Atleast there's decent bounce somewhere. It gets result but the first two days are just dull to watch.
England in India 2021
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As an England fan this is a great watch...for now.
Maybe the novelty of watching a flat deck as it seems to get tougher to bat in England every year.
test cricket is more fun to watch on bowling wickets imo.
Undoubtedly, but i don't mid the odd flat deck test assuming it deteriorates as the game progresses
Lovely for England at the moment this. Can feel a sloppy dismissal coming though, maybe a run out.
Edit: Just like Root nearly did there.
Edit: Just like Root nearly did there.
I think that's always the case when you are a England fan, you feel its always coming but Root and Sibley doing well here.
Will be interesting to see how Archer does on this pitch, whilst India have the best spinner(s) England has the quick that could make the difference.
Why is Harsha not on comms? Or have I just missed him?
Missed a trick not playing Siraj. Feels like they are playing Sundar mainly for his batting.
Play Siraj for whom?
England dominating this now.
In place of Sundar/Nadeem. Especially if Bumrah and Ishant workloads need to be managed given their return from injury.
You'd think after Sibley got a 50 against Sri Lanka nudging it into the leg side 50 times that India would have cut that option off.
Jadeja is being missed here. You could see the gulf between Ashwin and nadeem/sundar. This is why Ash/jadeja combo is so good.
Rooooooooooooooooot
3 100s in a row for Root now. Come on Joe, let's make it big.
Root's been on some unbelievable form recently.
There is nothing in the wicket. 500+ is easy here.
Cricket is a funny old game, 1 bad shot/great ball, 1 mix up in running and the match is flipped on its head. I wouldn't even consider 500 until they are past 350 with batting to come. I'd snap your hand off for 400 still.
Easy money for top scorer this series i think.
Not sure dominating. Could easily be 300-6. Looks like a pitch where you need a massive score.
Us England fans will tell you there is no such thing as a easy 500+ with our batting!
Let's hope so although Kohli and Pujara could be good shouts for that as well.
Odd pitch for a first test of a series, have the ground staff been overly conservative prepping for back-to-back matches?
Obviously can all change in a few overs, but this looks like a batting paradise.
*Not to downplay what's been a terrific partnership
Obviously can all change in a few overs, but this looks like a batting paradise.
*Not to downplay what's been a terrific partnership
It's always played like this in last 10+ years - garbage wicket
England have batted well though.
Hopefully it turns starting day 3/4/5.
Starting to swing a bit now...
This is actually a nightmare of a wicket to bat on just Sibbers and Root have tamed it.
You wait until we have Leach and Bess bowling in tandem with Pope chirping at short leg.
Kohli will not have faced that level of intensity before.
You wait until we have Leach and Bess bowling in tandem with Pope chirping at short leg.
Kohli will not have faced that level of intensity before.
This series is just going to be the two teams' fans trying to be more pessimistic than the other
This has been a fantastic day for England
What were the commentators saying between overs then, when they thought they were off-air?
Well let me be the first to say that India will score 700 and win by an innings then.
I've missed him for sure!
'First cramp of the match' and the commentators start laughing and the person says not a laughing matter. 
Bugger.
Tbf it was a good ball, he just wasn't quite up to it. He didn't throw his wicket away.
Tbf it was a good ball, he just wasn't quite up to it. He didn't throw his wicket away.
Shame for Sibley, he'd batted really well and to get out right at the end of the day.
Sibley deserved to ton up
Unlucky Sibley, unfortunate not to get a century, done so well.
The way Root starts slowly and once he gets the measure of the pitch his scoring rate just accelerates. He was never this good before, was he? It's only in the last couple of years he has really 'matured' as a top class batsman. He was always good, but never quite this good. Maybe it took him a while to truly get comfortable as the Captain?
Ah such s shame for Sibley .
Good day for England though, Root in majestic form
Good day for England though, Root in majestic form
right - happy he's gone
Commentators were talking about how under Silverwood he's had less responsibilities than under the previous coaching setup. More time to focus on his game, may well be something in this.
Not an England supporter then?
The period with Moores as a coach he was absurd. I can't remember an England batsman making run scoring in this country look as stupidly easy as he did then.
In microcosm, I think Root's form either side of Bayliss sums up how fecking terrible he was. Turns out you bat well in test matches by batting well in test matches not by trying to rattle along at 5 an over.