*Official* India tour of Ireland and England 2022

[Zinzan]

Just as bad as us
Just as bad as us
You even picked more bowlers and you're just as bad as us
Just as bad as us
Just as bad as us
Your fans thought you were so superior but you're just as bad as us

I need to know if this is Rap, Rock or Opera before liking

 

[BazBall21]

India getting the ball changed in this situation? what’s the point?

 

[flibbertyjibber]

Lmao at Root, just bullying them now.

Also nice to see Bairstow not robbing Root of his ton this time unlike the last test.

Yes. That was annoying last week.

 

[trundler]

Lmao at Root, just bullying them now.

Also nice to see Bairstow not robbing Root of his ton this time unlike the last test.

 

[subshakerz]

India is being toyed with now.

 

[flibbertyjibber]

I need to know if this is Rap, Rock or Opera before liking

Crap I think with a silent C

 

[Howe_zat]

Root is presumably mad about Bairstow's scoring costing him a ton in the last game and is aiming to strand him on 97*.

 

[Shady Slim]

root wants to deny jonny red a ton bc he's scared that he'll be overtaken as top dawg

 

[Aritro]

That shot was something else though

 

[Nintendo]

What went wrong for root in that Australian series? Pitches were far more bowler friendly than your usual aussie pitches but he wasn't getting worked over by cummins and starc, green and Boland where giving him serious, serious trouble. Odd from a man who has looked undismissable either side of that series.

 

[Shady Slim]

Root is presumably mad about Bairstow's scoring costing him a ton in the last game and is aiming to strand him on 97*.

root wants to deny jonny red a ton bc he's scared that he'll be overtaken as top dawg

augh beaten to it by the king i can't complain

 

[GIMH]

What went wrong for root in that Australian series? Pitches were far more bowler friendly than your usual aussie pitches but he wasn't getting worked over by cummins and starc, green and Boland where giving him serious, serious trouble. Odd from a man who has looked undismissable either side of that series.

Australia cheated

 

[BazBall21]

They’ve treated Thakur like a club bowler in this innings

 

[Aritro]

I expected better than this from India tbh. They've put up no resistance and offered nothing.

 

[ImpatientLime]

What went wrong for root in that Australian series? Pitches were far more bowler friendly than your usual aussie pitches but he wasn't getting worked over by cummins and starc, green and Boland where giving him serious, serious trouble. Odd from a man who has looked undismissable either side of that series.

too much lift off a length for a bloke who likes to fiddle outside off just a bit too often.

he also seemed incredibly frantic by his standards in a number of innings. trying to get bat on ball on everything and assert his authority. i guess he felt he had to given the amount of utter spuds clogging up the batting lineup.

 

[Spark]

What went wrong for root in that Australian series? Pitches were far more bowler friendly than your usual aussie pitches but he wasn't getting worked over by cummins and starc, green and Boland where giving him serious, serious trouble. Odd from a man who has looked undismissable either side of that series.

I mean pretty much all of Hazlewood, Cummins and even Green are basically tailor-made to exploit the one technical flaw that Root has in his batting, his propensity to play at balls outside off stump with an open face.

I say flaw; it's an integral part of what makes him so difficult to bowl to because of how easily he rotates strike behind square on the offside. But against those kinds of bowlers on Australian pitches, it means he's never a banker and will always be at risk of nicking off.

 

[Red_Ink_Squid]

What do we do if we don't get set a massive 4th innings to chase though. What happens then?

I'm looking forward to an opposition captain winning the toss and choosing to bowl first against us in glorious batting conditions out of fear of England's chasing.

 

[Spark]

I'm looking forward to an opposition captain winning the toss and choosing to bowl first against us in glorious batting conditions out of fear of England's chasing.

I mean realistically if this continues, it means that teams will basically never ever declare on England before they're like 600 in front at stumps on Day 4. Which to be fair means that England will draw a lot of games they would otherwise lose.

 

[GIMH]

Can someone check on @Shri please

 

[Viscount Tom]

Even the umpire looked disgusted with that ball