Fifth Test: India v England, 16-20 Dec (Chennai)

[rich1uk]

good stat there about root

he has scored at least a 50 in every test he has played against india

[hopeforthebest]

Perhaps as behaves suggested the pitch has settled a little as Moeen looks more comfortable at present.

[Dr Cricket]

Kohli taking time with his reviews, looks like he is learning.

[rich1uk]

felt like they took longer to ask for the review there than the time the umpires said they were timed out

[Dr Cricket]

Wow they actually time the reviews.
surely that was more than 15 seconds.

[Dr Cricket]

Well played root another 50 against india.
Think Root might Score 4000 or so runs again india when he finishes his career.
wonder what the record his for the most runs against a particular team.

Seems like 3630 runs is the record that Tendulkar scored against Australia.
Root should easily beat that tally.
Already got 1066 runs against india and would have at least 10 test every 4 yrs against india.

[rich1uk]

wonder if jadeja bowling from so wide on the crease around the wicket to ali finds it harder to judge the line of off stump when he is appealing and kohli needs to rely more on the keeper's opinion than jadeja's

[Dr Cricket]

Some good batting from Root and to a lesser extent Ali.
first time seen Jadeja/Ashwin under pressure in india for a long time, excluding the road in Rajkot.

[Dr Cricket]

wonder if jadeja bowling from so wide on the crease around the wicket to ali finds it harder to judge the line of off stump when he is appealing and kohli needs to rely more on the keeper's opinion than jadeja's

Not sure that makes a difference.
Jadeja thinks everything is out, he makes Broad looks like a saint in this aspect.
Jadeja is 100 times worse than broad and that saying something.

scary part Jadeja genuinely thinks everything is out and broad jokingly does it.

if Jadeja was captain DRS wasted in a over.

[rich1uk]

wonder if jadeja bowling from so wide on the crease around the wicket to ali finds it harder to judge the line of off stump when he is appealing and kohli needs to rely more on the keeper's opinion than jadeja's

Not sure that makes a difference.
Jadeja thinks everything is out, he makes Broad looks like a saint in this aspect.
Jadeja is 100 times worse than broad and that saying something.

scary part Jadeja genuinely thinks everything is out and broad jokingly does it.

if Jadeja was captain DRS wasted in a over.

the angle must make a difference as he is looking down a different line when he bowls from around the wicket

[Dr Cricket]

wonder if jadeja bowling from so wide on the crease around the wicket to ali finds it harder to judge the line of off stump when he is appealing and kohli needs to rely more on the keeper's opinion than jadeja's

Not sure that makes a difference.
Jadeja thinks everything is out, he makes Broad looks like a saint in this aspect.
Jadeja is 100 times worse than broad and that saying something.

scary part Jadeja genuinely thinks everything is out and broad jokingly does it.

if Jadeja was captain DRS wasted in a over.

the angle must make a difference as he is looking down a different line when he bowls from around the wicket

Just realised I phrased the sentence wrong earlier.
Sure it makes a difference like that but not sure it makes any difference to jadeja he would still think it was out even if he had the perfect angle and view so in that way it makes no difference to jadeja.
Really no one should ever listen to Jadeja over DRS.
Saw a good tweet earlier saying must be hard umpiring when Jadeja was bowling considering Kohli used the review on the appeal.

[Gingerfinch]

Root comes to the rescue once again. Will he once again fail to convert? Happy to see Ali score some. I'd rather see him than Rashid in the team next summer.

[Dr Cricket]

Root looks dangerous here.

[rich1uk]

100 partnership up

been a good fight back after those early wickets, even if they did live a bit dangerously at the start

[Dr Cricket]

surprised Jadeja/Ashwin bowled only 2 maidens between them.