*Official* 4th Test at the Narendra Modi Stadium, Ahmedabad, 4 - 8 Mar 2021

[cnerd123]

Pant or Axar for MOTM?

Pant took a losing situation to a winning one, but Axar's numbers so far are immense.

Any predictions for player of the series?

Ashwin?

Axar?

Rohit?

Pant?

Has to be either Ashwin or Axar.

 

[Fuller Pilch]

Can Lawrence get himself the number 3 position in the side?

 

[Fuller Pilch]

Pant or Axar for MOTM?

Pant took a losing situation to a winning one, but Axar's numbers so far are immense.

Axar's runs were handy too before the run out

 

[KungFu_Kallis]

Gotta feel for the lad, but he got gifted something many thousands of better cricketers never did. The last time we’ll be seeing Dom Bess the Test cricketer I suspect.

 

[Nintendo]

Been impressed by lawrence this game so far, hasn't been amazing but he looks like he's improving with every innings in these conditions, unlike every other player for england sans root.

 

[social]

Last time we see Bess for a while

 

[Flem274*]

Their 3rd best batsman is an average wicketkeeper who went home after the 1st test.

nah i rate pope and sibley, even with some of the comedy dismissals. there's something to work with there.

keep burns away from twitter and he might rediscover his ability to be better than he looks too.

bairstow is obv toast (or fried bread if you're a dum dum) but we knew that already

 

[Bijed]

yea true, buttlers statistics are acceptable for a wicketkeeper batsman. they're not in the running for any world elevens but an average of 34 is fine for a #7. he would have copped less heat if he wasn't so ridiculously good in other formats and england didn't insist on batting in him the top six or as a specialist bat at times.

In a weird way I kind of feel there's more expectation on our lower-middle order and hence Buttler/whoever might replace him in any given match due to our top order being so poor. What I mean is we've basically accepted that our top 3 don't generally make runs since it's been the case for ages, but our lower order bailing us out has been a thing, so sometimes people redirect the blame to them when it doesn't happen

 

[cnerd123]

Game to forget for Bess

Good catch by Pant

 

[Shri]

h4xar

 

[Magrat Garlick]

Rooting for a Bess 50 here

thanks

 

[Bijed]

Gotta feel for the lad, but he got gifted something many thousands of better cricketers never did. The last time we’ll be seeing Dom Bess the Test cricketer I suspect.

Nah, he'll definitely play tests again, possibly quite a few as he's still young. Hopefully not until he's learnt to bowl a good length though.

 

[KungFu_Kallis]

This is the most one sided cricket I have seen for a long time. There is not even a fight.

 

[wpdavid]

Part of the frustration from an England pov is being made to look like complete muppets buy a bowler that we'd not heard of before the series. For all we know, Axar may go on to have a stellar career and take 500 test wickets, in which case we'll look back at this like we do at Warne's 1993 Ashes exploits. But for the moment you just wonder why they can't do better against him.

 

[Fuller Pilch]

57 wickets in this series so far for Ashwin and Axar. That's crazy

 

[wpdavid]

This is the most one sided cricket I have seen for a long time. There is not even a fight.

They don't want to be there, do they.

 

[Gnske]

ok ive had time to think why cant this ****ing series just die yet, ive seen enough,. end it

 

[Bijed]

This is the most one sided cricket I have seen for a long time. There is not even a fight.

This actually hurts far less that other bad (but probably not as bad as this) performance in recent memory have. I guess I'm finally desensitised

 

[Flem274*]

In a weird way I kind of feel there's more expectation on our lower-middle order and hence Buttler/whoever might replace him in any given match due to our top order being so poor. What I mean is we've basically accepted that our top 3 don't generally make runs since it's been the case for ages, but our lower order bailing us out has been a thing, so sometimes people redirect the blame to them when it doesn't happen

yeah, it's common for keeper bats and allrounders to cop the extra flak actually. i think it's set up because most average between 30 and 40 which for a specialist batsman is a bit dangerous depending on era/role/team strength but for a keeper or allrounder is fine to very, very good.

your keeper or allrounder is rarely one of the best batsmen in the team but will sometimes play like he is, but the range of his innings quality is usually a lot wider. if he comes in during a collapse then fans are already pretty disappointed in what they're watching so if he gets out in a spuddy way he can be the one who tips the fan over the edge of frustration and gets singled out when the real problem lies in the top 5.

 

[wpdavid]

Pant or Axar for MOTM?

Pant took a losing situation to a winning one, but Axar's numbers so far are immense.



Has to be either Ashwin or Axar.

Yeah, but they are bowling at a bunch of complete tossers against decent spin. Pant for me; he had to actually break into a sweat.