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

[Arachnodouche]

Is Pant not considered for shorter formats? Sounds laughable if true.

 

[Niall]

Is Pant not considered for shorter formats? Sounds laughable if true.

Been given opportunities but never really took them.

Some might argue he should have got more time, but when you look at the numerous alternatives you can't waste opportunities and sadly he has.

He will be back though in white ball cricket though.

 

[Chrish]

What would be India’s tactic here? Surely they will try to play that Ashwin-Vihari type knock again ie. preserve wicket as long as possible rather than “playing their shot”?

 

[honestbharani]

Is Pant not considered for shorter formats? Sounds laughable if true.

He suffers from Sehwag-Slater-itis... An aggressive long form batsman who cannot quite crack LO cricket's pace for whatever reason.

 

[Arachnodouche]

Is Rahul that much of an improvement though? If anything seems as or more suspect mentally.

 

[Niall]

Is Rahul that much of an improvement though? If anything seems as or more suspect mentally.

In limited overs with the bat Rahul right now is a much better bat than Pant.

 

[Shri]

lol ash nice hit

 

[OverratedSanity]

Nice to see Ashwin try to bat like he's capable of instead of throwing it away like most of the last 3 years of his career.

 

[Niall]

He suffers from Sehwag-Slater-itis... An aggressive long form batsman who cannot quite crack LO cricket's pace for whatever reason.

Ha just watching an English baldie and just remembered Matt Prior had a similar issue!

 

[Arachnodouche]

Bess is so inconsistent. His luck's bound to run out sometime and he's going to have to endure a Leachy kind of day.

 

[OverratedSanity]

Good on Sundar making it difficult to drop him, his batting looks great.

 

[Prince EWS]

Sundar, WAG.

 

[Prince EWS]

Good on Sundar making it difficult to drop him, his batting looks great.

"TN sometimes don't just pick him when Ashwin is available" is looking more and more like the horribly stupid selection policy it seemed to me when @honestbharani explained it to me a few months back.

 

[Shri]

if we somehow miraculously manage to keep eng out in the field for a couple more sessions, it'll be awesome

 

[Jack1]

England bowling badly so far. Archer’s speeds are right down. England don't look like taking a wicket right now

 

[GoodAreasShane]

Archer in cbf mode this spell by the looks of things

 

[OverratedSanity]

England have batsmen who can seriously accelerate in a declaration situation. Going to need a massive effort in the second innings to save this.

 

[honestbharani]

"TN sometimes don't just pick him when Ashwin is available" is looking more and more like the horribly stupid selection policy it seemed to me when @honestbharani explained it to me a few months back.

He was also very young tbf. Sometimes long form cricket can be hard on a teenage bowler's body. So that may have played a part too. And honestly, it is not just Ash. We have a factory line of spinners, and esp. finger spinners for whatever reason.

 

[honestbharani]

Lol.. the only 3 batsmen who were done in by good balls have been Rohit, Virat and Ash. Won't have believed it if you said that at the start of the game. 3 of our most experienced batsmen done in by good bowling.

 

[Spark]

Lol.. the only 3 batsmen who were done in by good balls have been Rohit, Virat and Ash. Won't have believed it if you said that at the start of the game. 3 of our most experienced batsmen done in by good bowling.

Idk, isn't that pretty common? The lesser batsmen are more prone to giving it away, it's the really experienced guys who often need good balls to prise them out. Obviously Pujara's dismissal is more in the "freak accident" category than either of those.