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Shock of the century a team of white ball players and sub standard red ball ones whove not played any red ball cricket for 4 weeks getting rolled by a decent attack

Half expected them to be rolled over before lunch such is the lack of batting quality.
 

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Here comes the Hundred's first challenge after a couple of weeks of backslapping. Tonight's match will be of little significance as the media wale and gnash their teeth over the England performance. This and how England fare in the next 50 over World Cup will ultimately be the arbiters of the Hundred.
 

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A bit of a throwback to the old ages.. a touring team visits a few weeks prior to a series. Then spends time in prep games and against Board XIs. Then start with the tests.

These days with packed agendas teams arrive just in time and the first match is more of an acclimatisation match.

Shardul Thakur in post match mentions that they got time to play with dukes ball in English conditions. Seems to have helped them a lot. Cracking attack
 

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From 130 for 3 to that isn't good. In fairness, India bowled superbly all day.

Bairstowe and Burns got rippers and Lawrence strangled down the leg side was unlucky. I'm trying my best to not be all.doom and gloom. On the face of it, we failed yet again in the first innings of a test match. Saw some pretty damning stats of our last ten first innings scores.

The volume of white ball cricket now is staggering. We need to start to prioritise the first class game.
 
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Vaughan is desperate to not put the blame on white ball cricket - he must be getting a fair whack from the Hundred
 

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Why in the world would you review something that flicks the top of the front pad when the batsman is striding forward.. bonkers... lost another review
 

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Quality batting from India this. Proper test match stuff. Patience and a solid technique against a moving ball.
 

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Bloody lights… match evenly poised with India gently ahead. India would have expected to bat today and tomorrow.. so good peg back. They may need to bat twice in this match.

If pant plays his game, then difficult for Eng. if he gets out quickly then Eng bat early tomorrow.

Can’t wait for Anderson to bowl with so much cloud cover
 

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Alex hales’ wife might not be getting any action for a while as he’s just taken 2 consecutive deliveries square in the plumbs
 
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