***Official*** England in India 2016/17

[King Pietersen]

Yadav bowling bouncers to Cook on this pitch. Heh. Good luck lad.

 

[flibbertyjibber]

India have bowled some pretty crap stuff here. Not anywhere near enough good balls.

 

[honestbharani]

They may not give us that much... And the pitch is still ****ing slow... Kohli seems to give the new ball to Shami and Umesh just because they can bowl 140+, regardless of the wicket and match situation and confidence of the players. Still not convinced at how good Kohli is as a captain for spinners.

 

[AndyZaltzHair]

now something dramatic needs to happen

still dont understand why ashwin did not change ends

 

[Stapel]

Cook is beating his own career SR, whilst it is the evening session on day 4.

That's just another sign this pitch is still good for batting.

 

[AndyZaltzHair]

They may not give us that much... And the pitch is still ****ing slow... Kohli seems to give the new ball to Shami and Umesh just because they can bowl 140+, regardless of the wicket and match situation and confidence of the players. Still not convinced at how good Kohli is as a captain for spinners.

Kohli got a bit carried away with jadeja picking up cook in 1st innings and lost the plot

 

[fredfertang]

Quite enough drama for me as it is, thank you

 

[AndyZaltzHair]

Now if the lead gets past 150 like this, will England send Stokes early to pick up few quick runs and have a last go at Indian batsmen

 

[OverratedSanity]

Man this has been some ordinary bowling from us. On the other hand, quite impressed with Hameed.

 

[Shri]

Not looking forward to seeing us batting 4th here. Pitch definitely showing signs of deterioration, 60 overs could be hard to survive.

Our lower order made it seem worse than it was. It could get worse but it isn't alarming now.

 

[artvandalay]

Hameed getting squared up because of the way he gets his bat across is very reminiscent of Guptill.

 

[AndyZaltzHair]

anything on the leg side, hameed pounces on it

 

[ImpatientLime]

How did Rashid bowl?

 

[honestbharani]

I just dont like Kohli's captaincy this innings. He seems to be doing things just for the heck of it, because he feels that bowlers who bowl 140+ are the winning formula.. They are not. Shami and Umesh have been back to their 3 balls in the channel and 3 easy pickings down the leg bowling style here. With the pitch being slow while still providing some assistance, you need to string together good balls to get batsmen out. Isolated incidents of balls jumping and turning, that too at this slow pace, is not going to get batsmen out on its own if the batsmen are intent on surviving. 2 or 3 balls in succession doing stuff will see batsmen do something different and that will give the opening for the bowlers. That is not gonna happen with Umesh and Shami bowling IMO.

 

[burr]

England are in the box seat, aren't they? Well done. I wonder how Indian curators will respond and what sort of pitches will be served up for rest of the series.

 

[91Jmay]

Kohli might end up a better overseas skipper than Dhoni because of his aggresive nature but at home he doesn't seem to have the mentality to sit in and build pressure which is often required in India.

 

[fredfertang]

How did Rashid bowl?

Looks like a different bowler, confidence wise - he was pretty good today imo, not quite as good as yesterday, but seems to have made the step up

 

[weldone]

Hameed can bat.

 

[TheJediBrah]

Just another reason Pujara is superior

Can guarantee he'd never be rattled by his hot wife being blasted on the screen where Kohli gets cold chills whenever Anushka's mug gets displayed over the big screens.

I think I read this differently to how it was intended to come across

 

[flibbertyjibber]

So much for the spinners skittling us today. Hit out of the attack by our most defensive players.