peasy23 Posted July 4, 2022 Share Posted July 4, 2022 CS website says tickets may be available on the day, but offers nothing further than that. On the test, 119 runs required with 7 wickets in hand, I make England firm favourites from here. I can't see them not getting there, even if Bairstow or Root go quickly tomorrow then you would expect Stokes and Billings to be able to get them over the line. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
parsforlife Posted July 4, 2022 Share Posted July 4, 2022 11 minutes ago, dorlomin said: Watching England transform from a team that you felt could implode chasing 220 into a team that looks at 380 and smirks has been out of this world. Its just increased in resilience, more than enough talent, there's no new upstart really coming in and blowing everything apart. The players are just trusting themselves more. The root bairstow stand after those quick wickets just wouldn't of happened, 109/3 would have been 160/6 and all out for 200. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PB1994 Posted July 4, 2022 Share Posted July 4, 2022 43 minutes ago, die hard doonhamer said: CS website says tickets may be available on the day, but offers nothing further than that. The one place I didn’t look. Thanks. I can’t imagine they will be close to selling out so hopefully they will be available. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arthur Orton Posted July 4, 2022 Share Posted July 4, 2022 Well @Bully Wee Villa did you enjoy your day at cricket. This is superb to watch, what a turnaround. Long may it continue. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bully Wee Villa Posted July 4, 2022 Share Posted July 4, 2022 Yeah great day out. This England team is fearless. Great to see, regardless of whether they finish the job... though fingers crossed that they do. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peasy23 Posted July 5, 2022 Share Posted July 5, 2022 This will be finished before lunch. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Left Back Posted July 5, 2022 Share Posted July 5, 2022 15 minutes ago, peasy23 said: This will be finished before lunch. As long as they have it wrapped up before Cam Norrie goes on court that'll do. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peasy23 Posted July 5, 2022 Share Posted July 5, 2022 200 partnership for Root and Bairstow, Root moves on to 99. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peasy23 Posted July 5, 2022 Share Posted July 5, 2022 Ton up for Root, Bairstow seems to have been stuck on 92 for ages. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peasy23 Posted July 5, 2022 Share Posted July 5, 2022 Bairstow finally stays on strike long enough to get his ton, his 4th in his last 5 innings.21 more runs needed. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peasy23 Posted July 5, 2022 Share Posted July 5, 2022 This will be finished before lunch.Barely made it to 12 noon never mind lunch. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fuctifano Posted July 5, 2022 Share Posted July 5, 2022 Virat LOL-i 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PB1994 Posted July 5, 2022 Share Posted July 5, 2022 9 minutes ago, peasy23 said: Bairstow finally stays on strike long enough to get his ton, his 4th in his last 5 innings. 21 more runs needed. Did he not finish 70 odd not out in the one innings he didn’t get a ton as well? Ridiculous form and they made that chase look stupidly easy. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaggyness Posted July 5, 2022 Share Posted July 5, 2022 Bairstow finally stays on strike long enough to get his ton, his 4th in his last 5 innings.21 more runs needed.He's averaging 102.3 in tests this summer [emoji23] 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Left Back Posted July 5, 2022 Share Posted July 5, 2022 16 minutes ago, peasy23 said: Whichever way you try and slice the test match stats Root > Kohli. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
die hard doonhamer Posted July 5, 2022 Share Posted July 5, 2022 Ridiculous cricket. It’s only 4 games, but they are genuinely reinventing the game. They could have chased 550 there today. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pandarilla Posted July 5, 2022 Share Posted July 5, 2022 Whichever way you try and slice the test match stats Root > Kohli.A few years back the media were pushing the narrative that root was up there with kohli and Smith in terms of best in the world. I'm certain folk on here were very critical of that take but in the last two years root has taken his game to a whole new level. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boo Khaki Posted July 5, 2022 Share Posted July 5, 2022 (edited) 4 hours ago, die hard doonhamer said: Ridiculous cricket. It’s only 4 games, but they are genuinely reinventing the game. They could have chased 550 there today. I'm reserving judgement until I've seen how they play against a top attack on a dodgy wicket. I'm not sure this isn't just an overdose of the 'blat it out of the ground in all and any conditions' moron-fest the Test team has been over the past 5 or so years, only it's come off for them because Bairstow is in the form of his life. If they can do this sort of thing regularly on decent tracks and recognise when to rein it in and grind out runs on pudding wickets instead of going out all guns blazing, playing stupid shot after stupid shot, and getting rolled for 120, then I'll take my hat off to them. The problem they've had recently isn't that they haven't been able to chase down scores of 300+ in the 4th inning, it's far too much of the ridiculous brain-dead cricket in run-of-the-mill situations caused by playing far too much white ball and not nearly enough red ball in testing conditions, resulting in far too many sub-par scores and batting collapses. IF they've fixed that and they can still play like this when the going is good, then that's great. Edited July 5, 2022 by Boo Khaki 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Savage Henry Posted July 5, 2022 Share Posted July 5, 2022 5 hours ago, Boo Khaki said: I'm reserving judgement until I've seen how they play against a top attack on a dodgy wicket. I'm not sure this isn't just an overdose of the 'blat it out of the ground in all and any conditions' moron-fest the Test team has been over the past 5 or so years, only it's come off for them because Bairstow is in the form of his life. If they can do this sort of thing regularly on decent tracks and recognise when to rein it in and grind out runs on pudding wickets instead of going out all guns blazing, playing stupid shot after stupid shot, and getting rolled for 120, then I'll take my hat off to them. The problem they've had recently isn't that they haven't been able to chase down scores of 300+ in the 4th inning, it's far too much of the ridiculous brain-dead cricket in run-of-the-mill situations caused by playing far too much white ball and not nearly enough red ball in testing conditions, resulting in far too many sub-par scores and batting collapses. IF they've fixed that and they can still play like this when the going is good, then that's great. Right. It isn’t a case of either/or. Good teams can change gears. 5 hours ago, pandarilla said: A few years back the media were pushing the narrative that root was up there with kohli and Smith in terms of best in the world. I'm certain folk on here were very critical of that take but in the last two years root has taken his game to a whole new level. I think Joe Root will go down as England’s greatest ever test batsman. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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