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*Official* Third Test at Edgbaston
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Lillian Thomson
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This is the most pitiful bunch of Indian tourists since 1974 when they managed to make David Lloyd look like a Test batsman.
centurymaker
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and there's no way a demoralized indian line-up will get anything over 350.
Neil Pickup
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Please don't try straw man arguments, they're even more boring than watching India try to get us out. No one ever said we should get 1000 (as much fun as that would be).
The only way we can lose this is being set a fifth-day chase on a raging turner. Take it out of the equation, bat when the track is easiest and the opposition demoralised, and make the win a certainty. That is ruthlessness.
A bit tomorrow, looking finer for the weekend.
Forecasts have been rubbish all summer but there doesn't seem to be much coming.
flibbertyjibber
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Well i think we'll win but until we know what the pitches are like i have no idea what will happen in the games.
hazsa19
International Regular
It doesn't get more ruthless than a 500 run lead with 2 days of play remaining.
Declaring with a lead of 350, and leaving them even a 1% chance of victory is not ruthless, it's stupid.
centurymaker
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some people are saying that they should bat the whole day, so if they do, they will have 850+...
believe me india won't really try to dismiss england. they'll bowl raina alot
india are already completely demoralized. england batting for another 3.5 sessions won't matter much.
they already know it's 3-0 unless there's some rain later on.
centurymaker
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cough
batting for half a day will give england another 200-220 runs, so that is a total lead of close to 450....
hazsa19
International Regular
cough
with time delaying tactics, India wouldn't bowl more than 35/40 overs in a day. 220 would be something.
centurymaker
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yea right.
indian bowlers are tired so you'll see more of mishra and raina.
bat for 45 overs at 5 an over. hardly a big task considering the explosiveness of the middle/lower order.
they managed to score a run a ball on day 4 of the last test.
centurymaker
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and why the **** would dhoni want to get banned now?
Lillian Thomson
Hall of Fame Member
Any talk of scoring 1000 is complete nonsense. I would rather like to see 700 on the board as I've never seen us make that many and we've never had a completed innings in the 700's.
hazsa19
International Regular
India bowled between 12 and 13 overs an hour for most of the Lords test match.
BlazeDragon
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Well they get a chance to practice for that against Windies first at home that's what I was trying to say.
centurymaker
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facepalm.
how relevant.