England v India 4th Test (Oval)

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England won the toss and will bowl in an overcast Kennington

[sinkov]

I still can't get my head round playing a Test Match at Old Trafford in the middle of September, they're asking for all they're likely to get with that one.

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India 28 for 1, Rohit bowled Woakes caught Bairstow for 11

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I still can't get my head round playing a Test Match at Old Trafford in the middle of September, they're asking for all they're likely to get with that one.

I agree Sinkow iffy in September, but there again with our weather iffy at any time :)

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We are doing something right, 6 Maidens on the spin

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KL gone for 17, lbw from Robinson

Kohli strides out

India still on 28, for 2

[sinkov]

I agree Sinkow iffy in September, but there again with our weather iffy at any time :)

Atherton was saying they were thinking of resting Jimmy for this Test, saving him for Old Trafford, then they thought about the likely disruption the Manchester weather could cause, and decided to play him here.

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Another beauty from Jimmy who, for him, has had a bit of tap this morning. Pujara gone and India struggling a bit but early days yet.

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Pujara gone for 4 caught Bairstow bowled Anderson

39 for 3

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Lunch

India 54 for 3

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Wokes gets Jejaja for 10 caught at slip Root

India 69 for 4

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Raname saved by a review after Umps gave him out lbw, review showed it too high, he's still on 1

India 73 for 4

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Kohli caught Bairstow bowled Robinson for 50

India 105 for 5

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Moheen took a good catch at slip to dismiss Rahane from the bolwing of Overton and India were 117-6.
Another over and it was tea and India 122-6.

Good Test cricket, you can't beat it!

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Thakur being a pest and spoiling our party Sub

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India all gone for 191, it could have been much less

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Thakur being a pest and spoiling our party Sub

He certainly did. Sadly, we dropped too many catches today and they should have been out for much less.
Credit to Thakur though who batted like bowlers used to do and has not scored the quickest Test 50 at The Oval ---beating Lord Botham by one ball! Entertaining stuff.
Now let's see whaat a mess out batters can make of this innings -----fingers crossed!

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Burns bowled by Bumrah for 5

England 5 for 1

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Silly Silly Silly England 6 for 2, Hameed gone for 0

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SNAFU --for England. Joe Root at the crease already and, sad to say, he is due a failure!
Terrible shot by Hameed, yes the ball bounced, however, he is an opening batsman and did not need to play at it!

[sinkov]

Doesn't inspire confidence Hameed does he, like a rabbit in the headlights, he was never going to stay out there long.

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Close:

England 53 for 3, Root gone !

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Umesh bowled Overton (1) deflects it to Kohli in the slips and England 53 for 4

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Pope gets a single off his first ball :)

[Supersub6]

This is hard going this morning with 7 overs bowled, 9 runs scored and 1 wicket taken.
England will really have to get their heads down to get a lead.
Commentator's curse just struck Malan!

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Malan (31) bowled Umesh caught at slip by Rohit

Us 62 for 5 FFS !

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We will lose this Sub and it will be a wash out in Manchester so India will win the series 2-1 :(

[wanderlust]

Not looking great is it? Just thinking back to India's tailenders smashing it about yesterday and the comms saying that despite that India's score was appalling. Well it's looking not bad now.

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Lunch: England 139 for 5, Bairstow and Pope in their 30's

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That has been quite a good fight back by Pope and Bairstow taking us up to 139-5 at lunch.
They have an unbroken stand of 77 in 17.3 overs so looking forward to the afternoon session.

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England 151 for 6, Bairstow gone lbw for 37

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Bairstow going mental with the Stewards about movement behind the bowlers arm

[sinkov]

This is hard going this morning with 7 overs bowled, 9 runs scored and 1 wicket taken.
England will really have to get their heads down to get a lead.
Commentator's curse just struck Malan!

