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So when do we start swinging? We could get 700 here today dead easy then slowly and mercilessly pick them apart over the next two days*
*Well, two or three hours 🙂
Lots of talk on Sky of Cook going for Gooch's 333.
I'd like to see England start going at it reckless now to shove some quick runs on, then put India in again. Longer they have to bat the less the chance of them holding on for a draw.
edit: especially given changeable weather.
(caveat: I know next to nothing about Test cricket)
especially given changeable weather
That is the worry - anything could happen with the weather although it is looking better for tomorrow and especially Sunday at the moment - get that ball skipping down the dry track rather than being held up...
Lots of talk on Sky of Cook going for Gooch's 333.
I'd like to see England start going at it reckless now to shove some quick runs on, then put India in again. Longer they have to bat the less the chance of them holding on for a draw.
edit: especially given changeable weather.
(caveat: I know next to nothing about Test cricket)
Calm down people, this is a 5 day test lest we forget! Ok we've gone off for bad weather at the moment, but set not to last long. India struggle to bat for a day, let alone 2 and a bit! I'd like to see us go past 700, and set India 500 just to make us even have to bat again. They'll be so tired from having fielded for something like 200 overs, they won't be able to bat at all, and Jimmy Anderson, Stuart Broad and Tim Bresnan will be banging in having had 2 days sat doing nothing! And it's swinging... And they're all 10mph faster than the Indian bowlers...
England should just bat right through today and totally demoralise India, then probably declare overnight.
then probably declare overnight.
Nah - give them an hour tonight 😈
It does not matter what they do only the weather can defeat them tbh
or a power cut! 🙂
credit to the BBC tech team keeping TMS going!
Gone dark and raining here, not too heavy at the moment
Gone dark and raining here, not too heavy at the moment
very painful slow progress at the moment
credit to the BBC tech team keeping TMS going!
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This made me chuckle on twitter
@Aggerscricket powercut seems to have coincided with debut of Sir Geoffrey's Grannie
they need to shift Prior up the order, this getting boring.
Cook now leads India.
Ok bored now
Bring out the fireworks!
Declaration once Cook's passed 333.
boooooooooooo!!!!!!!!
boooooooooooooooo
ffs off for bad light. blowers it's "barking"
[b][i]Stick o' roooooobarb![/i][/b]
whenIwerten
It's bl00dy daylight! ffs
back out
Klunk - Member
back out
Or in?
You have two sides, one out in the field and one in.Each man that's in the side that's in, goes out, and when he's out, he comes in and the next man goes in until he's out.
When they are all out the side that's out comes in and the side that's been in goes out and tries to get those coming in out.
Sometimes you get men still in and not out.
When both sides have been in and out including the not-outs, that's the end of the game.
TMS rocks only danger is to cooks bat 😆
Cook is going smash all records for an english batsman at this rate. The guy is a batting machine.
Just beaten his previous best score apparently.
India seem to have upped their fielding game a bit today, more vigour about them.
Bopara's not going to get a go is he? (or if he does it will be totally meaningless with nothing for him to gain)
Cook is going smash all records for a[s]n english [/s]batsman at this rate. The guy is a batting machine.
FTFY.
lot of work to overhaul sachin.
What is the highest ever score? Isn't it that little West Indian guy?
Thinks...
Lara.
Goes off to Gooooogle...
He's only 26....
lara's 400 unbeaten.
Yep - Lara, 400 no
Well done Morgan
Come on, a boundary please! Can't think of the last one, before lunch perhaps?
😕
Right on cue!
😀
I guess there is no rush really. But yes - it would be good to see them swinging.
Gone gloomy and raining here again
hup
Cook for the 400
Probably not a popular comment and i know he's got to 3 figures but......
I'm not convinced by Morgan at all.
out
Still got a way to go to beat Gooch's high score, let alone Hutton's - not really scoring fast enough to have enough time before the declaration. Though I think there's little doubt that unless he breaks down he'll take the record for most hundreds by an Englishman sometime in the next couple of years and will go on to be the first Englishman past 10,000 runs.
my TMS feed must be 30 seconds lagged on yours klunk 🙁
Probably not a popular comment and i know he's got to 3 figures but......I'm not convinced by Morgan at all.
Mockers alert!
well finally they caught him now lets see Bopara given a chance
So Bopara does get a go. If he wants to challenge Morgan he'll need to swing his bat and score a double in quick time.
and is it just me finding it amusing that a person with the username 'klunk' seems to be the one reporting FoW?
Mockers alert!
I don't think you understand mockers.
Bopara is a not a test player.
Boycotts mother could play this lot with a stick o'rhubarb
600 up
oh dear a collapse
test quality there
Bopara is a not a test player.
It seems you are right.
lol blowers is quoting 1938
****ing useless he is. Hopefully now he'll slip right down the pecking order and never be seen in a test match again
Prior in now, proper batsman!
Well Bopara's certainly not exceeded expectations - could that be his last test innings?
oops
Prior in now, proper batsman!
Cook leads by 26.
Cook's got his 250, call them in and let's get the game done. Carrying on batting is just ripping the p***.
Matt
Blowers commentators curse
i remember WG getting out like that back in 96, 1896
Batting collapse!
What was that you said Houns? 😉
Classic quote from the guys on TestMatchSofa after Prior's dismissal:
"What's going on (with genuine dismay)??! We're not going to make 700 at this rate...!"
Don't hear that very often 😀
Piss off, the pair of you 🙂
At least Prior was having a go, and he's proven at this level. Bopara has been on the periphery for ages...because he's not good enough!
turning sideways now
So - going for the 400 lead then jack it?
Strauss seems very relaxed on the balcony
Seems the ball is turning loads now... 8)
maybe the lights not good enough to declare
maybe the lights not good enough to declare
I like your thinking.
Cook has only scored 2 boundaries today 😯