Quote Originally Posted by Notts78 View Post
You are making excuses for England’s short comings. When did the India side play all their red ball cricket? A couple of warm up games against county 2nd teams and an inter squad game. All were weeks ago.
I hate the Hundred. Passionately. Their is zero need to have a T20 and Hundred competitions. The 50 over cup has gone to rat **** as a result. In terms of the county game, those games are now being played at arguably the toughest times of year, when the weather isn’t great and tracks can be green and nibble more.
I love test cricket and all that it can bring. The 2nd test ebbed and flowed until England’s short comings were hugely exposed with both bat and ball.
I’m not making excuses at all I said we deserve to be 2-0 down and if it didn’t rain at Trent Bridge we would be.

My point is people keep saying drop XYZ but we are either going to have to go back to Crawley/Lawrence or pick players with no batting practice.

You are right India haven’t had much practice but being at home you “should” have the advantage of having a pool of players to select from but we don’t have that.

My honest view is it wouldn’t matter as India NZ and Aussies are much better than us but at least prepare properly.