1st Test: England v India at Birmingham Aug 1-5, 2018

[TheParraboy]

King Kholi, marvellous player...

burying his English demons

 

[Buzzard Breath]

King Kholi, marvellous player...

burying his English demons

Good player, good innings but it helped being dropped twice by Malan on his way to a ton.
If Malan had held on to one of his chances we would all be saying another failure.

 

[Das Gupta]

Good player, good innings but it helped being dropped twice by Malan on his way to a ton.
If Malan had held on to one of his chances we would all be saying another failure.

If Daffy Malan could catch I would be digging the boot in.
Instead I will say Cook is cooked.

 

[Bazal]

Haha England are going to bottle this....

 

[AlwaysGreen]

Ashwin taking wickets outside India.

 

[Bazal]

Ashwin taking wickets outside India.

He's abysmal in Australia which I think makes people think he's abysmal outside India on the whole. He's obviously much better in India but he can still do a lot of damage everywhere but here...

Meanwhile Typo might get away with this, I doubt it carried. Replays seem to confirm.

 

[Bazal]

Lol at the crowd booing Dhawan, who made the third umpire signal himself...

 

[Bazal]

Typo is out.

Two rangas with the arduous task of saving the test match

 

[Eelectrica]

Jonny B out.
England 5 down now. Gotta think they need at least 200 to be chance. Seems to a long way off now.
Stokes joining Jonny B in the sheds for 6 down.
Gonna struggle to reach 100.

 

[Bazal]

Both rangas gone.

Time for the real cricket to start, here comes the number 8

 

[TheParraboy]

Good player, good innings but it helped being dropped twice by Malan on his way to a ton.
If Malan had held on to one of his chances we would all be saying another failure.

that's test cricket, you don't take your chances you get punished
its not like the bloke cant bat

as the series goes on, and well after its over, the record and stats say a huge ton to Kholi

 

[Bazal]

Surely Typo is out of the side next match?

I mean, not sure who would replace him, but he's done very little with the bat since the Ashes (and even then he wasn't exactly great) and he can't catch to boot

 

[AlwaysGreen]

Beaker Sharma the destroyer.

Never thought I'd be writing that.

 

[Bazal]

Ishant, Destroyer of Worlds, gets rid of Buttler.

England have batted appallingly.

 

[Eelectrica]

Curran is a helluva number 8 though.
Brings up his 50 with a 6.
He's having a great game.

 

[baggygreen man]

When did Sharma learn how to swing a ball?

 

[baggygreen man]

Poms are looking down the barrell.

 

[Scott Gourley's Lovechild]

India need Kholi to bat out the innings to win.

 

[Scott Gourley's Lovechild]

He can do it, but I have no confidence his partners can stick about.

 

[TheParraboy]

Curran is a helluva number 8 though.
Brings up his 50 with a 6.
He's having a great game.

Terrific player