[Cricket] England v India. Third Test. 18-22 Aug. Trent Bridge. (Curran dropped for Stokes).

[Cowfold Seagull]

Bad, bad, bad.

The kid has done well and his confidence is sky high.

Rotten decision. Okay, he was found not guilty, but it's still wrong.

Hard to disagree with this, dropping Curran after only his third test and having done nothing wrong could wreak havoc with his condidence. Still, picking young cricketers and then almost immediately dropping them again is something the ECB selectors seem to be particularly good at.

 

[Sorrel]

Couldn't they drop Rashid? He didn't bat or bowl in the last test (not his fault that he didn't of course, but it does suggest they can cope without him). Jennings could also go.

 

[CHAPPERS]

England win toss and bowl. Huge pressure on India.

Edit: India would have batted.

 

[Beach Hut]

Quite a breeze at Trent Bridge, India may struggle with swing bowling

 

[jakarta]

England win toss and bowl. Huge pressure on India.

Edit: India would have batted.

Well Kohli would say that, cloudy at Trent Bridge with a green tinged wicket, I think I would bowl first up.

 

[BensGrandad]

India solid start 41-0

 

[Beach Hut]

Wicket 60/1

and another 65/2 Kohli time.....

 

[BensGrandad]

Lets get Kohli's wicket then we are up and running

 

[Eeyore]

Jos Buttler, playing as a specialist batsman, at number 7 ?

 

[Beach Hut]

82/3 Pujara c Rashid b Woakes

Rashid has done something already !

 

[Djmiles]

Decent bowling all round, I can’t imagine India getting much more than 220.

 

[larus]

Decent bowling all round, I can’t imagine India getting much more than 220.

I was following on CricInfo and, even when we didn’t; strike early, I felt it was only a matter of time. It appeared as though we were beating the edge quite a bit and a lot of movement there.

I think 220 will be a good score for them. I could see it being less than that. Kohli goes quick and they could crumble.

 

[BensGrandad]

Decent bowling all round, I can’t imagine India getting much more than 220.

Kohli could easily score 3/4 of that himself. My guess is that they will get about 280 unless we can get Kohli early.

 

[BensGrandad]

Will they be regretting dropping Curran now. He may have made the break through needed.

 

[Pavilionaire]

Will they be regretting dropping Curran now. He may have made the break through needed.

At least the ECB will be happy, as the coffers will be swelled by a 4th and even a 5th day's play. Poor, poor decision. Only Woakes has a wicket, now India past 200.

 

[Bold Seagull]

What you'd give for a bit of left arm seam right now...

 

[Diablo]

82/3 Pujara c Rashid b Woakes

222/3

 

[LlcoolJ]

What you'd give for a bit of left arm seam right now...

Indeed. From junior level upwards it's always best to have a left handed seamer to help unsettle the batsmen. All too predictable without. As I said before, it would have made more sense to move YJB up to 4 & drop Pope (harsh also, but more sensible than dropping Curran).

 

[fleet]

Dropping Curran looked wrong yesterday, looks worse just now!

 

[dazzer6666]

Wow, outstanding catch by Cook.