5th Test (The Oval) - 31st July to 4th August

[centurymaker]

Gambhir absolutely deserves this mauling for constantly picking fewer bowlers, despite even going for close to 700 in the last test. Area of concern was the bowling, yet he shored up the batting. Incredibly dumb and weak man.

 

[RightArmMystery]

Took 28.3 overs, so almost a session for India to get to this score. Been quite the start from these two.

 

[trundler]

Are you watching though? They're bowling pretty well, England are just batting hyper-aggressively and so far getting away with it. I'd say their bowlers are keeping their heads much better than their fans in this thread.

England haven't been uber lucky or anything either despite India not bowling terribly so far. Duckett premeditating a reverse pull next ball after Deep got one to bounce extra and hit the handle was straight up genius.

 

[OverratedSanity]

Well this is certainly a scorecard

 

[chris.hinton]

India are bowling a sack of shite.

 

[kevinw]

Suddenly it looks like Joverton bowled well.

 

[BazBall21]

Think the Indian batsmen got a bit too bogged down by the conditions yesterday. They had an opportunity to score more freely v some abject England bowling and there's enough pace in the wicket to support shotmkaking.

Siraj himself is erratic and very bog-standard but he must feel deflated having bowled on some absolute slabs all summer watching refreshed bowlers who have been brought back in for a decent bowling wicket just to serve up absolute rubbish.

 

[Spark]

Hahaha what a hilarious dismissal

 

[Spark]

Though Akash Deep should probably get a lighter wallet for that

 

[RightArmMystery]

Was always going to end like that. What an awful way to get out. Deep can do one though.

 

[Molehill]

Hahaha what a hilarious dismissal

About the only way he was going to get out. Not sure about Deep's actions after though, that's got fine written all over it.

 

[kevinw]

Love it when bowlers trash talk when they've been smacked around.

 

[LangleyburyCCPlayer]

I don’t know what to say about that, on paper it’s a very silly dismissal, but he’s been doing silly stuff all innings and got the results…

 

[Spark]

Not an accident that he finally got the wicket after pitching a few up btw...

 

[MW1304]

Feel like they'd already won the mental battle there, went for a scoop too many. Equally, we partly got in this position through risk-taking. Difficult balance and hard to complain exactly.

Does seem like a pitch you could collapse on though.

 

[GIMH]

Deep's face didn't suggest too much malice but it's a terrible look really.

 

[BigBeefy]

This is the one area England can really improve - when you’ve done the hard work of the fast start going at 8 an over - you have the game literally in your hands if you go on and bat the afternoon session at a more traditional pace.

Duckett and Crawley just don’t seem to be able to wind it back in or come back down a gear when they’re on a flier - I just think a champion team and cricketer have that ability to understand when to hammer home the advantage you’ve built and start milking the ones and twos to really infuriate the opposition.

 

[Arachnödouche2.0]

Embarrassing acting like that when you've been punked around previously and only got lucky while in the process of being punked again.

 

[Daemon]

Wtf was Deep trying to do there? Bizarre send off if it was one.

 

[Spark]

Deep's face didn't suggest too much malice but it's a terrible look really.

Yeah even if it was tame, should have zero tolerance for physical contact as a send off