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*Official* 3rd Test at the Sardar Patel Sports Complex, Ahmedabad, 24 - 28 Feb 2021

Burgey

Burgey

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Daily reminder that Allan Border made 196 at Lord’s in the 1985 Ashes with a broken thumb.
 
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Groundking

International Debutant
mackembhoy said:
They shouldn't have sent him home after deciding he was the number 3 in Asia.

Hard to just come back in after being sat in England for two tests.

Lawrence playing out of position was nonsense for his career.

Bairstow is never a number 3 but they made that decision and they should have stuck to it.
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Yeah I really don't get what the selectors are doing.
 
honestbharani

honestbharani

Whatever it takes!!!
This test will be an interesting ****tail of tactics and strategies. The pitch looks like a turner. The pink new ball under light SHOULD do a lot but there is also a lot of dew apparently and if that happens, it will negate everything and help the batsmen a great deal.

Best case for India is they bowl out England in 2 sessions and are batting under lights with heavy dew around.
 
Gnske

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He's like Saddam Hussein, he looks scary, people tell you he's scary, but then you learn he doesn't have the means of mutually assured destruction and you feel like an idiot for ever thinking he did.
 
flibbertyjibber

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I'm not convinced yet with Crawley, one huge score and nothing else is all a bit Rob Key like to me. Hope he is the real deal as we can't rely on Root and Stokes alone.
 
honestbharani

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The differences between the pitches is now palpable as also the understanding (or the lack of it) from the "experts" on what makes a good pitch. In Chennai in the 2nd test, the top layer was exploding from day 1 session 1. There was a lot of turn but the turn, the bounce and the pace were all consistent and beyond a point, predictable. Here we see the ball seaming, swinging, bouncing, keeping low, spinning, going straight on, pace is up and down, bounce is up and down and is very unpredictable.

I still think this is just the pitch still settling down and the pitch will become more predictable through hour 2 and then session 2. But it shows why most experts talking about what is and is not a good pitch is usually just full of false ****.
 
honestbharani

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Groundking said:
There's something there with Crawley but there's still a way to go for him to bring his whole game together imo. He looked clueless in Sri Lanka.
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The thing about players like that is, he has the shots to get runs when he gets set. Its obvious he picks the ball earlier than a regular batsman, but so does Pope. To me, Crawley looks more likely to make big runs and be a match winner coz he simply has more options to score runs than a Pope. Hence my prediction all the way back to last year's England - Pak series where I said he could be a better bet than Pope. Pope more Ian Bell while Crawley more KP/Root AFAIC.
 
silentstriker

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Crawley looking excellent - England need him to go and score a century at this point.

Also bring Ashwin on already ffs.
 
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