OT Terrestrial Test Return

[macstheman]

Yep, I've found it! It's between Dennis the Menace and Minnie the Minx!

[Geoff Parkstone]

‘Brilliant Test’! Completely disagree. India are better than England, especially at home...no problem at all with that...but I totally agree with mac, this is not Test Cricket. If the pitch had been as advantageous to pace bowling as it is to spin the match would have been called off as it was in the West Indies twenty odd years ago. 17 wickets in less than two sessions? Pitches like this just spell the death of Test Cricket imo.

Yo're not going to sell many day 3 tickets, let alone 4 or 5 on this basis are you. Still I suppose such is the lure for the home team to get to the "world test championship final" against NZ

[Andy_Faber]

I know its probably not quite so easy at test level but I could hear my dad shouting from Heaven 'Get to the Bloody pitch!'

[AdiSalisbury]

Bad pitch, pink ball, questionable 3rd umpire....... none of it excuses poor batting. We've not played the pitch, we've not adapted our game plan, we deserve to lose.

[Andy_Faber]

Bad pitch, pink ball, questionable 3rd umpire....... none of it excuses poor batting. We've not played the pitch, we've not adapted our game plan, we deserve to lose.

I think that was what I was saying in my rather basic 'I played in the Border League' manner

[macstheman]

Still I suppose such is the lure for the home team to get to the "world test championship final" against NZ

It tells us everything when a very occasional bowler takes 5 for 8!! Unfortunately, India put winning before cricket but they can do that as, politically, they dominate cricket! I agree with rA, this brings the demise of 'Test' cricket closer. Stick with the short forms of the game, f u ck playing the game in it's purest form if all teams can do is turn it into 'It's a Knockout'. Wear circus comedian dress with bright red noses and a banana stuck up your arris and we can all have a good laugh!

[Geoff Parkstone]

I'm not sure we could replace Athers and Bumble with Eddie Waring and Stuart Hall though, especially as the former has been 34 years dead and the latter's fall from grace is well documented

[Andy_Faber]

Setting ourselves up nicely for a disappointing second innings at the mo

[ramAnag]

Another three day test? Reckon Athers and Bumble have been missed...as openers!

[AdiSalisbury]

This last hour has been painful.