• England v India

Posted: **Fri Jun 20, 2025 10:32 am**

England win toss and put them in, a surprise.

Not convinced about our bowling attack but let's see how we go at the home of cricket.

Posted: **Fri Jun 20, 2025 10:40 am**

Read something earlier in the week which said the stats show England win more at Headingley batting second.

Hopefully this is the correct decision rather than one of those where it is blindingly following the stats

Posted: **Fri Jun 20, 2025 10:44 am**

India captain said he'd have bowled first had he won the toss

Posted: **Fri Jun 20, 2025 10:56 am**

Guess it's not the usual overcast day then?

Posted: **Fri Jun 20, 2025 11:19 am**

Darnhill Claret wrote: ↑
Fri Jun 20, 2025 10:56 am
Guess it's not the usual overcast day then?

There's a bit of lateral movement but I can't help feeling it may be a long day in the field for England..

Posted: **Fri Jun 20, 2025 11:29 am**

I think the advice to bowl first came from the groundsman. A bit of moisture still in the square apparently, which they expect to dry out.

Let's hope India don't have any decent last day spinners.

Posted: **Fri Jun 20, 2025 11:38 am**

Bowlers starting to get movement after the first 20 mins or so. England need a couple of wickets at least this session though to justify putting India in. Fingers crossed.

Posted: **Fri Jun 20, 2025 11:40 am**

Bumrah may be the key to this series, if there's life in the wicket i wouldn't want to face him!

Posted: **Fri Jun 20, 2025 11:59 am**

Just got in so switched on to watch. Why the hell are we bowling first after winning the toss. Our batting line-up is as strong as it's been in years and in my opinion our bowling attack is not great without Anderson and Broad.

Posted: **Fri Jun 20, 2025 12:53 pm**

England bowling attack looks very average.

Posted: **Fri Jun 20, 2025 12:55 pm**

Just got much needed wicket

Posted: **Fri Jun 20, 2025 12:55 pm**

And they take a wicket

Posted: **Fri Jun 20, 2025 12:58 pm**

Another gone

Posted: **Fri Jun 20, 2025 12:59 pm**

Now lunch 92-2

Posted: **Fri Jun 20, 2025 2:36 pm**

India going well since lunch. Jaiswal and Gill starting to look fairly set now. Boundaries incoming.

Posted: **Fri Jun 20, 2025 2:42 pm**

Could do with a Jimmy Anderson type bowler…

Posted: **Fri Jun 20, 2025 2:59 pm**

Watching the Aussies last week I started to think they were poor enough for us to won the ashes.

Watching our bowling attack has brought me back to my senses.

Posted: **Fri Jun 20, 2025 3:05 pm**

Quickenthetempo wrote: ↑
Fri Jun 20, 2025 2:59 pm
Watching the Aussies last week I started to think they were poor enough for us to won the ashes.

Watching our bowling attack has brought me back to my senses.

It’s a concern. We probably need Atkinson, Wood and Archer fit (rotate the latter two). None of the 3 are playing today.

Posted: **Fri Jun 20, 2025 3:07 pm**

RVclaret wrote: ↑
Fri Jun 20, 2025 3:05 pm
It’s a concern. We probably need Atkinson, Wood and Archer fit (rotate the latter two). None of the 3 are playing today.

Atkinson should be fit for the second test, I read.

Posted: **Sat Jun 21, 2025 11:26 am**

RVclaret wrote: ↑
Fri Jun 20, 2025 3:05 pm
It’s a concern. We probably need Atkinson, Wood and Archer fit (rotate the latter two). None of the 3 are playing today.

So true.
I've watched most of the match so far and irrespective of whether we bowled 1st or 2nd this must be one of the weakest and predictable bowling attacks we've ever fielded.
However, had we batted first and batted well, bowling is much easier when you've already got a score of 500+ on the board.

Posted: **Sat Jun 21, 2025 11:34 am**

bodge wrote: ↑
Fri Jun 20, 2025 10:32 am
England win toss and put them in, a surprise.

Not convinced about our bowling attack but let's see how we go at the home of cricket.

Posted: **Sat Jun 21, 2025 12:04 pm**

Where's Kohli?

Posted: **Sat Jun 21, 2025 12:16 pm**

ecc wrote: ↑
Sat Jun 21, 2025 12:04 pm
Where's Kohli?

Retired from Test cricket.

Posted: **Sat Jun 21, 2025 12:19 pm**

If this lad Bashir is really the best spin bowling option we've got then the future's pretty bleak in that department.

