[Cricket] ***England v India, 1st LV=Insurance Test Match, Trent Bridge***

[hans kraay fan club]

The Olympics is a handy diversion from work, but in half an hour, REAL cricket is back.

Stokes a big miss, and a real shame Woakes isn't about the fill the void. Big opportunity for Ollie Robinson.

Hoping India are undercooked and the conditions favour the good guys.

 

[Titanic]

England have won the toss and will bat.

 

[studio150]

The Olympics is a handy diversion from work, .

The indoor wall climbing or whatever it is called is a must watch.

 

[LamieRobertson]

England have won the toss and will bat.

Will they still be batting at the end of the day

 

[hans kraay fan club]

Teams
England: Rory Burns, Dom Sibley, Zak Crawley, Joe Root (capt), Jonny Bairstow, Dan Lawrence, Jos Buttler (wk), Sam Curran, Ollie Robinson, Stuart Broad, James Anderson.

India: Rohit Sharma, KL Rahul, Cheteshwar Pujara, Virat Kohli (capt), Ajinkya Rahane, Rishabh Pant (wk), Ravindra Jadeja, Shardul Thakur, Jasprit Bumrah, Mohammed Shami, Mohammad Siraj.

 

[keaton]

Much better to select disappointing batsmen than an actual spinner.If Stokes is unavailable for the Ashes do we list not play a spinner there?

 

[Pavilionaire]

When I look at our test batting line-up my first reaction is, as always, 50-3.

 

[hans kraay fan club]

****s sake

 

[Titanic]

Umpires call ... unlucky to get triggered for a bail trimmer

0-1 Burns back in the hutch

 

[Eric Potts]

Well I wasn't expecting that , first over

 

[hans kraay fan club]

Umpires call ... unlucky to get triggered for a bail trimmer

0-1 Burns back in the hutch

Looked stone dead in real time. Don't really think he can consider himself unlucky. Bumrah totally did him, and deserved the wicket.

 

[The Wizard]

This is quite honestly the most shambolic England batting line up I can remember, even in home conditions we look like lambs to the slaughter. If the Ashes do go ahead, the Aussies haven’t even played any tests for about 2 years and they’ll still crush us.

 

[KeegansHairPiece]

So I've got cricket on the iPad, Olympics on the laptop on a small window.

Occasionally my mind overlaps the commentaries. A couple of times, the cricket commentary matched the shot putt – ...running in, busy action, nicely bowled...

 

[PILTDOWN MAN]

Wicket looks like a village one prepared the evening before.

 

[The Fits]

Before this game, balls faced in first-class cricket by England’s top seven since the second Test against New Zealand…

Burns: 189
Sibley: 271
Crawley: 6
Root: 0
Bairstow: 0
Lawrence: 0
Buttler: 0

As TMS have just said, the Indians have actually had better preparation for a test series in England.

 

[hans kraay fan club]

Before this game, balls faced in first-class cricket by England’s top seven since the second Test against New Zealand…

Burns: 189
Sibley: 271
Crawley: 6
Root: 0
Bairstow: 0
Lawrence: 0
Buttler: 0

As TMS have just said, the Indians have actually had better preparation for a test series in England.

Still, as long as the Hundred makes lots of money, and a handful of ten year olds enjoy watching a few sixes get hit on TV, pissing away another Test series is a small price to pay.

 

[Moshe Gariani]

Looked stone dead in real time. Don't really think he can consider himself unlucky. Bumrah totally did him, and deserved the wicket.

One of the great traditions of discussing cricket. Different views of LBW decisions.

As a lefthanded batsman - and lifetime purveyor of off-cutters - I have a foot firmly in both camps and am very flexible in my judgements.

 

[hans kraay fan club]

When I look at our test batting line-up my first reaction is, as always, 50-3.

Looking a very good shout, this...

 

[hans kraay fan club]

61/2 at lunch

Conditions have been typically helpful, for a first morning at Trent Bridge, but fair play to India.

They have bowled brilliantly this morning.

 

[pasty]

Sibly. Lowest England score (18) for an opener in first session of a test since 1984