What the fecking feck.
English & Irish Cricket Summer 2018
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Ok so that didn't go according to plan.
Different teams. We have Vijay, Pujara and Rahane who arent LO players and they're really good in the longer forms.
I have to admit, these are really good bowling conditions. A lot of movement in the air with a little help from the pitch.
The Dukes ball has been good all series in the first 30 overs, the Indian bowlers have been good and the England batsmen have been pants.
What fecks me off is we've seen this every single summer since Bayliss has been in charge. We've seen shit batting lose us Test Matches against some rank average sides (with no offence to those sides) and what has the response been? Bayliss being allowed to decide when to step down and the batting coach that's been in charge since 2014 promoted to being in charge of the Lions (although Middlesex may do the whole country a favour and take him off us).
Buttler will continue his form from last match. I have faith
Swing is a fascinating thing. Blue skies, no humidity of note and it's still talking out of the hand. Very high skilled bowling and great ball for bowling.
There's a fairly large body of scientific study suggesting that the idea the ball swings when it's overcast is absolute nonsense, and it's simply a case of confirmation bias and bowlers just bowling better when they think they should be able to swing the ball.
I'd love to see Sky's hawkeye data on that.
Yeah, it's interesting how much better England's bowlers bowl when it's overcast and the floodlights are on, almost like a switch has been flicked. A lot of credit should go to Dukes for manufacturing such a good ball that swings in all conditions and stays in shape for 30-40 overs. It will reverse here as well I reckon.
Wow, unless he gets a huge score in the next innings that we've got to say goodbye to Jennings.
24 overs in a session is not good, really need to start clamping down on over rates more vigorously. I'm all for run penalties if teams aren't at least getting in 14 overs an hour. I'm sure if you offered India another 6 overs in that session they'd have taken them, so why can't they bowl them in the time they have?
Yeah that was terrible. 12 overs in a session is a farce.
Mate, this is an internet forum. Seriously, just relax and enjoy life.
And btw he didn't bowl particularly well.
Looks like a 150 all out job.
Rubbish, can't they just shelve their shots until over 40 and start bringing them in once the ball softens?
Curran and Rashid will come in and make all the top order batsmen look silly.
Not sure if great bowling or just hilarious batting.
Bit of both, Buttler and Cook very bad batting.
Stokes doing an excellent job then.
Yeah but he's doing the job the top 3 should be doing, if Stokes is playing 100 balls great but his role in the team is to get 70 off those 100 balls not to see off the new ball and get a diligent 30.
Stokes has been much maligned throughout the summer. He will definitely produce an innings worth remembering
This is place to discuss opinions and my opinion of your opinion in that you're wrong.
Stokes and Ali showing proper test batting here.
Please stop
And that's why Stokes grinding it out isn't worth much, he bats 79 balls he needs to be getting 50s in an ideal world.
This is the sort of situation Moeen was brought in to remedy. And Curran is no mug with the bat as we have already seen in this series.
India winning the series from 2-0 down would be a heck of an achievement, how many times has that happened in test cricket?
Just seen the score. Tough pitch to bat on or have England capitulated in good batting conditions?
Both and neither really.
Pitch looks good, but India have bowled well and got movement through the air and England have oscillated between trying to dig in and playing daft shots.
All the movement is in the air and it's not seaming massively off the pitch, Buttler and Cook got out playing rubbish shots, India will score 350+ on this pitch I reckon.
Good little partnership forming here.. Get Curran out soon ffs
People still entertaining bringing back Ian Bell, might as well recall Trescothick and Collingwood whilst we're at it.
As I predicted, Moeen and Curran doing the rebuilding job for England.
Ffs get out already
This batting depth, mate. Ali and Curran have scored more than everyone else.
To be fair, conditions for batting are at their best between overs 30 and 70. Ball gets softer, doesn't do much, and pitch gets a little better as the day progresses. Somehow in this series the sun has almost always been out in those overs. I'm happy to see them reducing the run rate and bringing down Curran's strike rate. The wicket will come if they keep things tight.