International cricket thread

Apparently, the teams get fined and they lose World Test Championship points but it doesn't seem to be having any impact. It's been an issue for decades.

Exciting day in prospect, the sun is out, should be a good day for batting and India should be able to accumulate a big lead or will the batting frailties on show in previous tests return? India favourites but England by no means out of it.

with the lead heading towards 300, the only deliveries that seem to be causing the Indians problems are those bowled in short of a length.. yet there is no short leg, there is a silly mid on that is halfway towards midwicket. Neither catching or really run stopping...About 10 balls ago the ball ricochets to where short leg would be..

one slip, great chance for a run out but England don’t capitalize.

Yeah, stumps and England have been excellent. Probably only twice have India produced a delivery that might have seemed like having a chance of taking a wicket.. Required run rate by my rough maths is about 3.2 tomorrow.

Doable. No demons in that pitch right now.

Get up to 150 by lunch and say just one or two down, it’s on.

the India field placings seem to want to primarily stop the easy ones and twos, as opposed to pressuring to get wickets.. many fielders in fact 8 tight in the circle in fact only two outside... the heavily packed infield placed to try and disrupt the flow of runs easy runs but I’d have thought with England none down and looking pretty comfortable, plenty of time left and runs on the board, the pitch with precisely zero demons that India would have a short leg, silly mid off, silly mid on, pressure the English batsmen, take wickets, they need wickets.

Run rate creeping up towards 4, don't think it's gonna happen. Ben Stokes would have been fairly handy here.

A good delivery by Jadeja but Hameed will look back at that shot and wince... he has batted excellently so far but comes down the pitch doing his best impression of Jimmy Anderson on buckfast and pays with his wicket.... most he was getting was a single.. the risk never matched the reward..

New ball available. This could be over quite quickly now.

From 141/3 to 202/9 jeez..another collapse, less then half the team getting into double figures. Series done and dusted...shame as I really cant stand Virat Kholi... I wouldn’t say his mother likes him.

There was to many handy runs giving up at the tail-end of india 2nd innings, root is a bit lax on his players sometimes whereas kohli is always at his players keeping them on there toes. England really miss stokes

Moeen averages 3 wickets per test and averages 28 runs with the bat.

At least while someone like Flintoff when he was on form, his average is only a few better but when he went big he could win you a game... Moeen is batting at 8, he’s not being used even as an all rounder... he’s not trusted up the order.

Stokes will surely be back for the Ashes especially after missing the last one with the Bristol stuff. Very bad sign for his career if he needs more time than that.

Archer was seen as the big hope for the away Ashes. Wood can do it if he stays fit. Mahmood is quick. Robinson as you say has quickly become the key bowler. Anderson did well there the last time, in a metronome economical way rather than bags of wickets. Going in with both Broad and Anderson will be a big mistake. Surely Parkinson is a better bet than the usual spin options.

What will Australia do? Lyon and Starc were very ordinary in the Indian series. Cummins and Hazlewood as good as it gets.

Going from 191 all out to 466 all out in their second and the overall third innings of the test match is quite an achievement by India.. makes the victory for them all the sweeter...

If you listened to the Hundred commentators Mills isn't a surprise. They were falling over themselves calling for him to be in the squad. Thats the power they have. If they ever stopped talking about how Parkinson can't bat or field and focused on his bowling he might have made the squad.

Disappointing.