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Post by waughandpeace on Aug 16, 2021 12:52:50 GMT
Dare we open with Buttler and Bairstow to give this chase a good crack, knowing we have Sibley and Hameed to shut up shop if needed?
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Post by pierredelafranchesca on Aug 16, 2021 12:55:43 GMT
Dare we open with Buttler and Bairstow to give this chase a good crack, knowing we have Sibley and Hameed to shut up shop if needed? Ha! Absolutely no chance, the rest of this game is going to be one of 2 things, dour awful England batting seeing us bowled out in embarrassment losing the test OR dour awful England batting seeing out the day at about 1 RPO
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Post by Balladeer on Aug 16, 2021 12:57:22 GMT
That's what I see too. Open in the normal fashion and see where they are at tea.
Remember, Hameed didn't shut up shop so much in the first innings as leave the shop door open for it to be ransacked.
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Post by waughandpeace on Aug 16, 2021 13:03:37 GMT
Oh yeah it was definitely never going to happen, but probably the only way England would have a chance at winning! Fully expecting a draw to be agreed at around 5pm with it like 70-3 off 40 overs
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Post by pierredelafranchesca on Aug 16, 2021 13:06:55 GMT
Well well well.....so it begins
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Post by pierredelafranchesca on Aug 16, 2021 13:08:03 GMT
That's what I see too. Open in the normal fashion and see where they are at tea. Remember, Hameed didn't shut up shop so much in the first innings as leave the shop door open for it to be ransacked. Objective one complete.....we've opened in the normal fashion
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Post by Balladeer on Aug 16, 2021 13:08:20 GMT
70-3 feeling prettttty hopeful right now.
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Post by pierredelafranchesca on Aug 16, 2021 13:12:52 GMT
What an absolute fucking shambles
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Post by waughandpeace on Aug 16, 2021 13:13:40 GMT
Yeah typo, I meant 7-3 Although even that's an improvement...
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Post by pierredelafranchesca on Aug 16, 2021 13:20:56 GMT
57 overs is looking a looooooooong way away!
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Post by nemouk on Aug 16, 2021 14:35:03 GMT
Shut up shop in the sense of a shop going out of business permanently, clearly...
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Post by pierredelafranchesca on Aug 16, 2021 15:06:38 GMT
Game over. What an entirely predictable and pathetic capitulation. Out batted by Siraj and Bumrah.
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Post by nemouk on Aug 16, 2021 15:08:17 GMT
Well this is all a bit shit.
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Post by Balladeer on Aug 16, 2021 17:45:30 GMT
That was... terrible.
There are sadly no quick fixes. This is I think close to the best uninjured side there is at the moment. Not Curran on current form, but everyone else...
England just aren't that good. Joe Root is though. Basically a more fun Shiv Chanderpaul.
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Post by nemouk on Aug 16, 2021 18:10:23 GMT
Yeah there are... No easy answers. You could go back to the more experienced players like Malan and Vince but not convinced they'll do much better.
Honestly, this India team are just better than us at every part of the game. There's not much you can do about that.
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