*Official* India Tour of England 2018

[flibbertyjibber]

Broad only got one or two left in this spell I reckon. Had 7 already today.

 

[Top_Cat]

Rahul is nailed on the crease and Dhawan caught fencing, as per the entire series so far. Cue extreme India fan Gambhiring. Everything going to plan.

 

[GoodAreasShane]

Pujara far from convincing, but he has shown solid determination. Hope he goes on with it.

 

[flibbertyjibber]

Pujara far from convincing, but he has shown solid determination. Hope he goes on with it.

Showing more determination than when he stank the place out playing for Yorkshire. Worst overseas player ever.

 

[Top_Cat]

I'm liking Curran to knock over Kohli early this knock. Not sure why.

 

[vic_orthdox]

Just as a point of note, Bairstow has a horrible batting average in tests as a specialist batter (28) compared to being a keeper (42). It makes playing him as a specialist batter even weirder. Going into the game averaging 28.11 in 18 tests as a specialist batter and they move him up to 4 too. Typical English type of selection tbh

First time he's played not as a keeper since 2015. But he's obviously still the same player as then.

 

[GoodAreasShane]

Showing more determination than when he stank the place out playing for Yorkshire. Worst overseas player ever.

Saw a bit of Pujara playing for Yorkshire, underwhelming stuff. Kept on getting out to a succession of pedestrian county seamers.

 

[SeamUp]

First time he's played not as a keeper since 2015. But he's obviously still the same player as then.

Yeah, started off as a batsmen in his initial test struggles so clearly will bring the average down.

 

[SeamUp]

Saw a bit of Pujara playing for Yorkshire, underwhelming stuff. Kept on getting out to a succession of pedestrian county seamers.

Saw a stat on how poor he is against the short ball too. So many ways of getting him out overseas.

 

[OverratedSanity]

Saw a stat on how poor he is against the short ball too. So many ways of getting him out overseas.

His overseas stats would honestly be even worse if teams figured realised how dodgy he is against good short pitched bowling.

 

[wpdavid]

Apparently Stokes isn't fit to bowl..
wtf is up with him?

 

[flibbertyjibber]

Apparently Stokes isn't fit to bowl..
wtf is up with him?

Knee

 

[Starfighter]

Kohl's gonna get another hundred isn't he?

 

[flibbertyjibber]

Kohl's gonna get another hundred isn't he?

Probably, looks in sublime form.

 

[flibbertyjibber]

Now we know why Jennings is playing, purely for his bowling.

 

[harsh.ag]

Why no Moeen or Rashid?

 

[flibbertyjibber]

Why no Moeen or Rashid?

Not close enough to lunch, you know spinners are only allowed the one over before the break.

 

[OverratedSanity]

Very encouraging innings by pujara so far. Still looks streaky against good deliveries but atleast he's found a way to get out of that initial rut.

 

[NotMcKenzie]

Now we know why Jennings is playing, purely for his bowling.

Seems to be the sentiment on Cricinfo too:

Oh, hello... Keaton Jennings is on to bowl some nibbly dibbly dobble. So that's why he kept his place in the side. Buttler up to the stumps

 

[StephenZA]

Another good session from India... Kohli looks so impressive at the moment. I think he has got better on these overseas tours, from SA to Eng and through the series.