Cricket fred

[Galfon]

Pitch dry / weather hot & humid.Hoping for big score then ball to swing for the lofties.
Farewell Motera, hello Narendra Modi! ..110 k capacity is monstrous for creekit.

[Big D]

Another poor outing for Sibley, think he is worth persevering with for now but he does need to improve.

[Big D]

Christ, Bairstow totally misjudges a straight one then wastes a review. He just isn't a test match player anymore.

[fivepointer]

Bizarre wasnt it. I thought he must have nicked it when he reviewed but no, he just played down the wrong line and missed a straight ball.

[Big D]

Bizarre wasnt it. I thought he must have nicked it when he reviewed but no, he just played down the wrong line and missed a straight ball.

I don't know what he and Crawley were thinking with the review. It was plumb.

[Big D]

Always a good sign being spun out on session 1 when you have picked 3 seamers and a spinner...

[Digby]

About the only possible defence is the players are struggling with time away from home in their hotel rooms. Which isn't a great defence for the money they're taking to be there, better to have refused to go up front.

The other defence is they're not very good and/or they can't be bothered just because they can't be bothered and not for any real reason. Hardly the only team to land with a bump in India and realise their skills just aren't up to it

[Galfon]

Horses for courses, ours are not up to the mark on this one.
I suspect their's will be more competitive on our green-tops later in the year.
Cripes - all gone now (112), won the toss too..

[Digby]

The pitch isn't that bad, 74-2 shouldn't be getting converted to 112 and done

Telling is not only did we lose wickets to the spinners we had not idea how to score runs off the spinners

[Galfon]

Telling is not only did we lose wickets to the spinners we had not idea how to score runs off the spinners

That was the courses thing - 3 good spinners on a wicket doing enough, just not able to adapt...(today, good job matches have 2 innings eh lads)

[Digby]

Telling is not only did we lose wickets to the spinners we had not idea how to score runs off the spinners

That was the courses thing - 3 good spinners on a wicket doing enough, just not able to adapt...(today, good job matches have 2 innings eh lads)

Seems more they had in mind previous failures and reacted to a whole bunch of stuff that wasn't happening. Ashwin in the last match was a real handful, this was just daft

[fivepointer]

Pretty awful batting. Its not a flat wicket but we shouldnt have been bowled out inside 2 sessions. Al to do tomorrow.

[Galfon]

A fifth of the way, and we're still ahead at this point ( 13 ).

[Digby]

Pretty awful batting. Its not a flat wicket but we shouldnt have been bowled out inside 2 sessions. Al to do tomorrow.

AI couldn't do much worse, though it might be a little illegal

[Which Tyler]

We learned 20+ years ago that spinners hunt best as a pack.
India, and now England are proving this once again.

Will England learn this time?

[Stom]

golden arm, I found his weakness
golden arm, he'll do as I please
golden arm, no time for sweetness
but a bitter kiss will bring him to his knees

[Galfon]

R - o - o - o- t !!
4 for 5 off 4 ?? wtf.

skidders, rippers, poppers...looks like another resultado,
bit of a blow for 5-day aficionados..

[Big D]

Really need to get this last wicket to capitalise on all the excellent work this morning.

[Which Tyler]

5 for 8 off 38 balls

[Galfon]

33 doesn't sound like alot..
( chance for redemption - hope we get the breaks )

'first five-for by an England captain since Bob Willis in 1983' apparently. wemarkable, top work by the Hick ++.

[fivepointer]

First bit done. Good effort to bowl India out for under 150.

Now, can we make 200-250?

[fivepointer]

And Crawley goes first ball.......

Bairstow just survives his first ball then gets bowled the next one. Jeez this is feeble...

[Which Tyler]

Well, that'll teach me to go to the loo!

0-2

[Digby]

bit of a blow for 5-day aficionados..

If we're happy to have pitches doing plenty from day 1 then sure.

[Big D]

I think Stokes has to be positive. Surviving on this pitch for 10-15 runs isn't enough.