World Test Championship
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@Bovidae said in World Test Championship:
@MN5 said in World Test Championship:
Are Oz still a chance ?
Yes. A drawn series or England winning no more than 2 tests (1-0, 2-0 or 2-1) helps them.
.....and that’s the team I think the BCs will worry about most
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@Siam said in World Test Championship:
As of today we play the poms.
.... and that is one hell of a win. Winning the toss helps, but Root set that win up iwth his massive double. After that, you just wait for the pitch to do what 5 day pitches do in India.
I'll google the last time India lost at home, but it would be years I reckon
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@nzzp said in World Test Championship:
@Siam said in World Test Championship:
As of today we play the poms.
.... and that is one hell of a win. Winning the toss helps, but Root set that win up iwth his massive double. After that, you just wait for the pitch to do what 5 day pitches do in India.
I'll google the last time India lost at home, but it would be years I reckon
I would be interested in when they last lost a series at home
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@Hooroo said in World Test Championship:
@nzzp said in World Test Championship:
@Siam said in World Test Championship:
As of today we play the poms.
.... and that is one hell of a win. Winning the toss helps, but Root set that win up iwth his massive double. After that, you just wait for the pitch to do what 5 day pitches do in India.
I'll google the last time India lost at home, but it would be years I reckon
I would be interested in when they last lost a series at home
2017 lost at PUne to Australia
before that was 2012 againstSAEDIT: England - looks like they lost that seriesEdit: Yep, 2-1 to England
https://www.espncricinfo.com/series/england-in-india-test-series-2012-13-565796/match-results -
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Kohli gone for a duck and England on top atm - he nearly went for a review after getting clean bowled but luckily the ump did it for him.
Rohit playing well, but India 100-3 on a first day pitch playing as good as it's going to and Kohli gone.
Surprised to see Anderson not playing but Stone already in the wickets.
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@delicatessen said in World Test Championship:
Kohli gone for a duck and England on top atm - he nearly went for a review after getting clean bowled but luckily the ump did it for him.
Rohit playing well, but India 100-3 on a first day pitch playing as good as it's going to and Kohli gone.
Surprised to see Anderson not playing but Stone already in the wickets.
Que? Please explain.
Saw a reply out of the corner of my eye. What was on doubt?
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@delicatessen said in World Test Championship:
Kohli gone for a duck and England on top atm - he nearly went for a review after getting clean bowled but luckily the ump did it for him.
Rohit playing well, but India 100-3 on a first day pitch playing as good as it's going to and Kohli gone.
Surprised to see Anderson not playing but Stone already in the wickets.
Rohit playing really well and has had good support from Rahane.
Root brings himself on to try and stem the flow (wish Kane would do that from time to time...)
India 225-3
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@canefan said in World Test Championship:
So who would you rather see us play in the final, England India or Oz? India for me. Although I'd have the least problem with us losing to the Poms
Fuck I wouldn’t!!! Especially after 2019 world cup
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@MajorRage said in World Test Championship:
@canefan said in World Test Championship:
So who would you rather see us play in the final, England India or Oz? India for me. Although I'd have the least problem with us losing to the Poms
Fuck I wouldn’t!!! Especially after 2019 world cup
I'd blocked that memory out!
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@booboo said in World Test Championship:
@delicatessen said in World Test Championship:
Kohli gone for a duck and England on top atm - he nearly went for a review after getting clean bowled but luckily the ump did it for him.
Rohit playing well, but India 100-3 on a first day pitch playing as good as it's going to and Kohli gone.
Surprised to see Anderson not playing but Stone already in the wickets.
Que? Please explain.
Saw a reply out of the corner of my eye. What was on doubt?
I don't quite know what he was thinking - comms mentioned he may have thought the wicky had hit the stumps instead of the ball.
It did spin a long way when not every delivery was turning, so it may have just been bewilderment, but he did head down for a quick chat with Rohit. -
India 300 for 6. Even at lunch on the first day all the comms were adamant that this game could not go the full 5 days due to the pitch. Not a criticism as such, just that it was the same ground, different pitch and apparently different soil. The point being it was a tricky surface to bat on and that 250 could be a winning score, not that it is a farcical wicket which, at 300 for 6 is evidence that it's not.
Sharma and Rahane were excellent and Pant is Pant, but it seems to be a game that will move quick because playing shots seems preferable to dead batting everything.
Never judge till both teams have batted.
So India in the box seat and playing their way back into the series.
There was a Nigel Llong moment when Rahane was given not out caught for an obvious glove touch. This time the umpire didn't play the replay long enough as Rahane missed the ball at first, then it ricocheted off his pad onto glove. Not as utterly useless as Llong but a 3rd umpire howler nevertheless. Rahane got out a few balls later and the only concession was that the authorities gave back the previously lost review.
In a maybe ironic twist, the Poms may face point deductions for slow over rate ( as Australia did) and potentially put their place in the final at risk because of that. But nobody on the team seemed to give a shit about that and they meandered along slowly despite bowling spin for 60 of the 88 overs. It seems there is no punishment worthy of speeding up over rates. Lucky the game starts at 9:30 each day.
Game on and still 3 teams in it for the June 21 final against the most gracious losers the game has ever seen 🙂
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@Siam All the England spinners were looking threatening - turning sharply on the first afternoon.
Indian comms talking up prospects for Axar Patel to bowl with speed and turn it.
I don't think it will be fun or average-enhancing, batting last!
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