*Official* England in India 2023/24 #CryMoreTour

[Prince EWS]

I thought Brook left the tour for personal reasons, not injury.

Yeah might be true actually.

 

[BazBall21]

I thought Brook left the tour for personal reasons, not injury.

Well if the question is who do England have out, Brook counts.

 

[kevinw]

Reports of Anderson's demise too premature? Maybe the Ashes was just a poor series. Every player is allowed them now and then.

 

[Prince EWS]

Well if the question is who do England have out, Brook counts.

I wouldn't be surprised if Dawson and/or Jacks had been on tour if they didn't have t20 franchise deals but it's hard to say.

I think realistically we can count Brook, Leach and Stokes's bowling as unavailabilities.

 

[Calm_profit]

Reports of Anderson's demise too premature? Maybe the Ashes was just a poor series. Every player is allowed them now and then.

Maybe it's just mental block against the Aussies.

 

[Andyhere]

Bharat's really useless isn't he

Ye he is. Sucks at batting which everyone knows including the team management yet gets picked for his so called keeping skills and it turns out he sucks at that too. So yes a complete garbage!

 

[Aidan11]

Pope needs to take half an hour to.settle down.

 

[Howe_zat]

Reports of Anderson's demise too premature? Maybe the Ashes was just a poor series. Every player is allowed them now and then.

Anderson is a real find IMO. Kind of player they can build around for years to come

 

[BazBall21]

Once you're above the age of 35, it can go at any point reallh. Can't blame anyone for suspecting he might be done after a bad series when he's older than 40. But bowled very well in this test.

 

[Gnske]

Oof that first ball was good by Ashwin, drift out then spin in. Pope had good reason to look moronic there

 

[BazBall21]

Horror show from Pope so far. You can have a look without betraying Stokes and McCullum.

 

[Gnske]

Did Rohit forget who was on strike setting that sweeping field to a guy on 9 off 24

 

[BazBall21]

That slog sweep accelerated in speed through the air.

 

[Andyhere]

Mix of good balls but very inconsistent in between. Unable to keep the balls in the right area consistently for long periods!

 

[Howe_zat]

Horror show from Pope so far. You can have a look without betraying Stokes and McCullum.

In his last 6 balls he's hit 3 to fielders and missed a reverse sweep. Doesn't exactly look in great touch right now (weird thing to say given his last innings, but I mean literally now) but give him a break

 

[Prince EWS]

Once you're above the age of 35, it can go at any point reallh.

I do wonder if sometimes it just seems like that because players above 35 are written off after a couple of bad series, when if they were 25 instead it'd just be a 'rough trot' - especially with batsmen where the decline is less visually evident.

But we did get a big long test of that theory with Ponting.

 

[Calm_profit]

Man Crawley look good after that great Ashes,got to give credit to @honestbharani for recognising the talent

 

[Gnske]

Pope's looking more comfortable defending by the minute

It's over

 

[Nintendo]

Outside of Jack Leech, are England missing any players through injury that would likely be playing in this match?

Harry brook is out for personal reasons, but if brook is in then foakes misses out and bairstow keeps, which could arguably be worse for England. Like I doubt bairstow takes that iyer catch yesterday.

 

[Adders]

Man Crawley look good after that great Ashes,got to give credit to @honestbharani for recognising the talent

Yeah we could......or maybe we should, y'know give that credit to Stokes and BMac