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The barricades Patrol the cover boundary at last the time is come this is a cricketing emergency here this Call to Arms for every Cricket Revolution take up your bats STS for the test match Insurgency at first they tried to silence us but we would not be silence threatened us with lies so we
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Then we ran away and we will not be caught we would not give up the ghost when they left us all the dead they decapitated us but we just grew another head chairman M Jamie How no surrender Fender Joseph sty Douglas Darl welcome to gorilla Cricket 21 to India with two to go will India’s momentum win them the series in Ranchi can England fight back it was a right old battering for England in rajot the young Jazz whale played all the right in exactly the right order for India and
There were just too many bum notes from England against bumra and the Indian attack York’s finest rout and be though look under pressure and out of sort can they battle their way back into some form in Ranchi uh Ben Stokes thinks the pitch here looks interesting very interesting to appropriate the words of
The great Barry Davis and we and we know England have bought in Robinson and Sh bashier for wood and Ryan armed so the vital toss news is what we want to know and I can tell you that England have won the toss and it will probably come as no surprise
That they have elected to bat uh Akash deep comes in to an otherwise unchanged Indian uh lineup and we also already know that the changes for England are uh bashier and uh Robinson are in I’m Tony bishop and with me are the venerable messy venerable venerable Eternal bead
Was what I learned about as a child uh um indeed hello it’s another old we just just venerable and respected with great great wisdom age age and wisdom coming together uh and the voice of course the bear well yes and if You’ have listened to our wonderful podcast yesterday you
Said the only chance we got a winning is if we won a toss and we’ve won want to TOS well indeed now then chaps I’m not a fool I went to school I’ve been from Liverpool to Istanbul Istanbul but I’ve never seen anything like it in my life
That wasn’t Rex Harrison as Dr dittle when he saw the push me pull you it could have been Ben Stokes when he looks at the Wicket messes what do you reckon about the the the the cracks on one side apparent on both sides on one end don’t
Don’t get too excited there were cracks in the last week to it’s so it it’s the preest hype is always there somebody’s looking for something it is different looking but it’ll be a slow Turner I reckon that’s what we’ll have a slowish pitch yeah and uh it’ll
Be hard work for batters and hard work for Bowers too so well it’s going to be very interesting to see how basball deals with it yeah well yeah I mean what he did say was it was really dry and it was going to break up quick and um and
That’s why winning the toss for me was so important and if it does do that it could be a Minefield in no time at all I quite like we haven’t had one yet I quite like one of those pitches they are quite fun I would remind you both that at the
Start of every test match we’ve said are you just wait a few days till it start breaking up none of the pitches have broken up yet two previous test great Cricket wickets in my they have been I well again if You’ have listened to a wonderful podcast yesterday you’d have
You’d have had my solution to that why I mean I genuinely I was on it and I can’t remember what it was well I genuinely do think that is the case I think they thought actually uh whilst we could prepare puns and burners and I think nindo may have
Mentioned it earlier in the series or someone certainly mentioned it it’s a it’s a levelo yeah I mean they play as badly on a really Wicket as we do uh but they’ve got much better Spinners so actually they went you know what if we prepare wickets that break up in a in
A timely fashion I.E days four and five and you know get a win the totle we B better we’ve got better Bowlers and their Bowlers well they haven’t given us they haven’t given them as much control as they’d like because we basball but uh they’re certainly a lot better than ours
And we haven’t been out to if we in the last two tests when we bowl first The Spinners have not been able to exert any control really in the first Innings and it’s a big problem in India well yeah that comes down to a little bit of in
Experience and and why as you rightly said you know it doesn’t necessar working into his faor failure fa favor to create a a leveler um Anderson Jimmy Anderson they’re playing him again they’re not resting in for damala what are our thoughts on that mes well I’m surprised to be honest
Because I thought he was looking like he was flagging in the second Innings of the last test and uh obviously he’s not going to play in the final test but I would have thought it would make sense to give him a break before the final test I suppose that just throwing all
That they have uh he is I still think he’s England’s best bowler by a country mile to be honest um but yeah he he’s flagging a bit I I suspect but you know may maybe he’s uh uh avoided the golf uh I had a sleep for three days and uh
Feeling really fit to go well let’s we’ll wait and see well I mean I don’t know I mean a uh he can play he play one test at a break and two in a row they’ve done that many a time and then they got another
They got 10 days before the last test so um you know he can recover in that time if they want to play him in the last test as well I’m sure he’d be eager to play I mean how many tests how many wickets does he need now to get to
7004 uh very good question I think is only that yes and he’s got two tests to do it in well the teams are out at the jsca interational stadium complex which is not the most exciting name two previous tests here as we’ve said it’s going to be Sage is going to open the
Bowling and uh before we start we have to say a warm welcome to the world to little AK uh Coy of course we do I do wonder if there was a camera trained on verat during the delivery more than likely well now he’s had a baby shouldn’t he be
Back in the site anyway that’s enough of that uh here we go paternity leave there way Le get your food there one man who could save us now who is my right if you’re a proper Sportsman you watch your baby born in the morning and then you’re out in the field in the
Afternoon uh there turned into Jeff Bo I’m rather pleased that there’s a recognition that there are things that are actually more important than Cricket B there I said it s he’s going to be in he’s over the Wicket it’s down leg through it goes to Jerel who kept
Tidily enough I think in the first uh in the in his first test uh batsman and there’s no run Crawley was a cricket player a damn good Cricket player but he was moved from the middle order to open the batting now trapped in the English professional Cricket circuit s crawling must To sjin again past the outside edge a little bit of Swing not much Crawley had a little forward prod and once again it smacks into jerel’s uh gloves nice ball uh wasn’t a bad B delivery at all there two ends here and imaginatively named the north and south end oh yes well but
Also there’s the mson Pavilion but do they face E and West there’s the MS because it’s the birthplace of mson isn’t it is Ranchi yes donville we’re in donville messes yes says note for the crew the southern end is the Pavilion or mson again the Northern end isn’t officially
The MS perfect oh that’s gone popped up in the air it was short and uh and really forced Crawley back and he kind of came off a combination of the bat and chest I think had there been a man at uh forward short it would have been easy
Beat I think it was off his glove glove that would have been a ballooned catch to short leg it would uh it’s a very sharp aggressive start I think he was expecting that from the ever immaculate quu Sage gets a round of applause from captain roit we’re going to wait for the next
Delivery Crawley batting well out of his crease three slips are in place that one kept low past the outside edge left alone and there is no run who are our rires today I presume it’s uh I mean look at that that looks awful man well I think this was a couple of
Days out that we’re looking at the film Well yeah if that’s a look at it n man the geography teacher gram Swan who now looks we think looks like a geography teacher we we’ve seen him uh not quite doing the Tony Greg key trick oh that
Looks nice D and Tucker of the ire Dharma and Tucker that well-known fmac list no blind uh he’s TV TV umpire wide of the off stump slightly fumbled by Jerel left studiously by Crawley uh I think it’s we have to say um the ranchy crowd
