Tongue does have that ability to bowl the unplayable ball, though. It's a very unusual action. That's worth having in any attack....and he showed at Headingley he can clean up a tail.
You mentioned the Under 19s earlier....I see young Rocky Flintoff got a hundred.
The young Warwickshire leggy Taz Ali who I was lauding earlier in the season bowled 10 overs for 97.
Ouch.
Trying to work it out, but I make it that 1,493 runs have been scored, for the fall of 29 wickets, so an average score of 57.
Zak Crawley's score, taking into account his dropping a dolly, has been –27.
Rehan Ahmed has been opening for Leicester this season and scored 3 tons so far
bring him in for Crawley, bring a seamer (one of Cook/Atkinson/Archer fitness dependent) in for Bashir to take him out of the firing line a bit, jobs a good un, 2-1 England
That was an amazing delivery, you can't belittle that.
Crawley …ffs how he still gets picked is beyond me
Out flashing do we even need to see it?
He needs changing
Agree Bashir needs a break he’s being made to learn on the job.
Can’t see this new bowling attack tearing it up in OZ.
And still can’t understand why DVB aged 36 is preferably to the GOAT for this series. Neither would be that effective this winter but why JA had to go to build a new unit and then DVB gets more games aged 36 with a shite record abroad…bollocks
Holdsworth_MaraSonnerCharcyIanTIndia are batting on too long here.
I don't really understand what they are doing.
It’s pretty obvious, no?
1) put the game out of reach. This England team is chasing crazy totals often
2) given that the old ball and tired bowlers have done nothing all game, give themselves 14-16 overs with the new ball tonight, then another stint with Deep and Siraj on fresh legs in the morning. They’ve got 2 very poor bowlers playing as all rounders and while Jadeja is good, barely a ball has turned.
It’s the perils of having a poor bowling unit that they have no faith in. Apparently this is the highest number of runs that any team has ever scored in the initial two tests of a series.
Absolutely 20 overs after declaring 3 wickets
20 in morning with fresh bowlers 2 more
And a new ball after tea tomoz just in case
And psychologically England cannot chase that
I expect it to be done by 3pm
Yep😁. Still, we’ll see yet, India deserve this one.
I do get peed off with cricket fans who want to seem to drop half a side as soon as things go against the team, worse than football fans (mainly thinking of BBC website).
Crawley has been awful for the last 12 months now, though I think it's too late to make such a drastic change before the ashes.
AyeayeoppyoppyayeCrawley …ffs how he still gets picked is beyond me
Out flashing do we even need to see it?
He needs changing
Agree Bashir needs a break he’s being made to learn on the job.
Can’t see this new bowling attack tearing it up in OZ.
And still can’t understand why DVB aged 36 is preferably to the GOAT for this series. Neither would be that effective this winter but why JA had to go to build a new unit and then DVB gets more games aged 36 with a shite record abroad…bollocks
It’s not a new attack as such, it’s a patched up one. England are obviously hoping Archer and or Wood will be back and Atkinson will obviously come in. Getting two of those in makes things much stronger.
He batted well in the last test. I don’t think I’d be changing the openers, we do need one of Atkinson, wood back quickly though
Archer would be heaven but he can’t be counted on
Michael Vaughn seems to have calmed down since his travails.
These two games show why test cricket is a phenomenal game. Never wise to make any kind of prediction on the first 3 days, maybe even the fourth, possibly the fifth.
The game has everything.
Yep, it's the best sport going.
India deserve this, they've been excellent.
My Blue HeavenWhat beautiful weather 💙💙💙💙
And done before tea as predicted