England Versus India - 1st Test (9 Nov - 13 Nov)

[Dr Cricket]

good point on butcher on Stokes fitness, especially of reports that he doesn't like eating during the day since it feel weird afterwards.
he really needs to find a way to eat something otherwise his bowling or batting will suffer with 7 back to back test.
media already putting his poor performance with the ball on yesterday cramps.
going be tough on him if he expected to bat and bowl england to match india performances in Test during this tour.

[Arthur Crabtree]

The late wickets have given the overnight situation a little tension. India might lose early wickets and concede a lead of about a hundred with a day and a half to go. Or they might still go past England by a hundred and put some pressure on the last day. It's too blunt to be called a knife edge, but there will be a little more anticipation on checking the score in the morning.

[Dr Cricket]

The late wickets have given the overnight situation a little tension. India might lose early wickets and concede a lead of about a hundred with a day and a half to go. Or they might still go past England by a hundred and put some pressure on the last day. It's too blunt to be called a knife edge, but there will be a little more anticipation on checking the score in the morning.

Read on another forum even if england get 100 run lead and have 4 session bat very likely england will bat till 300 run lead and maybe 350.
Highly doubt they will set india a target they can chase and will probably take the draw.
doubt both teams will risk a defeat for a win.

Some said india might declare behind which would be stupid considering they will need to chase a total and no guarantee for a draw.
Really india will bat till they are all out and they best chance of winning is batting till day 5 and send england in on sunday with a deficit of around 100 with england likely batting most of the day saving the test.

england don't really have a realistic chance of a win since they really need india collapsing in 20 mins-1hr with them not scoring many runs, you really think india bat 1 session and score about 100 runs and they secured the draw since I highly doubt Cook will risk losing a test in india on the very 1 test they dominated and worked hard for.

like day 3 was the only day india can lose it, similarly day 4 is the only day england can lose it.
really england had a poor day in day 3 and they still in with a shout, if india had an average day tomorrow they still likely to get the draw whereas not sure england can afford a poor day tomorrow like they could in day 3.

[Dr Cricket]

Still see bumble being a disgrace on twitter, looks like someone still not happy for not getting chosen to commentate on the series.
Still no mention about England pathetic over rate but preach about being unbias and not speaking what the management want to hear.

[Arthur Crabtree]

England might declare (assuming they don't get bowled out) if the pitch crumbles. Though the pitch will probably last. They won't (and shouldn't) risk the game, but if it gets really tricky to bat, they should take their chance.

[rich1uk]

couple of quick wickets for england after a decent start by india this morning

if we could get thru the tail relatively cheaply then its maybe game on

[hopeforthebest]

Two early wickets Rahane bowled Ansari and Kohli stept on wicket bowled Rashid. Strange dismissal but a welcome one for England. Six down and we shall see how good their tail is now.

[hopeforthebest]

Seems more turn today so England will need to bat well when their turn comes.

[rich1uk]

bit of a waste of a review there, rashid pushed for it but never looked like it had hit pad first

[Dr Cricket]

Gonna be an interesting session and day though.
if india get another 80-100 runs the game will get very interesting indeed.

[Dr Cricket]

Remember one batsman getting hit the stumps in england during 2014 or 2011 but can't remember which batsman.
remember he hit the stump while going for a run

[Dr Cricket]

VVS laxman 2002 very long time.

[Dr Cricket]

Wow what a stat only Shami not got a first class hundred.

[rich1uk]

Wow what a stat only Shami not got a first class hundred.

yeah heard that earlier, cant have been many games thats happened before

[Gingerfinch]

Hi rich - been a long time.

I said you'd be back if Scotland won!