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Lords, 2nd test: Shami & Bumrah defy England with 9th wicket stand of 89

Headingley, 3rd test: Shami & Bumrah both out 1st ball.

Discuss.

Let's hope England take this form into tomorrow and bat India out of the game. Refreshing after the Hundred shite.

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3 hours ago, BanburyRed said:

Lords, 2nd test: Shami & Bumrah defy England with 9th wicket stand of 89, whilst COVE carries drinks.

Headingley, 3rd test: Shami & Bumrah both out 1st ball, whilst COVE bowls.

Discuss.

Let's hope England take this form into tomorrow and bat India out of the game. Refreshing after the Hundred shite.

 

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A section from an interesting article by Jonathan Liew in today's Guardian:

Craig Overton takes the new ball for Somerset. Here, he had to wait until the 20th over, by which point Anderson, Ollie Robinson, Sam Curran and Moeen Ali had all had a go before him and the ball was beginning to stop swinging. He was in the side as a replacement for Mark Wood, who at his quickest can hit 94mph, and was selected ahead of Saqib Mahmood, who swings the ball both ways with skiddy, electric pace.

Overton doesn’t really do that. In a way, he has a pretty unenviable job. Asked to perform a similar role that Wood does with the old ball, but 10mph slower. (His first delivery was a gentle 76mph loosener.) Asked to nip it off a good length in the same way that Robinson does, but only after everyone else has taken the shine off the ball first. And really, he’s only in the side because England have six fast bowlers injured, and will invariably have to make way for one of them soon.

In the circumstances, Overton could have been forgiven for charging in at full tilt and trying to force matters. Instead, he stuck to the plan: consistent lengths, dot balls, maiden overs, a challenge with every delivery. He stuck to the plan even when nothing much was happening, when even the edges were dropping short of the slips, when Rishabh Pant danced down the pitch to him first ball after lunch and tried to smear him into the next riding. And on a sparkling day for England, it was Overton who was ultimately rewarded with three wickets and his best Test figures.

 

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4 hours ago, Lanterne Rouge said:

Fabulous innings from Root and it took the best ball of the day to get him in the end.

He's a unique talent and England's best ever batsman. I was looking at the figures earlier and if he goes on as long as Cook did then he could be second behind only the Little Master in terms of most Test runs scored. 

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