Has yet to wake up and uh decide to get themselves to the stadium rather sadly CU Ginger Goblin on the side of the screen what I can see is um unless they’ve come dressed as empty chairs so hopefully the ground will fill up maybe they all waited for the toss and thought
Oh we’ll wait until India bat yeah 9:30 in the last of over left alone wide of the off stump again much more bounce this time a thoughtful studious Crawley in the first over nothing overly aggressive there it’s a maiden uh none without loss for England and we can get our first social
Messages bongs with us it says greeting all and I hope everyone’s well win the toss and bat minimum score 300 and adjust after the first hour David Barrett’s with us just chilling by the pool in Thailand he send us a lovely Selfie by the pool cocktail in hand
Without in care in the world when I realized it’s that time again I must tune into gorilla cricket and I must go go harder go harder by the pool I think we need to go harder jingle Dave especially done by you oh that yeah well there you
Go kex Martin says yippe the perfect destination for Cricket lovers with side interest in Gees and the hornman museum Jos o says morning five down by lunch at my word uh well if we are we’re F well we’re going to see the 27y old right armor making his uh first test appearance
Akash deep he’s a man from Bengal I think isn’t he if I’m right he was you keep talking whilst I find him because uh I didn’t put him in a there Mark lambor has retweeted a link to our YouTube commentary thank you Mark there we go he’s going to be
Bowling around the Wicket to the left-handed Ducket who defends him into the onside and there is no run well he’s got an RCB jingle so this could be uh I cash deep but no one believe me that’s all right that’s all right just says his name and I can’t I can’t
Think of the name of the song that that came from actually but it was definitely influenced by something I’m sure it was MOG it was MOG of course no runs yet for England seven balls of this fourth test two slips and a gully round the Wicket
Slightly squares duck it up uh he shakes his arm afterwards but I don’t think I think that called him on the bat not the glove it’s back towards Akash deep who starts his test career with two dot balls which he’ll be happy enough with I suspect and already you have a slight
Feeling now it’s way too early for me to say bear but I’m going to say anyway yes I mean too early in so many ways but it just seems to be a quite a cautious start I don’t think I think they you know whatever they say publicly they’ll have had a
Good old think look at themselves you look at it from here down that you can see from distance on the right hand side of the Wicket as you look at it from this end it’s got tracks down it that are visible from the wide angle it’s mad will they be the tracks of
England’s tears we will find out as the two slips go down around the Wicket that’s whipped away oh my word jell I thought he’d thrown it up for a c he has got a catch oh my word yes no what a great catch if that’s a catch
It’s a strangle down leg not they’re high fiving him for actually stopping it oh they’re high-fiving him for stopping it well they shouldn’t do that because it completely fooled me first of all I thought he can’t have touched let’s face it Tony that doesn’t take much
Well what the ultimate igny will be when they show a replay of him not taking the catch and I still think it’s a catch but we that Happ there we go deep defended oh it’s England’s first run push towards point the Jazz whale doesn’t quite get his Fielding right on that occasion
Actually I think it’s shman Gill and uh they are off and running but I think yes the high fives were because jel brought out his best Gordon Banks meets uh I don’t know who oh my God and shman Gill ran all the way from bloody cover to give him a high five off
They’re pumped they’re pumped there’s nothing wrong with that it’s a massive game this massive game it is a massive game England win it the series is wide open and we go to a decider at uh the most English of the grounds that they’re going to play at daram Salah
Remember over the Wicket driven driven beautifully by Crawley but he doesn’t quite get all of it it doesn’t get past uh shman Gill who’s an extra cover but it gets him off the mark and both uh England’s openers have now uh registered something for the scorers to worry about other than
Dots if you can hear the bear sort of half grown half per are you thinking oh I’d love to bowl on that yeah look at that that’s that’s that’s going to that’s just going to crumble away it does it looks like a pair of old ladies stockings it’s just it’s just going to
Explode on this thing I’m hoping I want it to well I’ve never seen anything like it in my life that beats the outside edge good good and Jerel he’s a shocker jel I’ll tell you because again there he’s up like he’s taking a catch not going to fool me this time jel nearly
Did you don’t get me twice nobody gets the bishop twice really two without loss at the end of Akash deeps first over very decent one indeed and we can go back to the venerable bard of Perth uh lots of people joining on us on YouTube uh sadly Willow Moon tells us
That she’s not able to do the cake she had to go in hospital with her back oh God your back yeah we can talk back recovering baking is off the agenda for a little while so sorry that’s not a problem we’re just very sorry about uh that problem because it’s a burger it
Lots of well wishes to you Mr C kakar says first time here looks like I’m really going to enjoy it I really hope so SJ is in Crawley plays this with soft hands out to WS backward point no run you can finish there mes uh English by the grace of God says
CO’s been in England with his wife for the birth he was pictured the other day and perco says was it a slow delivery or a quick one for the cies well it does sound like it was a particularly arduous birth if that’s why he was off all this
Time yeah we don’t quite know the the other news which we we really do should impart to you um is slightly concerning is that um Ryan armed has returned home for personal reasons uh we did hear mention of that it was sad news so we know nothing more just that that has
Happened that one’s defended by Crawley out towards midon he will take a sharp single England move on to three without loss oh yes per per has actually asked if there are any gorillas missing for personal reason uh there are one or two actually uh this series well no we’ve
Seen we’ve seen a bit of hendo Haven we we’ve seen yeah wello is the obvious isn’t he he’s been in he’s some people leave trails of breadcrumbs hendo leaves Trails of pairs of glasses yeah he was in for one one and a half sessions and he managed to leave two pairs he comes
In makes a spectacle of himself and then off he goes three I’m I must say I’m in solidarity willo me my you’re getting older just backs don’t h and mine’s still Agony now I’ve had it as well Willow moon it’s uh months of physiotherapy I can tell you as this is
Carved out towards deep extra or Deep Cover and they’ll take another single move on to four going nicely keeping uh each other company to a piece are these two a technical demand for Dave Barrett mock says if Dave doesn’t go hard hard jingle I demand he includes guitars
Tuned at least to drop a flat I presume that’s a flat sign is this what M uses in his uh his particular genre of musical performance I do listen I have actually I’ll just wait for saraj who’s in driven driven straight to Mid off and there’s
No run I do listen to every Mo album M sends I I quick F through them no I do I mean they good you know one of the things you can is it a it’s quite entertaining but B it doesn’t take up a lot of your day no so so you don’t you
Don’t necessarily have to uh like carve aside an hour for appreciation you know boom there it is gone I think the last link he sent through 52 songs on none of them are over a minute long Sage over the Wicket worked off his hip out towards midwicket no
Run so still cautious we yet to see a boundary from England one mistimed attempted drive-thru cover uh that wasn’t quite got right by the right-handed Crawley left and right combination I was wrong the symbol was an a sharp perco corrects me ah uh do you read music
Messes no yes or no did you see no no I used to I used to quite a lot but I could never i t i s talk guitar but never learned how to read music I have to do transcribing music when you but by listening to it is what you have to do
In like music O Level geez uh four without loss England uh The amitash chowy Pavilion is towering High behind Crawley and it isn’t heavily populated at this stage that one’s a little bit inside edgy but it’s back of square and we’ll get a single to the man named after uh Urban
