SkyBlueSoul
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What is this madness
0 for 1 or 2? What was overturnedDouble oh dear.
EDIT. Wow wasn't expecting that to get overturned!
EDIT EDIT. FFS!
I’ve done absolutely zero work so far today
Crawley went first ball0 for 1 or 2? What was overturned
No, the pitch is awful. I really don't know how you can play when 3 balls an over are skidding straight and 3 are ragging. Plus a load have exploded and Pant has taken them head high!This is rather ridiculous. To be fair, I don’t even think the pitch is bad, the batting is all over the shop.
No, the pitch is awful. I really don't know how you can play when 3 balls an over are skidding straight and 3 are ragging. Plus a load have exploded and Pant has taken them head high!
No Test match should last less than two days.
I know every country curates their pitches to suit their own team, but I hope this is a watershed moment where they do something about it. Maybe no toss and letting the tourists chose would help.
Agree that no Test match should basically have wickets where the top score will be 145.No, the pitch is awful. I really don't know how you can play when 3 balls an over are skidding straight and 3 are ragging. Plus a load have exploded and Pant has taken them head high!
No Test match should last less than two days.
I know every country curates their pitches to suit their own team, but I hope this is a watershed moment where they do something about it. Maybe no toss and letting the tourists chose would help.
Surely it has to be looked at by the ICC. 30 wickets for 387 runs in 5 sessions isn't on. Yes England were poor but there's still a problem with the pitch to address.Agree that no Test match should basically have wickets where the top score will be 145.
Surely it has to be looked at by the ICC. 30 wickets for 387 runs in 5 sessions isn't on. Yes England were poor but there's still a problem with the pitch to address.
India started the day on 99-3 in their 1st innings and the match is over shortly into the 3rd session of the day.
Yes they should treated it like a one dayyou’d normally have an independent referee but you can’t at the minute due to the virus. Otherwise there would be some sanctions.
England despite that got themselves into a muddle. They knew they were going to be in strife second innings anyway and should have took a gamble approach.
Open with Stokes as a left hander and try and smash the ball out the park for 10 overs. Playing orthodox was never going tl
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They'd only get demerit points and no WTC points deducted according to cricinfo -you’d normally have an independent referee but you can’t at the minute due to the virus. Otherwise there would be some sanctions.
England despite that got themselves into a muddle. They knew they were going to be in strife second innings anyway and should have took a gamble approach.
Open with Stokes as a left hander and try and smash the ball out the park for 10 overs. Playing orthodox was never going tl
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So you lose WTC points for slow over rates, but not for producing a 5 session Test pitch
Another splendid day England win toss and 205 all out
feel sorry for C4.I haven’t been able to get into this series at all, possibly that it was always going to be one sided. Channel 4 will think twice about bidding for tests again they must have lost a fortune.
feel sorry for C4.
But pretty inept from England this series. Losing 1 thing but not being competitive is another. COVID may be a reason but this team looked hopelessly prepared for this series.
Bairstow was being heralded as England's best player of spin 12 months ago
To be fair Channel 4 are reported to have paid £2m when the original asking price put to Sky and BT was £20m so they haven't done too badly. Not a lot in production costs for them either as they took the international feed so didn't even have to pay out for commentators. Just the 3 people on a pretty cheap set back in the UK.I haven’t been able to get into this series at all, possibly that it was always going to be one sided. Channel 4 will think twice about bidding for tests again they must have lost a fortune.
Very poor from England. To have gone from it being pretty much 50/50 at tea yesterday to game over isn't good whatever way you look at it. Has to be questions of the squad rotation system. They keep defending it using the example of the Premier League but that only works if you're a club like Man City with world class players to rotate in or you're playing against teams considerably worse. Not the same as playing a clearly unfit Stokes and woefully out of form Bess because you've left yourself with no other options.
To be fair Channel 4 are reported to have paid £2m when the original asking price put to Sky and BT was £20m so they haven't done too badly. Not a lot in production costs for them either as they took the international feed so didn't even have to pay out for commentators. Just the 3 people on a pretty cheap set back in the UK.
The bigger concern is the value of TV rights. Sky and BT seem to be increasingly aware that a lot of the rights they have paid out for in the past don't drive subscriptions. Saw a report that a decent chunk of the content on Sky and BT is actually provided to them free of charge as the sports rights market has collapsed, the theory being that having TV coverage is essential to attracting sponsorship so its better to produce your own coverage and give it away than not be on TV.
Doubt that will impact the EFL too much but might not be good news for our stripy friends who are looking for a new deal.
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