Ashwinashwath
School Boy/Girl Captain
Yes. Win the toss and win the match it was like that in first test.
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*Official* 2nd Test at the MA Chidambaram Stadium, Chennai, 13 - 17 Feb 2021
- Thread starter Shri
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sunilz
International Regular
We are the home side. Shouldn't be complaining about toss.
I don't think we would have prepared this type of pitch if we had fully fit Shami , Jadeja.
Shami and Jadeja are immense on Indian wkts and Root is in a very great form. So the need for producing spin friendly track from Day 1
sunilz
International Regular
No it wasn't. Root batted excellently in 1st innings and we bowled very poorly in 1st innings.
We have won plenty of matches like this before after restricting opposition to 450 and then scoring 600 in 1st innings followed by opposition batting collapse
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Hmm. Fair enough. That was nearly 3 weeks ago though. It isn't untrue that Root came out and said that Bess was dropped. I simply don't believe that he would have said that, or that England would have dropped Bess, if their understanding then was that Mo was going home after this game. It just makes no sense at all.
Adders
Cricketer Of The Year
Why haven't you banned him yet? No need to dig for proof of the multi.......just ban him for posting like an absolute knob. Simple.
sunilz
International Regular
Not sure about this. He came when IND had lead of 296. If he had gotten out cheaply then IND might have been restricted to overall lead of around 340.
And this total of 340 is not unchaseable if you look at events of last 1 month.
Chrish
International Debutant
IMO there is no way England was chasing anything above 300 in these conditions. Even that is stretching it.
sunilz
International Regular
People also thought the same about India after Adelaide 36 all out.
In cricket all it takes is a good knock from top 3 to bring back the momentum
Chrish
International Debutant
Chasing 300 in place like Australia where pitch doesn’t break apart isn’t the same thing as chasing similar score in subcontinent.
Chasing anything over 250 in 4th inning in Asia and task becomes daunting.
Ashwinashwath
School Boy/Girl Captain
India has chased 386 in Chennai once. Against England infact.
TheJammyTurtle
U19 Cricketer
Umesh as well.
Shri
Mr. Glass
lyon was spinning it to first slip ffs
do you even watch games or do you only look at scorecards
the big bambino
International Captain
Well ok but Ishant did bring the ball in to Finch especially. Shami is noted for sideways movement generally. Morkel averaged 34 in Australia and Steyn more pace and swing bowler. I think Skull had it right when he said pace men need 2 of pace, movement or bounce in Australian conditions. Which is why bowlers of moderate pace like Tremlett succeeded out here. It doesn't matter, if like Shami, the movement is small. May even be an advantage. Just enough to beat the batsman and making the variation harder to detect.
Ashwinashwath
School Boy/Girl Captain
How would it be like if India and NZ play test WC final instead of England and Australia, the pioneers of cricket? :P
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I am not complaining at all. I am just wondering how lucky Eng got in 1st test. If they lost that toss, Ind would have most likely scored a 700+ total from which it will be very difficult to come back from in the series. But this makes it a more even series and will be more interesting in the next 2 tests..