Development near Gatwick and they will move on to five so perco a little little mean says Tony demonstrating the difference between venerable and decrepit I don’t know why I’m laughing yeah Willow men says at least I’ve got gorilla Cricket to help distract from the pain and insomnia oh you poor thing
Uh uh Moog says sounds like I need to work a 16 hour grind oper Tony oh can you imagine Willow Moon says we can St stories all day I initially injured my back nursing many years ago nursing many years ago but it’s deteriorated significantly and my Mobility is not I
Remember cuz I used to I was married to a nurse in fact awful lot of time on your feet oh I say that one really rush through from aash deep and Crawley was an ugly shot he took one hand off the bat it seemed just to keep that little
Bit lower than than he thought it might uh and it’s been quite an impressive start certainly been an aggressive start from aash yeah it got up and inside inside edged onto the gentlemanly acuts that was uh what caused the uh oh I’m not quite to the to the his right of his
Accoutrements upper upper thigh head edging towards groin area aash de nicely defended by Crawley very impressive was Akash deep in the three match Red Bull Series against the Lions he was the Wicket take uh leading Wicket taker for Indy Ray 11 wickets at uh 18.7 bear that’s pretty good oh I
Mean you you knew that of course but of course I did not but yeah he was in um very tidy order they were all at armad bad weren’t they but they were all I think on the um not the main pitch the sort of the the the the development pitch piture arm
Medad Akash deep hair flowing backwards oh my word that’s a harrow cut or a what Vatican slice or whatever we call it these days3 it’s the crawle bypass I was on that I was on that the other well this morning actually was it this morning
Yeah it was this morning on my way back from Brighton I impressively once got door to door at the end of a shoot in 50 minutes from just outside Brighton to my house and whoa my reason for being in Brighton being as forthy well I will tell you if
You listen to our latest bishop and be what to dig bear out of the G no my real I’ll tell you in a minute uh as Akash deep comes around the Wicket those two slips go down Ducket just angles the bat guides it to deep Point Sage fields and
They’ll take a single they’ll move on to seven no my other half um failed an eye test she needs he needs new um very focal glasses and she couldn’t get them in time so she was going to drive and I said oh well all right I’ll drive you makes it easier
Than you going by train and it’s pissing the rain all that stuff but the quid pro quo is we’ll get a hotel and we’ll go out for a nice meal after you’ve done your conference thing hence I spent the hence a night in Brighton I’m prepared
To bet that you took longer than the Bears 53 minutes to get there uh not by much he’s bowled him he’s absolutely cleaned up Crawley that is a fantastic delivery it niit back in craw is off stump I think is still cartwheeling and Akash deep has his first test Wicket in
The most spectacular of fashion uh but just hold on a very short second because Crawley has stopped dead in his tracks it’s a no ball it’s a no ball Rod Tucker has clung out his arm I’m sorry oh dear uh and it was it was it was one of
It not much we’re not talking uh Amir Muhammad Amir levels of boy you silly little boy poor oldak well I say poor aash deep you got to feel for him a little bit he genuinely thought he had his man there it was it was one of those dismissals you’d remember for the rest
Of your life I mean I’m sure as a test in a test debut if you got England’s opener you’d always remember it for the rest of your life however you got him but you’d certainly remember bowling him with off stump careering backwards in comes Akash deep again what’s he got he
Hurries Crawley who gets tucked up but he’s able to push it out to Back Square and does take a single and I think he’d be quite happy to get away from a very fired up aesd he’s having a conversation with um R Ashwin I think at the moment
No doubt he was but he was definitely uh over that line yeah well that went well I don’t know they did there was a big old gap between Baton yeah it it went long way but it went it yeah an appreciable way enough wasn’t it wasn’t quite it wasn’t quite the length
Of the a23 but it was yeah a decent amount bear you are right Nine without loss round the Wicket defended by the left-handed Ducket back to Akash deep who doesn’t have his first test Wicket even though we thought he did uh he’s over has gone for four one of them was
The no ball that cost him his uh Maiden Wicket England after four are nine without loss and breathing I suspect a very large sigh of relief messes I think it’s World element Day on YouTube um mayank says hello all I’m unable to be on for long I’ve have to
Get a CT scan in the morning we’ll have to drink this filthy barium drink to us prior to 8 a.m. not to whatsoever yeah good luck um MOG says my back is perued due to a slightly Twisted spine I was born with not bad enough to be fixable
With such but fraking Annoying Dary says H Willow immune says few near Miss there that’s true and uh my says that’s enough to Akash deep for Akash deep to be dropped immediately he’s an absolute a bit harsh I would say CU a little harsh he was just straining that
Little bit I mean it wasn’t a over step uh it was beautiful delivery it was half a line it was half a line but half a line is enough of a line depend many ways depends how big the line is exactly anyway probably swiftly on that stoke’s image is absolutely is
Amazingly Elizabethan first is piten and this was driven this could be England’s first boundary yes it is it’s beautifully on driven by Crawley who celebrates his uh reprieve with a gorgeous on drive for four runs great Drive really we should play Ben Ducket jingle
We haven’t had it yet have we we not had the duck there No he arrive with a smile and he’s going places three slips are in place SJ is in over the Wicket Crawley defends back is it just me or does Crawley just look a little bit not as fluid as often he does he seems to be tucked up hurried jabbing
Here and there well I I I kind of get the impression they don’t trust the pitch just went away they’re batting but they they’re unsure they’re very unsure of their shots they might be believing well believing their own hype that’s what you that’s what you wonder
Or whether it is that’s the thing you can only tell when both they’ve got it fixed in their mind if the if the captain says I’ve never seen anything like it in my life and he’s not talking about a push me pul you he’s talking about the pitch well they’ve all looked
At it themselves as well it’s not like he’s the only person who’s allow out to well that is true they’ve dispensed with one slip for Crawley and he’s driven this and he’s driven this between uh midwicket and midon but it’s just uh didn’t really get all of it and he’ll
Just take a single uh not for the first time I suspect he’s not entirely unhappy to be away from the strike for a bit just to collect his thoughts it’s been quite an eventful first few balls for him this morning uh having survived well what looked uh he looked
Like he was gone he was halfway back to the Pavilion before umpire Rod Tucker flung out his arms and denied Akash deep well good that one of those SL D moments in this test could it be we’ll keep our eyes open for gwith palro appearing here in
Ranchi 14 without loss defended by the Ducker out towards mid off should Guild jogs in from cover but he won’t be needed there is no run there has been plenty of seam movement England will be quite happy bit of variable bounce bit of seam movement little bit but of movement in
The air there’s some it’s quite um overcast I think is uh no or hazy hazy I think description the court well that’s true yeah that is true uh s should be the last ball of this over defended stoutly by Ducket who does have a little look down at the pitch
Having executed a solid defense uh it’s 14 without loss we can go back to your messages messes uh Dylan Lopez is with us he says in in the car halfway between Melbourne and cber in Australia love this series as the neutral and like many other Australians it’s still tricky
Figuring out who to support my mate even told me to cheer for a two all draw from here uh and Jonathan Shen says good evening gorillas please accept my apologies for not listening to GC tonight I’m on my way to watch the black caps versus Australia T20 that’s going
To be paid at that at Eden Park isn’t it where the boundaries are about 3 m I saw yesterday’s goodness me or was it day before I’ve lost my my thread of time this one is deep is in and defended into the onside uh one off the last ball by
