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

[honestbharani]

he's blamed Pant too

Think it was more of Pant not being firm enough with the no, personally. Anyways, the first review was completely Pant's fault. A keeper has to be better and more in charge about all this.

 

[cnerd123]

Think it was more of Pant not being firm enough with the no, personally. Anyways, the first review was completely Pant's fault. A keeper has to be better and more in charge about all this.

mate it's Kohli making the signal at the end of the day. Blame falls on him.

 

[sledger]

Looks like he regretted that review as soon as he took it, and he's blamed Pant too

Amateur hour here.

Seemed to be blaming him before he even decided to go for the review tbh. Body language and facial expressions unecessarily aggressive. Probably quite intimidating for a junior player.

 

[Aritro]

Seemed to be blaming him before he even decided to go for the review tbh. Body language and facial expressions unnecessarily aggressive. Probably quite intimidating for a junior player.

Dunno, thought there was a bit of humour about his expression at the start. It's fairly normal in Desi culture for a person with seniority to chastise someone junior like that without any offence meant, or taken.

Or he might have called him a **** over and over, who knows.

 

[honestbharani]

mate it's Kohli making the signal at the end of the day. Blame falls on him.

So should credit when great reviews are taken. Like Bairstow LBW in first innings of first test.

 

[silentstriker]

Seriously Siraj is the worst at asking for reviews.

 

[honestbharani]

Seemed to be blaming him before he even decided to go for the review tbh. Body language and facial expressions unecessarily aggressive. Probably quite intimidating for a junior player.

Dunno, thought there was a bit of humour about his expression at the start. It's fairly normal in Desi culture for a person with seniority to chastise someone junior without any offence meant, or taken.

Or he might have called him a **** over and over, who knows.

He was very clearly mouthing "Ab bata rahe ho yaar". Think Pant was not clear enough in saying no first, and then Virat made the signal and he was shouting No as he was doing that. Which is what Virat was pointing out. Its ok to get them wrong or right but need to be decisive.

 

[Pup Clarke]

Siraj is a beast

Probably the only new quick (let's say debuted in the last year) in international cricket who I can confidently predict will dominate batting line-ups for years to come

 

[honestbharani]

Siraj needs to be fuller here if he wants to get Root LBW. Not enough balls actually going on to hit the stumps.

 

[Jack1]

Hameed's wicket just looked like someone caught in the headlights. Bloke no doubt extremely nervous. Always think there's probably nothing much worse than coming back into a side after an absence of a few years, with a pretty mediocre average/record, called up as a direct replacement for someone who has been dropped after a few failures, facing a great bowling attack in non-ideal batting conditions. Pressure pretty huge.

Sibley's wicket just garbage though. Horrible.

Batted out of position is the main problem. Don't like to make excuses for anyone at the level, but England just heaped pressure on Hameed batting him at 3 - he only had a 33.72 FC average coming into the game - all his recent form and runs have been opening. Then you also have Ballance who averages 46.44 at 3 in 16 tests with a 47.05 FC average that they refuse to give a second run in the team to. If they weren't going to open Hameed then all things considered he shouldn't be in the team, or squad, over Ballance. England (and Wales) do funny things sometimes.

 

[Arachnodouche]

"India's reviews off Mohammed Siraj's bowling - 10 reviews, 1 successful, 2 umpire's calls, 7 reviews lost"

Not like there isn't precedent for this.

 

[Aritro]

Also Siraj looks so much better on this dying-but-still-seaming pitch than he did on the dead-as-a-****ing-dodo pitches in Australia.

 

[Arachnodouche]

Also Siraj looks so much better on this dying-but-still-seaming than he did on the dead-as-a-****ing-dodo pitches in Australia.

Looked pretty good there too, but had more of a holding job in Aus. Legitimate attacking option here though.

 

[OverratedSanity]

Batted out of position is the main problem. Don't like to make excuses for anyone at the level, but England just heaped pressure on Hameed batting him at 3 - he only had a 33.72 FC average coming into the game - all his recent form and runs have been opening. Then you also have Ballance who averages 46.44 at 3 in 16 tests with a 47.05 FC average that they refuse to give a second run in the team to. If they weren't going to open Hameed then all things considered he shouldn't be in the team, or squad, over Ballance. England (and Wales) do funny things sometimes.

Always liked ballance tbh. Thought he was better than most of this current lineup.

 

[Aritro]

Looked pretty good there too, but had more of a holding job in Aus. Legitimate attacking option here though.

Yeah looked as good as could be reasonably expected of a debutant pacemen who relies on seam on those pitches.

 

[Pup Clarke]

I like Sibley, but he has to be dropped really. Making himself unselectable

 

[OverratedSanity]

Always liked ballance tbh. Thought he was better than most of this current lineup.

Then again I thought he was better than Root lol #neverforget

 

[Aritro]

Commentator bantz is so dire. I think both these people are very good at their jobs, but per-lease

 

[silentstriker]

Uhhh did this turn into a T20 game? Five boundries in six balls???

 

[cnerd123]

This is where Ashwin would be useful

Get Jaddu on for a change of pace IMO