2nd Test (Edgbaston) - July 2nd

[SkyBlue]

Akash you beauty

 

[wpdavid]

That didn't take long. Played Popey.


Good job they didn't pick Deep at Headingley.

 

[OverratedSanity]

first pitch in Chennai was good that series, competitive game, both could've won, good for batting at the start and then kept breaking.

Is this a joke? That pitch was as "win toss win game" as you can get lmao.

 

[The Brian Hardie Stance]

So, it's all down to Brook and Smith again.

Edit. Forgot Stokes was in next.

 

[PaulLennon]

2024 series all over again.

Then it was KulDEEP and this time Akash DEEP.

4-1 India.

 

[wpdavid]

first pitch in Chennai was good that series, competitive game, both could've won, good for batting at the start and then kept breaking. The other wickets were so bad we went back to 1890s level of wickets, if we do that, India would compain too.

2024 wickets were way better

Was 2021 when Root picked up 5 for hardly any? Yes, that really was a sandpit.

 

[Johan]

Was 2021 when Root picked up 5 for hardly any? Yes, that really was a sandpit.

Yeah it was that, really I remember a game at Ahmedabad which was the fastest finishing game in a century or smth, I think Root took 5-8 there.

 

[cnerd123]

@Xix2565 needs to get down on both knees and suck Akashdeep's dick as an apology for mentioning his name in the same breath as Prasidh Krishna

 

[PaulLennon]

Was 2021 when Root picked up 5 for hardly any? Yes, that really was a sandpit.

More due to the pink ball.

2nd and 4th tests India hit 300+ in both matches and Rohit, Pant and Ashwin hit centuries.

 

[Johan]

2024 series all over again.

Then it was KulDEEP and this time Akash DEEP.

4-1 India.

 

[Thala_0710]

@Xix2565 needs to get down on both knees and suck Akashdeep's dick as an apology for mentioning his name in the same breath as Prasidh Krishna

Sounds fair

 

[PaulLennon]

Akash was also good in that 2024 test which Bumrah did not play.

 

[Spark]

Is this a joke? That pitch was as "win toss win game" as you can get lmao.

Haha yeah could not have illustrated my broader point better frankly, very coincidentally saying that about the one game England won. The Ahemedebad D/N game was admittedly a bit much but there was basically nothing wrong with the others, as Ashwin so amply demonstrated.

 

[Red_Ink_Squid]

Only lost 10 overs so far

Yeah we'd probably have chased this otherwise.

 

[Spikey]

stokes will probably actually bat to save the game so it'll be interesting to see if Brook follows suit

 

[Johan]

Haha yeah could not have illustrated my broader point better frankly, very coincidentally saying that about the one game England won. The Ahemedebad D/N game was admittedly a bit much but there was basically nothing wrong with the others, as Ashwin so amply demonstrated.

there is nothing wrong with this pitch, as Akash Deep is amply demonstrating.

 

[Shady Slim]

genuinely nutzo that if india didn’t pick plodsidh game one they’d be looking down the barrel of 2-0 and with a fresh and rested bumrah ready to come back against a demoralised batting line up in the next match

 

[LangleyburyCCPlayer]

Very annoying, getting in is usually the hard part for Pope!

 

[centurymaker]

It's like a 90% Indian crowd.

 

[Spark]

there is nothing wrong with this pitch, as Akash Deep is amply demonstrating.

Yeah ok champ