Aye I noticed that Sub, as soon as he said it I was thinking 'bloody hell mate, shut the feck up', he was gone within seconds,

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Aye I noticed that Sub, as soon as he said it I was thinking 'bloody hell mate, shut the feck up', he was gone within seconds,

It certainly was! He had literally just finished talking and Malan was gone! Commentator was correct too ----he had been playing well and was untroubled! Big mouth! >;)

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Scores level with England on 191 for 6

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Tea:

England 227 for 7, 36 ahead

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We have done well since losing Malan at 62-5. Faced 50 overs and scored 187 with the loss of two wickets ---good stuff and we are now 58 ahead, which didn't seem likely this morning!

Let's hope that Nick gets a game against Andorra ---we will have Pope doing it for England at cricket and football! XD

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Pope gone for 81, 250 for 8, he's got us out of a hole with that knock

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Pope gone for 81, 250 for 8, he's got us out of a hole with that knock

Certainly has! 4 overs since he was out and another 21 added ---very valuable and getting up Kohli's nose ---how sad!

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England all out 99 in front

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A stand of 35 for the last wicket in 7 overs with Jimmy doing his bit with 1 not out, having faced 12 balls.

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Close:

India 43 without loss, 56 behind

[The Bedlington Terrier]

Close:

India 43 without loss, 56 behind

Need Jimmy to work his magic in the morning session.

[sinkov]

Typical 4th innings England collapse on the cards, and Bob's your uncle, India win. I can see it coming. ;D

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3rd Day, lets hope we can do the business today :)

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kL Reviews an lbw given out by Umpire and survives as its missing

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Burns puts down Rohit

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India 79 for 0, 20 behind

Rohit 35 KL 43

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KL gone for 46, bowled Anderson snicked to Bairstow

India 83 for 1, 16 behind

We need to take a few more now in quick time

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Pujara in

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Moeen Ali having a go now

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Lunch:

India 108 for 1, 9 runs ahead

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India 162 for 1, in theory 63 for 1

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Tea:

199 for 1

100 runs ahead, Rohit gets his first ton outside India

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Its slowly getting away from us :(

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228 for 1 129 ahead

Root not attacking enough, get men around the batsmen for god's sake man

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Rohit caught Woakes bowled Robinson for 127

India 236 for 2, 137 ahead

Kohli walking out

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Pujara edges one to Ali off Robinson for 61

India 237 for 3

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India 270 for 3, 171 ahead, gone off for bad light

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India 270 for 3, 171 ahead, gone off for bad light

That's it for the 3rd day.

[The Bedlington Terrier]

We will lose this, you know we will. :blue:

[Supersub6]

We will lose this, you know we will. :blue:

BT ---if we lose this it is because India are a good team and Kohli 'bullies' his men into not accepting defeat.
Fair enough as far as I am concerned.

[hopelesslyoptimistic]

England should have made 500 in their first innings so only themselves to blame.

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4th Day

Robinson opening the bowling

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Ravi Shastri isolated with a positive Covid

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Kohli caught behind for 44 bowled Ali

India 312 for 6 lead by 213

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Lunch

329 for 6, 230 ahead

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Thakur and Pant hammering the nails in our coffin

[sinkov]

We will lose this, you know we will. :blue:

Told you that on Friday BT, see Post 44.O:)

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Tea:

India 445 for 8, 346 ahead

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Indian all out for 466, England needing 368 to win XD

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England 15 for 0 after 8 overs, Burns 7 Hameed 7

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Close:

England 77 without loss, Burns 31 Hameed 43

Still need 291 runs to win, Loooooog day tomorrow, but great viewing if we don't throw any wickets away

[hopelesslyoptimistic]

Good weather too so should be easier to bat on than if humid and cloudy.

[wanderlust]

Can't see England going for it TBH.

[The Bedlington Terrier]

We need two 100 partnerships. Can we do it? :O

[sinkov]

Typical 4th innings England collapse on the cards, and Bob's your uncle, India win. I can see it coming. ;D

Posted on Friday, I can see no reason to change my mind.

[The Bedlington Terrier]

Posted on Friday, I can see no reason to change my mind.

Sadly, me neither mon ami, but it would be lovely to be proved wrong. ;D

[sinkov]

Sadly, me neither mon ami, but it would be lovely to be proved wrong. ;D

Of course, I'll happily wipe the egg off my face tonight if I'm proved wrong.

