2nd Test: India v England at Visakhapatnam on Nov 17-21,

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Time for a wicket

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22 runs in 16 overs. Excellent bowling, runs totally choked.

[Arthur Crabtree]

Dunno. England are batting for a draw I hope. Runs don't matter. They can dead bat back full tosses.

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Dunno. England are batting for a draw I hope. Runs don't matter. They can dead bat back full tosses.

Yes, draw should be the target. Once they play attacking strokes , they will start losing wickets. However, full tosses and very short pitched stuff can be striked for runs.

[Arthur Crabtree]

Yes, hit the rank bad ball. Otherwise block. That stuff about playing your normal way to draw games was just an excuse for a lack of discipline (I feel). Do it the Faf way. Good work by England so far.

[Arthur Crabtree]

In twenty minutes it's tea. First hurdle.

[meninblue]

Yes, hit the rank bad ball. Otherwise block. That stuff about playing your normal way to draw games was just an excuse for a lack of discipline (I feel). Do it the Faf way. Good work by England so far.

Or like Naseer Hussain scoring 140 in 450+ balls or something like that versus SA.

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Englands session . 40 runs in 28 overs.

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Gauti batted for one and half day i think in NZ versus kiwis to give us a draw. Thats another match saving gritty innings i remember.

[Gingerfinch]

Athers and Russell in Johannesburg. AB and Du-Plessis in Australia.

[ddb]

Good stuff by England. Premature talk on here about India's win yesterday. England showing good fight.

[yuppie]

4 sessions to bat out.

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Time for a wicket now and one will bring 2 and it goes on. Although they are playing well i would be surprised if England draw this. One partnership happens in every innings, and this is just partnership of 40 runs.

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4 sessions to bat out.

It's not easy, not every England partnership is going to be like this. This is exceptional one and probably the other stroke players wont be able to show as much patience as these two have. imo India are still huge favorites to win this, nothing has changed.

[yuppie]

4 sessions to bat out.

It's not easy, not every England partnership is going to be like this. This is exceptional one and probably the other stroke players wont be able to show as much patience as these two have. imo India are still huge favorites to win this, nothing has changed.

4 sessions is a very long time to bat out, specially on day4/5.

India firm favorites. Once India get into the middle order i would expect the innings to finish very quickly.