1st Test (Leeds) - 20th June

[Spark]

Akash should not even be a deliberation, that's how obvious a choice he ought to be. He's a workhorse, has great seam presentation, and nips the ball off good lengths. He should always be in the XI, even over Siraj.

I thought he bowled really quite well down here much of the time with zero luck, bizarre that India have discarded him so quickly.

 

[RightArmMystery]

Fail for Pope. Get Bethell in

 

[slowfinger]

you can't park there Popey boy

 

[sayon basak]

Krishna takes two.

 

[cnerd123]

Okay 9 wickets

Okay 8 wickets

 

[SkyBlue]

****ing England with their devious plan to make sure India play Krishna in the next test

**** off ffs

 

[slowfinger]

There's more to a Test match than just lasting a long time and being even. I've personally found large stretches of this game extremely dull and not a particularly good spectacle, across all four innings. It's a very bad sign when a captain as naturally aggressive as Ben Stokes all but gives up on taking wickets outside of hoping for miscued slogs.

this match is poised for 20 wickets and over 1000 runs man

 

[jaydesh]

The only silver lining for India is that after one big performance, there's more than a 50/50 chance Pope will go back to his usual ways of getting out in single digits. Same with Crawley to be honest.

 

[Adders]

Okay 8 wickets

Shut up

 

[Niall]

Fail for Pope. Get Bethell in

Must he score a century every innings?

 

[Molehill]

If India could get Duckett out, this could yet get interesting.....

 

[slowfinger]

if Engerland are to get over the line then Root and Brookey have to get 50's

 

[OverratedSanity]

He's still a terrible bowler, but that was a good dismissal

 

[slowfinger]

shotttt Benny boy

 

[slowfinger]

if this lad bowls another 5 overs the game could be well over by then

 

[cnerd123]

Shut up

Make me, ****

 

[RossTaylorsBox]

this match is poised for 20 wickets and over 1000 runs man

50 runs per wicket sucks arse.

 

[Arachnödouche2.0]

How the hell have we allowed them to knock 200 off the target without even a ripple? Like fine if the pitch was dead, weren't we adept enough even at bowling dry?

Yeah yeah, obvious answers, but jfc it shouldn't be this easy chasing 370 on Day 5.

 

[Adders]

Good move bringing Bumrah back for Root........this is the game right here i feel.

 

[MasterBlaster24]

With this kind of bowling support, Bumrah will have to pull off a Hadlee or a Murali if India are to have any chance of winning even one match in this series.