***Official*** England in India

[Prince EWS]

Give Compton a trundle.

Not even I know what Compton bowls and that's precisely the sort of absolutely useless cricket knowledge I pride myself on. I want to say offies.

 

[Teja.]

I appreciate the effort cricinfo put in but

Time to change the print cartridges - can Stuart Broad introduce a bit of colour?

really?

 

[mightymariner]

Not even I know what Compton bowls and that's precisely the sort of absolutely useless cricket knowledge I pride myself on. I want to say offies.

Correct. A whole 3 FC wickets with it as well. Would rather Root was playing for his higher quality part-time spin though.

 

[Teja.]

If Pujara converts, It'll be three double hundreds and eleven centuries in tests this week.

 

[Cevno]

Declare today and have a crack or bat through ?

 

[hazsa19]

If Pujara converts, It'll be three double hundreds and eleven centuries in tests this week.

Hmm, been a rather disappointing return to Test Cricket

 

[Prince EWS]

Declare today and have a crack or bat through ?

Keep batting. The pitch is only going to get worse so there's no point giving England better conditions than you have to, plus I wouldn't be all that confident in making any sort of second innings score against Swann if this really breaks up.

 

[biased indian]

Declare today and have a crack or bat through ?

we will get bowled out or declare with around 1 hour left

think will open the attack with Zak and Ojha

 

[flibbertyjibber]

Declare today and have a crack or bat through ?

Speed up after tea and when bowled out for over 550 be happy to bowl for 8-10 overs. Win win situation.

 

[benchmark00]

Keep batting. The pitch is only going to get worse so there's no point giving England better conditions than you have to, plus I wouldn't be all that confident in making any sort of second innings score against Swann if this really breaks up.

awta.

 

[benchmark00]

If Pujara converts, It'll be three double hundreds and eleven centuries in tests this week.

How many times has a player raised their bat in test cricket over the past week?

 

[BoyBrumby]

Not even I know what Compton bowls and that's precisely the sort of absolutely useless cricket knowledge I pride myself on. I want to say offies.

I've a vague suspicion it's filthy legspin, but have never seen him bowl, tbh.

Think I must've read it somewhere.

 

[morgieb]

Yeah, the combination of defensive fields + extremely slow pitch which is hard to score on means India should be happy with the 452 on the board and take it easy for a while, even if it doesn't make for particularly entertaining viewing.

These two have to get India past the 500 mark, Can't bank on the others lasting on this pitch for long, given Harbhajan likes to slog.

 

[morgieb]

A specialist bowler averaging over 40 is pretty special, even if his career has barely begun.

 

[Teja.]

Not that I think we'll last that long but in a hypothetical I'd bat till just before lunch into tomorrow or so. So yeah, keep batting till bowled out.

You want to shut out every perceivable opportunity of the third result.

 

[morgieb]

Not even I know what Compton bowls and that's precisely the sort of absolutely useless cricket knowledge I pride myself on. I want to say offies.

CricInfo says offies.

 

[Cevno]

Teja probably looking forward to Sreesanth running through England too.

 

[flibbertyjibber]

Not that I think we'll last that long but in a hypothetical I'd bat till just before lunch into tomorrow or so. So yeah, keep batting till bowled out.

You want to shut out every perceivable opportunity of the third result.

I'd be happy with that. Be a tough ask to save the game but if we avoided the follow on it would probably be done then.

 

[Burgey]

Makes you wonder if the pitch is so slow now it is hard to score on but easy enough to stay in on.

Best to bat against the new rock I imagine

 

[CricAddict]

A specialist bowler averaging over 40 is pretty special, even if his career has barely begun.

Averages 36 and bats at 6 for Tamilnadu. Hence should be considered as a bowling allrounder rather than a specialist bowler.
Has a test century too. (Yes, wanted to say this )