Along_the_Wire we’ve got enough. we will bowl them out for 86.
And Jimmy has taken that prized first wicket! Come on!
Game on. This game is on a knife edge now. Set up to be a superb test
Thought it was just beginning to get away from England, but Stokes does it again! Still looks like it could be par scores after the first round…
vinnyt77 Anderson going at less than a run a ball. Sublime bowling from him
Plus, I’ll repeat previous thought - Dom Bess isn’t Test match ready. Am sure he’ll look back at this tour as a great learning experience, but I don’t think a spinner should be learning their trade in the cauldron of a sub-continental tour.
I can see us beating them this time especially if we can get them out for less than 200.
Why aren’t we more ruthless with the likes of bess? Send him the the boundary and get some other cunt in who has even the tiniest bit of confidence. The lad is shot to bits.
Along_the_Wire Don’t understand it either. With all the other fuckers rotating in and out of the squad over the past 8 weeks, it’s laughable that the England management couldn’t find a seat on a plane home for Bess..
Its a crying shame that Rashid has no interest in test cricket
alistair As a strike bowler, 100%. Still think there’s a need for a pressure builder at the other end. Leach may or may not be the mid-term answer to that, but not the long term…
vinnyt77 Leach has been ok this winter, best we have got. He survives the purge. Bess shouldn’t. The opening batsmen are a worry. Both Burns and Sibley have now played about 20 tests each and have been found out. I wonder whether its worth giving Malan a go at the test game, not necessarily as an opener. Pope has also had a poor winter
alistair Yeah - agreed. Best of a bad bunch currently.
Genuinely unsure of the answer with our batters, as not really kept abreast of county cricket the past couple of years. Are there hordes of talented youngsters that Joyce isn’t selecting?!
Pope’s a load of shit too. And he’s got a dreadful Alf.
vinnyt77 Crawley is a keeper and needs a run. Talented player
Well this is going well…
vinnyt77 I have just turned off. Nightmare
vinnyt77 Each time I go and make a brew I come back and we’ve lost another wicket..will India get into bat.
Dubman 50/50 at best!
Will be a pretty shaming turn of events if they lose by an innings, having had India a hundred and forty odd for six…
