***Official*** 4th Test @ The Oval, London - 2nd-6th September

[Uppercut]

Question is, is there a worse alternative to Michael Vaughan?

Arguably gonorrhea, but it's close.

 

[wpdavid]

But it's such a placid pitch...

Well that rather depends on who's doing the batting. And the bowling, come to that. I popped out for a brief moment with three wickets down and came back to this. We really are the biggest pile of steaming shite, aren't we.

 

[Spark]

what's happened here? last i checked it was 2 down

 

[wpdavid]

Root often looks like a dad who has just discovered his kids drawing on the wall with crayon.

Sooner or later he's going to wonder why he bothers with this lot. He must have better things to do with his time.

 

[wpdavid]

what's happened here? last i checked it was 2 down

England's "batting" happened. Nothing that we haven't seen before.

 

[Flem274*]

what's happened here? last i checked it was 2 down

Bumrah and reverse swing happened.

Bloke is a level above when he's got it talking. Makes me wonder why he fiddles about bowling back of a length at 135kph so often.

 

[Aritro]

Yeah on reflection, not pencilling in an England lolapse was pretty silly

 

[Flem274*]

Jesus Woakes, just kick him if he's going to pitch it outside leg every time.

 

[honestbharani]

Bumrah and reverse swing happened.

Bloke is a level above when he's got it talking. Makes me wonder why he fiddles about bowling back of a length at 135kph so often.

Steyn-itis

 

[Arachnodouche]

Well that rather depends on who's doing the batting. And the bowling, come to that. I popped out for a brief moment with three wickets down and came back to this. We really are the biggest pile of steaming ****e, aren't we.

Bumrah's been irrepressible though. Can't really hold it against Pope and Bairstow. Doubt anyone other than Root could've kept those out, as he's had occasion to prove in the last two overs.

 

[honestbharani]

Juz remember Lord was the one who started this. Should have had 2 or 3 in that spell too. ?

 

[GIMH]

I'm not gonna give the guys a kicking for getting out on Day 5 in a big chase...the real waste was on Friday evening, we could have been at the finish line now if we'd scored what we should have

 

[wpdavid]

Bumrah's been irrepressible though. Can't really hold it against Pope and Bairstow. Doubt anyone other than Root could've kept those out, as he's had occasion to prove in the last two overs.

Oh but I can ......

Nah, we've been comprehensively outplayed since the end of India's first innings, and fair do's to them.

 

[The Sean]

Sadly in the office today and having to follow this sporadically on Cricinfo - does the pitch seem to be playing noticeably worse than yesterday, or is the capitulation as bad as it reads? Sounds like Bumrah is having one of those near-unplayable days.

 

[Teja.]

England's "batting" happened. Nothing that we haven't seen before.

This is harsh. Some unplayable bowling that would have any batting line up drop a bunch of wickets.

 

[wpdavid]

I'm not gonna give the guys a kicking for getting out on Day 5 in a big chase...the real waste was on Friday evening, we could have been at the finish line now if we'd scored what we should have

This is true actually, although the degree of collapse is pretty dire. Also the obscene number of dropped catches from guys who allegedly do this for a living.

 

[Aritro]

Juz remember Lord was the one who started this. Should have had 2 or 3 in that spell too. ?

If I had a rough patch like that to bowl into and had done as little as Lord, I'd call it a day tbh.

 

[Flem274*]

I like how Warne is repeating himself several times and Nasser is just ignoring him because he's busy following Kohli's signals to his bowlers.

 

[Arachnodouche]

Sadly in the office today and having to follow this sporadically on Cricinfo - does the pitch seem to be playing noticeably worse than yesterday, or is the capitulation as bad as it reads? Sounds like Bumrah is having one of those near-unplayable days.

Bumrah's mostly taken the pitch out of the equation. Hameed got unreasonably bogged down and Malan's runout was criminal. Not much else wrong Eng have done.

 

[harsh.ag]

Insane passage of play. Missed almost all of it but this pitch doesn't warrant such a collapse. Hope Root and Woakes put up a fight with some glorious drives.