First Test: England v India at Edgbaston, 1-5 August 2018.

[budgetmeansbudget]

Getting a fecking third man in, must be 50 runs conceded down there.

Rewards a poor shot and relieves the pressure.

[Dr Cricket]

TBH it is showing England the importance of pace as well. First session pre Curran england looked slow and batting looked easy.
Stokes with his pace and movement batting looks tough again.
Gurantee 100 million pounds that ball and medium 80-83 mph bowlers would look easy to face here and batting scoring runs easily.

[sussexpob]

India maybe need to trust the fact that England cant maintain this much longer and just try to stick....

Although Pands seems to be following my first suggestion...

[budgetmeansbudget]

Fumbles, missed run outs and dropped catches, poor fielding effort, brilliant bowling effort.

[Dr Cricket]

This test match doesn’t really deserve that crowd looks very poor today.

[DiligentDefence]

How many has Cook dropped this season? I seem to remember a couple against Pakistan.

[backfootpunch]

Probably not the answer, but you feel the Indians are in full rout now. They may well be better trying to hit England off their lines a bit

Yeah pandya did that in Cape Town and it worked.
Needs to be done.

He doesn't look secure defensively

Probably his best bet of getting runs

[backfootpunch]

How many has Cook dropped this season? I seem to remember a couple against Pakistan.

Quite a few the last year or so

He seems to snatch at them

[GGAS]

This pair have had some luck!

[sussexpob]

Stokes back on quickly. Good move I think, before coming off it seems like hed bowl out india on his own

[sussexpob]

Kohli's best score in England... 42.

Broad just starting to release the pressure here. Wonder if he will go with Rashid soon

[sussexpob]

One of the biggest questions of humanity.... how is Pandaya still at the crease.

[Arthur Crabtree]

Going to have to think about using Rashid soon.

[Dr Cricket]

that is what you call a yorker, stepped on the ball.

[meninblue]

Not surprised at all by the below par batting performance.


This series to me is like our tour of SA this year. Bowlers were out performing our batting department. It's the same case here so far. Even in SA it was expected that our batsmen will flop miserably and so they did , apart from Virat. Here i did expect our batters to bat better than what they did in SA. And that's what is happening out there.

In SA apart from Virat, none of our specialist batsmen managed to average above 20. Here also i expect Virat to do okay like in SA. Others to average below 35.