What we learned from the 4th test

[Burgey]

Neither team has a very good bowling attack.

 

[silentstriker]

India’s is miles behind, made even worse by poor selections.

 

[LangleyburyCCPlayer]

Neither team has a very good bowling attack.

I get tiredness is a factor, but when basically nobody apart from Stokes is doing as well as they did at Lord’s, it must say something about the pitch too

 

[Burgey]

Miles behind whose? Stokes has been englands best bowler and he’s the fourth seamer.

Looking at the series as a neutral who despises both sets of pretenders, it seems to me each side can look to sit on Archer and Bumrah respectively and then make hay against the other bowlers.

India’s all round strength is in spin rather than seam, so the conditions don’t really suit them for the most part, but the difference between the two attacks given one is playing at home is pretty minimal imo

 

[Burgey]

I get tiredness is a factor, but when basically nobody apart from Stokes is doing as well as they did at Lord’s, it must say something about the pitch too

Carse has to be a concern for England doesn’t he? He’s barely take a wicket despite playing every test

 

[Johan]

Carse has to be a concern for England doesn’t he? He’s barely take a wicket despite playing every test

He's clearly carrying an injury

 

[LangleyburyCCPlayer]

He's clearly carrying an injury

Carse has to be a concern for England doesn’t he? He’s barely take a wicket despite playing every test

He was fine at Lord’s, but didn’t look right here. I will be honest, the concern with our bowlers for me is not their quality, because once they arrive Down Under I think they’ll find the pitches much more to their liking (unlike our batting lineup!), but their fitness, it goes without saying that Archer and Wood won’t play all 5 Tests, but basically all of our seamers this summer have had some kind of injury issue of late

 

[Son Of Coco]

We've learnt that both sides have good batting lineups when the pitch is flat. On the flipside, both bowling lineups find it almost impossible to get a wicket on the same flat pitches.

Archer has been impressive in his comeback, but he doesn't have enough miles in his legs yet to maintain his best consistently. Bumrah not so much given expectations.

The main thing we learnt from the 4th test though is that England are happy, chatty blokes when they are looking like winning but turn into snarky little schoolgirls when the tables are turned on them. It must be the private school sense of entitlement that follows most of them into the team. Their parents, butlers and house staff never said no to them, so why should these upstarts?

 

[Arachnödouche2.0]

We learned that medium-pace Bumrah is not much chop so realistically he has at most an year or two of bowling at his quickest best.

 

[Darwin Award]

That the 5th day pitch wasn't a 5th day pitch.

Hundreds galore from India's Top 6 in the series & nearly England too minus Crawley.

England needs pitch assistance on the latter days of the tests or reckless Indian batting to get the W.

Not many 'too good balls' getting batsman out... If you dig in,you'll score & England can't complain because this is what Stokes requested in the leadup to this series,didn't he?

 

[honestbharani]

I think it was good to see India fight when England dominated the test. I think the learning again is that they are definitely adding more layers to how they bat and its not just "Bazball" as it was earlier. The flipside is they are still up their own asses and that may well come back to bite them again.

 

[Molehill]

Neither team has a very good bowling attack.

It's pretty much the opposite of the WI/Aus series. In this case you have two better batting lines up than bowling and you're playing them on roads. Surprised we've got 3 results tbh.

We could also just say that neither WI or Aus have very good batting, but that would hardly be news.

 

[Burgey]

I would dearly love to see England’s line up batting on the pitches served up in the recent West Indies-Aus series

 

[SkyBlue]

England are setting themselves up for another failure in the upcoming Ashes by playing on doctored Bazball pitches

These group of batsmen won't know what hit them in a few months

Gill's century was the best century of the series. Coming of age series for him.

 

[Molehill]

I would dearly love to see England’s line up batting on the pitches served up in the recent West Indies-Aus series

Been thinking about this, honestly think it might be the best chance they have in the Ashes. Australia have the best bowlers, undisputed, but on spicy pitches it levels the playing field. If the W Indies can prevent the Aussies scoring over 250, then I'd fancy England to do likewise. And as suspect as some batsmen are, they're clearly better than the W Indies.

 

[Shri]

And as suspect as some batsmen are, they're clearly better than the W Indies.

lmao no

brook is a fraud ftb
crawley is in the team because rich dad
duckett might fluke a quick 50-100
pope is le poop
root is aussiephobic
stokes will make useless runs when it doesn't matter

5-0 australia