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*Official* 3rd Test at the Sardar Patel Sports Complex, Ahmedabad, 24 - 28 Feb 2021

Ashwinashwath

School Boy/Girl Captain
Oh comeon blokes! When Shubman Gill and Rohit are playing with ease, almost like blindfolded hands tied to their backs. It was the English batsmen who needlessly sweated a bit to perish under good batting conditions.
 

Lillian Thomson

Hall of Fame Member
Oh comeon blokes! When Shubman Gill and Rohit are playing with ease, almost like blindfolded hands tied to their backs. It was the English batsmen who needlessly sweated a bit to perish under good batting conditions.
If you're seriously saying this innings chasing 49 shows the pitch is okay you need to find something else to do, maybe start a blog on gardening.
 

karan_fromthestands

State Captain
This is a 200-250 wicket for sure. India messed it up royally in the first innings. I mean there's plenty of turn out there, but these kind of pitches need a positive approach like Rohit has showed in both the innings.
 

honestbharani

Whatever it takes!!!
First ball of the innings too. Missed it by a mile.

Reminded me a bit of something that would happen on a cricket computer game if someone wasn't quite used to the controls yet.
The only explanation I have is that he expected Axar to actually bowl a Wasim level inswinger and it did not come in that much.
 

honestbharani

Whatever it takes!!!
From an English perspective, the worrying bit about these set of circumstances is that they go home feeling embattled and hard done by the wickets and take no steps to improve the local circuit with respect to spin. Doubt there's the kind of integrity or foresight, anywhere in the modern game really, needed to swallow these kind of defeats and get on with what can be done to fare better in the future.
I think India had their watershed moment back in 1996 when we were bowled out for 100 and 66 at Durban, where South Africa scored 250 in both innings, on a track that was the seaming version of the Chennai track we got last game, and then for 81 at Barbados chasing 120 on a wicket, which was a bit like this one. I feel a lot of the improvement, A team structure, academy, foreign coaches at the age group level all started happening from then, and a lot of that credit should go to Dalmiya's administration.
 

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