5th Test: India v England at Chennai, Dec 16-20, 2016

[TheParraboy]

poms 3/186

were 2/21 both openers out

root 88
Ali 66*

 

[AlwaysGreen]

4/284 @ stumps, Moen Ali 120 no.

Root seems to get out a lot between 70 and 100.

 

[AlwaysGreen]

So here's some interesting stats.

Root: tests 53, 50s 27, 100s 11. Total +50 38. 100 conversion rate: 29%
Smith: tests 48, 50s 18, 100s 16. Total +50 34. 100 conversion rate 47%
Kohli: tests 53, 50s 14, 100s 15. Total + 50 29. 100 conversion rate 52%
Williamson: tests 56 50s 24, 100s 14. Total +50 38.100 conversion rate 37%

Root is a fine player but his inability to convert fifties to really big scores puts him well behind Smith and Kholi in the battle of the young brigade.

 

[Bazal]

Moeen Ali has 1000 test match runs this year and I'm just not sure if I can handle 2016 anymore

 

[AlwaysGreen]

England throwing away a good start again. 7/339.

 

[Twizzle]

all out 477

 

[TheParraboy]

draw coming up

 

[Twizzle]

get your own material

 

[AlwaysGreen]

India 3/211. Kholi gone cheaply.

 

[vvvrulz]

England scrape together a meagre 477, Indian on track to make about a million at 313/3

 

[AlwaysGreen]

India boring their way to something on a pitch as flat as Jeannie Littles chest.

 

[vvvrulz]

Some of the immortals of the game Lokesh Rahul and Karun Nair prospering in trying circumstances, test match batting at it's finest.

Meanwhile in Australia a real match just concluded.

 

[TheParraboy]

Draw coming up

Poms did well 0-3 in a 5 test series

We wont get anything but a 0-4 from a 4 test series when we go over there

 

[Pete Cash]

6/724 lol

 

[Bazal]

Holy f**k I left like an hour and a bit ago to run some errands and Karun Nair was on 150....

 

[Pete Cash]

Its been brutal jadeja is going mental now

 

[Pete Cash]

Welp thats the triple hundred

 

[Bazal]

Well that's a pretty emphatic maiden hundred. I wonder how many other batsmen have got 300 as their first century....

 

[Bazal]

There you go they just answered me. Sobers, Simpson and Nair

 

[vvvrulz]

Sobers, Simpson and Nair

I feel dirty just reading that.