India v England - 3rd Test

Given up on this one. Hopefully we can wipe it out of our minds and be competitive in the last two Tests. Otherwise, different approach to last time, but same result!
 
I wouldn’t mind if every now and again they came out and admitted they messed up but they never do. India could potentially beat us with 9 men with Jaiswal retiring injured.
 
It’s worth noting that India are very strong at home too. We were certainly the masters of our own downfall yesterday but let’s face it, we don’t have a spinner anywhere near the level of Kuldeep, who’d be at best, India’s 3rd or 4th choice spinner.

Rehan is still learning but he’s not a big spinner of his leg break. His Googly turns more than his stock ball leggy but he’s got so much to learn.

All our spinners are massively inexperienced and that makes a big difference across 5 Test matches. They just aren’t consistent enough to build pressure.

Kuldeeps spell yesterday was brilliant and created lots of pressure. We didn’t soak it up and lost a couple of cheap wicket in the process.

If we lose this series it’ll be the first one we’ve lost since McCullum and Stokes took charge. Considering how awful we were before they came in, that in itself is some achievement.
 
On The Bob said:
It’s worth noting that India are very strong at home too. We were certainly the masters of our own downfall yesterday but let’s face it, we don’t have a spinner anywhere near the level of Kuldeep, who’d be at best, India’s 3rd or 4th choice spinner.

Rehan is still learning but he’s not a big spinner of his leg break. His Googly turns more than his stock ball leggy but he’s got so much to learn.

All our spinners are massively inexperienced and that makes a big difference across 5 Test matches. They just aren’t consistent enough to build pressure.

Kuldeeps spell yesterday was brilliant and created lots of pressure. We didn’t soak it up and lost a couple of cheap wicket in the process.

If we lose this series it’ll be the first one we’ve lost since McCullum and Stokes took charge. Considering how awful we were before they came in, that in itself is some achievement.
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I am flying out for the fifth test and hope we can avoid defeat in the next test to make it a meaningful game result wise. That said England will give it all they have even if it’s a dead rubber.
 
AytonMews said:
Not sure I agree about a batsman “retiring hurt” then coming back out to bat the next day when he’s had a nice rest.
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Yes but there’s nothing that can stop that happening. India feel confident enough to ensure when he did return they hadn’t lost wickets. That’s rare.
 
AytonMews said:
Not sure I agree about a batsman “retiring hurt” then coming back out to bat the next day when he’s had a nice rest.
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I think you can probably say that the fact that it is so rare means that it is universally acknowledged to be a disadvantage and not an advantage to break your innings unless you genuinely are injured or ill. Otherwise you can pretty much guarantee it would be gamed.

Contrast this with the way what is supposedly the equivalent law with supposedly the equivalent requirements is totally gamed to allow bowlers to go off for periodic rests and rubdowns and still have substitutes.
 
No team wins a series in India. This is what I expected, but England have problems with both bat and ball.

#UTB
 
I didn’t expect much from this series and the first test result was a very pleasant surprise but we are not even competitive now.

This is hopeless.
 
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