Better still, Pant is out for 91!! Fantastic figures from Dom Bess
Batting looks pretty tricky this morning. Think it’s the right call not to enforce the follow on, and leave India (hopefully) chasing a biggish target in the 4th…
vinnyt77 just need the ball to get a bit softer - i quite fancy 420 and 110 overs to bowl at them
baggers44 if stokes gets going we will be out of sight
And of course Root’s come in and is making it look like child’s play.
baggers44 Yeah - sub 400 doesn’t feel comfortable. Remember Sachin’s amazing ton at the same venue in 2008, chasing down 390 odd…
They should declare at 400. We need a day and a half at them and I don’t see them chasing down anything more.
There appears to be even more in this pitch for the bowlers than before. Bess will be licking his lips
alistair It looks a bit up and down - actually think Stokes bowling straight at the stumps will be effective. Another hour smashing it now then declare.
Turn and bounce for the spinners and keeping low for the quicks.
Ideal.
Come on guys! Get a move on. Unlikely to get a better chance.
Wasting overs. FFS declare and get on the front foot
alistair i think they want 2 goes with the new ball - one tonight and one when its starts to reverse in the am. hilarious that the shite commentators are so affronted. they never captained in a test either of them!
This is going like a dream. Vintage reverse swing bowling by Anderson. Best in the world.
Stokes - he is a Hollywood cricketer !!
baggers44 1 more wicket for what has to be one of English crickets greatest test wins. Cap doffed to our bowlers. Leach had been written off in many quarters
Our spinners still have a lot to prove. Bess wasn’t very good really, was he?
We need another Swanny really. There’s a fella that can hold an end.
Along_the_Wire He got four wickets in the first innings including Kohli. Leach got four today. They did well
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Agreed. I’d take Swann in his pomp over either Bess or Leach in a flash.
vinnyt77 sure, probably the only world class spinner we had. Still, the two lads have done well.
alistair Leach seems like a real confidence player. Be interesting to see how he performs at the same venue next time around. Bess just looks raw. The occasional pearler, but insufficiently consistent IMO for test match cricket in the sub continent. I’m sure they’ll both improve, and Bess looks to have a long England career in front of him - but neither are a match winner at the moment to my view.
