World Test Championship

[ACT Crusader]

What the hell????? He now gets bowled next ball.

Bairstow in all sorts.

[Duluth]

Chaos

[Siam]

@act-crusader this is scarcely believable!

[Donsteppa]

0/2 eventually, just took another delivery.

A village team would pick the line about as well as the English batsmen in these first three deliveries.

[ACT Crusader]

Now Root gets beaten first ball.

[bayimports]

@donsteppa less than 26 all out and will be a great day of cricket 😀

[Siam]

As @nzzp alluded to earlier, this test championship is up with there with sliced bread.
In gone by days this game/series would be a novelty that you might read about the next day or week, and bemoan a weird pitch or apathetic batting. But with the final up for grabs it's bloody riveting, nearly exciting.

Good stuff all round!

[ACT Crusader]

Patel now has 8 wickets for the match.

[ACT Crusader]

@act-crusader said in World Test Championship:

Patel now has 8 wickets for the match.

Make it 9

[gt12]

@act-crusader

10 and counting.

Ashwin gets one now and England are 66/6

[gt12]

Ashwin gets his 400th

2nd fastest in history apparently, pretty good player given that he doesn't seem to chuck it, and can bat a bit too.

[gt12]

Now 80/8 and Patel has 11.

England ahead by 47 and this might end today.

However many it is won't be easy though.

[gt12]

80/9 now.

[gt12]

50 overs and 16 wickets so far!

After watching cricket on roads for so long, this is really fun to watch.

[gt12]

81 all out, Washington gets the last.

India need 49 to win.

[gt12]

11/0 after two overs and I'm off to bed. Knowing this pitch they could be 20/5 but I guess I'll wake up to see that they won by 8 wickets.

[MajorRage]

Absolute joke. India cruise to the 49 runs without loss and with only one decent shout.

Credibilty around spin bowling statistics is destroyed with these pitches. Absolutely no excuse for a game not going at least 2.5 days. BCCI should face serious sanctions.

But we know they won't.

[MajorRage]

Update for the scenarios before they change the rules before the last match.

England are toast

England win - Oz get through
Anything else - India get through

[Victor Meldrew]

@majorrage said in World Test Championship:

Absolute joke. India cruise to the 49 runs without loss and with only one decent shout.

Credibilty around spin bowling statistics is destroyed with these pitches. Absolutely no excuse for a game not going at least 2.5 days. BCCI should face serious sanctions.

But we know they won't.

Gradually lost almost all interest in Cricket about 3-5 years ago but for some reason found myself watching the Indian 2nd Innings - all 34 minutes of it.

Highlighted why I can't be arsed to watch the game any more.

[ACT Crusader]

@majorrage said in World Test Championship:

Absolute joke. India cruise to the 49 runs without loss and with only one decent shout.

Credibilty around spin bowling statistics is destroyed with these pitches. Absolutely no excuse for a game not going at least 2.5 days. BCCI should face serious sanctions.

But we know they won't.

I’m not here to defend the BCCI but many of the England dismissals in both innings, guys were beaten by misreading the flight of the ball. Nothing remarkable or controversial there. Patel had the ball spinning like crazy before it even touched the pitch.