*Official* Afghanistan and Bangladesh tour of India 2018

[Mr Miyagi]

Keeping is where you put the fat kids though. Who cares if you're fit.

Clearly JediBrah was never first or 2nd XI material, just social teams that traded stimirol gum cricket cards.

 

[Borges]

Phew! 440 is a bit on the high side, but it could have been worse.

 

[Burgey]

Give him seven, Dan!

 

[Spark]

I think it's more mental than technical. When you're winning a passage of play, your body language and fielding reflects that. Emerging nations tend to dominate and bully the teams they play on their way up - the confidence gets reflected in the fielding and bowling. But then they come against India in a Test match, and then the wheels come off a bit.

When Mujeeb and Rashid had seized back the initiative yesterday, leg slip pulled off a really good catch off Pujara, and the fielding was energetic and tight. They will learn, with time, how to keep that intensity and focus even when they are the ones being put under pressure.

General fitness is a big part of it. Hard to stay stitched on every single ball if you're dead on your feet.

 

[Starfighter]

Umesh doing a nice salt rubbing job here.

 

[TheJediBrah]

As someone who has kept 85 over days quite often, I can tell you it ****ing sux

Same with just fielding 85 over days though. Or fielding in general. Basically any time you're not batting really.

 

[Daemon]

Normally i love watching Umesh bat but ouch

 

[Daemon]

As someone who has kept 85 over days quite often, I can tell you it ****ing sux

Same with just fielding 85 over days though. Or fielding in general. Basically any time you're not batting really.

It's still more fun than being alone at deep midwicket or whatever then having to shuttle between the 30 yard and boundary because your captain wants to attack the new batsmen only to watch a half tracker from your finger spinner sail over your head and land in the bushes which you then have to dig through to retrieve the ball.

So glad I took up keeping.

 

[hendrix]

I think all the tape on Shahzad's fingers suggests his hands are injured and not fit for keeping. Not sure why he isn't keeping if thats not the case

Zazai is a better keeper and is actually bloody good.

 

[harsh.ag]

Zazai is a better keeper and is actually bloody good.

He was pretty bad today tbh.

 

[Starfighter]

Cricaddict: 4 across 2 innings (3+1)
*****: 6 across 2 innings
harsh.ag: 2 in 1 innings
OverratedSanity: 6 in 1 innings
TJB: 3/170
Starfighter: 4/130
Daemon: 5/160
andruid: 3/90 First innings 4/45 Second Innings
garylyon: 9/180 (4/117 + 5/63)
srbhkshk: 0/200
John: 6-7
AZH: 9
rparikh14: 5 (2 + 3)

Heavy toll on the Rashid predictions. Some of these are still theoretically possible. But pretty damn unlikely.

 

[cnerd123]

OS lost too. He said 6 in 1 innings. He's definitely wrong.

 

[Starfighter]

OS lost too. He said 6 in 1 innings. He's definitely wrong.

I chose to be generous and interpret it as either 1 of 2. Not that I see there being enough of a second innings for that, if there is one.

 

[cnerd123]

Don't be generous, OS is a ****. Scratch his name off

 

[Mr Miyagi]

Keeping is where you put the fat kids though. Who cares if you're fit.

As someone who has kept 85 over days quite often, I can tell you it ****ing sux

Same with just fielding 85 over days though. Or fielding in general. Basically any time you're not batting really.

Who ate all the pies?

 

[cnerd123]

fat shaming is not cool

 

[Mr Miyagi]

fat shaming is not cool

I agree. But seriously, I am hungry and there's no pies.

 

[Gnske]

fat shaming is not cool

Yeah they're people just like us. Except with big asses and the temperament of Shamu

 

[TheJediBrah]

Who ate all the pies?

I'm definitely fatter than I used to be tbf

Still sub 15% tho

 

[Mr Miyagi]

I'm definitely fatter than I used to be tbf

Still sub 15% tho

It'd be more impressive if you gave the total with that percentage.