Cricket

Shame he doesn’t bother turning up when we have a chance of winning the series.

 

There are two matches left...

 

I'm glad we're batting 1st and 3rd on that pitch. It will be a nightmare on days 4 and 5. Already bumping, skidding along, pea rollers, cracks everywhere.

350/375 could be a very hand score on this.

Well played Root an Foakes, they have at least made a recovery and given us a chance to post a reasonable score.

 

Indeed, let’s see how this all plays out.

 

Well, I think we know really!

 

We can still catch India and Brentford !

 

I admire your relentless optimism.

 

Catching Brentford, of course is something more than 'relentless optimism'!

 

One day....one glorious day my friend.

 

Bloody typical. Another Somerset spinner lost to England.

 

You'll lose James Rew in the next year too. Currently with the lions but expect him to be be 2nd keeper on tour next year. Probably pushed up to 6 or maybe 5 at Somerset.

350 is looking a good score at the moment.ma lead of 100/120 would be great, they will never chase down 320/350 on that pitch

 

I know.

 

So our first 3 wickets put exactly half the total put on by the last 3 Indian wickets. The match is becoming a pretty even call.

 

“Thrown”.
Their last 3 batsmen contributed more than our top 6.

 

Another day in the series where the outcome of the test and possibly series swings 180 degrees towards India. It looked very unlikely last night that we wouldn’t put ourselves in a strong match winning position today, even if the lead was reduced to say 100 and we only scored 200-250 in our second innings.

 

If only we hadn't taught them about Bazball in the first test we might have had more of a chance in the rest of the series

 

Looks like we have grasped defeat from the jaws of victory yet again

 

Yes we turned a winning position into a losing position yesterday - that lost us the match and the chance to go into a decider at 2-2.

 

Disappointing, we had a real chance there.

 

One terrible day !

 

Yes, from 110-3 to 145 all out is nothing short of pathetic.

 

Plus the runs they allowed the Indian tail. It was a really terrible day for England.

 

True, but that was mainly down to Jurel…and the way he was able to bat puts our ‘performance’ in stark context.

 

Yes though of course England helped him by dropping him 30 odd runs before the end of his innings !

 

So the cricket's going well again. Eng collapse to 175-6 losing 3 wickets for zero runs after a promising start.

 

183-8 ! England were 175-3. They are now 183-8 six overs later.
Mentally they are on the plane.

 

Eight down now