England Cricket India Tour

[cerbera45]

India at stumps on Day 4 are 39 for 1, chasing a victory target of 420. Jack Leach making the breakthrough.

 

[Swiss Tony]

Top effort by England against the odds and a well done to channel 4 for their decent coverage,roll on the next test can't wait,??

 

[WestStandBlue]

Good that the game was on C4 but not a fan of talk sport radio. Anyone been able to find short clips and highlights that bbc/sky usually do of wickets and days summary? Struggling myself

 

[Ricky Otto]

Great result, great coverage. I'm sure India will bounce back and will be much harder to crack in the remaining tests. I was expecting an India clean sweep before the series so this has made it so much more interesting.

 

[londonblue]

Great result, great coverage. I'm sure India will bounce back and will be much harder to crack in the remaining tests. I was expecting an India clean sweep before the series so this has made it so much more interesting.

Indeed. India are very difficult to beat at home. This came as a real, but pleasant, surprise to me.

 

[Dave Smiths Love Child]

Seven away wins on the bounce now, Butler returning home today,be interesting if Lawrence keeps place
Pleased for Leach second innings, Dom Bess is pushing him all the way, good to see we have two decent spinners and Root as back up
Great victory against a team top of their game, shame no crowds to watch

 

[jackj13]

Brilliant victory. Sometimes you just have to hold your hands up as I thought we batted on for too long but they got it spot on.

 

[londonblue]

Seven away wins on the bounce now, Butler returning home today,be interesting if Lawrence keeps place
Pleased for Leach second innings, Dom Bess is pushing him all the way, good to see we have two decent spinners and Root as back up
Great victory against a team top of their game, shame no crowds to watch

It's actually a shame Root gave himself two overs in the 1st innnings. He was on a hattrick!

 

[Dave Smiths Love Child]

It's actually a shame Root gave himself two overs in the 1st innnings. He was on a hattrick!

I thought he was as I posted in a previous post, yes but good captain puts his team first, that why I would be a ****e captain and bowl at the Number 11 with a crowded field around him

 

[cerbera45]

A special mention for Sir James Anderson's 2nd innnings performance:-

11 overs, 4 maidens, 17 runs, 3 wickets

 

[cerbera45]

Jofra Archer out of 2nd Test (along with Jos Buttler).

 

[Swiss Tony]

England have 17 Tests this year and a rotation of players has been decided,Buttler has gone home for a rest with Jofra sittng this one out i guess.

 

[WestStandBlue]

assume Dan Lawrence will retain place with Crawley injured still? Really hope it works out for him at first go, everyone speaks well of him which is a good start

 

[cerbera45]

England have 17 Tests this year and a rotation of players has been decided,Buttler has gone home for a rest with Jofra sitting this one out i guess.

Elbow injury for Archer, Sir James rested.

 

[Member]

Moeen bowling Kohli might be the highlight of 2021 so far.

This pitch looks a minefield already

 

[Dave Smiths Love Child]

Bad toss to lose, be interesting if going into Day 5

 

[rigsby]

Didn't think you could cheat with a review system?

 

[Swiss Tony]

Whatever their score we must equal or at least get near or we are dead, minefield will start exploding at best on day 3 imo.

 

[GrumpyBlue]

Normal service resumed

 

[Dave Smiths Love Child]

Normal service resumed

Think India had two better bowlers to exploit the conditions, end of the day to win first test was outstanding, you must never underestimate how hard it is to win on sub continent