Cricket

[destinydude]

They will then go on to book tickets at the Oval on day 3 and see South Africa bat for an entire day, losing only one wicket and think... “what the ****”?

Best day I ever saw was a 14 or so wicket day at Old Trafford. KP knocking his nails off when his helmet came off, loads of beer and we got into a row with a dwarf in the Hotel bar near Old Trafford

Fast and furious test cricket is always a winner.

A ‘I was there’ moment.

wtf

[Oberon]

Farce
19-3
What's the point in playing a 5 day Test match on this type of wicket?

It'll never be a 5 day test on wickets like that.

I wonder what Channel 4 are going to do for the next 3 days? They must be gutted.

This is a big problem, TV won't keep shelling out for a 5 day cricket if they're not going to get even 50% of that. Test cricket is a 4/5 day affair at it's very best.

India clearly played better than England on that wicket but I've played on much better tracks at village level.

Had that been in the county championship the home team would have been fined and deducted points and no-one would question it.

One sided matches between two teams who are fairly evenly balanced on paper are pointless, one skill set is vastly overemphasised and another almost totally side-lined. I don't have a problem with some home advantage but that wasn't any form of a contest between bat and ball.

[ChesterDave]

Pitch was obviously dreadful if England with one spinner in the team can bowl India out for 145 or whatever it was in the first innings

[Yozza]

Half decent recovery from us after again losing early silly wickets - need to try & get around the 250 mark

155-5

[Shaggy]

30-3 every single time

[Yozza]

This won't last much longer....

174-7

Thought there was a puff of dust there as the ball hit the ground.... good decision for once

[Shaggy]

Yet another ****e day with the bat.

[destinydude]

Well poised. Slight advantage to England as India has to bat 4th innings

[Shaggy]

Great bowling from Jimmy and Stokes.

[Yozza]

Need to break this partnership quickly though

[destinydude]

This kid‘s goin to be a superstar for us

[Buzzo]

What a shot.

[ame]https://twitter.com/theanalyst/status/1367787415507775489[/ame]

[Buzzo]

Nervous nineties.

[ame]https://twitter.com/ESPNcricinfo/status/1367799146308984841[/ame]

[labourRed]

Well poised. Slight advantage to England as India has to bat 4th innings

Didn't age long.

[destinydude]

Didn't age long.

Haha. Pant is going to be HUGE for us.