*Official* England in India 2023/24 #CryMoreTour

[wpdavid]

Watching the highlights, I see that Leach did bowl one over today. Is that a cause for slight optimism that he might be on the mend, or does that one over simply confirm that he's nowhere near fit enough to bowl tomorrow?

 

[mackembhoy]

Look at these ****ing Brits gambhiring.

England are ahead if anything. Pope looking unstoppable, Rehan Hartley and Wood can all bat and even Leach has won games.

No reason England can't get 200+ here and skittle us for **** all. Rohit Jaiswal and Gill all love a brain fade, Iyer will get bounced out, and Lokesh Jadeja and Axar are due a failure with the bat. Hartley could troll a few wickets, Root could legit take a five-fer.

Not gambhiring it's speaking from experience haha.

I support Sunderland in football you live with natural pessimism up our way.

 

[danzydab]

a partnership of pope batting like this and brook hammering spinners on the other end would be quite a sight

 

[MW1304]

Watching the highlights now – hopefully the pair of hilarious Ashwin gaffes in quick succession didn't go unnoticed.

 

[trundler]

Watching the highlights now – hopefully the pair of hilarious Ashwin gaffes in quick succession didn't go unnoticed.

Well, @Shri took some screenshots no one cared about

 

[Anil]

Pitch has got easier to bat on, Leach probably can’t bowl. 200 will be straightforward.

It’s less about the pitch and more about our ****ty batting lineup and their ability to face any real pressure…especially when the opposition refuses to fold like what England is doing right now…

 

[Ashes81]

Pope has always had significant batting ability but has struggled to convert that into runs on the board.

Under McCullum he has got out too many times trying to be ultra positive, almost as if he felt as vice Captain, he had to show the team, he could play in the Bazball style.

He hasn't played for 6 months and it looked like it in the 1st innings.

But day's knock was top class, on a tricky pitch against a top class attack, he played an innings I didn't know he had in him.

We were told he couldn't score in India,.that he couldn't play top class spin. Well he can now.

It was an innings for the ages.

 

[Gnske]

India have the most insecure and obnoxious celebrations of wickets in the world game, my god.

Kohli's short-man syndrome has spread through this team like a cluster munition of AIDS.

 

[OverratedSanity]

Pitch has got easier to bat on, Leach probably can’t bowl. 200 will be straightforward.

India are astonishingly bad at 4th innings chases. England will be favourites if they set anything over 180.

 

[Burgey]

Look at these ****ing Brits gambhiring.

England are ahead if anything. Pope looking unstoppable, Rehan Hartley and Wood can all bat and even Leach has won games.

No reason England can't get 200+ here and skittle us for **** all. Rohit Jaiswal and Gill all love a brain fade, Iyer will get bounced out, and Lokesh Jadeja and Axar are due a failure with the bat. Hartley could troll a few wickets, Root could legit take a five-fer.

If you’re gonna bitch and moan like this next Sunday, I’ll stay in Adelaide instead of coming back to take you to the SCG. Zip it ffs

 

[Shri]

you will go to a pool and forget about him anyway because you are too weak to watch a day of test cricket in hot weather ****

 

[Burgey]

you will go to a pool and forget about him anyway because you are too weak to watch a day of test cricket in hot weather ****

It’s a one dayer, dickhead

 

[Shri]

eng might not be terrible after all

good batting from rehan

 

[honestbharani]

I am no fan of Pope and I dont think he is particularly likely to make big runs against spin but an Ian Bell level player is fine at 3 for this line up and its not like much better ones are waiting in the shed, maybe that Bohannon kid with the Lions but let him fail a few times first, FFS.

Thanks for proving me right Ollie but get out now FFS.

 

[honestbharani]

And @Spark this is exactly the type of pitch that shows its absolutely idiotic to think a pitch that turns on day 1 cannot get better to bat on as the days progress. Mike Atherton etc. have literally no understanding of how tracks in the SC can actually go and keep repeating the same nonsense about how a pitch that turns a lot on day 1 can never be good for cricket etc etc.

 

[cnerd123]

Ollie Pope is locked in for a 200 here

 

[Silver Silva]

This is turning out to be a classic, maybe the best test match of the year already

 

[OverratedSanity]

200 is enough for England against our lineup.

 

[OverratedSanity]

And @Spark this is exactly the type of pitch that shows its absolutely idiotic to think a pitch that turns on day 1 cannot get better to bat on as the days progress.

It's such an easily disproven myth that still persists. People just think all Asian pitches behave the same.

 

[Spark]

And @Spark this is exactly the type of pitch that shows its absolutely idiotic to think a pitch that turns on day 1 cannot get better to bat on as the days progress. Mike Atherton etc. have literally no understanding of how tracks in the SC can actually go and keep repeating the same nonsense about how a pitch that turns a lot on day 1 can never be good for cricket etc etc.

I don't understand why this is addressed at me, I'm well aware of all this.

I can only think this is because this is how turning pitches outside of India/Sri Lanka can behave due to the effect of cracks, the sun, unevenness of bounce etc