***Official*** India vs England 2021 General Discussion thread

[chris.hinton]

Whos the commentary team?

Only just seen the score?

 

[Shri]

this is a boring pitch to watch anyone bowl on

i am going to do something else

 

[Arachnodouche]

Whos the commentary team?

Only just seen the score?

Sunil G, L Sivaramakrishnan, Murali Karthik, Deep Das Gupta, Ajit Agarkar, Mark Butcher, Nick Knight.

 

[honestbharani]

Deep Das Gupta is pretty good on the comms.

 

[Daemon]

I've liked Bess whenever I've seen him bat. Looks very compact.

 

[Daemon]

Been a while since we've seen so much reverse in a Test. Forgot how exciting it can be.

 

[OverratedSanity]

England have handled the reverse brilliantly. This could well have been a 400-450 kind of score if they hadnt been able to keep out all these great inswinging yorkers from Bumrah.

 

[Daemon]

Bumrah and Ishant have taken their wickets at 25-30 apiece in a total of 571.

 

[Prince EWS]

I've liked Bess whenever I've seen him bat. Looks very compact.

Yeah I think there's more to like about his batting than his bowling tbh.

 

[Arachnodouche]

Why don't India do all parties concerned a favor and concede the remaining 24 runs so Eng can declare?

 

[cnerd123]

I'm really looking forward to Ashwin's video after this Test, regardless of how it ends.

 

[honestbharani]

In light of recent events, the biggest mistake from England may well have been making their best side available for most of this series.

 

[cnerd123]

**** if we lose this series please let it be by a large enough margin so that Australia won't qualify for WTC instead

 

[Tom Flint]

haha imagine thinking an inevitable, uncompetitive 5-0 thrashing is worthy of a subbie.

don't england have b2b series with india then an ashes tour? a lot of careers getting ended this year.

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[Howe_zat]

**** if we lose this series please let it be by a large enough margin so that Australia won't qualify for WTC instead

Does anyone understand the WTC scoring?

Ive seen that England winning 2-0 wouldn’t be good enough, but 3-1 would be. Bizarre.

 

[GIMH]

Shane Warne must have devised it

 

[honestbharani]

Does anyone understand the WTC scoring?

Ive seen that England winning 2-0 wouldn’t be good enough, but 3-1 would be. Bizarre.

Its the percentage of points you have won against the points you have competed for. They had to do this because it became clear with the pandemic that not every team was gonna play the scheduled 6 series each.

 

[Chewie]

Its the percentage of points you have won against the points you have competed for. They had to do this because it became clear with the pandemic that not every team was gonna play the scheduled 6 series each.

That's not the reason for the outcome Howe's posting about - the reason is that two draws are worth less points than a win.

 

[cnerd123]

That's not the reason for the outcome Howe's posting about - the reason is that two draws are worth less points than a win.

a win is worth more than twice of a draw, so winning 1-0 across two games is better than drawing both matches. No negative points for losses either.

 

[Burgey]

Does anyone understand the WTC scoring?

Ive seen that England winning 2-0 wouldn’t be good enough, but 3-1 would be. Bizarre.

Good to see you back