1st Test (Leeds) - 20th June

[subshakerz]

He's fielding on the boundary ffs

Then it's an abject surrender by keeping your best bowler out of the attack. Bizarre.

 

[subshakerz]

WOOOOOOOOHOOOOO!

You were right about India.

 

[slowfinger]

Engerlaannnddddd

 

[PlayerComparisons]

I am assuming he is unfit.

I think they just don’t want to overbowl him

 

[chris.hinton]

430-3 India

and lost the test. Sorry but India have themselves to blame

should have got 600-650

England wouldn’t have got close

 

[PlayerComparisons]

This will be a pretty easy 5-0 win for Eng tbh

 

[Howe_zat]

I have enjoyed that

Quite a lot, in fact

 

[Johan]

You were right about India.

yup, a one man team

 

[Arachnödouche2.0]

Demolished. Well played, England. More sensible main batsmen, handier middle-lower order, better at bowling out the tail, better fielding side too.

 

[Groundking]

Not bringing back Bumrah for the new ball and giving Jadu another go with 16 left can be classified as nothing other than surrender.

 

[jaydesh]

Joe Root is just over 200 runs away from matching Rahul Dravid's tally for test runs. Could the Wall finally fall next match?

 

[Sliferxxxx]

It's also set up for a 250 run match winning Root and Brook partnership

Boy was I ever way way off. Well done England !!

 

[slowfinger]

i hope we don't have to watch another test with that many drop catches for the rest of the series though

 

[subshakerz]

I think they just don’t want to overbowl him

That's absolutely insane. You are keeping him fit for exactly these situations.

He should have been bowled as soon as Stokes got out.

This is a really disappointing loss because India didn't even get their best bowler to try and win the game. They surrendered the game.

 

[subshakerz]

Not bringing back Bumrah for the new ball and giving Jadu another go with 16 left can be classified as nothing other than surrender.

Absolutely.

 

[jaydesh]

I want to give Gill the benefit of the doubt as this is his first test captaining. But some of his decisions were very questionable.

Also, another point not often touched on is the coaching. Of course it's the players' responsibility to go out and win, but could there be a lack of competence coming from the top? Take Gambhir, for example. A fine limited overs player, for sure, and one that has good rapport with the players. But his test record was average, generally speaking. If India lose this series by a huge margin, his job could be under threat. Would have liked to see VVS Laxman as coach.

 

[BoyBrumby]

It's probably happened more than I imagine, but tonning up in both innings and still ending up on the losing side must be fairly uncommon.

 

[Johan]

anyone notice how Bumrah dropped off from day 1? on day 1 he seemed unplayable, but literally didn't get a batsman out day 2-day 5, only got Chris Woakes (a declining bowling all rounder) and Josh Tongue (#10).

 

[subshakerz]

I'm sorry but I can't imagine Lillee or Marshall just hanging around at the boundary as their team just sleepwalks into a loss. They would be demanding their captain to take the ball and have a crack at the bats. This is just defeatism

 

[Howe_zat]

It's probably happened more than I imagine, but tonning up in both innings and still ending up on the losing side must be fairly uncommon.

12th such instance, and 4th supplied by an Indian.

https://stats.espncricinfo.com/ci/engine/stats/index.html?class=1;filter=advanced;orderby=start;qualmin1=2;qualval1=hundreds;result=2;template=results;type=batting;view=match

Andrew Strauss the last England player, in the reverse fixture in Chennai.