*Official* 1st Test at the MA Chidambaram Stadium, Chennai, 05 - 09 Feb 2021

[Burgey]

My first son was born during Alec Stewart's final test match. We called him Alec. Not that we were massive fans of the guy but after five days in hospital with nothing else on TV it was the only thing we could think of.

This is magnificent

 

[DriveClub]

Lack of a proper 2nd spinner hurting India big time. Joe Root is a subcontinent beast now. Game on in the 1st test

 

[wpdavid]

My first son was born during Alec Stewart's final test match. We called him Alec. Not that we were massive fans of the guy but after five days in hospital with nothing else on TV it was the only thing we could think of.

Talking of whom, I think Stewart did a Root by hitting a ton in his 100th test match. No idea how many others have done that.

 

[Pothas]

They had the list up quite a few times today. Cowdrey the other English one but a fair few others on there. Ponting with the twin tons.

 

[wpdavid]

They had the list up quite a few times today. Cowdrey the other English one but a fair few others on there. Ponting with the twin tons.

I thought Cowdrey may have done. They probably talked about that when Stewart hit his in 2000. No surprise about Ponting. I don't know whether Atherton was on commentary duty at all today, but his 100th test was in the same match as Stewart. Unfortunately he fell about 100 runs short of his ton.

 

[mr_mister]

Wait, Joe Root is actually good now?

 

[Flem274*]

what a day for england. had this on in the background last night. root's so good.

 

[Chrish]

Lately both Ken and Rootie are improving by leaps and bounds. Battle of who is best has started again.

 

[cnerd123]

Yea this is looking ominous. Good toss to win for England. Root is in some incredible form.

Seems like Nadeem and Sundar need to bowl better today for us to claw our way back into this match. Still don't understand why we picked 3 spinners. Was Umesh not match fit?

 

[trundler]

Still don't understand why we picked 3 spinners.

Actually they played 4 with Shakib

 

[cnerd123]

Let's go Ishant and Boomrah. Wreck some havoc early today.

 

[Shri]

boom boom's yorker to stokes should have gotten a wicket ffs

 

[Shri]

i'll be worried about stokes in the second innings

hopefully he gets out cheap today

 

[Shri]

is that allowed?

using your bat to keep the ball away from your stumps after you've played a shot

 

[Arachnodouche]

This Bumrah spell has been good enough to get a nick on any wicket with even a modicum of help for seamers.

 

[cnerd123]

is that allowed?

using your bat to keep the ball away from your stumps after you've played a shot

Yes

I have a bad feeling about this series. Playing that garbage Aus side was not good prep for this. Plus they spent so much energy to win that they might be running on fumes here.

Hopefully our batters score mountains of runs too.

 

[Shri]

has shastri lost weight or is he wearing loose fitting clothes

 

[Spark]

Yes

I have a bad feeling about this series. Playing that garbage Aus side was not good prep for this. Plus they spent so much energy to win that they might be running on fumes here.

Hopefully our batters score mountains of runs too.

Bit early for the excuses, eh?

 

[Daemon]

Bit early for the excuses, eh?

I think most of us snuck an early gambhir in a while ago. Cnerd’s one is too late and doesn’t count.

 

[Shri]

think the pitch will take spin from tomorrow and quickly get worse

we need to score quick today and not give away too much of a deficit

assuming we bowl them out that is