Australia oh that was amazing it was a phenomenal New Zealand had whopped up about 24 200 200 something I certainly got well past 200 uh and I can’t remember who who saw them over was it Mitch Marsh Mitch made a great 70 but Tim David made 30 off 10
Or something like that which cemented His World Cup place it was exciting stuff I don’t think you’ll see stepen Smith in the World Cup final team even if he’s in the squad uh 14 without loss England Akash deep he’s all fired up wants that first test Wicket that’s a
Booming Crawley Drive uh to in correct in every detail except for not actually connecting with the ball at all and he’s past his outside edge and into jerel’s gloves at least he didn’t get an edge well he’s very we have a super chat oh hooray Willow moon is very kind
499 says treat treat yourself to cakes uh heat packs and weed Vapes certainly take the edge off yeah can’t get those here unfortunately do you know what I was actually quite looking forward to I don’t I don’t want to make Willow Moon feel guilty because obviously there’s
Nothing to be guilty about poor thing with a bad back as this one is defended by Crawley but I was actually thinking o lemon drizzle cake I do like lemon it’s clear to see how to in incentivize Tony isn’t it well is hendo more the one for
Cakes I’m more of a biscuit man but but but lemon DZ I thought my wife and cake oh Jesus my wife I should remind people that the GPL is currently at 146 get in there go to our website gorilla cricket.com you’ll find competitions you just register it’s a
English pound for every estimate you want to make as this one’s past the outside edge of Crawley taken by Jerel no run yep it’s a pound to go you guess how many runs will be scored in the day uh if you get it on the nose you win the
Entire pot unless someone else gets it as well in which case you share the entire pot which was messes remind me 146 at the moment 146 English that went again off the scene that did go off the seem was that there was one side it’s supposed to
Be worse where you know a right hand has problem one and and a left hand has problem the other yeah basically uh we’re waiting for Akash deep he’s got three slips back now and it’s defended by Crawley yes you can yes you can and the are watch what you can
See is too far outside the stumps to actually uh be able to be pitched on at this stage so well that’s the thing if it breaks up maybe it won’t be I mean it’s could cause problems for a right hand of for dja over the Wicket or a
Left hand if he’s bowling uh over the Wicket to the Lefty into that it that did it was it’s almost an off cutter wasn’t it it just niit back in didn’t it and just I think it hit the edge of a crack an edge of a crack yeah well hits
Ear with a crack goes oh and uh Crawley steps back says to Akash sorry mate not ready something’s going on he’s managed to pick the it’s not the busiest ground at the moment in terms of Spectators but obviously someone somewhere was causing a disturbance that put off Crawley he’s
Commendably got his head back in the game having I think himself been convinced that he’d uh he was he was off reprieved by the Akash deep no ball driven up isly uh and edged really because it’s wide of the third of those slips there’s no Third Man and it gets
Him four runs England move on to 18 crawly on to 14 that’s what are to get fun on the Flor oh yeah oh yeah oh yeah what do we know about Ranchi not look that’s good thanks for that bear geography with the bear not this morning he’s not in a geography
Mood it’s it’s lovely weather there it’s about 20° at the moment maximum 26 today not high humidity perfect Cricket weather there you go that’s all you need to know well it’s sort of to the Northeast in uh Jackal land Northeast oxy moronica says thank goodness gracious me England won the
Tossing toss Stokes must have made the necessary blood sa he did that one all waited for by Ducket who sort of crouches angles the bat steers it out to Akash who’s having bow that over he’s going to have to field out at Deep Cover
Yep it’s to the it’s up the sort of the Northeast Coast Bangladesh uh up towards Bangladesh yeah Bay of Bengal to the east Kolkata just to the southeast it’s kind of where it is it’s the capital of Jackal land the Tropic of Cancer actually passes right through Ranchi
23.4 de North that’s quite equatorial there you go nice weather more interesting facts about Ranchi will come your way depending on what happens between each delivery oh you’ve put the guilt trip on Willow Moon she says oh no Tony I’m so sorry oh no I said you have nothing to
Apologize for you know these things do happen as this one is pushed into the other side there is no run and if we really want lemon jel cake virtually every supermarket sells one don’t worry about it that’s not the point made with love and appreciation by one of our
Listeners now you’re putting pressure tastes completely different yeah what it may well do some someone want to per just say just Antonio replay of an old cake You’ be over that would do it that would do it I’ll have forgotten within a second that I’ve eaten it and went oh I fancy
Another slice of key in com Sage oh that’s driven has it beaten both it’s beaten bowler and the man at Mid off and will go all the way uh roit was ended up on his knees the ball ended up smacking a sponge four runs it’s would you change it
It just goes too quickly bear half an hour just doesn’t last long enough Gary looming into viiew I was early this morning to bit Gary up he wasn’t standing there was nowhere to park on the street this morning the par right at the end no I know we thought about you
As we walk the road men’s got a question for you bear she says why can’t you get heat packs and weed Vapes bear are many in Lancashire and internet shopping is a thing or did you mean it’s not allowed in the studio not allowed in the studio
What’s not allow I think we’re allowed almost anything in the studio I I actually f income Sage there’s a on Hayden in which I think is shman Gill but that’s nicely whipped away through midwicket by Crawley that was a classy shot lots of wrist and it’s four more
For England it was half body his pday four yeah it was a half bu but nonetheless you got to put him away be got to put him away got to put him away son well he’s had a chance and he’s seen they need 30 balls now well as you
Rightly said is are we talking who was who was it in who was the I can when I hear sliding doors I can always think of Gwyneth paltro but I can never remember who the male lead was Gary will tell me no Fus Gary doesn’t know if Gary doesn’t
Know then it’s not to be known I reckon speaking of GTH uh down oh it’s off his hips again that’s a shot and that is a beautiful shot through Square leg by Crawley who is really deciding do you know what I’ve got my life I am going to
Use it three consecutive boundaries for him three uh something else I was going to ask you bear it’s quite important oh the gentleman who sends us those extraordinary poems I emailed you one because he he asked if we’d be be play it during tea today do you think you can
Dig that out uh you email it to I didn’t see that where you it to it’s a story of my life with every email I ever send you but there we go oh down the track comes Crawley launched High handsome and all the way and uh up go darina’s arms
England move on to 37 it’s the first Maximum and uh it’s brilliantly struck by the reprieved Crawley who is playing now like a man who uh wants to enjoy life a second chance 32 and a run of ball duck it’s only on four extraordinary uh we’re going to change
Uh I bet I’ll go I’ll move into your chair bear you’re doing socials so I’ll just bring us up to dat uh perco says GTH could cure all the gorilla Wes with her Goo uh Willow Moon says uh John Hannah was male lead John Hannah thank you got it
And Ranchi says MOG email problems I know what that’s like when Tony is involved H okay I shall catch you in a half an hour thank you messers Gary is um not entirely um seamlessly sliding himself into the the accompanying chair well it is aash deep who’s in
Round the Wicket to the left-handed Ducket who gives him the full face of the bat and there is no run um what’s your Takeaway on the first half hour’s play uh well first of all say good morning to Dave oh yes hello Dave morning morning hello folks uh it’s been
Um fascinating and well we talked about sliding doors moments hence the Gwyneth palro suddenly appearing in the conversation and um I think it could Define but certainly defining how Crawley is going about his Innings England have been really careful really watchful they’ve been worried about the pitch
They here is a little bit here and there deep it’s a replay of the first delivery of the over defended by Ducket Dave what’s your uh take what’s my take my take is Tony is very excited after I last over oh I think so his spirits have
