2nd Test (Edgbaston) - July 2nd

[Nintendo]

If you want bad viewing, go and watch the first few tests of the covid ashes England played over here. Head was entertaining, but the rest was just marnus and warner getting dropped a million times while everyone not named root batted like chris martin and england got smashed. Not fun viewing.

 

[Calm_profit]

DK is just a boring commentator

 

[Johan]

If you want bad viewing, go and watch the first few tests of the covid ashes England played over here. Head was entertaining, but the rest was just marnus and warner getting dropped a million times while everyone not named root batted like chris martin and england got smashed. Not fun viewing.

10× better than any of the 2021 England-India series games

 

[cnerd123]

Akash and Prasidh did a great job as a pair there. 2/38 in 12 overs.

Need Siraj and Jaddu to replicate this now.

Stokes 10 off 42. Batting for the draw?

 

[Spark]

If you want bad viewing, go and watch the first few tests of the covid ashes England played over here. Head was entertaining, but the rest was just marnus and warner getting dropped a million times while everyone not named root batted like chris martin and england got smashed. Not fun viewing.

That was still a better series than the 2017 Ashes down here. I watched some highlights earlier in the year and it was remarkable just how vanishingly little of it stuck in my memory.

 

[Gob]

If you want bad viewing, go and watch the first few tests of the covid ashes England played over here. Head was entertaining, but the rest was just marnus and warner getting dropped a million times while everyone not named root batted like chris martin and england got smashed. Not fun viewing.

He was equally bad wasn't he? Made some runs in the first test but it was all getting kicked in the nuts from there

 

[Calm_profit]

Akash and Prasidh did a great job as a pair there. 2/38 in 12 overs.

Need Siraj and Jaddu to replicate this now.

Stokes 10 off 42. Batting for the draw?

Stokes has regressed as a batsman

 

[Red_Ink_Squid]

Stokes 10 off 42. Batting for the draw?

Laying a platform to accelerate

 

[honestbharani]

Mate do yourself a favour and skim pass halba posts like the rest of us. After all, you were talking to the first bloke in the history of cw to cop a year ban for being stupid

And given how some of us have posted here over the years, that is saying something huh?

 

[cnerd123]

Laying a platform to accelerate

Agreed. Just like Jadeja and Gill right before tea yesterday. Smart cricket.

England in full control here.

 

[wpdavid]

That was still a better series than the 2017 Ashes down here. I watched some highlights earlier in the year and it was remarkable just how vanishingly little of it stuck in my memory.

I wasn't aware that we'd even played in Australia since 2011. Are you sure you didn't imagine the 2017 series?

 

[cnerd123]

There is the acceleration. Chase back on.

 

[Kenneth Viljoen]

Akash and Prasidh did a great job as a pair there. 2/38 in 12 overs.

Need Siraj and Jaddu to replicate this now.

Stokes 10 off 42. Batting for the draw?

India already did that last night to be fair

 

[Arachnödouche2.0]

DK is just a boring commentator

Not boring exactly, just has no sense of pacing.

Jaiswal hasn't exactly covered himself in glory in the field this series so far.

 

[Johan]

The first day of the Gabba Test where Nasser chose to bowl was a much better viewing than any England game of 2021, in England or outside England.

 

[ashley bach]

123-5 @Flem274* @SillyCowCorner1

 

[cnerd123]

123/5 @SillyCowCorner1 @ashley bach

 

[Burgey]

What does this have to do with balance between bat and ball?

Tbh that’s the kind of balance everyone wants to see

 

[Burgey]

If you want bad viewing, go and watch the first few tests of the covid ashes England played over here. Head was entertaining, but the rest was just marnus and warner getting dropped a million times while everyone not named root batted like chris martin and england got smashed. Not fun viewing.

Rubbish. It was ****ing fantastic. Should happen all the time

 

[Calm_profit]

Not boring exactly, just has no sense of pacing.

Jaiswal hasn't exactly covered himself in glory in the field this series so far.

That's why he is not in the slips.