Cricket thread

[nickyboy]

Nice start on a typical day one track. Feel a bit sorry for Lawrence having to go in at three without much experience.
Stokes makes such a difference to the batting line up letting us field seven specialist batsmen. 187-2 so hoping with that batting line up England can get 400+ and then see how India goes as the pitch deteriorates

 

[Grant Fondo]

Rooooot!

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

Sublime form for Root!

 

[Tenacious Sloth]

He makes scoring runs look so easy that you don’t realise how big a total he’s accumulating.

He seemed to go from 50-90 by just blocking and stroking the odd single.

It’s kind of magical to watch.

 

[Dayvo]

Root’s 100 in his 100th Test.
Also a hundred in his 98th (double ton) and 99th Test - the first batsman in Test cricket to achieve that!

 

[Dayvo]

Sibley falls lbw in the last over of the day for 87.
A good innings of patience and application - sets it up nicely for the middle order to build on tomorrow.

 

[Grant Fondo]

Sibley falls lbw in the last over of the day for 87.
A good innings of patience and application - sets it up nicely for the middle order to build on tomorrow.

Good wasn't he? Seems to have put the shakyness in Sri Lanka behind him Done by a good ball near the end as well.

 

[Tenacious Sloth]

Sibley falls lbw in the last over of the day for 87.
A good innings of patience and application - sets it up nicely for the middle order to build on tomorrow.

Geoff Boycott must have got through a whole box of tissues watching Sibley’s innings today.

Even though his type of player doesn’t score very quickly it’s still really important that we have a couple of that type of player at the top of the order. You could see that his defiance was really starting to affect the Indian players mentally and let’s face it, the mental side of the game is critical in top level sport.

 

[Grant Fondo]

Hope Burns doesn't dwell on his 'moment of madness' too much, that will play right into India's hands.

 

[Tenacious Sloth]

It doesn’t get much better than watching Root and Stokes in action together.

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

It's all a bit tight this morning, with the exception of a 6 from Stokes which came out of nowhere.

 

[Tenacious Sloth]

It's all a bit tight this morning, with the exception of a 6 from Stokes which came out of nowhere.

I’m hoping the commentators where correct when they implied the batsmen were ‘settling in’ for a long innings.

Indians just used up two reviews. Nice.

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

I’m hoping the commentators where correct when they implied the batsmen were ‘settling in’ for a long innings.

Indians just used up two reviews. Nice.

Stokes is having to deal with some rough here. He looks unsettled.

 

[Beebo]

Root is in the form of his life.
We won’t see batting like this very often from an English player in the sub continent.
A180 and two double hundreds in 3 tests!

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

Root is in the form of his life.
We won’t see batting like this very often from an English player in the sub continent.
A180 and two double hundreds in 3 tests!

Yes, that's 600 runs already this year. Phenomenal. And haven't 2 of his dismissals this year been run outs?