Been picked up cly picked up um W fascinating stuff Crawley’s like a video game character I think the coder realized there was something not quite right all the balls were hitting his pads and then they fixed the code and now all of a sudden right well of course
My uh my inquiry is nothing more than a long setup to a bad pun which I shall come to in a moment as uh deeps in and this is takes the out Outer portion of the back but it goes along the ground it’s well fielded Gully there is no run
Cuz my main takeaway is aash and carry because um the might be a key moment in the match when uh Akash hit the off stomp of Crawley and had that extraordinary carry that went sort of you know most of the way back to the wick keeper like it was kind of Michael
Holding in 1974 or 76 I should say I think you might have gone a bit too deep there oh very good um but you don’t give you don’t give Um Zack Crawley a reprieve because he yeah the codee’s fixed and he’s hitting boundaries but he’s got watching brief at the moment as
Ducket gets one on his pads and he can’t get it past shortish midwicket he’s a bit hemmed in here as Ducket he doesn’t like not feeling Bat on Ball he doesn’t like not scoring run just four and 15 from Duck bit of a reprieve Dave isn’t
It a bit of a reversal of the previous test where I think it was Ducket who took went to town and Crawley took a while to get going and then didn’t really get going at all it’s one opposite way around for this one it star to look like a great kind of acting
Partnership they kind of always know how to play a scene uh where one of them just goes absolutely mad and then the other one can kind of play softly against well here’s aash and this is pushed hard at by Ducket he does play that kind of push Drive quite often to
Length balls and he gets it past the man at Short cover and they’re through for two the fielder who I think is um sirj hit the stumps with the return but uh Crawley was easily back for the two runs um he played that late Ducket and
Therefore he got it square of Shang Gill I think he was Extra cover yeah just being made to hurry a little bit there as Crawley but he had his Bat grounded and so no problem 39 now without loss second time a stump’s been fired out the ground this morning
Yeah it’s um I tell you what the stumps wouldn’t stay in the ground for long would they with the southern Earth of England at the moment moment is some flooding expected in parts of England because it’s uh it’s been unusually wet the last few weeks as uh this ball was
Defended Again by Ducket to sh mangale who is at Extra cover it’s the end of the over there are eight gone England having won the toss and batted are 39 without loss Zack Crawley has 32 at a run of ball and B Ducket has six uh Fong says half hour gone the luck
Appears to be favoring The Three Lions Ranchi is not that far from from Kolkata and Bangladesh titanium Rickshaw would be advised not far from the stadium there is a dam would that have any effect on the ball in relation to horizontal movement I think you’re being gently nudged there
Gary uh yes yes thank you very much your theory of the oval and its uh seam movement brought about by the the Mist rolling over the temps or whatever it was you uh I remember you saying yes uh let me see I need to try and well
Have a look on YouTube in a minute hell a key moment in match is about to take place because we’re about to see exactly how the Wicket will play uh against a one of the two masters that uh India have at their disposal this one R who’s that’s been on the field who’s that d and he’s in and the first ball pulls Zack Crawley forward goes into pretty easy get out of jail shot there wasn’t he he just uh pushed it uh for one yeah they already got the man of the
Boundary um I’m assuming maybe on the cover they have the man out for du perhaps I mean would wouldn’t you you know as a spin bowler especially coming in you want to bowl six balls at the one batter don’t you Dave I mean yeah bit of an easy get out shot
There yeah maybe it’s telling us a bit of something about the pitch yeah well Rohit is a negative Captain we know that he didn’t have a short leg in where as uh comes forward the Ducket and again he gets a easiest of singles out to a man
3/4s of the way back at Mid off uh so England rotating the strike against Juda straight away I mean I would have had a short leg in there um straight away just and just be tell telling them oh I’m in here for the E cracks you know mate oh
Look at these cracks here’s J AJ this is defended no run Crawley has already popped one up I think off Sage uh even before he was then clean bowled by aash off the no ball um so yeah I’m with you a short leg might well have been a prudent move comes down ATT
Trct do uh Crawley and he gets this into the leg side but again there’s a man who’s rabi chandron Ashwin who is uh very deep in the leg side it’s an easy single and don’t really Happ to work very hard here to rotate the stri to
Jer here’s a question though if it was Ashwin coming on as deer you’d think that Ashen would be a bit more forceful in getting that field that he wants whether that’s politicking or he goes down for the sweep do uh duck it there’s a huge a huge shame Warnes appeal from
Juda um he went down for the sweeper hit him on the chest uh it looks to be a lot wrong with this to me it looks too high and wide but there’s a long discussion here and roic goes for the review well uh Dave I’ll come to you first yay or
Nay big nay I don’t think there’s a lot going on with this one I agree with you Tony well yeah we said that before though uh hence the uh Lively debate this week fueled by Ben Stokes and Brendan McCullum and indeed Co KY a couple of years ago remember questioning
DRS but to me that looked outside the line did to me well we’re seeing it now I mean the ball pitches it does turn a bit and it hits stuck it in the rib cage he’s all the way down cuz he does get very low to sweep it’s the first sweepy
Essay and he’s missed the first one second view I think he could be in a spot of bother here no I think it’s hit him umpire’s call Best on he’s not the tallest he was trying to sweep it came from outside off and moved back in dramatically I don’t think there’s any
Inside Edge there isn’t no and because he’s sweeping he’s so low down that Ball’s on its way down I don’t think I don’t I don’t think height is an issue now I did on first view I think he might be in the I think this is umpire’s call
At very best on uh line it is umpire’s call on impact and umpire’s call on hitting so Dave and I beat you 2-1 on that one there you did hell Tony I’ll take it another reprieve not quite as dramatic as the first perhaps but nonetheless a reprieve it’s a it’s a
Useful review though cuz it’s put it in Ducket mind now about sweeping cuz that’s his main scoring option and um India do not lose a review on the double umpires call I’ve got half a feeling that they should really if you get two umpires calls you retain your review
Seems generous to me but um there we are well it’s a good it’s good all round for everyone then Ducket survives India don’t lose a review winner yes so there’s a leg slip which I always like to see and a slip but nobody in front of the batsman in the ey line
Nearest man is a short midwicket to duckus who plays that slap drive that he alternates with the uh square cut it was full and he kind of comes across the ball doesn’t he Dave as he plays that gives it a whip good long kind of whip
Is this uh yeah if it was um if it was Owen Morgan would’ be saying he’s learned that playing hurling or but it wasn’t it was Ben Ducket and it was one of these it it me time give it to me three time give it to me four
Time yeah I’m delighted to play that jingle cuz last night I was at a scar musical in at the theater Royal statford um with lots of Scar but there’s plenty of Blues a little bit of calypso it was it was very pleasing very pleasing 46 without loss England your
Tweets are coming in at gorilla Cricket one R2 L’s uh they are was that the end of the over uh my I’m in the middle of a cricket 22 game where I had rout opening the batting he’s faced 35 balls and 32 overs as Crawley gets one on the legs
And he’s not missing them anymore he gets it to deep backward Square where I think it’s C deep does the Fielding there in fact sure it was C deep left arm return uh another one to Crawley 35 of 36 uh mayank said I’m doing everything in my power to keep him away
From the strike all Innings messes had said so if there’s two umpires calls when the batter is given out should he lose his Wicket twice Gary uh well you know there’s nothing logical about the game of cricket U one of its Delights is that it’s full of esoteric highways and
Byways in fact that one of my favorite Yes albums by the way e teric highways and byways I was about to say that’s the sort of Ring of sort of progressive 1970s indulgent hipos would it be who did the album covers yeah I Roger Dean rer Dean was the artist for all of
