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India vs England
- Thread starter The Pilgrim
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At least Talksport have had the decency to not play adverts during play but the difference between this and TMS is huge.
Leach gets Rohit, we really needed that! India 80-1 from 12 overs
Hartley has gone for 51 runs from 6 overs.
Hartley has gone for 51 runs from 6 overs.
Pretty easy for India, they have 3 world class spinners, we have none - so what sort of wicket do we expect.
Lets be clear India doctor the wickets in ICC tournaments to suit them, so they are hardly going to do anything that remotely favours us when they have complete control.
Still think there is room for a steady seamer who bowls stump to stump and makes players play around the front pad if they want to score.
If not sure their is a huge gulf in class around the batting, but the gulf in class between bowling attacks is absolutely huge.
Lets be clear India doctor the wickets in ICC tournaments to suit them, so they are hardly going to do anything that remotely favours us when they have complete control.
Still think there is room for a steady seamer who bowls stump to stump and makes players play around the front pad if they want to score.
If not sure their is a huge gulf in class around the batting, but the gulf in class between bowling attacks is absolutely huge.
Yep. It's so difficult to imagine us regularly taking 20 wickets for anything like a competitive score isn't it?
I feel like Jack Leach is in for an awful lot of overs this tour...
It doesn't help that when teams like Somerset produce a spinning wicket they get docked points. How are our spinners meant to learn?
India 119-1 close of play. We need quick wickets in the morning else they'll be ahead of us before tea.
As someone who remembers attacks that featured Ian Salisbury, Chris Schofield, i'm struggling to remember a worse bowling attack fielded by England. Of course, no Anderson (by choice which i dont agree with), no Broad (retirement), no Stokes (injury), Archer (Injury) we are going to have to be imaginative - but this is a stretch too far. Two untested spinners, a steady-ish test spinner who has missed a season with injury and an injury prone quick bowler - is the cupboard really that bare?
I've lost track of players who have retired or made themselves unavailable, clearly Moeen and Adil Rashid have, but what about others, S Curran, Liam Dawson, J Overton - are these guys just franchise players now?
I'm not sure what Kohli's personal reasons for missing the first two tests are, but if he has watched any of todays action, i'd bet my last pound he will be available for the 3rd test, for a bucket of easy runs.
I've lost track of players who have retired or made themselves unavailable, clearly Moeen and Adil Rashid have, but what about others, S Curran, Liam Dawson, J Overton - are these guys just franchise players now?
I'm not sure what Kohli's personal reasons for missing the first two tests are, but if he has watched any of todays action, i'd bet my last pound he will be available for the 3rd test, for a bucket of easy runs.
STUMPS
1st Test, Hyderabad, January 25 - 29, 2024, England tour of India
England
246
India
(23 ov) 119/1
Day 1 - India trail by 127 runs.
1st Test, Hyderabad, January 25 - 29, 2024, England tour of India
246
(23 ov) 119/1
Day 1 - India trail by 127 runs.
My sister and brother-in-law are there and they say the atmosphere is amazing. England not so much!
