India tour of Eng, June 20 - Aug 4

[andy]

Stokes bowls jaiswal!! Had to be stokes!

[sussexpob]

Stokes bowls jaiswal!! Had to be stokes!

Bowled well, and at a very useful nip too. Just hope he isn't going to gas himself out

[Arthur Crabtree]

Maybe in high temperature, write an extra break each session into the schedule.

On the other hand, in such conditions, the teams could pick sides which might realistically bowl the overs. So an extra spinner.

[sussexpob]

Did someone kidnap Risbah Pant? Batting like Mike Atherton out there

[Arthur Crabtree]

Bashir keeping the runs down.

[Durhamfootman]

bat once

[Durhamfootman]

Stokes bowls jaiswal!! Had to be stokes!

Bowled well, and at a very useful nip too. Just hope he isn't going to gas himself out

Stokes should never bowl more than 12 overs a day. If he is, it means the other bowlers aren't doing their job very well

of course they are going to spend 2 days flogging themselves to death in blistering heat and when it's India's turn to bowl, the temps will have dropped markedly

the wrong choice at the toss will decide this game. It's India's to lose

[sussexpob]

Gill makes his 100

[mikesiva]

Gotta love a Ravi shastri coin toss!

England win the toss and bowl first

I know stats say bowl but a 30 degree day if don't get early wickets it's gonna be a long day

Andy nails it again!

It's going to be even hotter for the England fielders tomorrow.

[sussexpob]

the wrong choice at the toss will decide this game. It's India's to lose

As I said earlier, I liked the thought behind putting India in. One opener has a poor record away, debutant at 3, new captain at 4 who also has been bang average in away tests, guy who aint playd a test in 9 years at 6..... I like the approach of laying down the challenge at India. To win the series, they have to bat a hell of a lot better than they have away recently.... ask them straight away, are you up for it?

Turns out they are, seemingly.

On the above point as well, a couple of interesting stats from comms - No Asian player has ever scored a century in Leeds as an opener. And this was the first time since 1993 and Sourav Ganguly's debut that a team put a debutant at one drop. I can't be bothered to fact check that, because I find that extremely hard to believe, but don't blame me.... blame TMS.

[Arthur Crabtree]

Presume the new ball will be taken tomorrow.

12 overs short at the scheduled close of play.

[sussexpob]

It's going to be even hotter for the England fielders tomorrow.

I guess people (I included) mentioning the weather a lot today, but 28-29-30 degrees is hardly abnormal or extreme considering how much these teams regularly play in tropical weather.

The IPL final was 38 degrees at night..... Still jumper weather for the Indian boys.

[sussexpob]

Risbah Pant

Last over of the day, man back for the shot, Pant burns the coaching manual and jumps down the pitch and baseball bats it into the stand.

[Durhamfootman]

I see MPV is still showing the world why he is such a knob

Yes Michael we all knew it was a big risk.... we all said so.... you weren't the only one who noticed.... clever *modded* (Strauss invective)

go away and sell some more gin

[Arthur Crabtree]

So annoying. But not as bad as Boycott.

I FF through the chat and just watch the action.