Re: God help me - the Test Cricket thread
Reply #1338 –
Day of surprises in world test cricket and good for the game.....England beat India at home after the home side led by 100 plus runs after the first innings, India have never lost in India after leading by 100 plus . The English bazballed the second innings to lead by around 200 and then debutant spinner Tom Hartley did a Shamar Joseph and took 7 for 62 and won them the game, this is after Hartley got hit for six off his first ball in the first innings and had the worst economy rate of a debutant bowler ever.
Australia were disappointing and while Smith played well and carried his bat and Green got a 40 I still dont like the batting order changes and think we need specialist openers and Smith back at No4 and only one of Marsh or Green in the team.
That would be the sensible thing to do EB but our selectors are rarely wrong. They’ll say that Smith and Green made runs and it wasn’t the team composition that cost us the game. No change!
The Windies will be inspired by a win that no-one saw coming. They could be a more difficult opposition in the last Test.
An amazing result in India. Hartley was stiff not to get man of the match over Pope. Both were outstanding … but can they back up?