The Cricket Thread

[Mudball]

Best we can hope for is to get out of this with a draw. Going to need to dig in with the batting and not leave too big a deficit. I can see us following on here

i wont put money on a follow on... dont think there is anything in the pitch. If Bhurmar can score 20-30, i am sure couple of tons from Eng coming up. Lets see how the pitch deteriorate on Day 4/5.

update: sorry.. jinxed it.

 

[Norrin Radd]

Drinks and Ducket is three shy of an amazing ton . 137-1

 

[Mudball]

Well deserved... Duck only in name.

 

[fundy]

Batted Duckett, now make it a daddy please

 

[GB72]

Best we can hope for is to get out of this with a draw. Going to need to dig in with the batting and not leave too big a deficit. I can see us following on here

That aged well (Please don't let me jinx it)

 

[Hobbit]

Pope starting to open up. Oh, sneaky inside edge.

 

[Neilds]

Good day for England with the bat, just need to sort out the catching and we will be in with a chance this match

 

[venger]

Ravi Ashwin has withdrawn from the rest of the test for family reasons

 

[Mudball]

Ravi Ashwin has withdrawn from the rest of the test for family reasons

looks like India will play 10 men... this is the first time i have seen a situation like this.

Ashwin withdraws from Rajkot Test because of family emergency

As things stand, India will have to play with only ten men in the remainder of the Rajkot Test if Ashwin doesn't return

www.espncricinfo.com

Hopefully all well with Ashwin… Surely looking at 2-1 for Eng now..

 

[fundy]

Would like to see England have offered them to the chance to bring in a replacement, im definitely too old school though!

 

[fundy]

looks like India will play 10 men... this is the first time i have seen a situation like this.

Ashwin withdraws from Rajkot Test because of family emergency

As things stand, India will have to play with only ten men in the remainder of the Rajkot Test if Ashwin doesn't return

www.espncricinfo.com

Hopefully all well with Ashwin… Surely looking at 2-1 for Eng now..

India still favs if you feel that strongly! Batting last not gonna be easy you would think

 

[ColchesterFC]

India still favs if you feel that strongly! Batting last not gonna be easy you would think

Got to be hoping that we can bat once and not have to bat last. Entirely possible that we could get 650 in our first innings and watch India fail to score 200. If we bat all day tomorrow then we won't be far off 600 runs and could even get more if Stokes is in one of his moods.

Equally possible that we could be all out before lunch tomorrow trailing by 150.

 

[fundy]

Got to be hoping that we can bat once and not have to bat last. Entirely possible that we could get 650 in our first innings and watch India fail to score 200. If we bat all day tomorrow then we won't be far off 600 runs and could even get more if Stokes is in one of his moods.

Equally possible that we could be all out before lunch tomorrow trailing by 150.

Id love us to still be batting when I get up tomorrow morning, let alone at the end of the day lol. First session tomorrow could be compelling viewing (sadly not at 4am our time!)

 

[ColchesterFC]

Id love us to still be batting when I get up tomorrow morning, let alone at the end of the day lol. First session tomorrow could be compelling viewing (sadly not at 4am our time!)

Shame it's on TNT sports and not Sky. I could've earned some brownie points by offering to get up with the puppy at 4am.

 

[fundy]

Shame it's on TNT sports and not Sky. I could've earned some brownie points by offering to get up with the puppy at 4am.

ive got TNT ill get up with the Puppy (what pup have you got?)

 

[ColchesterFC]

ive got TNT ill get up with the Puppy (what pup have you got?)

 

[Mudball]

This is so comforting…
I woke up at some point for a loo break… Eng was 300 for 5 or something at lunch. Went back to bed with my hopes filled and empty bladder

I just woke up with the exact opposite.. full bladder, empty hopes and India about to bat

 

[Mudball]

Heard on the commentary.. Root has bowled more overs than runs scored in this series.

Why does he see the need to be a bazzballer.. he can be the anchor around whom everyone else can bazball (assume that is a verb)

 

[Mudball]

Wonderful double ton by the young man. Hero of the hour. Hopefully he has people around him who can help with fame and money and he won’t get lost in the wilderness like another young man who achieved fame before his time - Vinod Kambli

Now a mountain to climb for England. Irrespective of the result, Cricinfo, Social Media, the commentators are all wondering if Eng can do it. Under Root we would have written them off or at best talk about how they might grind out a draw.. but under Stokes people wonder if there is a 10% chance of an English win. What a place to be ..

I am also assuming that the wicket is now going to turn square

 

[Billysboots]

Oh dear. Over a day to bat to save the game, as even wearing the rosiest of tinted specs I can’t see us chasing this down, and we throw away our first wicket with a run out.