2nd Test (Edgbaston) - July 2nd

[capt_Luffy]

Not playing Kuldeep here is so dumb that it's borderline impressive.

 

[centurymaker]

I bet Kuldeep would've picked up at least one of these two.

 

[capt_Luffy]

Iirc he averaged north of 45 in top order, and without the gloves, giving him the gloves was a mistake.

Averaged around 35 with the gloves as well. Not poor by any means

 

[Spark]

I'm convinced the Indian selectors don't actually watch test matches. Prasidh has never not bowled utter rubbish at test level. Apart from this series, he'a also almost exclusively played in games where the pitches have been complete minefields. Almost lost us a game in SA when he bowled pies on a pre WW1-esque pitch where getting 30 was an achievement and he's only being selected for this tour imo because (a) he's tall and (b) because he scammed some wickets in Australia with some dreadful bowling on another crazy helpful pitch. The selectors basically just looked at the scorecard for that game, went "Omg he picked up 6 wickets " and said ok you're going to England. The worst thing for India would be if he picks up some jammy wickets here too and gets more chances because of it.

The idea that his SCG game - where he basically ensured Australia would win with his first three or four overs of the fourth innings - would have got him a locked down spot feels borderline "too stupid to be true" territory. Surely that can't be it.

 

[centurymaker]

This bowling showing their real level

Prashit is horrible and so are our spinners. I think England will get to 500 before end of day's play at this rate

Only when that happens and then India lose again on day 5, will a dickhead like Gambhir realise how big a fool he is that he's learnt jack-all from this BS strategy of playing just 3 proper bowlers.. It hardly ever works as India found out in Australia.

 

[King Kane]

England has produced great wk bats, apart from Russell who was average all the others were amazing batsman too.

Ames is the second greatest wk bat of all time.

Ames was before my time, Jack Russell wasn't a great batsman but he was one of England's best batsmen in the 1989 Ashes series, scored a great ton.

 

[centurymaker]

Nitish Kumar Reddy's gifting 4 runs to England on the field.

Making valuable contribution to the match like his other bits and pieces no rounders.

 

[silentstriker]

Krishna with some T20 looking stats.

 

[centurymaker]

India have conceded 160 runs in 25 overs today.

 

[honestbharani]

Idk which gambhiring is worse

I mean, I was absolutely 100% right.

 

[SkyBlue]

Both are in their 90s. Bring the field up ffs. Force them to play a false shot. Poor captaincy

 

[centurymaker]

Wtf is this... completely open field.. free singles all around the ground. Shocking

 

[capt_Luffy]

The idea that his SCG game - where he basically ensured Australia would win with his first three or four overs of the fourth innings - would have got him a locked down spot feels borderline "too stupid to be true" territory. Surely that can't be it.

The sad part is, this is EXACTLY what happened. That Sydney Game gave him a sure berth, and likely the fact he got 6 wickets in the last game made them pick him here without delving much into it.

 

[RightArmMystery]

Both are in their 90s. Bring the field up ffs. Force them to play a false shot. Poor captaincy

Not the Gill way. Put more lads on the boundary and bring Krishna back.

 

[RightArmMystery]

Brilliant from Jamie Smith. Come in with England on the back foot and has completely changed the game. Superb.

 

[SkyBlue]

I expected a comeback but this is absolutely brutal from England

This session ensures India bottles this test as well. Sack Gambhir. Mediocre test match batsman, even worse as coach.

 

[Spark]

The sad part is, this is EXACTLY what happened. That Sydney Game gave him a sure berth, and likely the fact he got 6 wickets in the last game made them pick him here without delving much into it.

I admittedly didn't watch the back half of the last game because I was so thoroughly bored of what I'd been watching in the first two innings, but otherwise I think I've seen 90% of his games and I honestly cannot recall watching a worse frontline bowler for a non-minnow nation. I'm sure I've seen one, I just don't remember it. Sincerely would pick your average Shield bowler over him.

 

[Shady Slim]

seems like this prasidh fellow is not very good
if only the entire cricketweb world could have recognised this and warned india

 

[ashley bach]

Talk about losing the plot

 

[capt_Luffy]

I admittedly didn't watch the back half of the last game because I was so thoroughly bored of what I'd been watching in the first two innings, but otherwise I think I've seen 90% of his games and I honestly cannot recall watching a worse frontline bowler for a non-minnow nation. I'm sure I've seen one, I just don't remember it. Sincerely would pick your average Shield bowler over him.

He legit went at 6.5 RPO. I don't really think I can stress enough how much that killed the game for us.