Cricket

[toffeejack]

Don't know why England always bat too long. Can't remember it ever costing them though.

 

[tsubaki]

Don't know why England always bat too long. Can't remember it ever costing them though.

someone mentioned on the Guardian MBM this tale about England batting too long:

6th over: India 13-1 (Rahul 10, Pujara 3) A single for Rahul to cover then a tuck around the corner for a couple when Pujara is on strike to Broad. Can they put in a proper shift here and shift the pressure back onto the hosts? Let’s be real: I doubt it.
“I remember David Gower being heavily criticised on TMS for batting on and on at Lord’s in 1984,” contributes Mike Summers-Smith. “He eventually declared (overnight, IIRC) at 300-9, setting the Windies a target of 342. Greenidge (244*), Haynes (17) and Gomes (92*) polished that off. There was a shower during lunch, which Gower afterwards described as ‘a waste of some perfectly good rain’.”

 

[summerisle]

No idea, but his work should be praised.

Anyway, it's Warner, so everybody is happy.

 

[summerisle]

India, 38-3, Broad c Jennings.
Lancashire playing Durham in a T20 match. Currently 27-2, 5 overs.

 

[Minimeister]

someone mentioned on the Guardian MBM this tale about England batting too long:

I remember a Windies series away. Sure it was one of Strauss's first as captain. We drew a test match after batting for too long and the very next game he did the same thing and we drew that one too and lost the series 1-0. On the flip side remember them setting the same team a target and losing a test match at home.

 

[summerisle]

India 66/6 ; Broad 4-16, Anderson 2-9. Currently tea due to rain.
Lancashire made 143-6, Davies (64) top scorer once again.

 

[Sunderland afc]

Durham 4 for 4

 

[summerisle]

Win this and Lancashire go second, one point behind Durham.

 

[Chris O'Connor]

England absolutely obliterating India, they may win with well over 100 overs to spare, how ridiculous all that stuff this morning over declarations was.

The England management had the satellite shots, knew most if not all tomorrow was ok (98 overs) and probably a sizeable portion of today.

Winning is what matters, and India look completely shot.

The Emirates looks to be having fine weather too

 

[Toast]

If the rain I've got here is on its way to Lords, its belting down..

 

[summerisle]

India 116 -7, Woakes.
Durham 74-8.

 

[tsubaki]

If the rain I've got here is on its way to Lords, its belting down..

SW8/SW9 is dry at present

 

[summerisle]

Excellent win by 65 runs for Lancashire. Durham all out for 78, Parkinson with more good figures ,3-0-3-19

 

[Chris O'Connor]

England won by an innings and 158 runs with possibly around 120 overs of the match remaining in around two and a half days playing time

Its been a very dominant performance taking full advantage of virtually everything going our way, with the toss and conditions being very much in our favour.

Tbf the difference between the sides has been so great and England's performance so clinical and so dominant, the result could well have been the same either way, even if the margin drastically reduced.

We had by far the better conditions for bowling and batting, but on both the individual and collective performances we've seen here, with India for me selecting completely the wrong balance and a seamer short, i am far from sure we wouldn't have won anyway.

India's batsman apart from Kohli look absolutely shot. With Trent Bridge next, it's extremely hard to see India coming back from this. It looks almost certain that they'll suffer a very similar, or perhaps even worse fate to that endured on their last couple of tours over here.

A series defeat by a very large margin now looks virtually inevitable.

Perhaps even a Glenn McGrath type prediction of 5-0 isn't completely out of the question.

 

[toffeejack]

Pretty much an innings win in two days. Hopefully grind them down and thrash them. If kholi hadn't have been dropped by malan so many times in the first test, none of their batsmen would have a run to their name.