England Cricket 2024

[littlebabyjesus]

12.83

Root's average after 3 tests.

He's due.

 

[Ted Striker]

Vintage England

 

[SpookyFrank]

Fucking hell Mark Wood top scorer for England.

 

[Spymaster]

Oh dear.

112-5 at lunch on the first day

All down to Root now.

 

[Idaho]

Can't get my usual streams to work. Anyone got a functioning link please?

 

[Petcha]

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[QueenOfGoths]

Not been able to watch/listen yet due to work. Is the pitch as 'interesting' as the BBC feed seems to think?

 

[Spymaster]

Not been able to watch/listen yet due to work. Is the pitch as 'interesting' as the BBC feed seems to think?

It was earlier. Seems to have calmed down a bit.

 

[Zapp Brannigan]

Roooooooooot

300 ish isn't bad at all from where we were earlier. Especially if Robinson and Root make it to close (8 balls to go at time of writing), start sensibly tomorrow then a few overs of swinging the bat once one of them inevitably gets out.

Not a great score by any means, but perhaps enough to be competitive.

 

[Idaho]

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That link tried to give me cancer!

 

[Idaho]

300 up. Always going to happen

 

[Idaho]

Psychology advantage England. India would have been high and hopeful at lunch, and instead they've had a long and frustrating afternoon.

 

[Petcha]

That was old school

 

[littlebabyjesus]

300-odd on the board, Root with a hundred, Robinson going well at the other end. Why didn't England declare?

 

[littlebabyjesus]

I'd suggest it still isn't a great score. Need at least another 50 tomorrow to reach something like par. 400 would have been nice. But in the game at least.

 

[littlebabyjesus]

He's due.

This post did age well.

 

[littlebabyjesus]

That was old school

Value of Root just being Root and playing the situation, and Foakes as the insurance policy at seven in case the bazballers all fail, which will sometimes happen.

 

[Idaho]

I'd suggest it still isn't a great score. Need at least another 50 tomorrow to reach something like par. 400 would have been nice. But in the game at least.

300 is a reasonable score. Naturally 350 is better and 400 is excellent.

 

[planetgeli]

I think if you literally get a pea-shooter/grass-cutter on day one, as Stokes was unfortunate enough to, you can take a guess the pitch ain't gonna be that great by the 4th innings. Good toss to win, despite the shenanigans before lunch. Not saying England will win, but that recovery does give them a chance. This could easily have ended with an Indian lead by the end of today.

Good to see Root being Root.

 

[Petcha]

Cook called him 'England's greatest every player' in the studio afterwards. Not sure about that. But that was a magnificent innings.

Oh and Jadeja is a fucking cheat. Running all over the pitch at every opportunity. Again.

 

[littlebabyjesus]

Cook called him 'England's greatest every player' in the studio afterwards. Not sure about that. But that was a magnificent innings.

Oh and Jadeja is a fucking cheat. Running all over the pitch at every opportunity. Again.

They have to bat last. India's batters might not be overly impressed.

 

[Monkeygrinder's Organ]

A lot depends on the pitch doesn't it. Sounds like there was some movement earlier on, if that's there then Anderson, Robinson and possibly even Stokes could make it very hard for India. On the other hand it also sounds like it's flattened out a bit as the day's gone on which could mean yet another big India lead.

 

[littlebabyjesus]

A lot depends on the pitch doesn't it. Sounds like there was some movement earlier on, if that's there then Anderson, Robinson and possibly even Stokes could make it very hard for India. On the other hand it also sounds like it's flattened out a bit as the day's gone on which could mean yet another big India lead.

Yeah I didn't see any of it but it does sound like an old-fashioned type of pitch. Win the toss and bat first, but you'll have a tricky first session to survive before you can cash in in the afternoon against the old ball. An even day on that kind of pitch is generally about six down at the close.

So almost a calamity, but a great recovery has left the honours more or less even at the end of day 1. I'd have taken that at the toss.

 

[Zapp Brannigan]

They have to bat last. India's batters might not be overly impressed.

Or they might still be thinking about only batting 2nd of 3 innings in any meaningful sense.

 

[Petcha]

I think England are actually ahead. Because as you say, India will have to bat last on that thing, and it'll be turning square by day 4. 300 on a first day in India is very very good. And Robinson can bat. I expect 400 at least here.

 

[littlebabyjesus]

I'm going to go as far as to say that England are not behind.

I don't expect 400 tbh. Could easily be all out for 320. Another 50 from here would be decent. Any more than that is a bonus.

 

[Idaho]

We never seem to restart well the next morning. I'm expecting another couple of dozen runs at most. If we can hang around and be annoying for an hour or two, that's good enough.

 

[QueenOfGoths]

Not a bad score from England, the bowlers need to step up now.

And I didn't think that catch was out even though I wanted it to be!

 

[Idaho]

Bashir looks dangerous in Indian conditions.

 

[Idaho]

Nice! I would not want to be India in this position.