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Fantastic win for England. Leach got the ball rolling but Anderson ripped the heart out of India's batting with
an awesome spell of bowling. Bess bowls too many loose balls at this level unless he can get consistency to hold up one end there will be calls for him to be dropped. Be interesting to see if India make any changes for Saturday. England's selectors will want to bring Broad in but for who? At least we know Foakes is playing.
Well done England i reckon India will come back hard and we are in for a cracking series.
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#399 6 Feb 2021 at 7.53am | | |
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In reply to Post #398
Good knock from stokes this morning , root still plodding away nicely 👍
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#398 5 Feb 2021 at 6.32pm | | |
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In reply to Post #397
Good day for England, great one for rooot 
I'll forgive burns his brainfart, it was a bad time to try it and was poorly executed, but I like him giving the bowlers something to think about.
That's one issue with this partnership, it seems to me burns gets in, gets the 50 partnership in the bag and feels he has to kick on to balance sibleys dour strike rate
Hopefully England are still batting at breakfast
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#397 5 Feb 2021 at 2.02pm | | |
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Root another majestic knock this time to a superior bowling attack. Big shout to Sibley too. Burns doing ok until......
Lawrence after his 70 on debut hasn't looked as solid. Overall a good day for England but they need to capitalise
tomorrow need 600+. 
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#396 5 Feb 2021 at 11.34am | | |
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In reply to Post #394
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#395 4 Feb 2021 at 6.23am | | |
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In reply to Post #394
That was a nice surprise
Ive never liked tests starting on fridays, your back at work for days 4 and five and can't follow it properly
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#394 3 Feb 2021 at 7.53pm | | |
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Just a heads up for those that don’t have sky , the series against India which starts on Friday at 4am is being shown live on channel 4 , all four tests as well 👍👍
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#393 25 Jan 2021 at 9.32pm | | |
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In reply to Post #392
Apparently they have only named the squad for the first two tests and said Foakes is playing in the second so don't know about third and fourth tests yet.
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#392 25 Jan 2021 at 8.59pm | | |
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In reply to Post #391
I'd hope so but I can see him playing the series to sure up the top 3, hopefully as a batsman and not keeping tho
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#391 25 Jan 2021 at 8.44pm | | |
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In reply to Post #390
Foakes is in for the 2nd test onwards and Bairstow is being rested.
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#390 25 Jan 2021 at 8.08pm | | |
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I guess bairstow will be at three in India. Buttlers keeping has been tidy but he's only gonna play the 1st test apparently.
I'd hope to see stokes and moeen in India, and find room for foakes as his keeping could make the difference against better opposition
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#389 25 Jan 2021 at 11.49am | | |
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Well done Sibley grafted for three hours could've been given leg before a few times but he stuck to it. Buttler was sublime. Sri Lanka for me had this game in their hands but threw it away with another poor batting performance.
Well done England and Root's batting made it look easy out there.
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#388 25 Jan 2021 at 10.14am | | |
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In reply to Post #387
Roots just gone with 80 still required Sibley battling away but looks like he could get out anytime.
Agree on Burns.
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#387 25 Jan 2021 at 9.38am | | |
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In reply to Post #386
That knock gave them a chance but they'll have to get root out sharpish, he's in imperious form right now. It'd be nice to see him get a little 50*
Hopefully sibley can stick around for a bit, I thought burns had made a mistake missing this tour but his standing has gone up in his absence
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#386 25 Jan 2021 at 8.42am | | |
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In reply to Post #385
Agreed woeful 9th wicket partneship gives them hope but England now chasing 164 on a 4th day wicket
as opposed 200+ on a 5th day wicket.
Crawley gone 17-1 game on.
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