***Official*** England in India 2016/17

[Prince EWS]

What does Moeen Ali have to do on this tour to end up as England's no.5 for the summer? Score two hundreds?

I get the feeling that no matter what he does the fact he can bowl means that he'll end up at 8 when we want to go back to 4 seamers and a spinner. Which seems unfair.

Being outbowled by another spinner would weirdly help his cause if he wants to bat top six. I thought we were at a point where that might just happen but he was by far the best of the spinners in Bangladesh.

 

[Daemon]

Mishra is such a downhill skier + minnow basher

Prove me wrong woman beater

 

[Howe_zat]

Looking down the England batting order

Cook, Hameed, Root debuted against India
Duckett, Moeen played their second series against India
Stokes, Bairstow, Woakes and Rashid played their third series against India
Broad played his fourth series against India

This is another reason why Ansari should have been left out is what I'm saying

 

[Compton]

Joe Root is so ****ing good.

 

[Cabinet96]

Is Root a top series down under away from being the best English batsman of the last 50 years? (I might be forgetting someone obvious, it's been a long night)

 

[wpdavid]

Is Root a top series down under away from being the best English batsman of the last 50 years? (I might be forgetting someone obvious, it's been a long night)

I couldn't say conclusively, but Boycott, Gower and KP would be the other contenders.

 

[DriveClub]

I couldn't say conclusively, but Boycott, Gower and KP would be the other contenders.

I don't like boycott so that rules him out, root definitely can be better than kp and gower.

 

[ImpatientLime]

Is Root a top series down under away from being the best English batsman of the last 50 years? (I might be forgetting someone obvious, it's been a long night)

if he carries on the consistency he's shown in the past 2/3 years it's not even a discussion.

 

[morgieb]

Does this prove that Bangladesh's bowling > India's bowling?

 

[Jono]

Root is all class.

 

[OverratedSanity]

Hope he gets a hundred. I want to celebrate something good.

 

[StephenZA]

Root playing a fantastic innings here....deserves a 100.

 

[ImpatientLime]

stop jinxing him you ****s

 

[Black_Warrior]

with all the talk about Root and Kohli, everyone's forgotten that Root has left KW behind with this knock

 

[Jono]

Shami cooked

 

[honestbharani]

As I said it is a bit of a road. Good on England for taking advantage though. Root surely has the right idea of batting against spin by using his feet to rotate the strike rather than smash the ball. Looking good for a daddy knock here. Bad signs for India.

 

[ImpatientLime]

with all the talk about Root and Kohli, everyone's forgotten that Root has left KW behind with this knock

not even close.

kw gunned it in australia whilst root looked all at sea.

 

[OverratedSanity]

Hope England win so that Bangladesh can be crowned the actual number 1

 

[Adders]

not even close.

kw gunned it in australia whilst root looked all at sea.

Really hope this is a joke/troll post

 

[Cabinet96]

This will be close IMO.