England tour of India

[Gingerfinch]

Fair to say that he's having a productive 2021

Averaging 159 with the bat and 9 with the ball. Similar to my averages but just the other way round!

[Durhamfootman]

I was surprised to see only one set of adverts in the tea interval. Ch4 spent most of it talking about cricket. Sky would never be that naive, they'd go to ads, come back, show 30 seconds of highlights, then let Beefy state the bleeding obvious for 2 minutes and go back for some more ads

Channel 4 need to buck their ideas up..... nobody sticks around at tea for some insight, they're just there for the adverts.... I thought everyone knew that

[Durhamfootman]

Root must be bloody fit, that's all can say. He's still scampering around like a whippet and he's been in for well over 4 sessions

[Arthur Crabtree]

Can't work out why people put up with ads on Sky when they're paying a huge subscription.

[Durhamfootman]

And he's closing in on 650 runs in the last 3 weeks

[Arthur Crabtree]

Pope had been looking a bit loose.

[Durhamfootman]

Can't work out why people put up with ads on Sky when they're paying a huge subscription.

I didn't... but it meant I had to go to the riverside to see any live cricket

Pope misses a straight one

Buttler will have to watch out for the mankade

[Durhamfootman]

oops... that was close Jos!

India look interested now

[Arthur Crabtree]

Should have gone on. It's just putting pressure back on Root. Same with Sibley and Stokes.

Still, it's what Root had been doing for the last three years.

[Durhamfootman]

missing leg, surely?

[Durhamfootman]

maybe not

[Durhamfootman]

not

honest Joe's knock comes to an end.

Good ball that. just turned enough. I thought it was sliding down leg all day long in real time. Just straightened enough.

Work to do now, for England with 2 new batsmen in and Jos hitting every ball off the edge

[Arthur Crabtree]

England absolutely should bat on for a session tomorrow. If they can. India want a declaration.

Hmm.

[Durhamfootman]

watch out for the mankade, Jos

[Durhamfootman]

After looking like a milking machine all match, suddenly Nadeem is finding something here