*Official* 1st Test at the MA Chidambaram Stadium, Chennai, 05 - 09 Feb 2021

[fredfertang]

Depends who is in, if a proper bat is in then keep going, if it is Leach and Anderson you declare and see if you can nick a wicket tonight.

Nothing suggesting to me at the moment that India will get down that far

 

[Niall]

Axar injured. Umesh injured too.

I could see the logic behind picking Nadeem. Kuldeep would have been a better pick tho. On a flat pitch having the wrist spin/finger spin contrast is more effective than having finger spinners that turn it in different directions. The wristies can extract more purchase and Kuldeep has a mean googly.

England have just played Washy and Nadeem very well and India haven't had much luck.

Yeah Washington has been poor, but nobody had any issue picking him before this test including myself.

Quicks have done ok, skeptical that Siraj would have done any better and Ashwin has been Ashwin.

Nadeem is the only one whose selection did raise alarms but once Axar went down wasn't many alternatives.

Something must be wrong with Kuldeep at the moment, maybe bowling awfully in the nets?

 

[Bahseph]

Been watching Root since the SL series and there definitely seems to be a change of attitude from him. He has always been easy on the eye but with this hunger we could very well be in for the best of him! Feels odd to say with someone who already has 100 Tests under his belt.

 

[artvandalay]

little early for it but karun nair's whirlwind 300 was a big reason we won the chennai test the last time round, not to mention jadeja on that final day. As well as he bowled Ashwin averaged over 30 in that series.
We will need big contributions from the usual suspects to draw this one. Gotta say though for a ranji veteran i've not seen much from nadeem that impresses me though there is still time for that to change. He wasn't putting 6 balls on the same spot yday.

 

[Shri]

fmd england are scoring quicker today too

this is their game now pretty much

we should aim for a draw

 

[Burgey]

run rate 3 an over for the day

if the pitch stays dead, that is good but not good enough

needed another 50 runs today imo

Timeless post

 

[Shri]

thing that pisses me off about the kuldeep situation is how he is always in the squad but never plays

ffs let him play for his state and improve if you are never going to pick him *****

 

[Shri]

Timeless post

 

[Shri]

yesterday there were 500,000 odd live viewers online

today it is 400,000

senile sentry represents 1/5th of our fans

 

[Shri]

stokes finally out buttler (?) in

or pope

fmd

 

[artvandalay]

made a dog's dinner of that catch. but well done nadeem.

 

[OverratedSanity]

Got to somehow restrict them to 450 odd otherwise this will get way out of hand.

 

[cnerd123]

Need to take a leaf out of Australia's bowling plans and try to give these guys some broken ****ing arms

 

[Shri]

root has added 2.5 runs to his average between test number 97 and 100

 

[Niall]

Seems quite cruel but not sure Washington deserves to be retained if he keeps this up with the ball, he looks out of his depth.

Time for Axar next test?

 

[mackembhoy]

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root has added 2.5 runs to his average between test number 97 and 100

Bowling average down by 2.

He's an all-rounder now with it lower

Apparently his batting average is now higher than Kohlis in India as well.

 

[Shri]

did england make a tactical error here by sending pope in before buttler

 

[trundler]

did england make a tactical error here by sending pope in before buttler

Nah, still need to bat properly. No reason to go all guns blazing yet.

 

[wpdavid]

did england make a tactical error here by sending pope in before buttler

I don't think so. There's plenty of time left in this match.

Incidentally, what do people think about Stokes getting out trying to hit the ball lover the man on the square leg boundary?

 

[Shri]

ash mankad buttler pls

match is boring