*Official* England in India 2023/24 #CryMoreTour

[CarlsbergXpress]

new ball early tomorrow will end this innings quickly

150-180 chase

rohit or jaiswal will get 60 in the first 10 overs and it will be a cakewalk

Or, new nighthawk Hartley enjoys the harder ball and hits a quick fire 50 taking the game away from India. Dare to dream

 

[Shri]

how often do we see teams winning tests away from home after being 200 behind in 1st innings

 

[Calm_profit]

Century from Jadeja with the ball.

 

[CarlsbergXpress]

We can safely say that won’t happen here, no matter how many England get.

 

[Prince EWS]

Still need another 120 IMO but a pleasing day. That being said I’m not sure why anyone thought we would just roll over. We may be a flawed side but when we go down we go down swinging.

The surprise is the big Pope ton specifically, not really the character of the side.

 

[danzydab]

Because he's good at cricket? It's insane to me that people still want pope gone. He's averaged 44 since mccullum took over. I get the whole "he only makes weak runs" and "he can't play spin" thing, but come the hell on. When was the last time england had a #3 (not named root) doing this well? The issue this game was the fact that england picked two spinner's with no FC experience, and leach got injured. India never should have been allowed to score 400+.

yea pope has served me a humble pie. he looked the worst player of spin in the team before this

 

[danzydab]

No balls this test: 10* No balls by Jadeja: 7*

 

[Shri]

eng dressing room looks happy. unacceptable.

jimmeh nowhere to be seen. might be a contributing factor.

 

[Pothas]

Still need another 120 IMO but a pleasing day. That being said I’m not sure why anyone thought we would just roll over. We may be a flawed side but when we go down we go down swinging.

Been a great day. England ever having a day like this in India is one of my favourite things in cricket.

 

[Flem274*]

Nice to see Pope in the runs. Rate him. Unfortunately he still plays for England.

 

[Uppercut]

If England hadn’t decided to pack out the attack with club spinners for some reason they’d be on course to win this one.

 

[Third_Man]

10

Less than that. Given Duckett's interview after day 1, I suspect think will need well less than 10 to convince themselves they were in the match from start to finish and their chosen XI were not outclassed. From CoP on day 2 anything less than an innings defeat is momentum to them.

 

[Prince EWS]

If England hadn’t decided to pack out the attack with club spinners for some reason they’d be on course to win this one.

The existence of Root made it so much less necessary too.

If they thought there was a chance it was just gonna rag and be a low scoring shoot out, Leach and Root bowling 70% of the overs was still totally possible. Or maybe Leach, Root and Rehan. That last extra spinner instead of Jimmy or Robinson made no real sense once Root was gonna bowl and Stokes wasn't.

 

[Third_Man]

The existence of Root made it so much less necessary too.

If they thought there was a chance it was just gonna rag and be a low scoring shoot out, Leach and Root bowling 70% of the overs was still totally possible. Or maybe Leach, Root and Rehan. That last extra spinner instead of Jimmy or Robinson made no real sense once Root was gonna bowl and Stokes wasn't.

maybe they didn't completely trust the spinners and so needed alternatives and to see who would stand up on the day?

 

[Aidan11]

Totally surprised by today. Expected us to roll over but we've put up a decent fight although India still favourites.

Well done Pope. Great knock.

 

[Uppercut]

maybe they didn't completely trust the spinners and so needed alternatives and to see who would stand up on the day?

‘Our spinners suck so we need to pick more spinners’ would be classic Selector Logic.

 

[Gnske]

Seriously, Ashwin and Jadeja suck and they have sucked for years.

Six months ago they would never have let this happen. Pope scoring a century in India is actually going to backfire I fear. Now Indian groundsmen will fear his elite ambition and create Nagpur's from here on out.

Watch the next few tosses incase the coin looks weighted.

 

[GIMH]

The surprise is the big Pope ton specifically, not really the character of the side.

Yeah agreed, I didn’t read much of the thread this morning it was more the comments yesterday that seemed to anticipate we would just roll over.

I mean maybe it still ends with India by 8 wickets but we’ve shown we can compete.

 

[GIMH]

Suspect Crawley and Duckett will wipe out the deficit before a wicket his lost and Stokes declares when we're about 450 ahead. I'd expect a comfortable England win but I suppose a draw is possible

Not too far off.

 

[silentstriker]

This is great. Another 75 runs and we can have a nail biter.