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Posted: **Fri Mar 12, 2021 2:11 pm**

Indian fans are quite strange.

Looking like a tired pitch, could be low scoring for both sides. Not my ideal T20 wicket but it is the sort of thing England often struggle with, so a good test!

Posted: **Fri Mar 12, 2021 2:19 pm**

Pant very very watchful, then out. Not the innings his team needed.

Posted: **Fri Mar 12, 2021 3:06 pm**

Such a bizarre innings - it is like some of them can't be bothered.

Posted: **Fri Mar 12, 2021 3:08 pm**

Quietly excellent innings by Iyer has given them a real chance here.

Posted: **Fri Mar 12, 2021 3:09 pm**

JM2K6 wrote: ↑Fri Mar 12, 2021 3:08 pm Quietly excellent innings by Iyer has given them a real chance here.

Yep - shows runs can be scored on it.

Interesting to see how the Indian spinners go on it.

Posted: **Fri Mar 12, 2021 3:36 pm**

JM2K6 wrote: ↑Fri Mar 12, 2021 2:11 pm Indian fans are quite strange.

Looking like a tired pitch, could be low scoring for both sides. Not my ideal T20 wicket but it is the sort of thing England often struggle with, so a good test!

It's a fascinatingly different sporting culture. Losing it over every single etc I just can't imagine ever doing. Wonder how they perceive Western crowds.

Posted: **Fri Mar 12, 2021 3:50 pm**

Paddington Bear wrote: ↑Fri Mar 12, 2021 3:36 pm
JM2K6 wrote: ↑Fri Mar 12, 2021 2:11 pm Indian fans are quite strange.

Looking like a tired pitch, could be low scoring for both sides. Not my ideal T20 wicket but it is the sort of thing England often struggle with, so a good test!
It's a fascinatingly different sporting culture. Losing it over every single etc I just can't imagine ever doing. Wonder how they perceive Western crowds.

Yeah, obviously I think they're really odd but I do appreciate that it's not just more of the same that we get from Western crowds, and there's a whole heap of valid reasons why it's so different. They are pretty hilarious at times though.

Then again when you get down to it the Yanks are just as odd, so... vive la difference?

Posted: **Fri Mar 12, 2021 4:03 pm**

I went to a college football match in Austin once - so odd. Firstly the mere fact that 100,000 people were at a college game. Then most of them packed up at half time and went to the car park to watch it on the TVs they had in the back of the SUV so that they could have a beer.

Posted: **Fri Mar 12, 2021 4:17 pm**

So.....apparently the Indians were just rubbish in their innings after all.

Pretty easy stuff really.

Posted: **Fri Mar 12, 2021 4:19 pm**

Thor Sedan wrote: ↑Fri Mar 12, 2021 4:17 pm So.....apparently the Indians were just rubbish in their innings after all.

Pretty easy stuff really.

I believe that will be mine thankyouveddymuch

Posted: **Fri Mar 12, 2021 4:27 pm**

Yeah, expected us to struggle, but no, not a bit.

Posted: **Fri Mar 12, 2021 4:30 pm**

So England favourite for the T20 world cup then.....

Posted: **Sat Mar 20, 2021 2:38 pm**

india off to a flying start.

superb bit of fielding from Jordan

Posted: **Sat Mar 20, 2021 4:15 pm**

Buttler and Malan well on course chasing 225

101/1 after 9.2

Posted: **Sat Mar 20, 2021 4:59 pm**

143/5 pressure bringing wickets

Posted: **Sat Mar 20, 2021 7:52 pm**

Insane_Homer wrote: ↑Sat Mar 20, 2021 4:15 pm Buttler and Malan well on course chasing 225

101/1 after 9.2

Graham Swann's pronunciation of Daywood Milan is a bit comical.

Posted: **Tue Mar 23, 2021 2:29 pm**

didn't even know there was an ODI on until now.

Ind posted 317/5
England cruising until just now. Bairstow dies on 94 (66) - 169/3

CRR: 7.68
RRR: 5.32

Posted: **Tue Mar 23, 2021 2:38 pm**

Was well within reach but Morgan gone early so 4 down now.

