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Ashwin withdraw mid tast for a family medical emergency. Obviously wish his family the best but does thus mean India down to 10 men? Not even a sub fielder?
they can have a sub fielder. no replacement in the batting lineup
Root’s bazball dismissal - embarrassing
It is possible to score at pace without garbage like that. He was angry and rightly so. He shouldn’t be that stupid.
Root’s head hasn’t been in the game for 18 months. He’s not prepared to graft any more
Yeah he needs to ditch the reverse sweeps and just play orthodox, he will be back making a ton of runs
Let everyone else do the bazballing
india continuing to bat with a 550 lead late on day 4. so scared
opener getting run out chasing five million is not fantastic
One positive about Bazball is rarely playing into a 5th day thus getting in more rounds of golf.
ENG 4/28 (11.1) chasing 557
Their last 12 wkts have gone for 123 runs.
Not sure what’s up with their run rate. I thought they liked to score quickly.
6/50. Foakes and the tail left.
Root this series: 107 overs bowled, 77 runs scored.
Anderson and Bairstow should miss the 4th Test.
if you look closely you can see some pitch in these cracks
uneven bounce is doing for crawley at the moment. has played and missed 17 times off his 15 balls
duckett looks a little more comfortable
knocked over on ball 16
zak's xOUT is about 1.8, every ball is beating him
maybe get the reverse ramp out
in before 176* at end of day
zak has deduced to forget about playing proper cricket and is just swinging as hard as possible. good plan
4,4,4,6 to end the over
Well well well
Root 103* (219)
Foakes 47 (126)
Disappointing that these two have strayed from the Bazball edict. England could have made 160 and been dismissed before drinks in the middle session, admittedly with a run rate they could all be proud of.
Instead, England are going to score 300+ but in 90+ overs. They might not even declare before stumps. Oh the horror.
SIR joseph root esq.
Selfish batting by Root. How are they going to make their tee time at lunch on day 4 if he insists on batting properly ?
If that LBW review against Pope had been against an Indian batsman I dread to think what the reaction would have been... Hit miles above the knee role quite far down the pitch and yet, somehow, just enough of it is crashing in to the top of leg stump to overturn the decision.
Pope has clearly upset the DRS gods, he got another 'questionable' one today
Well well well
Root 103* (219)
Foakes 47 (126)
Disappointing that these two have strayed from the Bazball edict.
Bazball isn't about swinging the bat indiscriminately - they've stated clearly it's about letting batters choose how aggressive to be and encouraging them to play their natural game, with no repercussions for them if they get out cheaply.
yeh the option to go HAM without negative judgement whenever you feel like it is huge for a team like england where more than a couple of batters have truck-sized holes in their technique
by the looks of crawley today he gets out 100% of the time for bugger all trying to play normal shots. was completely lost, yet made another 30 odd after the no-ball reprieve by swinging as hard as possible at every ball. and bazball lets him do it
I know there's a lot of tongue in cheek but this wondeful piece of history springs to mind.
Geoff Boycott's Indian bore
https://www.espncricinfo.com/story/rewin...
I hadn't recalled the last bit. After being dropped for making 246 against India int he 1st test:
He was recalled for the third and final Test, at Edgbaston, but said the atmosphere was strained, especially with the selectors, and he felt under pressure from the off. "I was terrified in case I played a maiden over," he noted. "I felt as if the whole press box was waiting for me to play a defensive stroke."
Instead, he decided on a policy of all-out attack - "I was going to ping the ball like nobody's business" - and was stumped charging down the pitch to Bedi. "I had made 25, a significant blow for brighter cricket." In the second innings he was bowled by Venkataraman Subramanya - "a piddling medium-pacer about as formidable as I was" - for 6.
Phenomenal test match, some great performances with the bat and ball on both sides. England 5/112 to 10/353, India 7/177 to 307 and then India’s 4th innings 5/192 (61).
Great 100 by Root, no one ever seriously doubted him, as long as he bats the way that got him to 10,000 runs. Jaiswal is ridiculous, spewing he fell just short of becoming the 6th fastest to 1000 runs (15 inns, 971 runs. I’ve given Crawley a lot of crap in the early days, deservedly so, but I’m starting to come round. And two very impressive and mature innings with the bat from Jurel.
No shame losing in India but if England want to come close to being the best in the world, they will need to learn how to spend time at the crease. Capitulating within 40 overs in the 3rd Test was unforgivable. Rather than have some players suggest they can chase any total, it would be good if any of them had the belief that they could knuckle down and bat for 200 deliveries. Sometimes, that’s what the situation requires. Adaptability is not a dirty word.
In the end, it looks like India will win the series 4-1 with only a 28 run loss in the first Test preventing a whitewash.
it would be good if any of them had the belief that they could knuckle down and bat for 200 deliveries. Sometimes, that’s what the situation requires.
it would be great if more than a couple of them could bat a long and patient innings, and the situation sometimes (often) requires it, but they aren't capable of it. they dont have the technique.
would be like asking a medium pace bowler to crank it up to 93mph because the pitch suits pace. he just cant do it, and forcing him to try is going to lead to all sorts of tomfoolery
if England want to come close to being the best in the world
we arent close to the best in the world, i mean no team with duckett and crawley opening, with respect to some valuable contributions they have made over the last 12 months, could possibly be so. but we can make you **** yourself, which is pretty fun
Crawley 32
Duckett 42
Pope 34
Root 49
Bairstow 36
Stokes 35
Having 4 batters in your top 6 averaging 36 and below is is just not a recipe for success. Duckett at 42 is fine but the sample size remains small and he doesn't inspire me with confidence tbh
Obviously there is Brook to come back and perhaps we can hold onto Stokes if we think his captaincy and talismanic impact is worth a lack of real, consistent test #6 production but at least two of Bairstow, Crawley and Pope need to be replaced.
Of the three,
Crawley just doesn't have a test technique. He doesn't
I still can't quite quit Pope because he looks so classy. But he's had 42 tests now and he clearly doesn't have it mentally.
Bairstow is the marginally winning mtt player who ran hot for 4 months, won two bracelets and WSOP player of the year but has had variance catch up to him
