India v England 5th Test

Alan_Breck

Alan_Breck

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The 5th Test starts on Thursday, with Bairstow winning his 100th cap. It's a dead rubber as such, as India have won the series and are 3 - 1 up, so England playing for pride.

India are almost unstoppable, when playing on home soil, but maybe our top order batsmen can put a score together and give us a platform to sculpture a win.

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Not a dead rubber.

A 3-2 defeat would be the best performance by any away side since England won there over a decade ago. All contributes to the Test Championship too.
 
I would like to see a bit more game management and better situational awareness in games.

I am on board with many aspects of Bazball, but am sick of people throwing their wickets away trying a half ar5ed reverse sweep on their first ball when the game is in the balance.
 
I'm quite interested in what happens to the 3 young spinners Hartley, Bashir and Ahmed, after this series. Certainly 2 of them have come from relative obscurity, but with question marks over their future in the county game, let alone the national game. It would be a shame if that is it for them. When Leach gets fit, then do any of them have a future for England apart from next time England tour in the sub-continent and need a raft of spinners?
 
Top tour from Crawley against best home bowling in the world with a hard ball.
Repaid thr faith Stokes has in him.
 
As usual, Bairstow there for a good time, not a long time and burns a review in the process - pretty much his series in a nutshell that.

He’s been a great servant but this should be his last Test for England. It won’t be as he’s in the inner clique of that dressing room.
 
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utterly predicatble batting collapse to nothign other than slightly spinning balls, there is absolutely no stickability whatsoever in that england middle order

Again from a strong position england have just tossed the game away with a laughably inept 1 hour of play, 5 wicketsfor 8 runs is absolute schoolboy stuff
 
They really need to realise the crucial passages of play.
100 for 1, very nearly lunch and Pope dances down the wicket, totally pre-meditated and pretty idiotic.
Then constantly not getting to the pitch of the ball v spinners, simply asking for trouble.
Should have gone into this Test 2-2 at worst, but look like losng it 4-1.

Bazball is a breath of fresh air, but the game lasts 5 days, we need to recognise when to stick in and milk it, instead of having too many game losing sessions
 
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