5th Test (The Oval) - 31st July to 4th August

[mackembhoy]

He is captain so everything is forgiveable.

Root should have overruled him.

Weak captaining from Pope to go for that.

 

[King Kane]

That looked plumb.

Root should have told Pope to keep walking rather than waste a review.

 

[Arachnödouche2.0]

Teams should have internal fines for pathologically bad reviewers

 

[mackembhoy]

Thus ends the second highest 2nd innings knock of Pope's Test career.

2nd highest 4th innings knock got 82 in McCullums third game. A successful chase of nearly 300 against NZ.

3 50+ scores in the 3rd and 4th innings is embarrassing from him tbh.

 

[Ju7]

He is captain so everything is forgiveable.

You mean he's from Surrey.

 

[Ju7]

2nd highest 4th innings knock

3 50+ scores in the 3rd and 4th innings is embarrassing from him tbh.

Wow - his 4th innings average is just a tick below 17!!

 

[BigBeefy]

Crawley and Pope at 1 and 3 doesn’t give you the steel you need in Australia. Same dismissals over and over.

Crawley getting Yorker bowled with a ball to go is such a Crawley thing, and then Pope falls for the Siraj classic again.

On balance, India deserve at least a series draw- as an England fan if we’re honest we could probably say that they’ve had England behind the 8 ball in 3 of the 5 tests- Headingley, Edgbaston and Lords, where England managed a big chase and 10 wickets off a low target.

If Australia get in the same positions I fear a 4-0 or 5-0 drubbing.

 

[Red_Ink_Squid]

Its always a bit of a mockery when it becomes 10 Vs 11.

True, void the Test imo.

 

[King Kane]

Textbook cover drive from Root.

Ricky Ponting appreciated it too.

 

[mackembhoy]

I was positive before play not so much now.

These two need to get us past the 300 mark I think for us to do this though.

 

[Red_Ink_Squid]

Root should have overruled him.

Random sidenote but I think Root is terrible at this. I feel like he often encourages poor batting reviews from the non-striker's end.

 

[Ju7]

Crawley and Pope at 1 and 3 doesn’t give you the steel you need in Australia. Same dismissals over and over.

Crawley getting Yorker bowled with a ball to go is such a Crawley thing, and then Pope falls for the Siraj classic again.

On balance, India deserve at least a series draw- as an England fan if we’re honest we could probably say that they’ve had England behind the 8 ball in 3 of the 5 tests- Headingley, Edgbaston and Lords, where England managed a big chase and 10 wickets off a low target.

If Australia get in the same positions I fear a 4-0 or 5-0 drubbing.

I've said this before.The middle order is England's strong point with Root/Brook/Stokes/Smith.

 

[Arachnödouche2.0]

Siraj is like the classical horror slasher. Just keeps going.

 

[Arachnödouche2.0]

Been ages since we saw a conventional seam position from Siraj. He was predominantly that early on in his career but has gone wobble for the last couple of years.

 

[King Kane]

Random sidenote but I think Root is terrible at this. I feel like he often encourages poor batting reviews from the non-striker's end.

He's not the only one, most of the non striker batsmen don't want to tell their buddies not to review it and they aren't the best judges from their view.

They also don't to tell them not to review it and then with the replay it shows they weren't out.

 

[Woodster]

I was positive before play not so much now.

These two need to get us past the 300 mark I think for us to do this though.

No pressure then, just a straightforward near 200-run partnership!

 

[mackembhoy]

Random sidenote but I think Root is terrible at this. I feel like he often encourages poor batting reviews from the non-striker's end.

Aye your right, we could have done with the pissed off Root we saw the other day there.

 

[Ju7]

He's not the only one, most of the non striker batsmen don't want to tell their buddies not to review it and they aren't the best judges from their view.

They also don't to tell them not to review it and then with the replay it shows they weren't out.

Tough position to be in as they are not umpires but players should put their emotions away and give objective advice.

 

[mackembhoy]

No pressure then, just a straightforward near 200-run partnership!

Well they do have already have the following century partnerships. So here's hoping for a new third best, I'd take 188 though

454
302
189

 

[Woodster]

Well they do have already have the following century partnerships. So here's hoping for a new third best, I'd take 188 though

454
302
189

I don’t doubt they are capable of it, nor do I disagree it’d give us an excellent chance of victory. I’m hoping they can get us 200-3 and it’ll look much healthier. Maybe I need to be more ambitious!