The England Cricket Thread

Semple · 25 Feb 2021 at 12:38

Hang your head in shame lads, you're embarrassing the country.

Hodders · 25 Feb 2021 at 12:39

SoliD said:
This is embarassing and whoever prepared the pitch should be shot. Is there any punishment in the international arena like there is in County?

It does feel as though India are confident of playing better on desperate pitches. Simply gave the instructions to the groundsman "make it fall to bits ASAP"

The series is failing as a sporting contest, but will appeal to people with a T20 attention span.

wesimmo · 25 Feb 2021 at 12:42

SoliD said:
This is embarassing and whoever prepared the pitch should be shot. Is there any punishment in the international arena like there is in County?

There should be some sort of sanction against a country who produce pitches like this regularly.

It's not like India are showing us how to play on a turning wicket, as (IIRC) Ramps said in the changeover, they could have prepared a turning wicket and won in 4/5 days in all probability, in some ways this is more of a lottery.

Hodders · 25 Feb 2021 at 13:00

And that's 9 down.....

Sheesh

Hodders · 25 Feb 2021 at 13:01

Come on Jimmy !

Hodders · 25 Feb 2021 at 13:03

Commentators trying to talk up the possibility of an England win - LOL.

Semple · 25 Feb 2021 at 13:04

wesimmo said:
There should be some sort of sanction against a country who produce pitches like this regularly.

It's not like India are showing us how to play on a turning wicket, as (IIRC) Ramps said in the changeover, they could have prepared a turning wicket and won in 4/5 days in all probability, in some ways this is more of a lottery.

The pitch might be **** but they can't blame the bad performance completely on the pitch.

mmj_uk · 25 Feb 2021 at 13:04

They removed a bunch of dirt from near the crease earlier before India collapsed, I've seen flatter crazy golf courses.

wesimmo · 25 Feb 2021 at 13:06

Semple said:
The pitch might be **** but they can't blame the bad performance completely on the pitch.

Oh, absolutely we've batted badly, but if both teams are getting turned over for ~100 runs, it ain't no test pitch.

Pigeon_Killer · 25 Feb 2021 at 13:06

Well that was fun.

Mason- · 25 Feb 2021 at 14:13

Lovely some cricket to look forward to in this lockdown. Lol jk lets make the worst test pitch and the game will be over in less than 2 days.

Also:

Create brand new 110k capacity stadium
Make the pitch so shocking that you only can fill it for 2/5 days.

Good job.

Pigeon_Killer · 25 Feb 2021 at 14:18

I thought they were only allowed 50% in anyway?

SoliD · 25 Feb 2021 at 20:53

Pigeon_Killer said:
I thought they were only allowed 50% in anyway?

Yeah all in the same stand....

turbot1984 · 25 Feb 2021 at 20:57

More like an overly long 50 over match thanks to that rubbish pitch. Not what a 'proper' top flight 5 day test should be. They need to have a think.

ddoubleep · 26 Feb 2021 at 12:52

A real shame it did not last the full five days. The home team have every right to prepare the wicket to their advantage but it killed it as a contest. Hopefully they learn from it and the final test is a cracker as missed it not being on today as background noise!

SoliD · 4 Mar 2021 at 10:04

Slightly better morning but won't even be 200 first innings again.

ddoubleep · 4 Mar 2021 at 15:16

SoliD said:
Slightly better morning but won't even be 200 first innings again.

Lucky to have just crept over. Few early wickets in the morning should make it a bit more challenging.

Participant · 5 Mar 2021 at 05:18

And Stokes takes Kohli. Didn't see that coming.

SoliD · 6 Mar 2021 at 06:59

Awful awful start, no confidence against even the mildest of spin. Can see this being over before the end of the day.

Participant · 6 Mar 2021 at 09:14

I know the selectors absolutely love Buttler, but as they've just said on the C4 commentary, Foakes is making it very hard for them to drop him.