England tour of India (4 Tests, 5 T20Is, 3 ODIs)

[Nuggetz]

Both sides batsmen should hang their heads in shame. Extremely poor application shown vs spin bowling.

 

[Browney2006]

Clipping umpires call at worst

 

[Nuggetz]

Yessss but looked down leg live

 

[TubbsFarquhar]

Both sides batsmen should hang their heads in shame. Extremely poor application shown vs spin bowling.

The batting has definitely been poor but a pitch shouldn't favour spin to this extent.

 

[Santana]

Need some hotspot for this

 

[Santana]

 

[swanssince2002]

Yeah Hotspot wouldve worked well for this....

 

[Nuggetz]

Yesssss

 

[ams4crows]

If that was Root would it have been not out?

 

[Belnakor]

Some of the batting has been poor but a pitch shouldn't be favouring spinners to this extent, when a part time spinner like Root is taking 5/8 and a match is finishing inside 2 days it should be ringing alarm bells.

reminds me of a very similar pitch where a part timer took 6/9. Garbage lottery pitch that time too.

 

[Santana]

This test match is making that 2004 Mumbai test look like a batting paradise

 

[danielnajdek]

That has somehow yielded 3 wickets from balls turning more than you’d see on 90 per cent of pitches.

Has one player aside from leach actually used his feet?

How the f*** can you blame a pitch for blokes who can’t sweep, trying to sweep balls off middle stump? Sibley waiting a whole five overs to try and inexplicably launch a ball into orbit that was about two feet short of landing where he needed it to in order to play the shot?

Mate it's a s**t pitch.

One ball spins a mile then the next ball is pitched in basically the same spot and it goes straight. Sorry but that's a s**t pitch in my book.

 

[Westend]

serious that hit the bat first before pad......disgraceful decision

cheating indians

 

[estibador]

This is a terrible spectacle of test cricket. An absolutely atrocious pitch mixed with some rank batting.

I don't mind games like this occasionally. I wouldn't want it to be the norm obviously, but they're pretty entertaining outliers when they pop up every now and then.

 

[Belnakor]

Fwiw the way foakes has batted this test has been ridiculous. Nudging the ball around and waiting for a ball to do something funny to get him out. Ffs show some ******* intent.

 

[swanssince2002]

We dont necessarily want roads but super bunsens like this doesn't make it a great spectacle either. More Smith being a class above anyone else (ala Ashes 2019, some of India 2017) on not an easy wicket please...

 

[Westend]

Mate it's a sh*t pitch.

One ball spins a mile then the next ball is pitched in basically the same spot and it goes straight. Sorry but that's a sh*t pitch in my book.

and the issue is it will not be given a bad rating by the ICC because they are corrupt and run by India

 

[ABAB]

Everyone is playing for spin, and all he is doing is bowling like SoK.

 

[TubbsFarquhar]

I don't mind games like this occasionally. I wouldn't want it to be the norm obviously, but they're pretty entertaining outliers when they pop up every now and then.

It's definitely better than a road, but you at least want to give the batsman more of a chance of doing something. Aside from Sharma and Crawley, it's been a shambles.

 

[Scorpus]

Jack Leach looks like a bloke that goes home, opens up Microsoft Excel on his 6-year-old laptop and does all the accounting for his friends and family for free, just for fun

 

[PhatBoy]

Mate it's a sh*t pitch.

One ball spins a mile then the next ball is pitched in basically the same spot and it goes straight. Sorry but that's a sh*t pitch in my book.

Doesn’t excuse the sheer inability of anyone to construct a plan to play it. Leach of all people aside, I haven’t seen a single player use their feet, I haven’t seen a single player actually try and take the Rangana Herath approach and play for no turn, I haven’t seen a single player try to use the crease laterally. It has reeked of panic and if a team who has completely talked themselves into half of their dismissals. It has been ok bowling but not remarkable.

 

[Stig O'Hara]

Gotta love a good Pom collapse.

Heartwarming.

 

[Santana]

England total collapse

You hate to see it, you really do.

 

[Browney2006]

I don't mind games like this occasionally. I wouldn't want it to be the norm obviously, but they're pretty entertaining outliers when they pop up every now and then.

This is going to be a once in 100 years scenario, this isn’t popping up every now and then.

 

[Fabab]

Leach gone hahahaha.