Cricket

[Le Chef]

Seriously - Not sure what Dawsons role was in the second innings - Just waste overs as he never came close to anything

[Sus]

I'd forgotten about Atkinson, think he will be a good addition for Oz

And I thought Dawson went OK - caused a few problems that on another day would have led to wickets. Challenge is that India has so many left handers which reduces Dawson's impact (but I guess makes Archer more dangerous)

[Yozza]

Stokes & Archer out of final test...

[Sus]

Bumrah as well

[Sus]

Stokes' injury actually sounded a lot more severe than I was expecting - rehab of 6-8 weeks, I think I read?

I guess will be a good rest ahead of the Ashes but he might struggle a little for match fitness for the first test

[ChesterDave]

Jimmy with. 1 wicket from 2 balls to wrap up the Glamorgan first innings and currently 2 wickets Inc a c & b from 3.4 of the second. Not bad for birthday boy!

[Yozza]

England win the toss again & bowl - 5 times in a row!

India have lost the toss 15 times in a row....

1 in 32,768 chance of that happening

[Yozza]

Early review....

10-1

[Sus]

Frustrating day with the weather - hopefully today is a lot better

Think that brain fade by Gill could be key - he was looking oh so comfortable out there, like he was batting on a different pitch

And I don’t really understand who is going to take 20 wickets here for India - surely it won’t be the spin twins Jadeja and Washington on this green top

[Sus]

What is with Deep's arm around Duckett after being dismissed? That is seriously not on, and he's lucky Duckett didn't wrap his bat around Deep's head

[Yozza]

India
224 all out

England
142-2

England trail India by 82 runs with 8 wickets remaining

Root seems to be getting wound up - umpires having words with the Indian bowlers

[Yozza]

142-3 (4 really as Woakes is not going to bat)

[Scratch]

You can tell Brook really wants to start trying to heave the ball to all corners but is having to rein it in a bit

[spud_gun]

Two rain interrupted days play and 22 wickets down

totally flies in the face of anything we saw in the first 4 tests.

I didn't think the wicket was up to much especially with both teams main strike bowlers out.

Hey what do i know?

[spud_gun]

What do we think the minimum lead India need here? 350?