Pope must be running on pure adrenaline. You'd think he'd want a quiet afternoon somewhere in the outfield.
England Tour of India
- Thread starter TheGame
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Excellent test matches everywhere you look. Wonderful to see.
Hartley 
You can't make it up.
Delighted for him.
You can't make it up.
Delighted for him.
A long way to go yet but even if we lose it’s just nice these days knowing that England will often find a way to drag themselves back into a game instead of capitulating
Going on expected lines... I didn't think we could chase more than 175 on this wicket.
You wanted 100 more!
My bad
Horrible over from Rehan. Need a wicket.
Standing at short leg to a spray gun bowler with zero control must be terrifying.
In the spirit of attaining what you thought wouldn’t be possible, after we beat Australia down under I am now rooting for an England win in this match 
This director must have a fetish for sleeping people.
50/50 game on the scoreboard.
India Favs In reality due to England's lack of killer bowling.
India Favs In reality due to England's lack of killer bowling.
I was about to say India are still favourites based on the scoreboard but that helps, even if it is Axar Patel.
Root!
wtf is going on?
Root. Wow. England surely favourites now. This is one of the best tests I've ever seen (or technically, listened to on radio)
Come on England!
And it's not even the best test match that's been played this week.
The Agnew comment about the fields today giving protection for the bad balls compared to the first innings is a good point. It's meant that scoreboard pressure has been kept up.
Yes we cocked up the Hartley usage in the first innings but that will be rightly forgotten if he bowls us to victory here. Would be one of our greatest wins.
Don't get too excited, India will still do this easily.
Feels like Jadeja is the likely big wicket remaining. He loves these situations.
Definitely, always seems to do well against England.
That might be the best piece of fielding I’ve ever seen!!
Wow
Ben stokes is immense
That's a huge moment. Wow.
England have been amazing. A really strong comeback from a dire position after day 1.
India, on the other hand, have serious mentality issues. They really struggle under the tags of favourites and this meek approach in trying to nudge to victory has not worked well. I think they got complacent after the first couple of days and that showed in their bowling performance on day 3.
India, on the other hand, have serious mentality issues. They really struggle under the tags of favourites and this meek approach in trying to nudge to victory has not worked well. I think they got complacent after the first couple of days and that showed in their bowling performance on day 3.
Just a ridiculous cricketer.
Saying they struggle as Favs at home is a little odd seen as they win every single series they play.
Brilliant from stokes
I think you need to examine this by circumstance, not averaged over an entire series.
If you consider the quality of the team versus the number of trophies they've actually won in that time (including test championships and various ICC limited overs series) it tells a different story of how their mentality affects them in singular pressure situations.
Who said Test Cricket was boring. What a game.
Brilliant fielding by Stokes and a strange veering run from Jadeja. Hope he hasn’t done his hamstring.
LEACH!
wow - it's over
To be fair any team who hasn’t lost a home series since 2012 will be regarded as being excellent at home.
This is incredible, India are falling apart
It's going to be 5-0(for England)