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[Torquemada 1420]

Get out of jail card used there.

[GogLais]

Well I thought it was pad first but what do I know?

[ScarfaceClaw]

Well I thought it was pad first but what do I know?

When it happened I thought pad then bat but replay showed the inside edge. Mind you, given the third umpire efforts in this series I wouldn’t have been surprised if that was reviewed for stumped and still given out.

[Saint]

Well I thought it was pad first but what do I know?

When it happened I thought pad then bat but replay showed the inside edge. Mind you, given the third umpire efforts in this series I wouldn’t have been surprised if that was reviewed for stumped and still given out.

[Torquemada 1420]

Well I thought it was pad first but what do I know?

When it happened I thought pad then bat but replay showed the inside edge. Mind you, given the third umpire efforts in this series I wouldn’t have been surprised if that was reviewed for stumped and still given out.

Not convinced replay conclusive showed anything but created enough doubt to give BOTD. Both sides will take what luck they can get on this.

[ScarfaceClaw]

Stokes gone there. That’s missing leg at first glance on the replay?

[Torquemada 1420]

Had to review that, surely?

[Torquemada 1420]

Stokes gone there. That’s missing leg at first glance on the replay?

See my point ^^^^

[ScarfaceClaw]

Stokes gone there. That’s missing leg at first glance on the replay?

See my point ^^^^

Would like to see another replay rather than a drinks break.

[JM2K6]

Yeah, I would also like to see some ball tracking.

[Torquemada 1420]

Pope won't last 12 balls playing like that.

[JM2K6]

Umpire's call. Marginal, but the umpire gave it out, so there you are.

[Paddington Bear]

Pope is a dead man walking. Can't help but feel we may as well have sent up Joff or someone to have a swipe and soften the ball.

[Torquemada 1420]

Yeah, I would also like to see some ball tracking.

There you go. But I think it was wrong!

[ScarfaceClaw]

That was just clipping leg. Umpires call. Another mm and it’d have been a not out call I think.

[JM2K6]

Well, that looked unplayable. Root gone LBW. Explodes the dirt and turns the other way if anything.

[ScarfaceClaw]

There’s Root gone.

[Paddington Bear]

Pfft. Even 60 would be something to bowl at.

[Torquemada 1420]

FM. I know the wicket is doing a ton but playing from the crease is a retard strategy.

[Insane_Homer]

56/5 - Root gone. fuck this shit.

[ScarfaceClaw]

Well, that looked unplayable. Root gone LBW. Explodes the dirt and turns the other way if anything.

Spin on the ball should have gone left or straightened. That’s kicked right off the pitch.

[GogLais]

More time in the garden this weekend then.

[JM2K6]

FM. I know the wicket is doing a ton but playing from the crease is a retard strategy.

Given how often the ball's beaten the bat, leaving the crease sounds like a guaranteed stumping. I don't think there is a 'right way' here, particularly against Axar who bowls at pace.

[Torquemada 1420]

FM. I know the wicket is doing a ton but playing from the crease is a retard strategy.

Given how often the ball's beaten the bat, leaving the crease sounds like a guaranteed stumping. I don't think there is a 'right way' here, particularly against Axar who bowls at pace.

Get to the damned pitch of the ball. Hey: if it beats the bat, it's doing so much, a chance Pant will miss it too. This strategy is simply waiting to die.

[Paddington Bear]

FM. I know the wicket is doing a ton but playing from the crease is a retard strategy.

Given how often the ball's beaten the bat, leaving the crease sounds like a guaranteed stumping. I don't think there is a 'right way' here, particularly against Axar who bowls at pace.

Get to the damned pitch of the ball. Hey: if it beats the bat, it's doing so much, a chance Pant will miss it too. This strategy is simply waiting to die.

Play for the straight one and assume it will turn past the bat.

[JM2K6]

FM. I know the wicket is doing a ton but playing from the crease is a retard strategy.

Given how often the ball's beaten the bat, leaving the crease sounds like a guaranteed stumping. I don't think there is a 'right way' here, particularly against Axar who bowls at pace.

Get to the damned pitch of the ball. Hey: if it beats the bat, it's doing so much, a chance Pant will miss it too. This strategy is simply waiting to die.

Again, it's a lot harder to get to the pitch of the ball when the bowler is bowling them at pace.

I do think there's some merit to e.g. Pope doing that - he's just been bowled - as he's light on his feet and could potentially get there quickly enough, but it's still a high risk approach. They are all high risks approaches, it's a ridiculous wicket.

[Torquemada 1420]

I was wrong. He got to 15 balls.

[ScarfaceClaw]

Pope forward back and playing down the wrong line by a mile. Off stick gets a how’s-your-father from the ball.

[Paddington Bear]

Not a lot to be done about that. Finished in two days, maybe even the BCCI will be a little embarrassed about that. May as well go down swinging now.

[JM2K6]

People will go "oh it didn't turn" but that's the point. They've often turned and bounced a mile. He stretched forward to sweep one earlier and it practically bounced over his head. The sheer inconsistency of it is destorying batsmen.

[JM2K6]

Pope forward back and playing down the wrong line by a mile. Off stick gets a how’s-your-father from the ball.

There is no wrong line. They're all wrong lines. Ashwin bowls that one again and maybe slip catches it at head height.

[Torquemada 1420]

I do think there's some merit to e.g. Pope doing that - he's just been bowled - as he's light on his feet and could potentially get there quickly enough, but it's still a high risk approach. They are all high risks approaches, it's a ridiculous wicket.

I can't recall a wicket taking this much turn so early since back when they were uncovered. Struggling to think of a Test one at all. Bradman and reversing batting orders...!

[ScarfaceClaw]

Pope forward back and playing down the wrong line by a mile. Off stick gets a how’s-your-father from the ball.

There is no wrong line. They're all wrong lines. Ashwin bowls that one again and maybe slip catches it at head height.

Even if that went on with the arm he’d likely have missed it.

[Torquemada 1420]

May as well go down swinging now.

This deep in to the tail. Absolutely.

[ScarfaceClaw]

Not a lot to be done about that. Finished in two days, maybe even the BCCI will be a little embarrassed about that. May as well go down swinging now.

The BCCI are incapable of being embarrassed. This will simply be a reflection of how great Indian cricket is.

[Torquemada 1420]

May as well go down swinging now.

This deep in to the tail. Absolutely.

BUT NOT FROM THE CREASE ARCHER.

[ScarfaceClaw]

Archer first ball and reviewing.

[ScarfaceClaw]

Erm, that’s out. A feeble sweep to go with his feeble waft at the ball in his first innings.

[JM2K6]

Comedy from Jofra, who should never bat higher than 10.

[Big Nipper]

Yes man! Hope India wraps this up by 10 wickets