NPR

Ymx wrote: ↑Sat Jun 11, 2022 3:31 pm I don’t agree allowing pace bowlers having to bat just before they are expected to pick up wickets, in a position like this, especially on a track like this one.

Ymx wrote: ↑Sun Jun 12, 2022 12:20 pm It’s hard to see a different result unless England collapse.

Or our second innings capitulates.

Rinkals wrote: ↑Sun Jun 12, 2022 2:05 pm India 50 for 2 after 7.

Wicket in the first over for Rabada, and then Nortje bounces Ishan out.

Maharaj gets Pant.

71 for 3 after ten.

Parnell bowls Hardik.

92 for 4 after 13.

And 1 guest wrote: ↑Sun Jun 12, 2022 3:29 pm Bairstow doing his usual thing. Being shit till his place in the team is questioned, then he'll produce an innings. Rinse and repeat

OomStruisbaai wrote: ↑Sun Jun 12, 2022 4:42 pm Klaasen taking India apart.

OomStruisbaai wrote: ↑Sun Jun 12, 2022 4:42 pm Klaasen taking India apart.

JM2K6 wrote: ↑Sun Jun 05, 2022 11:05 pm

Cartman wrote: ↑Sun Jun 05, 2022 9:03 pm

FalseBayFC wrote: ↑Sun Jun 05, 2022 2:06 pm Comfortable win in the end for England. What a madcap test! Certainly entertaining for the neutral. Quality innings from Root. A couple of purple patches and he may surpass Allister Cook and enter the top 5 highest test batters list. He would need another 2400 runs. Doable if he lasts until he's 35/36.

Yeah totally
At about ten tests a year and around 100 runs a test average, easy

Err... 10 tests is 20 innings. If he averages 24 over the next 5 years, if he played 20 innings a year, that's 480 runs a year, in 5 years he'd make... 2400 runs.

In reality, he usually plays a lot more than that.

2021: 1708 runs in 15 Tests / 29 innings @61
2020: 464 runs in 8 Tests / 13 innings @42.2 (COVID affected)
2019: 851 runs in 12 Tests / 23 innings @37
2018: 948 runs in 13 Tests / 24 innings @41.2
2017: 966 runs in 11 Tests / 19 innings @50.8
2016: 1477 runs in 17 Tests / 32 innings @49.2
2015: 1385 runs in 14 Tests / 26 innings @60.2
2014: 777 runs in 7 Tests / 11 innings @97
2013: 862 runs in 14 Tests / 27 innings @34.5

I think you may have not have realised how many matches these guys play. Take the COVID year out and Root averages over 13 Tests per year (over 25 innings) post-2014. He's already played 6 Tests this year and there's 2 more against NZ then 3 more to come against SA followed by 3 against Pakistan at the end of the year - and that's in a year that is dedicated to the T20 World Cup, meaning we've shortened the Test series we're playing.

If he plays on average 25 innings per year over the next 5 years, even if he just averages 30 in that time it's another 3750 runs. If he manages to average 45, it's 5625. If he averages 50 (a huge ask, obviously), that's 6250 - taking him beyond Tendulkar at the top of the tree. Shit, if he averages 40 for the rest of the year and plays every innings it's another 640 runs before we even hit 2023.

He's already played more innings at age 32 than Younis Khan managed in an 18 year career. If he plays this frequently for the next 5 years, he'll have played more matches and more innings than anyone else in world cricket.

JM2K6 wrote: ↑Sun Jun 05, 2022 11:05 pmHe's already played 6 Tests this year and there's 2 more against NZ then 3 more to come against SA followed by 3 against Pakistan at the end of the year

"Kyle Jamieson won't take the field on day four as he awaits an MRI scan to determine the extent of the injury to his lower left back. Jamieson experienced sharp pain while bowling in the final session of day three forcing him from the field."

Kiwias wrote: ↑Mon Jun 13, 2022 10:26 am Root definitely not hanging around any more. Taken at cover by Southee off Boult. A superb innings of 175 by Root

Big D wrote: ↑Mon Jun 13, 2022 10:35 am

Kiwias wrote: ↑Mon Jun 13, 2022 10:26 am Root definitely not hanging around any more. Taken at cover by Southee off Boult. A superb innings of 175 by Root

Nice bit of bowling by Boult.

Paddington Bear wrote: ↑Mon Jun 13, 2022 10:50 am Potts has panicked there - had at least enough time to cross