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England in India 2021
- Thread starter TheGame
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English batting is built around bully ball & hitting everything straight or to mid-wicket . This being a reasonably sized ground plus the pitch being so two paced has kind of made it very very hard
Can't remember when was the last time chahal bowled well. Rcb quota helping him big time.
Sam Curran should bowl well on here.
They're playing too many wicketkeepers or purely specialist batsmen. Rahul has to go if Pant is now India's number 1 keeper
The fielding...
The amount of sloppy runs from India
That drop 
Rahul is India's best fielder after Jadeja though isn't he. Looking at tonight, you can see why that would be important!
Great over by Hardik.
This is awful from r England
An inform bhuvi is a brilliant t20 bowler. I am glad he is back.
Not an awful score but I think slightly under par maybe, but definitely something here for the bowlers
Good comeback by India. England will probably be happy with that score though.
T Curran for Wood actually looks a good change, even though it was enforced.
T Curran for Wood actually looks a good change, even though it was enforced.
England should have got 180+. Irrespective of the pitch it's not good enough to get 34 off the last 5. Like I said after the first game though it is so hard to bat first
Yeah it was poor by England in the end and my concern about having both Stokes and Malan in the side comes out there as they both tend to play similar roles in T20s and having both creates two unnecessary anchors. I don't think Stokes is suited to bat at number 6 in T20s. England 15 runs too short.
As weird as this may sound, but I doubt think England need Butler opening. He's one of the best lower order batsman in the world, and j think England are congesting their top order choices by putting him as an opener when there are other very good players who can play there
Yeah it's a pretty obvious swap
I think Curran and Jordan between them have knocked about 15 years off my life.
Hmm if this series is just going to go the way of "bat second, win" then it does not bode well for the world cup! Can they not just have the matches earlier in the day to avoid the dew. It's a bit of a non-event otherwise.
It's not just the dew though , it's just very hard to set up targets while so much easier to bat when you know what you need
Fecking hell he even fluked a 6 off a free hit
Thought Stokes was an odd choice.
Agree about the Stokes-Malan duplication. Could easily bat Stokes at 3/4 and allow him to build an innings. He needs time to get in.
This is fecking atrocious.
These 2 should open for India. Rahuls a waste of time.
Iyer 3, Pant 4, Hardik 5
Iyer 3, Pant 4, Hardik 5
You need to be flexible with the batting lineup.
Iyer can't go hard from ball 1.
Kishan/Samson + Kohli is the way to go for India in T20's though as the opening pair.
Don't think that there is much between these teams overall , going to come down to minor stuff & the toss . England should have got 180+ here and thus built more scoreboard pressure. I don't think that the pitches in the WC will be like this ground .
I'm not going to get to obsessed with this 'win the toss and you win' theory quite yet.
Teams will adapt.
Teams will adapt.
Review that mate!
Brilliant knock.
Could still take some getting if England bowl as well as India did at the end of their innings. Can't help but think it's easier for batting now though.
Yeah it's obviously not as straight forward as that but the margins for error are much smaller when batting first . Whoever bats first in game 3 will know that they need a really good score and that puts extra pressure. England needed to get 180+ here and then take the catches to have a chance
There is talk of the dew factor being an influence making it easier to bat second. Not sure how big of an influence it is, clearly Ishan Kishan has been absolute class so far.
Over to the football for me i think.
Pant is in some form
Not sure why Jordan is playing instead of Ali I have to say.
As bad as I can remember from England with the ball. Lines and length all over the place and a complete refusal to copy what brought India success.
Out or should be
I think that was out tbh not that it’ll matter even if it was given