World Test Championship
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@shark wow, that's some conspiracy theory
While possible, I'd be stunned if the Test squad were in England to warm up for the one off test.Still, we'll see eh... itneresting times. I'm really enjoying the WTC - it's making games very meaningful as we build to the end of the cycle
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England struggling with a non-turning pitch. 30/3, Root out. Two to Axar patel - one that didn't turn, and one that someone tried to hit. Siraj got Root, good wicket.
Was reflecting on the last pitch, and the criticism. The reality is that England scored around 200 runs in the match for 20 wickets; India scored similar number of runs but only lost 10 wickets. The pitch turned, but ENgland did not bat well, and didn't pick the right team.
Go India!
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@shark That's probably a pretty extreme version, but for the last CWC I recall Australia pulled all of their squad out of the IPL and played several warm-up ODI games against an NZ XI, while our ODI players mainly sat around in India either watching or replacing the withdrawn Oz stars.
Somehow, our relatively shit preparation worked out better.
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@nzzp said in World Test Championship:
England struggling with a non-turning pitch. 30/3, Root out. Two to Axar patel - one that didn't turn, and one that someone tried to hit. Siraj got Root, good wicket.
Was reflecting on the last pitch, and the criticism. The reality is that England scored around 200 runs in the match for 20 wickets; India scored similar number of runs but only lost 10 wickets. The pitch turned, but ENgland did not bat well, and didn't pick the right team.
Go India!
Have they blamed anyone for it yet ?
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@crucial said in World Test Championship:
England 20/3 and 140 behind.
Not much chance of us facing anyone but India now
30/4 Can't see them getting up from here. India showed them how to bat on this pitch. Washington Sundar stranded on 96* poor bastard
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@crucial said in World Test Championship:
Pant’s innings was super entertaining. Followed the plan to reach the target then just had fun. His treatment of the new ball was memorable.
Reverse ramp to Anderson!Pant is on fire. Feel for Washington not getting his ton, because his innings was excellent also.
Bring on India!
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@cyclops said in World Test Championship:
How did this team look so good in winning the first game and then dissolve into a rabble? They are genuinely at risk of losing by an innings despite inning only managing 365.
Root scored big. He does well, we do well he doesn't, we don't. At least that's the way it seems.
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@mn5 that's true. It's not a stellar England team, particularly the batting line up.
Mostly though, this is another example of how, for the last 5 years at least, the proficient teams in world test cricket just haven't lost at home venues.
Except Australia 🙂
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Oh look, we're in a cricket final
When does that ever go wrong?
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@mariner4life said in World Test Championship:
Oh look, we're in a cricket final
When does that ever go wrong?
At Lord's no less
