India v England

[Billsballbag]

With the West Indies winning at Brisbane what a top day.

But let's fuck off Test cricket for a 20 over or 100 ball load of shit where you never remember who wins after 48 hours.

 

[Brauny]

With the West Indies winning at Brisbane what a top day.

But let's fuck off Test cricket for a 20 over or 100 ball load of shit where you never remember who wins after 48 hours.

Test matches are the barometer for true cricketing greatness

 

[DagenhamFox]

Now let’s try and win the second test match and really put the Indians under pressure in their backyard.

 

[Wessy Boy]

Now let’s try and win the second test match and really put the Indians under pressure in their backyard.

Leach and Wood out for Bashir and Anderson

Bowling attack has 183 caps, Jimmy has 180 of them.

 

[Hampshirefox]

I'm very surprised Pope didn't review his dismissal; the ball clearly missed middle stump.

 

[DagenhamFox]

Normal service has resumed.

 

[DagenhamFox]

Twenties aren’t enough when you’re chasing down 400.

 

[Wessy Boy]

Twenties aren’t enough when you’re chasing down 400.

23 from Rehan is OK but not for Pope

I get the need to score these quickly but what was Root doing

 

[CityFox]

23 from Rehan is OK but not for Pope

I get the need to score these quickly but what was Root doing

And Stokes.

 

[Wessy Boy]

Lots of pretty 20-odds

 

[Bowdenfox]

224-2, Ashwin out of the attack and we get skittled out for 319. Not good enough that if you want to win out there.

 

[DagenhamFox]

Agree. We had a good platform and again, didn’t capitalise on it.

 

[George Ferris]

224-2, Ashwin out of the attack and we get skittled out for 319. Not good enough that if you want to win out there.

Poor effort, I was hoping to wake up to 330 /4

 

[foxesneverquit]

299-5 to 319 all out
You would have expected somewhere around 420.
Root and Bairstow may as well come home.

 

[Brauny]

Great effort by England to get to 50.

Just another 500 to get........3 wickets remaining

 

[DagenhamFox]

To be fair nobody wants to come back tomorrow.

 

[HughJanus]

Great effort by England to get to 50.

Just another 500 to get........3 wickets remaining

Bring back Jeffrey

 

[Brauny]

Bring back Jeffrey

Don't know about Jeffrey, but Bungle Zippy and George would offer more fight.........

 

[foxesneverquit]

122 all out to go with finishing their 1st innings with 20-5.
Come home boys

 

[DagenhamFox]

Lifted from the BBC text feed:

“Excluding innings defeats, it's the biggest margin of victory in India's history, and the eighth highest in history.”


Edited to add test match cricket away has always been tough, really tough, and they don’t come much harder than away in India. But we could have and should have done better in the second test match, and this one is just an embarrassment. Remember they were 30 odd for 3 on day one.