***Official*** England in India

[theegyptian]

not a particularly good innings by compton on a flat wicket but least he used up 135 balls.

 

[BoyBrumby]

The umpiring has been a subliminal advert for UDRS all series, tbh.

 

[Prince EWS]

I actually thought he was given out caught when I was watching it live. Was so confused at the commentary. The umpire has indicated he gave him out lbw though.

 

[Xuhaib]

have said it before England should look for runs. With 175 runs+ they are in with a chance to even win the game.

 

[flibbertyjibber]

At least we got the right decision in a roundabout way. Still the umpiring in this series has been very poor overall. All 4 umpires have had indifferent series.

 

[Cevno]

have said it before England should look for runs. With 175 runs+ they are in with a chance to even win the game.

They won't go for the win anyway though.

 

[Prince EWS]

I think there's a really good chance of a result, honestly. I don't think England will manage to completely bat India out of the game, so with India 2-1 down they'll have a crack at what will probably be a really unlikely chance at victory and either pull off something ridiculous or (much more likely) lose a stack of wickets going for it and put themselves under pressure to even save the game.

 

[flibbertyjibber]

Safe to say that at tea yesterday if you offered England an 85 run lead with 8 wickets left and 4 sessions to play they'd have ripped your arm off. India need a big session to end the day, A repeat of the last session 64-2 wouldn't be the worst result for England though if KP bats for more than an hour I would imagine they will get a few more runs than that.

 

[Jono]

Agree with PEWS. The way I see it, India could get England out at lunch tmr with a lead of around 220 or so. They may target that with 2 sessions and just absolutely collapse going for the win.

 

[flibbertyjibber]

Agree with PEWS. The way I see it, India could get England out at lunch tmr with a lead of around 220 or so. They may target that with 2 sessions and just absolutely collapse going for the win.

A bit like us against SA in the 3rd test, better to fall short going for it than play out a draw.

 

[Crazy Sam]

Do umpires signal the manner of the dismissal in such cases? How do scorers know if it was given out lbw or caught?

"Caught" takes precedence over LBW... there was a similar one in the Aus-SA series.

 

[Teja.]

Dhoni should be exiled from India if the team doesn't go for the target all guns blazing if that's the case.

I reckon he'll do the obvious but considering his past record, there's a 10% chance the stupid **** will try to settle for eking out the draw

 

[Cevno]

"Caught" takes precedence over LBW... there was a similar one in the Aus-SA series.

How can it take precedence ? Either you are caught or you are LBW ?

Can't be both.

Think the umpire communicates it too the third umpire/Math referee later on.

 

[cnerd123]

Dhoni should be exiled from India if the team doesn't go for the target all guns blazing if that's the case.

I reckon he'll do the obvious but considering his past record, there's a 10% chance the stupid **** will try to settle for eking out the draw

Hey, losing only 2-1 looks better than losing 3-1

 

[Dissector]

"Caught" takes precedence over LBW... there was a similar one in the Aus-SA series.

In this case though lbw and caught are mutually exclusive. Precedence only comes into it if it's pad first and lbw and then bat and caught.

 

[Cevno]

Agree with PEWS. The way I see it, India could get England out at lunch tmr with a lead of around 220 or so. They may target that with 2 sessions and just absolutely collapse going for the win.

Yeah, that's a possibility.

Once India lose some wickets and the target seems unlikely can see them going out slogging and giving up the draw even.

 

[Cabinet96]

How can it take precedence ? Either you are caught or you are LBW ?

Can't be both.

Think the umpire communicates it too the third umpire/Math referee later on.

Well, you can if it's pad then bat.

But it's LBW because the umpire gave it out LBW.

 

[Cevno]

Good work by Pujara there. If it hit, it would have been close.

 

[Cevno]

C'mon need to get KP.

 

[flibbertyjibber]

One thing to consider is the fact that we may get extra overs in today 29.2 left in the day so they should squeeze an extra 3 or 4 in with the spinners bowling but tomorrow there is no chance that there will be more than 90 overs as however many are left if India bat again is all they will get as England will slow it right down. If England bat till lunch tomorrow that will leave at best 55 overs left for India with the change of innings overs lost as well.