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

[Gingerfinch]

Talk of England declaring shortly after lunch. No way will that happen, after we have got into this position.

10-15 overs , try to get 320 ahead and have 45-50 overs to bowl, couple of early wickets and might put some pressure on

its an almost certain draw but stranger things have happened

Maybe an hour afterwards, but no sooner.

[rich1uk]

Talk of England declaring shortly after lunch. No way will that happen, after we have got into this position.

10-15 overs , try to get 320 ahead and have 45-50 overs to bowl, couple of early wickets and might put some pressure on

its an almost certain draw but stranger things have happened

Maybe an hour afterwards, but no sooner.

i dont know, 300 in an ODI would probably be a decent score on this pitch, there are 61 overs left in the day, 2 will be lost for the innings change, so thats 59. we are 260 ahead so even if they get 40 off the first 10 overs after lunch, thats a target of 301 from 49 overs.

[hopeforthebest]

Belt and Braces Cook generally wants many more runs than necessary before a declaration and I don't believe he'll want his bowlers bowling too many overs. I reckon he'll bat on and leave only 30-35 overs max or simply bat the game out. The chance of taking 10 wickets on this pitch is so remote.

[meninblue]

Talk of England declaring shortly after lunch. No way will that happen, after we have got into this position.

10-15 overs , try to get 320 ahead and have 45-50 overs to bowl, couple of early wickets and might put some pressure on

its an almost certain draw but stranger things have happened

Maybe an hour afterwards, but no sooner.

There is no Segwag or Warner type player in the top order.

Gauti is settling into the side. Chet does not scores fast neither does Ajinkya . On fall of one or two wickets India will start defending a lot. India wont chase 250 imo.

[Gingerfinch]

Talk of England declaring shortly after lunch. No way will that happen, after we have got into this position.

10-15 overs , try to get 320 ahead and have 45-50 overs to bowl, couple of early wickets and might put some pressure on

its an almost certain draw but stranger things have happened

Maybe an hour afterwards, but no sooner.

i dont know, 300 in an ODI would probably be a decent score on this pitch, there are 61 overs left in the day, 2 will be lost for the innings change, so thats 59. we are 260 ahead so even if they get 40 off the first 10 overs after lunch, thats a target of 301 from 49 overs.

feasible, but I reckon he'll want more assurance of not losing. Depends how things go after lunch. We may collapse yet, and hardly score any?

[rich1uk]

feasible, but I reckon he'll want more assurance of not losing. Depends how things go after lunch. We may collapse yet, and hardly score any?

or if stokes goes crazy we could score 80 off 10 overs and be 340 ahead

[Gingerfinch]

Well if that happens, then put them in. I really don't see any carrots being dangled, mind.

[rich1uk]

Well if that happens, then put them in. I really don't see any carrots being dangled, mind.

probably lack of sleep but i started to type "i suppose cook isn't really much of a carrot dangler" and started chuckling away to myself

[meninblue]

Glad that England are still batting.

[hopeforthebest]

It does appear that England are batting for a declaration, I wonder how brave Cook will be.

[Gingerfinch]

We're going for it. I can still see another 8-10 overs of batting.

[rich1uk]

waste of electricity firing up snicko for that review

[rich1uk]

gotta be about time now, they have got the 40+ runs in farly quick time after lunch, already 307 ahead, any more is just being too cautious

[Gingerfinch]

Another 5 at 6 an over would put the game out of reach for India.

[rich1uk]

cook will be wishing he had declared at the end of the last over so he kept his not out