Amongst others I was a little young for local fairly local to me is Roger Dean he’s in s he’s got his studio in s still very active as a as an artist Dave I think you’re younger than both of us I would hope so cuz if you’re
Not you’ve got a portrait in the Attic I’m sure yeah I’m I’m unfamiliar slightly unfamiliar with the artists you’re that doesn’t mean anything to be honest you’re not missing much if truth be told if you missed out on prog rock but I always think of Rick Wan when to come in
Here because all of these are like all keyboards that Rick Wan had in front of him as uh round the Wicket comes uh Akash and he’s got him that’s a superb delivery it pulled Ben Ducket forward uh he had to play it it it was on about a
Fifth stump fourth stump line he always plays it anyway and he edged it through to the keeper uh that is an excellent piece of bowling from a very impressive debutant who is this man no regulation Edge Dave yeah uh a lovely bit of movement there um uh yeah would might have been
Celebrating as much as uh cash did there considering his first his first Wicket uh his no ball but I guess you got to celebrate this I mean that’s the perfect ball to Ben Ducket you know he’s not going to leave it you know he’s going to be playing
Outside his ey line you’ve got just a little bit of nibble off a pitch which has offered nibble for um all 45 minutes or so nibble so far and um England uh have the hero of Hyderabad coming out to bat so I’ll give you his jingle we got a poke
We got a PO take a good hard look it’s all it’s po it’s Po got a very characteristic walk off Ducket isn’t he when he tilts his helmet back but not half you know and he sort of half off his head whether he’s made 100 or he’s made next to nothing it’s
It’s pretty much the same every time yeah I mean one of the the admirable sort of side traits if you like of of um baz ball there’s a certain flagma approach uh when when you’re in you’re in when you’re out it happens you get on look at the next
Ball is that is that a fair reading Dave I think so um definitely a man who uh lives basball as Ducket does well it’s Olli Pope who predates basb as does uh Ducket but the second coming of Ducket does and uh he pushes forward to the first
Ball gets a little bit of a Inside Edge and uh it’s fielded in uh midwicket one of these strange things I never really understand is that um new batsman’s come to the Wicket and there’s no difference in the field at all I mean wouldn’t you
Want to attack him a little bit get into his head say oh we’ve noticed a problem with you and that’s why we’re bringing in a silly point or on Hayden or whatever does it surprise you Dave how passive yeah a little bit of something even if
The field was almost the same but you just made it look like you put a lot of thought into it uh we’ve done as it comes down the tractor Olli Pope there’s a huge appeal again and every appeal is going to be huge he was walking towards
Zash there and um he was taken on the pad uh there now appears to be overthrows so um it is four leg by it must have been an attempt to to throw the the down the stumps cuz he was a long way forward but we’re getting a
Revieww it’s a review from roit so it’s it’s all happening out there so we’re saying that’s off the bat uh well it was signaled as uh as leg bu yeah so um of course all things are in play when it comes to a review so it could be and it could not
Be well what was it given for given for lbw well the appeal must be for lbw because it’s not caught I mean it looks way way too high to me I don’t think there’s an Inside Edge yeah I mean for the naked eye there isn’t I mean looking
At where it’s hit him how far down the track he is it hit him above the knee roll I’ve only got this one comment which is you cannot be serious Mix Master DJ Gary Gary is uh in Imp in the mix took me took me almost an over I think to find
That well we’re seeing the review now it’s impact is in line uh oh unbelievable he’s gone he’s gone it’s hitting the very top Corner as they would say in baseball of the strike zone well if Ben Stokes was a little concerned about the DRS system in previous test matches I find that
Extraordinary no that looked pretty close to me I uh I I wasn’t I didn’t share your confidence at all two and three balls for a I want to see it side on cuz he was a long long way down the track and it hit him quite high up but
Good shout from um from roit well you know um when it comes to me I’m afraid you silly little boy what an F were you paying at Ollie Pope’s gone after two deliveries and it’s a funny old game Saint add two wickets to it score uh yeah
Um that’s uh England theyve got had one reprieve Dave haven’t they and then suddenly bang bang and that all seem to happen so quickly in the mix I was going to say least yeah I I thought there wasn’t going to be like going for that review but uh
Wellem wrong I just find it amazing he was that far down the track and um and it hit him you know on the knee roll or above the knee roll but anyway uh a man under pressure his voice is high pitch ginger head like a p but massive has hit so
There’s that introduce yourself introduce yourself introduce yourself actually and uh if he gets out first ball uh reverse scooping I’m going to throw my mic down and walk back to toing you could do that we might hold you to that only don’t damage the mic and enjoy the
Walk all of a sudden you possible all of a sudden you’ve got me slightly worried about it well Akash deep on debut two for 13 in 4.4 overs and he could well have had if he had a short leg in or if his own leg had been a little bit
Shorter and not overstepped he could well have better figures even than that well he’s in and Joe root uh is taking on the pad there’s a huge appeal again they think it was pad first they do think it was pad first now I think Jus
If I might have got his Pad outside the off stump but you know India very excited why wouldn’t he be ashwin’s directing traffic it’s like Heath thr on a day when the radar isn’t working here all the arms are going there sem for and he does go here we go well could be
Three in and over it could be three in and over is Joe root out first ball well that was out that was out that was definitely out was that definitely out I don’t know so Dave what’s your view on this my view is that I feel like deep is
Kind of buzzing and he’s kind of got this Stewart broad quality where like it it’s almost like everything is out but he’s proven me wrong thus far ooh surely this is umpire’s call on impact I mean I don’t I think it has hit the pad first cuz the bat is slightly
Behind the pad from what I can see and it’s it’s that is the case it’s hit the pad first it’s not been squeezed onto but you can see I mean it’s a stump outside off stump on impact isn’t it and it only even think it might
Not even be umpire’s call it could be hitting outside here so the adrenaline and the excitement may have got to aash and yes the impact is outside the adrenaline did get to aash and roit but that’s part of the game you know why not it just two in the Wicket two in the
Over could have been three India lose the review but on the other hand England lose two wickets 47 for two and it’s still a ball left in this over this just taken most of my uh 30 minutes on Ball by ball just doing this over yeah Gary
When I was doing it England were firing runs all over the place am I consecutive fours the Shel doour you are Shelly nayor unsettling start for Joe root though Dave right arm over is Akash and this is pushed much more confidently by Joe rout to the man at Mid off all the
Fielders were in a little bit closer so a superb over which has got wow right in the middle of it on the graphic that we see one wow o oh and that was pretty much what that over was wow for maash and oh oh for England because two
Wickets are down uh yes right for wrong duck it gone England doomed uh could be a favorable pitch for him to roll his arm over uh but maybe will it ever happen this series The Light roller says joining you good folks in stealth mode still chuckling at Akash and Carrie from
Gary David Stump blimy you sound like Sean H that’s got to be you Dave uh and not just the accent well you could do worse I was I like sha Hugh the collapse is on says Jersey Oak well of course he does here’s J down uh as Crawley comes
Forward just pushes it into the leg side and think just one slip for Jer you’ve taken two wickets albeit not at jer’s end you’ve got to attack haven’t you Dave yeah you got to have something in there I think Jer in again Crawley comes down the track and he can do that
Because there’s no short leg so if he plays for the inside of his Bat he’s okay and he just takes the easiest possible single to the man giving it to him at Mid off Crawley has 36 from 38 it seems like half an hour ago we had 32
