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*Official* Second Test at Lord's - Aug 12-16 2021

Aritro

International Regular
Moeen really does have a phenomenal beard.
It's beautiful, and I love the attention to detail and texturing. He's gone the number 1 or number 2 clippers on the tache and the top section of the beard to give it shape and form and you can tell he's serious about beard maintenance; the oils and conditioner and what have you.

Amla has a lot to learn from Moeen Ali.
 

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Curran is so inaccurate for that type of bowler. He controls length much better than line, which is a little unusual. Might need to stop aiming so straight.
 

cnerd123

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Rohit 81
KL Rahul 18

Lovely restraint by Rahul Jnr tbh. Hasn't been at his fluent best today but has made sure to stay in there and keep Rohit company
 

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England are in deep ****. At least when they bat badly on day one they still have a decent attack with a chance of bailing them out. If India get a big score here they're done.
 

Preed

U19 12th Man
Hope fully the Aussie tour will be cancelled because of Covid as we will get murdered and embarrassed.Please appoint a coach and captain who understand the game.Root great batsman but most overrated captain ever for England.Remember Botham.We need change now and it’s time the critics stopped licking bums and got real reporting
 

Jack1

International Debutant
Rohit 81
KL Rahul 18

Lovely restraint by Rahul Jnr tbh. Hasn't been at his fluent best today but has made sure to stay in there and keep Rohit company
19 S/R is pushing it to say the least. Fortunately for Rahul it hasn't effected Sharma negatively.
 

Nintendo

Cricketer Of The Year
Watching foakes keep to spin compared to buttler is like night and day. Foakes was keeping it mostly clean on indian pitches turning square from day 1 and buttler struggling to read moeen from behind the stumps, had similiar issues with bess last summer.
 

Flem274*

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there's not much the coach or captain can do to improve this side though

people like to pretend the most visible faces are responsible for team fortunes, but sporting success is built on boring foundations laid 5-10 years prior to present. englands lack of batting and patchy away bowling is a symptom of whatever was happening in first class and youth cricket in 2015.

i don't know enough about england to be too critical but i've always suspected the number of counties dilutes the player pool and some of the domestic conditions i've seen on the youtube livestreams aren't really representative of test cricket even in england sometimes.
 

wpdavid

Hall of Fame Member
England are in deep ****. At least when they bat badly on day one they still have a decent attack with a chance of bailing them out. If India get a big score here they're done.
It feels like a throwback to when England saved their worst performances for Lord's. Insert the opposition for no good reason? Tick. Our better bowlers not at their best? Tick. Our quickest bowler not having a go until the ball's 19 overs old and Curran being bowled from the wrong end? Tick them too. Given the relative strengths of the sides, England just can't afford to be getting so many things wrong. And yes indeed, we are in the deepest of deep **** unless something changes very quickly indeed.
 

Jack1

International Debutant
No wickets in 40 overs. Root needs to consider bringing himself on. It's a lottery who will get the breakthrough at this stage.
 

BoyBrumby

Englishman
Bowling first looks like the worst insertion since I last tried to thumb in a softie after a night on the turps.
 

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