hallamblue
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India 2/7. History tells us that 9 times out of 10 they wouldn't make over 175, but England have a 40 year old "pace" bowler and 2 spinners with zero experience so I probably agree with the bookies.
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BlueStevie35
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I don’t know that’s why I asked, I’m not that familiar with scores
hallamblue
Player Valuation: £40m
People vastly overrate 4th innings scores. The average is under 150, and anything over 250 is virtually impossible
Mrbluenose
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Fair enough.
To answer your question, India will win.
Today was an absolute disaster for England.
To lose 7 for 35 from a winning position is absolutely woeful. The middle and lower order just fell apart after the fourth dismissal
hallamblue
Player Valuation: £40m
I didn't see all of it, but from what I did see the Indian bowlers gave us very little to work with.
They bowled well but England stopped rotating the strike, and Bairstow's dismissal first over after the break completely altered the game.
I didn't understand Foakes innings at all either. He just stood there and blocked, and took 1 an over, then got out to an absolute nothing shot.
The field setting here is absolutely rubbish. Men on the fence all over the place giving them runs.
Poor call this, you've got Anderson who gives you control
Abysmal bowling, club cricket standard
Mrbluenose
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4-1 coming up, which is probably for the best.
No point kidding ourselves this series has been a good one.
No point kidding ourselves this series has been a good one.
Completely baffling tactics by Stokes.
The day has gone worse than you could even have imagined
The day has gone worse than you could even have imagined
Absolutely awful, the worst day of play in this mini era. They have obviously had other poor days but this is the first time they've looked so confused. I don't know if they listened to the outside noise but that batting was out of character and nonsensical, Crawley aside they all played to survive on a cracked oitch against quality spin, mental.
As for the decision to open the bowling with our two worse spinners and spead the field..... forget about it.
As for the decision to open the bowling with our two worse spinners and spead the field..... forget about it.
The one major criticism that I think is fair of England under Stokes/Mccullum is that they repeatedly fail to recognise when they are on top.
The bowling against the India tail in the first innings allowed them easy runs by spreading the field. They allowed the game to drift. The lad should have been 100 not under 50.
And then second innings with the bat, to be effectively 150-3 and then collapse in a heap through a lack of application. No one seemed to know what to do. They either were playing reverses from ball 1 or trying to block every ball with no intent. Rotating the strike is fine when you are ahead.
They don't understand when they are on top they need to reduce the risk and not give anything easy away.
The bowling against the India tail in the first innings allowed them easy runs by spreading the field. They allowed the game to drift. The lad should have been 100 not under 50.
And then second innings with the bat, to be effectively 150-3 and then collapse in a heap through a lack of application. No one seemed to know what to do. They either were playing reverses from ball 1 or trying to block every ball with no intent. Rotating the strike is fine when you are ahead.
They don't understand when they are on top they need to reduce the risk and not give anything easy away.
hallamblue
Player Valuation: £40m
We can talk about tactics all we like, and they're not always great, but the fact of the matter is we don't have many good players. I'm not sure we have a single world class bowler anymore.