England Winter Test cricket thread

[Shaggy]

Woken up to India 158-5.

Monty 3 wickets

[Pedenj]

Great work by Monty - shows the big error from the first test but at least we reacted and have put it right now.

167-5 and this is a big partnership that could swing the game. Get one or both of them out soon and we can wrap this up, but both could dig in for a long time.

[Alex]

Great mornings work from Monty. Needs to break this partnership though. Dhoni loves to dig in.

[Pedenj]

Dhoni is gone - Monty with the breakthrough.

That wicket is huge. 169-6

[Alex]

Drop Monty

[Chazza]

198-6 Pujara 88no

He is the new Dravid we can't shift him

Need to try and get them out for less than 250 as the pitch is supposed to turn more and more as the games goes on.

And we are brilliant at playing spin

[Pedenj]

He has just passed 14 hours of Cricket without getting out!

[Chazza]

From the position we had them in it has to go down as India's day.

Pujara still in and has now scored about 360no over the 3 innings.

We need to get them out early tomorrow morning to have a chance.

[Pedenj]

Yeah, anything over 300 is going to be a real test for us to grab any sort of lead on this pitch.

It looks a dry pitch and it's going to turn more and more you'd think, with India's attack our batsmen need to be on top of their form (KP needs to learn overnight how to bat against Left arm spin)

[Alex]

Decent morning so far. I feared the worse over night.

[Alex]

Cook and Compton look like they are setting in for a long haul. Nice slow builds. England 49-0

[Alex]

Enjoying the TMS style commentary on sky sports today. Bumble has been going on about temporary traffic lights for about 10 minutes.

[Shaggy]

WTF has happened to Trott?

[Chazza]

Well off form isn't he. A few years ago he would have been the ideal player to just stay there and bat for a day/day and a half.

[BobTheCharmer]

WTF has happened to Trott?

On day 3 at the oval against south Africa where there was one ****ing wicket all day (my first test match), he got loads of abuse from the stands. He didn't help matters by being so miserable and not joining in with banter. Body language was all wrong. Something has not been right for a while.