Posted: **Sat Jun 21, 2025 12:24 pm**

sjb wrote: ↑
Sat Jun 21, 2025 12:19 pm
If this lad Bashir is really the best spin bowling option we've got then the future's pretty bleak in that department.

I'll get me coat

Posted: **Sat Jun 21, 2025 12:55 pm**

sjb wrote: ↑
Sat Jun 21, 2025 12:16 pm
Retired from Test cricket.

Hi sjb,

Cheers. Great batsman but apparently not the most modest of individuals.

Posted: **Sat Jun 21, 2025 1:30 pm**

That’s the first time in test cricket history that the top six have scored three centuries and two ducks in an innings (TMS).

Posted: **Sat Jun 21, 2025 1:56 pm**

ecc wrote: ↑
Sat Jun 21, 2025 12:55 pm
Hi sjb,

Cheers. Great batsman but apparently not the most modest of individuals.

Was great in his prime but his test form had been in decline for a while.

Posted: **Sat Jun 21, 2025 1:57 pm**

Good fightback from England. 600+ looked on the cards an hour or so ago.

Posted: **Sat Jun 21, 2025 1:58 pm**

ecc wrote: ↑
Sat Jun 21, 2025 12:55 pm
Hi sjb,

Cheers. Great batsman but apparently not the most modest of individuals.

Apparently not. An ex England player I spoke to a couple of years described him as being 'almost as big a c*nt as Kevin Pietersen'.

Posted: **Sat Jun 21, 2025 2:08 pm**

Good recovery given the context of India being 430-3 at one point.

Bumrah in these conditions though could be wild.

Posted: **Sat Jun 21, 2025 2:14 pm**

England go out to bat and then straight off for rain

Posted: **Sat Jun 21, 2025 2:25 pm**

Can 430-3 to 471 a/o be classed as a collapse?

Posted: **Sat Jun 21, 2025 2:56 pm**

Underway

Posted: **Sat Jun 21, 2025 3:00 pm**

Crawley gone. No surprise there

Posted: **Sat Jun 21, 2025 3:01 pm**

Bumrah straight at it

Posted: **Sat Jun 21, 2025 3:04 pm**

Here we go!

Posted: **Sat Jun 21, 2025 3:31 pm**

Duckett dropped - 39/1

Posted: **Sat Jun 21, 2025 7:34 pm**

Finished 209-3 Pope 100 not out. Root out to Bumrah who then had Brook caught off a no ball. Need Pope to go big and a score from Brook and Stokes to get back in it.

Posted: **Sat Jun 21, 2025 8:17 pm**

Awful shot by Root and by Brook who got super lucky

Posted: **Sat Jun 21, 2025 8:20 pm**

MrTopTier wrote: ↑
Sat Jun 21, 2025 7:34 pm
Finished 209-3 Pope 100 not out. Root out to Bumrah who then had Brook caught off a no ball. Need Pope to go big and a score from Brook and Stokes to get back in it.

And we could do with Bumrah having a day off too - fantastic bowler

Posted: **Sat Jun 21, 2025 8:43 pm**

ClaretTony wrote: ↑
Sat Jun 21, 2025 8:20 pm
And we could do with Bumrah having a day off too - fantastic bowler

Agreed.

Posted: **Sat Jun 21, 2025 9:02 pm**

Brook a very lucky boy, caught off a no ball in the last over, irresponsible youth!

Posted: **Sat Jun 21, 2025 9:09 pm**

CleggHall wrote: ↑
Sat Jun 21, 2025 9:02 pm
Brook a very lucky boy, caught off a no ball in the last over, irresponsible youth!

We have a team who ae excellent at falling for their own hype. That shot by Brook, at that stage of the game, was horrible. He is a very lucky lad but Bumrah will sort him tomorrow

Posted: **Sun Jun 22, 2025 8:25 am**

Big day ahead.

I have a feeling the Brook wicket will the critical one.

If he goes big I think we have a great chance.

Posted: **Sun Jun 22, 2025 11:10 am**

Really poor wicket to give away

Posted: **Sun Jun 22, 2025 1:20 pm**

A proper test match so far. Key session coming up. If England are still batting at the end of it they are right back in it. If not then probably an uphill struggle to get a draw out of it.

Posted: **Sun Jun 22, 2025 1:57 pm**

Just as we approach the new ball, Smith gets caught out on the boundary edge. 349/6.

Posted: **Sun Jun 22, 2025 2:07 pm**

The situation required Smith and Brook to be there when the new ball was taken, not clattering it to be caught on the edge.

Posted: **Sun Jun 22, 2025 2:42 pm**

Brook gone for 99. We are 398/7.

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