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  • Addick Addict
    Addick Addict Posts: 39,783
    Addick Addict said:
    Hartley and Shoaib have bowled very well in tandem - 16 runs off the last 9 overs. Still 93 required and a quick "bang, bang" and with 93 runs still needed, the game looks a different one. 
    And there's the first of them - Patidar out for a six ball duck to a great catch from Pope at short leg off Shoaib

    100-3 and still 92 needed
  • Addick Addict
    Addick Addict Posts: 39,783
    Jadeja is the big wicket now. Get him soon and I fancy us to win. 
  • Addick Addict
    Addick Addict Posts: 39,783
    OMG! Hartley bowls one that hits a crack, barely gets an inch off the ground, turns square down the legside and is painfully, for an unlucky Foakes, rightly given as four byes. 
  • Addick Addict
    Addick Addict Posts: 39,783
    With the advent of DRS, the Umpire's job is a hell of a lot easier than it once was but I have to say that Dharmasena and Tucker have been excellent.  
  • Addick Addict
    Addick Addict Posts: 39,783
    118-3 off 37 overs at lunch with another 74 needed.

    We've, generally speaking, bowled very well, with very few freebies, albeit that the Indians have been content to allow the game to play out (Jadeja in particular with just 3 off 29) rather than take it to us. 
  • soapboxsam
    soapboxsam Posts: 23,229
    edited February 2024
    Two wickets in two balls and we have a chance.

  • Addick Addict
    Addick Addict Posts: 39,783
    Addick Addict said:
    Jadeja is the big wicket now. Get him soon and I fancy us to win. 
    And there it is. Jadeja caught by Bairstow off Shoaib. Game on!

    120-4
  • Addick Addict
    Addick Addict Posts: 39,783
    And has Shoaib got Sarfaraz first ball caught at short leg? It's being reviewed as given "not out" initially
  • Addick Addict
    Addick Addict Posts: 39,783
    Sarfaraz has to go. Shoaib on a hattrick 

    120-5
  • Addick Addict
    Addick Addict Posts: 39,783
    How I wish we'd opened with Anderson and Shoaib last night. The latter has bowled beautifully in this innings. 
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  • soapboxsam
    soapboxsam Posts: 23,229
    edited February 2024
    So near yet so far:
    Sensible batting and the 84 for the 1st wicket will be vital for India.
  • soapboxsam
    soapboxsam Posts: 23,229
    Addick Addict said:
    How I wish we'd opened with Anderson and Shoaib last night. The latter has bowled beautifully in this innings. 

    Sounds churlish to criticise Ben Stokes but if Rohit made the mistake of not putting on Ashwin to bowl early doors to Duckett in the last test then Stokes made a mistake in not having Bashir open the bowling in this 2nd innings.
  • Addick Addict
    Addick Addict Posts: 39,783
    140-5 but more than 30 overs since we bowled a 4 ball. Excellent pressure from the two youngsters. Even if they ultimately fail, they will have learnt a lot. 
  • blackpool72
    blackpool72 Posts: 23,673
    Addick Addict said:
    140-5 but more than 30 overs since we bowled a 4 ball. Excellent pressure from the two youngsters. Even if they ultimately fail, they will have learnt a lot. 
    Right on cue 
    4
  • Addick Addict
    Addick Addict Posts: 39,783
    Addick Addict said:
    140-5 but more than 30 overs since we bowled a 4 ball. Excellent pressure from the two youngsters. Even if they ultimately fail, they will have learnt a lot. 
    And then Shoaib bowls a half volley that gets dispatched. Even so, his matches figures of 64-11-174-8 are excellent. 
  • Addick Addict
    Addick Addict Posts: 39,783
    Should we end up losing (which with just 37 to win looks likely) then we only have ourselves to blame for that poor batting display yesterday when we went from 65-2 to 145 all out. 
  • Leuth
    Leuth Posts: 23,315
    Addick Addict said:
    Should we end up losing (which with just 37 to win looks likely) then we only have ourselves to blame for that poor batting display yesterday when we went from 65-2 to 145 all out. 
    110-3! We just needed to get another...70 runs? 60? I can't believe how badly they fucked it 
  • blackpool72
    blackpool72 Posts: 23,673
    Addick Addict said:
    Should we end up losing (which with just 37 to win looks likely) then we only have ourselves to blame for that poor batting display yesterday when we went from 65-2 to 145 all out. 
    Exactly. 
    England had a first innings lead of45 and India had to bat last.
    All England had to do yesterday was score 230 or 240 to be in the box seat.
    We then proceed to bat rubbish. 
  • Leuth
    Leuth Posts: 23,315
    blackpool72 said:
    Addick Addict said:
    Should we end up losing (which with just 37 to win looks likely) then we only have ourselves to blame for that poor batting display yesterday when we went from 65-2 to 145 all out. 
    Exactly. 
    England had a first innings lead of45 and India had to bat last.
    All England had to do yesterday was score 230 or 240 to be in the box seat.
    We then proceed to bat rubbish. 
    We didn't even need that many 
  • killerandflash
    killerandflash Posts: 69,846
    Jurel having a superb game. He's come in and changed the impetus of the innings.
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  • soapboxsam
    soapboxsam Posts: 23,229
    edited February 2024
    Is Jurel Pants 🤔

    I believe Rishabh Pants will eventually come back as a batsman only for India(if selected)after his car crash and long lay off but the excellent Jurel with the gloves and batting ability could at 22 be the keeper for a decade for India.
  • soapboxsam
    soapboxsam Posts: 23,229
    edited February 2024
    Disciplined winning 50 partnership by Gill and Jurel who have calmed the situation after the 2 wickets in 2 balls.
  • soapboxsam
    soapboxsam Posts: 23,229
    Gill finally lets loose and hits 2 x 6's.
  • Addick Addict
    Addick Addict Posts: 39,783
    India win by 5 wickets to go 3-1 up in the Series
  • oohaahmortimer
    oohaahmortimer Posts: 34,145
    Standard England collapso cricket costs us 
    4-1 series defeat is better than expected but India aren’t as strong as they could be, big shame but fail to prepare ….
  • soapboxsam
    soapboxsam Posts: 23,229
    edited February 2024
    You can accept if you are out to 10 Jaffas but the combination of 3* world class spinners and bad decisions by the England batsmen in the 2nd innings and the fear of being all out for around 150 came to fruition.

    * Axar Patel makes 4 *with his 50 test wickets at 16.70 average and who with Ashwin destroyed England on our last tour to Indian.
  • soapboxsam
    soapboxsam Posts: 23,229
    Jurel must be MOM as India won.
  • killerandflash
    killerandflash Posts: 69,846
    oohaahmortimer said:
    Standard England collapso cricket costs us 
    4-1 series defeat is better than expected but India aren’t as strong as they could be, big shame but fail to prepare ….
    To be fair, while England clearly could have batted better in the second innings, they were blown away by 3 world class spinners in their backyard. The equivalent of facing Broad, Anderson and Woakes on a green Headingley pitch.
  • soapboxsam
    soapboxsam Posts: 23,229
    I want Atkinson to get a test match and after hearing ex Captain Cook say about Dharmashala's chilly conditions where normally seam takes more wickets than spin then Gus should get a game.
    Not worth Wood playing in a dead rubber with his Charlton type injury record so either Robinson or Anderson to play.
    The education for Bashir and Hartley to continue even if it's not as conducive to spin compared to the other test venues in India.
  • mendonca
    mendonca Posts: 9,405
    India could have played Axar instead of Patidar (averaged an awful 10 from 6 innings at home) and shifted the batting lineup. It didn't matter in the end as Jurel really stood out for
    them.

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