Fourth Test: India v England, 8-12 Dec.

[rich1uk]

Is Haseeb a write off?

Ravi2 gets Cook. Something in the pitch all morning and Cook had just poked a catch through point.

Has and Keats?

wouldn't think so

every chance they could bat jennings at 3 and root at 4

[hopeforthebest]

With the arrival of Hameed and Jennings Cook can not only give up the captaincy but retire. After that rush of blood it could be sooner rather than later. Well Bayliss can't complain Cook was ultra positive there.

[Gingerfinch]

Is Haseeb a write off?

Ravi2 gets Cook. Something in the pitch all morning and Cook had just poked a catch through point.

Has and Keats?

wouldn't think so

every chance they could bat jennings at 3 and root at 4

Yeah, forgot he's actually injured.

[backfootpunch]

Ball going through the top already

Big first innings is vital

[hopeforthebest]

Vaughan saying that stumpings never happens to Cook but it's his second stumping I remember in the BD-India games.

My memory is faulty just once this winter, four in total.

[Arthur Crabtree]

Fourth time Cook has been stumped.

He's only even been run out once. Batting with KP in Kolkota, 2012. He was stumped off Ashwin for 1 in the other innings of that game.

[Arthur Crabtree]

Not wishing to be premature, but Has might be more likely to stay with Cook in the short term, as a right hander.

[rich1uk]

obviously lost cook to a shot he will be regretting but all in all i am very happy with that first session

we have been more positive and after getting a life early jennings has looked pretty good

[Dr Cricket]

looks like a great day for india with them losing the toss.

[Dr Cricket]

on a pitch thats expected to break up its certainly a better option than having to bat last

thats been where the whole nonsense about the toss has been completely taken out of context by a certain poster

winning the toss in these situation improves your chances but doesn't guarantee anything

it just means instead of maybe having a 1 in 20 chance of winning if you had lost the toss, its now 1 in 10

Well it clearly doesn't improve your chances by 50%.

[meninblue]

I liked Cook played positively trying to reach pitch of the ball and hit for six.

One down and the best England batter is out.

[rich1uk]

on a pitch thats expected to break up its certainly a better option than having to bat last

thats been where the whole nonsense about the toss has been completely taken out of context by a certain poster

winning the toss in these situation improves your chances but doesn't guarantee anything

it just means instead of maybe having a 1 in 20 chance of winning if you had lost the toss, its now 1 in 10

Well it clearly doesn't improve your chances by 50%.

need to check your arithmetic bhav

going from a 1 in 20 chance to a 1 in 10 chance is like going from 5% to 10% so it increases your chances by 5%

even then the numbers themselves are meaningless and just plucked out of the air, the point was that winning the toss IMPROVES your chances of getting a result, no more no less

[Arthur Crabtree]

Handy start. Promising from KJ.

[Gingerfinch]

I liked Cook played positively trying to reach pitch of the ball and hit for six.

One down and the best England batter is out.

Young Joe is still there!

[rich1uk]

Handy start. Promising from KJ.

he has already exceeded expectations tbh

looking at his first class stats he has a pretty good conversion rate from 50 to a 100 as well

altho thats almost certainly jinxed him now