England tour of India 2024

[exiledclaseboy]

Buckle up folks. Stokes is off. Be fun for as long as it lasts.

Which as it tuned out, wasn’t that long.

 

[Cooperman]

Things were looking good when I went back to bed for an hour (basically at the point of the drinks break). Bumrah must have been brought back on very soon after that.

 

[TheLoneRanger]

Tremendous bowling from Bumrah - the ball that bowled Pope looked like Waqar in his prime.

The stat they showed for this ground before this game - is that Day 2 and 5 are the worst days for batting - with an average of 11 and 9 wickets falling.

 

[exiledclaseboy]

399 to win. Obviously massively unlikely but, well, you wouldn’t rule it out.

 

[TheLoneRanger]

England have got right into Sharma"s head - such negative tactics going into the close of play.
Especially one slip in that final over from Ashwin.

 

[TheLoneRanger]

Poor running from Stokes - Run Out.

England 220/7

 

[Cooperman]

Poor running from Stokes - Run Out.

England 220/7

He’s not been at it this morning. There was another incident where he missed a run through not concentrating, and now this bout of what I can only describe as laziness.

 

[Cooperman]

This Hartley chap can bat a bit, fair play. If these two can smash thirty or forty very quickly then the field will soon spread.

 

[TheLoneRanger]

That was good while it lasted.

England 275/8

 

[Cooperman]

That was good while it lasted.

England 275/8

Another twenty or thirty on that partnership and India would have been starting to panic.

 

[TheLoneRanger]

England 292/10

 

[Cooperman]

Another great advert for this format of the game.

Going away for part/all of a tour is a bucket list item of mine. NZ would be the favourite choice, Caribbean second.

 

[TheLoneRanger]

Stokes has questioned Crawley's lbw, and thinks that the DRS decision was wrong.

 

[TheLoneRanger]

Looks like Kholi is out of the next 2 Tests for personal reasons, and most probably the series.

 

[Cooperman]

Looks like Kholi is out of the next 2 Tests for personal reasons, and most probably the series.

Now confirmed as missing the entire series.