From 32 um and that shows how he struggled a little to get the strike but you can’t really get the strike if the BLS at the other end are walking backwards and forwards to the Pavilion can you no no no no no no there’s a lot of conversation on YouTube I can tell
You the end of this no no no no no no no no well a little bit of intent here it’s the first time we see the Manning close on the offside on the isine of Joe Roo and this is uh just defended there is no run you like that
Dave I do yeah I do I do I cuz the thing is that like so they they burn that review but then deep has them buzzing but then if they have the fielders back then you kind of lose that momentum that they’ve suddenly built up yeah it’s uh
It’s a game where seizing the moment is so critical the rout rocks back onto the back foot punches it to Mid on and he’s off the dreaded uh egg he’s taken a single perp that DM yeah it’s um I mean there are many elements of War’s genius but one of them was his
Ability to see when a match was turning as jadea is in and uh just takes the outer portion of Crawley’s bat and again there’s a very easy single conceded Square on the offside England have 50 up they are 542 they just moved out man a didn’t
They yeah well they did they have him in for rout but not for yeah for yeah he’s a real committee man isn’t he roit when it comes to making a decision about whether to review or not yeah look at the minutes from the previous review see what happen well ashwin’s the big of
Advice with verat not playing ashwin’s the big personality in this side and I think he does tend to let ashwin’s body language do a lot of talking as next ball is defended no run uh right uh was that the end of the over yes 50 for two
Okay uh English by the grace of God Ducket looked to be struggling anyway yes he did I smell the two-day test says mayank Rad shonak toting get some Punjabi breakfast oh uh Steve kellet all over by tea time uh kefir starting to lose faith in J rout can we have just
One game of the old Route M says this is a proper pitch for Ducket to Bow his spin he must be licking his lips and Willow Moon says can’t see England lasting out the day well yes I may not be that straightforward I agree will I
Moon Joe root has changed his Bat having faced five balls now whether he’s gone for a bat with a kind of lower middle to it because he realizes that the bounce is going to out to the Wicket or not I don’t know but um somewhat unusual to
Change a bat after five deliveries po craw has been sort of watching all this going on didn’t he he took a single uh and then it all kicked off and he’s been stood at the other end thinking what’s going on an Englander have got to 50 at
Least yeah somebody needs to be let in Gaza oh God I don’t know how to do it you know how to do all right I’ll do it at the end of this over then don’t worry uh so Zack CR is on strike for the last over of this particular group of
Guerillas and he heaves that well there you are son you may have got two wickets on your in your debut spell but you bow length on off stump I’m going to lift you over midwick it for one of These and it’s a a no ball as well and you can forgive the well he’s not that young is he I think he’s 27 28 aash um little bit too much of adrenaline so he oversteps the mark and Crawley just uh played that short arm jab over midwicket
Uh this one is a better ball and cwy gets a bit of an inside Edge but um everything’s going for runs off the Crawley bat at the moment goes down to long leg and they’re through for a single Crowley now has 42 I mean that looks just extraordinary that that ball
Is hit in the corner there I mean it’s hit him what’s that that’s that’s 8 ft um down the track and it’s hit him above the knee roll um I find that incredible but we we have to trust the technology uh um that’s that’s the process that’s
The process yeah and uh I’m certainly not going to call for an end of DRS but every now and again you get one usually it’s it’s one that’s hit quite low down but every now and again you get one you just think that does not look right and
That did not look right to me but Joe Roots down the track again Englander looking to I think counter the movement that we have seen off the pitch by getting forward uh even to Akash who’s bowling in the high upper in the high 130 clicks um but he can can’t get it past
Midwicket and is now ran I think it’s good that’s good from rout I think that kind of proactiveness is what you usually see from him as opposed to Scoops yeah to really like the scoop you you you want him you want him to be busy at the crease you know lots of foot
Movements you know dancing like Robin Smith used to do when he walked to the crease as uh he plays that favorite shot of his I always think of Jeffrey boyut when he plays that shot which is kind of uh punch a kind of neutral position and
Punching it square of the Wicket on the offs side Root’s got a lot of runs from that shot Jeffrey boycut did Michael Aon did uh as the camera picks out Ole Pope who really after that extraordinary 196 has been somewhat quiet I think oh you’re not talking about Scoops no no as
Soon as you said Jeff boycott I thought no no it’s the back I don’t think he got run from Scoops in the famous boy it’s that push to point uh that root plays and boycott plays and played must be a northern thing as a little Inside
Edge goes down to long leg and root gets another single so England 57 for two Brian J the highest variety is 57 for two I wonder are there moments like this where Crawley just finds things so easy he’s like that’s yeah what well he’s
Only there by the grace of uh of uh the marginal overstep from Akash deep who could have had three wickets and had England been three down then you suspect that lordy um a tumble would would carry on wouldn’t it yeah it’s um cwy can make the game look oh and he’s baling oh
Akash he is in a tremendous spell we were just saying how Crawley can make the game look easy and oh surely not another no ball they’re looking at it um Crawley went nowhere with his feet he just s of jabbed at the ball it went through the gate trimmed the Bales but
No he’s gone and aash what a selection he’s been he has been brilliant England have been less than brilliant they’re 57 for three uh because this is what’s happened Another One Bites the Dust I think that is going to be out Fred Another One Bites the
Dust well three wickets for me on the ball by ball um Gary yeah it wasn’t a good shot from cwy his feet went nowhere he ended up falling over as the ball seam in a little bit didn’t do a huge amount but you know if you bowl at the
Top of the off stomp you’re going to get results aren’t you Dave I think there’s a bit of a dark spot there es especially with deep bowling I mean it’ll be any bowler really but it’s just like when you’re kind of almost parallel parking you don’t quite see outside your rear
View mirror and du conic seems to be getting stuck when he’s playing across those deliveries that are kind of keeping low a little bit maybe maybe a little bit well in now have two men under pressure because uh a Yorkshire it’s a two Yorkshire men again yeah it’s one of my favorite
Jingles Johnny SM the best Johnny best this Good put on your wigs and let the Crimson half flow I want the PO to give large he can the sixes although it’s so dark he’d even run a 10 and Bradford par you no other can compare I tell you Johnny best is SM than the Aver I’ll tell you what I’ll be
Disappointed if it’s Ben Stokes walking out to bat after playing that but I think it is Johnny B no it was Johnny B and I think we’re taking drinks so it might be a good time to swap over possibly it might be you’re still staying there Gaza yeah uh I’m just
Going to set you up so you can welcome fory and I think the bear is going to come back in and Company any closing thoughts Dave as we hand over cling thoughts um Yorkshire versus India that’s where we’re at yes you could be right well we’ll say uh
Farewell for the time being to you uh Dave and we’ll welcome fory well fory it’s all changed yeah now I just fed the dog and when I got back three wickets had fallen so that’s that’s not I BL I Blame You Gary yeah well I I blame
Toby and I was blaming DRS so um we’ve got plenty of full guys for is I wasn’t actually blaming DRS it just didn’t look quite right that but um that’s a sesow really the the main event is that Akash deep has uh taken like a duck to water
To the uh to the uh test match Arena well played son oh god he has bow beautifully hasn’t he I mean it’s we can talk about basball to Low’s come home and we have done but at some point it’s worth acknowledging that this is the the the widest and deepest in terms of
