Any cricket lovers on here?

verylonglegs

I'm suprised India continued to bat until the required run rate for England's 2nd innings was over 4.5. Too conservative imo but I shouldn't complain too much as it's meant another 10 overs England haven't had to face.

elbowloh

And it's all over.

A truly awful and pathetic 5th day when they were just about edging the rest of the test.

Changes need to be made for the 3rd test.

JimD666

So we need to find 2 openers, a middle order and a captain who capable of telling his bowlers to stop being ruddy stupid and pitch the ball up 😠

Oh and to do that by the 25th.....

verylonglegs

JimD666 said:

So we need to find 2 openers, a middle order and a captain who capable of telling his bowlers to stop being ruddy stupid and pitch the ball up 😠

Oh and to do that by the 25th.....

You forgot to mention another fast bowler if Wood is still injured.

JimD666

I take it telling Stokes to "man up" is out the question?

Joking.

kingstongraham

India's bowling was spot on. Bumrah and Siraj just kept putting it in the right place. Well deserved win.

elbowloh

Back on the topic of the hundred, as I can't cope with talking about Tests at the moment, i still don't get why it was necessary.

I can see it has been a success in terms of the numbers, but how much of that is down to the huge amount of time and money they have spent on marketing the competition? They could have spent that money on marketing the T20 Blast.

It seems to have done wonders for the women's game in terms of attendances also by holding these as double headers with the men's games, which they only did by accident/as a result of COVID, it wasn't planned. Again, they could have done that with the T20 format.

Anecdotally, going by the spectators interviewed on 5LiveX yesterday and the feedback from the pundits, even though the idea was for the games to be short, rather than all day affairs, to make it more attractive to punters, the fact that they have these double headers has meant that more families have come to make a day of it and stay for both games, rather than for a single match.

So in summary they could have tweaked the T20 competition and had the same/similar result in terms of increasing attendance, not that the T20 comp had trouble selling tickets. To improve attendances for the women's comp, they just needed to make the double headers with the men's matches and throw some money at marketing it.

JimD666

As it seems to be almost the only way to watch live cricket (no sky) I've enjoyed what I've seen of the Hundred. It's a bit gimmicky (wish they'd cut the screen borders down a little) but it's cricket.

Agree with the "Whats the point? Speed up/fix T20 instead" point though.

JimD666

The 3rd test begins....

Lets hope we're a little better than last time

laurentian

wohoo!! 1 for 1!

elbowloh

Good start.

Amused by Kohli saying it was the England side that fired them up. As I remember it, it was Bumrah that started it with the bouncers at Anderson and England responded likewise.

Clearly mind games again to trigger England, so they need to remain calm.

JimD666

I had to double check who was batting

elbowloh

Another gone, Pujara off Anderson's bowling. 4/2

JimD666

4-2

Very good start

elbowloh

21/3.

Kohli gone, another wicket for Anderson

JimD666

Deity help when he retires.....

elbowloh

JimD666 said:

Deity help when he retires.....

Indeed.

Also good for Butler to get 3 catches (caveat, I've not seen them, so they could all have been easy)

JimD666

Make that 4 to Butler. Robinson doing the bowling bit

First three very straightforward

Pross

England doing well in typical English conditions. So much for that adage quoted last week about batting if you win the toss.

kingstongraham

As a 90s indie boy at heart, I appreciate Anderson and Buttler working well together.

kingstongraham

3 for 6 off 8 overs. Unplayable.

JimD666

Another!
58-5 Pant gone.

Trying to be optimistic about us when we come out to bat. It's not an easy thing to be!

elbowloh

67-2 now.

Overton with 2 quick wickets, on for a hattrick.


Oooooooooohhh

JimD666

Now I'm getting very nervous about our batting.......

Dorset_Boy

Watch India put 200 on for the last 2 wickets.....

elbowloh

68-8

Curran in on the act now.

Pross

elbowloh said:

67-2 now.

Overton with 2 quick wickets, on for a hattrick.


Oooooooooohhh

I was trying to work out how they had got 3 wickets back!

elbowloh

Curran gets another with his next ball.

Being reviewed...

It's given.

Curran on a hattrick.

India lose 4 wickets, for no runs in 6 balls.

elbowloh

Pross said:

elbowloh said:

67-2 now.

Overton with 2 quick wickets, on for a hattrick.


Oooooooooohhh

I was trying to work out how they had got 3 wickets back!

Apologies, Its the excitement of seeing playing well.

JimD666

England reviewing for the hattrick.

Optimistic