Not sure how Billings is batting since he's meant to have dislocated his shoulder whilst fielding earlier.

{EDIT} Buttler gone 3 balls later. Classic Eng collapse in full flow now.

Posted: **Tue Mar 23, 2021 2:47 pm**

Eng fall apart the second I start looking.

Posted: **Tue Mar 23, 2021 3:04 pm**

RRR: 5.89

Eng are still in control, this partnership needs to last.

Posted: **Tue Mar 23, 2021 3:47 pm**

look away.

Posted: **Tue Mar 23, 2021 4:09 pm**

Stokes, unfortunately, shoulders some of the blame there. As soon as Roy got out, Stokes should've just been tapping some singles and letting Bairstow continue to do his thing. Instead he starved him of the strike without scoring any runs himself, then Morgan did similar and Bairstow ended up trying to smash one having barely put bat on ball for several overs.

Posted: **Tue Mar 23, 2021 4:22 pm**

JM2K6 wrote: ↑Tue Mar 23, 2021 4:09 pm Stokes, unfortunately, shoulders some of the blame there. As soon as Roy got out, Stokes should've just been tapping some singles and letting Bairstow continue to do his thing. Instead he starved him of the strike without scoring any runs himself, then Morgan did similar and Bairstow ended up trying to smash one having barely put bat on ball for several overs.

That's kinda true-ish but Eng were well up/ahead of RR and so there was no need for Bairstow to do that when he did.

Posted: **Fri Mar 26, 2021 9:25 am**

2nd ODI on now.

India 82/2 ~19 overs

Posted: **Fri Mar 26, 2021 10:03 am**

Slow going.

Posted: **Fri Mar 26, 2021 10:53 am**

speeding up

Last 5 overs 49/0 (9.80)

225/3 with 9 to go

Posted: **Fri Mar 26, 2021 10:59 am**

England looking a bit one-paced. It's a much lesser team without Archer and Wood, and Woakes is much better than Tom Curran or Topley. And we'll have to chase without Morgan and Root! Forget it Jim, this'll be a caning.

Some shitty umpiring so far, India doing well to review.

Posted: **Fri Mar 26, 2021 11:01 am**

Getting a little ugly

Posted: **Fri Mar 26, 2021 11:01 am**

Curran spanked for 22 runs in the over,

Pant 50 from 28

Posted: **Fri Mar 26, 2021 11:04 am**

Insane_Homer wrote: ↑Fri Mar 26, 2021 11:01 am Curran spanked for 22 runs in the over,

Pant 50 from 28

Commendable trying variation: just not very good at it!

Posted: **Fri Mar 26, 2021 11:24 am**

Big Sam, bless him, is a canny bowler, a bit of a golden arm, and a good option at the top of the innings... but he is not the guy who want bowling when a big hitter is on a charge.

Posted: **Fri Mar 26, 2021 11:25 am**

293/4 with 4 to go.

Pandya now teeing off with Pant.

Posted: **Fri Mar 26, 2021 11:27 am**

Pant really is an astonishing player

Posted: **Fri Mar 26, 2021 11:28 am**

Not sure bowling full tosses is a good plan. Esp ones which offer width.

Posted: **Fri Mar 26, 2021 11:29 am**

6,1,6,1,6,1.... a bit of a pattern forming.

Posted: **Fri Mar 26, 2021 11:32 am**

pattern broken Pant dies for 77 off 40

Posted: **Fri Mar 26, 2021 11:32 am**

Well, that was one of the strangest reviews of a catch I've ever seen. Kohli's bitching about England celebrating catches having its intended effect, presumably.

Posted: **Fri Mar 26, 2021 11:34 am**

Buttler with his second dropped catch of the day. An absolute stinker.

Posted: **Fri Mar 26, 2021 11:41 am**

FM. T Curran determined to offer width. Someone should tell him, he's not in the bedroom.

Posted: **Fri Mar 26, 2021 11:42 am**

The Currans just love bowling runs, don't they

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