a few early wickets might make it interesting. Nice to see the lower order battling.
Nope, I think England will knick it
Will depend on how early they get Kohli.
Curran, well played young man
Yeah its a habitual of turning new players into stars.
India will struggle to get 100
The pitch is still great to bat on, India should chase this down without any probs. We just need a few wickets early which may make it interesting.
I'm being completely honest, our last successful chase of 100+ in Test abroad was in Adelaide 14 years before under Dravid. We got bundled for 135 chasing 200 in Cape Town this January, fared even worse in next match in Centurion.
None of our batters bar Kohli look like they can handle swing, this match solely relies on Kohli once again. If we can carry us towards the target, then we have a shot otherwise we are toast. Considering how Kohli fared v Anderson in 1st innings, I feel he's going to get him this time round.
Go away Malan. FFS!
1 down, thankfully drop wasn't too costly.
Both openers gone, see this is why I was pessimistic.
22/2 now how quick can we get Kohli out
Test match cricket - what a sport.
Thought it was dead?
Thought it was dead?
England have this in the bag
Ffs
Anyone's game still. Kohli makes a 50 India win it you'd think.
With Kohli out there you have to back India
feck off Dhawan. Jesus christ how does he always weasels himself into the team on away trips. Keep him to play against the Lanka, Bangladesh etc. fecking twat.
Great decision. I thought it was plumb.
Exactly. The moment the lead was 150+, England were favorites.
feck off Rahane. Time to ditch a lot of these sorry feckers.
it's on a knife edge isn't it.
As long as kohli is there I'll assume England will lose.
As long as kohli is there I'll assume England will lose.
We've finally got a bowling attack which regularly takes 20 wickets overseas and these sorry lot of batsmen can't even put a price on their wickets. Really ticked off here.
Now wickets for all the fast bowlers
Same. Refuse to believe we can do this until I see his stumps rearranged.
Kohli needs to play like he played with Umesh there
Agreed. Should have done it from the start of this innings because these at the other end are useless.
This is like back in the day when the game used to end whenever Sachin got out.
This is beyond even Kohli, chasing 200 you have to have a partnership of 70-80 runs. None of the 'batsman' around Kohli look like they can stay long enough, as an Indian fan I've seen this exact scenario far too many times to be disappointed today.
Only positive from this Test is English can shut up about Kohli sucking at test cricket in England.
Only positive from this Test is English can shut up about Kohli sucking at test cricket in England.
India have a 0.09 percent chance of victory.
I'm hoping for another tail-ender innings to save India.
Have a great chance now, felt England needed one more before the close
India should do this. Brilliant from Kohli, an all-time performance from him thus far.
Excellent test match. Kohli is bringing back the sachin era as a one man army and I personally dont want to relive that. Time for others to stand up.
Good little recovery here, unfortunately close of play has come too soon, as runs were being steadily gathered.
84 runs is definitely doable if we don't lose early wickets tomorrow morning. Dinesh Karthik needs to prove his worth.