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England v India 2025 Test Match Series June 20-August 4

Who wins the series?

  • England

    Votes: 4 66.7%
  • Draw

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • India

    Votes: 2 33.3%

  • Total voters
    6
  • Poll closed .

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2 wickets, “only” 114 runs.
Only 6 to go.
India still ahead.

Woakes will undoubtedly bat if there is even a sniff of victory. If any one of a Root, Brook, Smith, Atkinson, or even Overton is at the crease and they need 50 or less I’d be near certain he would bat and the other guy would just try and tee off.
 

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This is getting boring, this is the problem with The Oval pitch, it gets better to bat on as the match goes on, it should get worse.

For 3 days it was doing plenty. If you want it hard at the start and getting worse, what sort of pitch do you think someone can produce? It’s halfway through day four.

They haven’t won it yet but there’s a strong chance that they will. At some point, if this gets added to a growing list of really big fourth innings chases that they’ve pulled off, people will stop looking to write them off and maybe go ‘you know what, this is happening too often to just ALWAYS be the pitch, maybe they’re actually good at it.’
 
For 3 days it was doing plenty. If you want it hard at the start and getting worse, what sort of pitch do you think someone can produce? It’s halfway through day four.

They haven’t won it yet but there’s a strong chance that they will. At some point, if this gets added to a growing list of really big fourth innings chases that they’ve pulled off, people will stop looking to write them off and maybe go ‘you know what, this is happening too often to just ALWAYS be the pitch, maybe they’re actually good at it.’

Trust you to be contrary but anyone that's followed test cricket knows that The Oval pitch gets better to bat on as time goes on.

It's not a good venue for test cricket, it's a better venue for ODI cricket but it's Surrey's home ground and they have the money.
 

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Trust you to be contrary but anyone that's followed test cricket knows that The Oval pitch gets better to bat on as time goes on.

It's not a good venue for test cricket, it's a better venue for ODI cricket but it's Surrey's home ground and they have the money.

It’s not being contrarian to understand that it’s virtually impossible to get a pitch to behave the way YOU want it to at every tick of the clock.

Why does every test pitch have to be the same? What makes a ‘good’ venue for test cricket - because by what you’re saying, all pitches should behave the same way at the same rate, yeah?
 

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You’d assume the instructions would just be to let Root guide things home.
Yep a Root 100 would put the finishing touches on a superb win. To win two matches chasing 350+ runs in the 4th innings in a series is extraordinary. Dare say it'd be the first time it's ever been done. Regardless of what happens, this is right up there with the most tightly contested 5 test series i can remember.
 

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