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50 and out for Burns bowled thakur and caught behind

England 100 for 1

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Hameed reaches 50, Us 103 for the loss of Burns

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One kicking out of the rough to Malan gives cause for concern, just see him off and score off the paces, easy to say, hard to do I suppose :(

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Hameed hits one straight at Siraj, the ball goes through his hands and hits him in the goolies XD and is dropped, couldnt happen to a better player XD

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England 112 for 1

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One wicket given away with Malan being run out for 5

England 120 for 2

Root walking out

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Twenty minutes to lunch and India's tails are up with that run out! Always optimistic, however, I reckon that they will take another wicket before lunch ----hope it isn't Root! I should add that we will definitely not win this game!

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Lunch:

England 131 for 2, 237 more runs still needed

Root 8 (14) Hameed 62 (186)

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I think the betting predictor is off its head with that percentage for a draw Sub :O

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Come on Rooty and Hameed ! Don't give your wicket away fellas

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Hameed bowled by Jadeja for 63

England 141 For 3 227 runs still required

Pope in

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Pope bowled for 2 by Bumrah

England all at sea 146 for 4

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Bairstow bowled by Bumrah for 0

146 for 5

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Ali caught from Jadeja for another big fat 0

147 for 6

4 wickets gone for 6 runs FFS !

[Supersub6]

Will we reach 200? Indians are good favourites now, poor English display since lunch! Mind you, it's a good job that Ashwin isn't playing!

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Ten minutes to tea and we have seen us go from 132 -2 to 185-7 in 23 overs and India have bowled really well and induced faulty shots from a few English batters.

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Tea:

England 193 for 8, still need 175 to win.

Soon be over

[The Bedlington Terrier]

How Bumrah is not called for chucking is beyond me. He's a chucker - plain and simple! :mad::mad:

[Supersub6]

How Bumrah is not called for chucking is beyond me. He's a chucker - plain and simple! :mad::mad:

I really think not! Good wrist action and he has been checked and queried before.
Why are England's batsmen not called for impersonating batters?

[The Bedlington Terrier]

I really think not! Good wrist action and he has been checked and queried before.
Why are England's batsmen not called for impersonating batters?

Me and the father-in-law frame freezed him - he's a chucker. Griffiths and Gilchrist had nowt on this dude. >:)

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Me and the father-in-law frame freezed him - he's a chucker. Griffiths and Gilchrist had nowt on this dude. >:)

Should have gone to Specsavers or --------if you are really concerned, you need to send your findings to the ICC! XD

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Why are England's batsmen not called for impersonating batters?

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[sinkov]

It would have been miraculous even with Stokes in the the team, without him it was never going to happen.

[Acido]

I'll say one thing, this test series against India has been exciting and its had its talking points. Not all of them good though as far as we're concerned. :s

Ohh and we/Yorkshire took a really big stick to Summerrrsett today, without messrs Root and Bairstow etc.

[army88]

I’m with you BT his action is poor and no one says anything it’s basically thrown down the wicket not bowled

[sinkov]

I always thought a throw was judged by elbow straightening, the wrist action had nothing to do with it ?

[The Bedlington Terrier]

I always thought a throw was judged by elbow straightening, the wrist action had nothing to do with it ?

He chucks it sinkov, I don't care if he has a wonky wrist or a broken elbow, he's a chucker, plain and simple.

[sinkov]

He chucks it sinkov, I don't care if he has a wonky wrist or a broken elbow, he's a chucker, plain and simple.

Then why isn't he being no-balled ?

[Supersub6]

Then why isn't he being no-balled ?

Simple really, sinkov, as you know. His action does not break the laws, therefore, there is no reason to no-ball him.

[sinkov]

Here you are BT, nothing wrong with his action.

"A ball is fairly delivered in respect of the arm if, once the bowler's arm has reached the level of the shoulder in the delivery swing, the elbow joint is not straightened partially or completely from that point until the ball has left the hand. This definition shall not debar a bowler from flexing or rotating the wrist in the delivery swing."