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Soldato
Class for Hartley that. Smacked all around the place in the first innings on debut and now has some pretty decent scalps. Winnable this.
Soldato
India are bang in trouble here.
Popes knock should go down as one of the best ever innings by an England player abroad if they win this.
Popes knock should go down as one of the best ever innings by an England player abroad if they win this.
Soldato
Well done Tom Hartley, India were taking him apart on day 1 but he should great character and has struck back with a vengeance!
Caporegime
What a match. I have stuff to do but I'm gripped. It's not very often that a team like our current one will win in India.
Soldato
This is gonna end up with some mental situation where they run out of time in a minute and will have to come back tomorrow for 1 wicket or about 25 runs!
Robbing all the paying punters of a great finish.
Robbing all the paying punters of a great finish.
Caporegime
Mark Wood has definitely lost a bit of pace. He's going at about 140kph now (87mph) but had been up at around 90-95mph last year.
He's still quick of course, but he's not a tall man so really needed to compensate for the relative lack of bounce with express pace, which he seems to have lost. Maybe it's an issue of spell length and sustainability over a test match / series.
He's still quick of course, but he's not a tall man so really needed to compensate for the relative lack of bounce with express pace, which he seems to have lost. Maybe it's an issue of spell length and sustainability over a test match / series.
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Soldato
Siraj obviously didn’t want to come back tomorrow 
What a win for England!
What a win for England!
Caporegime
WHAT ARE YOU DOING
LOL
Fantastic victory.
Pope surely undroppable now, with or without Brook.
LOL
Fantastic victory.
Pope surely undroppable now, with or without Brook.
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Soldato
Those headlines in the Aussie press about 'the Poms getting humbled' after Day One aged like a fine milk 
Man of Honour
Good lord, I'm absolutely gobsmacked by the result. 7-62, there will be more of that coming from him!
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Soldato
I was scathing of our day 1 performance so to pull a win out of that is utterly unbelievable. I still think India will win the series but it at least makes a game of it.
Soldato
The pitch isn't ideal as the surface is rolled a lot and contains less clay then harder pitches found in Australia or the West Indies as a result a lot of the pace and bounce is taken out the ball once it pitches.
The next test is in Visakhapatnam, the pitch there is a bit more balanced so we're likely to play at least one more pace/swing bowler (Jimmy Anderson).
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Caporegime
Pace is measured at the point of release I thought, in which case the pitch is irrelevant to his measured speed.
Soldato
I'm not sure on the measurement but the ball in India loses a ton of pace once it pitches, the surfaces over there really blunt how quickly the ball comes onto the batsman once the ball hits the track.
Soldato
Irony even more delicious that they were humbled in Brisbane for the first time in donkeys years yesterday just a couple of hours before England's victory.Those headlines in the Aussie press about 'the Poms getting humbled' after Day One aged like a fine milk