Talent India team that that probably presumably has ever been cuz every time they pluck someone out of the shes whatever the regions if it’s India uh look what they look what they cuff up this this deep guy he looks pretty good well he’s he’s what I’ve liked about him
Is a is a certain lack of ego he’s got a pitch he can work with there’s cracks on it there’s some grass on it and he’s just said I’m not going to try anything clever I’m just going to bowl my best ball on a length and see what happens
And that’s what he’s done he has overstepped of course so you know he does have that against him but um as a display of fast medium bowling on a helpful pitch uh first morning of a test match and the first morning of a test match it should be a helpful pitch to a
Fast medium he has been fantastic but I’m handing over to you fory yep okay away we go it’s de it’s the afores said deep he’s in again he’s deep in the wickets he’s got he’s got three of them he’s on an absolute role here that’s
Defended by Johnny BTO so uh one ball to the good in The Ledger the longer these two guys can stay in and just feel Bat on Ball just get a little bit of Yorkshire confidence oozing through their veins the better probably not a great time for Scoops and reverse ramps
And so forth but you never know no I think this is very much a time where you’ve got to sit in the game you’ve got to think this pitch might ease off as the sun bakes it a little bit in the afternoon uh I think the best time
Trying to bat on this pitch will be in the second and third session today and possibly the first session tomorrow it’s going to be it’s going to be pretty tough I think deep in the second day CU it’ll already be starting to misbehave yeah and the question will be how many
Wickets down are England going into the first hour of the of the afternoon if they three wickets down then you know all to the good that’s stroked Away by uh bestto who be the possibility of the as it went wide of the manic cover but they decide against I think it was root
And I think they got one didn’t they I’m not absolutely certain cuz I was distracted as well it was definitely rout on strike though fory so um oh okay CU getting getting burst off North is quite a is quite an event these days so uh I’ve got my I’ve got my yorman
Confused for a second there thank you for that so it is best though he’s on strike he’s facing his second ball rout has moved on to three off n got a strike rate of 33 uh there was there was a time there when it looked like Zack Crawley
Was very much on for the Bannerman he’s he was on a banman of about 80% but all hopes of the Bannerman are gone Crawley back in the Pavilion beo tries to cut that stays low goes through to the keeper one of two arms thrown into the
Air well he would have missed it with two bats in his hand I think he was that far away from it yeah not a confident start from Johnny but uh let’s hope he eases himself in that’s a much better shot broked majestically uh towards the towards the offside sweeper and they come through
For a single Johnny is Off the Mark I don’t think I don’t think indir quite getting this right in the field the only batsman I think who scored a boundary is Crawley and big forward defensive from Joe do B and I the the only Batman who even
Looked like wanting to score a boundary is Crawley and yet India are defending the boundaries here in comes juder again that’s cut to point but there is a point no run sure yeah uh the were um they’re a reasonably conservative lot in the field aren’t they under uh rit’s captaincy
That’s that’s the way they play it and they’ll say well look at this look at the series results so far that’s played Round the Corner by uh Jou they come through hurry through for the single you see that’s just a conceded single to me you know why isn’t that man tight on the
One but he wasn’t so England get a single and um at the end of the 13th England 60 for3 and we’ll hand you over to Messi uh TT to says I fed the dog and three wickets fell it must be a bloody big dog it wasn’t he’s not a big
Dog uh Luigi lovees I like that handle says uh just work three down are we shy or this the pitch well it’s helping the pitch but it’s it’s nothing demonic in the pitch is that uh I think it’s been great bowling it has yeah there bowling
I mean smacking in two two of them one of them smacking into the top of the off one just just got a little nibble as can happen to an opener and Olli Pope I think the studio feels the panel feels was a bit unfortunate but out is out
According to DRS down the Wicket comes Joe root turns his back on it to into man at midwicket they come through for a single I I with you Gary I felt that was I mean it doesn’t look out does it the guy is what 6 M down the pitch maybe not
Six but he certainly certainly 3 me I have a look so so I I what I find with you both of you is saying oh we’ve got to trust the technology and then saying we can’t trust the technology because my instinct’s better than the technology it keeps happening either you trust it or
You don’t well I don’t alog together because that didn’t look right so I don’t altogether trust technology I’m going to say it and after the post office Deb barle I think we can sometimes mistrust the machine that’s played around the corner down to Long Leg uh and that they come through for a
My view of the technology is we have to trust it because it gets the vast majority of decisions right um but there are the odd one and often it’s a a ball that’s projected hits the pad very soon after pitching hits very low down around the ankle that looks a bit strange but
That one looked a bit strange because I mean when we were growing up the bowler wouldn’t even have bothered to appeal for that no no that’s right incomes uh deep again and that’s defended I’m tring okay so bigger point if it doesn’t look right and DRS is saying that that’s out
Is there scope for saying well what does DRS give out and what doesn’t DRS give out and I don’t know what the answer to that is well I presume that the companies that make you know Hawai and I think there’s another company as well that does the technology there they’re constantly calibrating and
Recalibrating uh the the system um if I was in charge of that technology I would want to look at that one and you know have a look at at the algorithm because it’s not you know it’s not a we see a visual representation but what it is is
A crunching of binary code isn’t it that pulls it out do some and I’ll give you a count of point out deep deep comes in uh and that’s cut not very convincingly out into the covers by by Johnny doesn’t look like he’s got his rhythm back yet uh but no run yes
Messi the ball that bowled Crawley I didn’t even realize it hit the stumps my instinct was that that was not out but actually the wickets went over which is a fairly solid technology in terms of saying somethingone it’s out so sometimes my gut instinct is wrong uh
And uh the technology in this case the stamps is right yeah and you know this is this is because sport is a contingent thing we we we look and we see the outcomes but we’re never quite sure what those outcomes are going to be because if if the outcomes were predetermined
There wouldn’t be any sport to have you know it would literally be played on paper um I mean nobody wants to go back to the days of ours that in lockdown do they do we here playing with Dace Cricket probably not probably not I do
Be quite enjy I used play was that late at night when I was a student and it would be my Post Punk team against my friend’s Proto metal team I I gave up hours that when we were playing it on a train I think was that a friend singular
For got more than one messy got more than one sorry it’s all right Johnny besto faces up to the uh what’s what’s the word the bogey man of the England team at the moment and he Johnny besto squeezes that out for a single on the
Offside I think I think I was playing a that on a train in Sweden uh with my kids and um lost a bit of credibility when I think uh either my side was doing well or doing badly uh but We rescued by 169 from Matthew hogard um so that
Rather undercut The credibility of the game with my kids yeah talking about things which just don’t look right Joe root in up to to uh deep last ball of his over he’s 3 for 24 so far digs that one in a little bit further Joe not to be tempted now is not
The time for switches yeah just before you just before you come in there Messi um there was almost a disdainful leave there by root wasn’t it he turned away from it and think if you think I’m going to ramp that over third man you’ve got another thing
Coming at the end of the 14th thing then 64 for three uh reminder that GPL is now at £49 and you’ve got 45 minutes to get in so do that uh cafia says this could be embarrassing again have they learned nothing no one’s blaming anything other than blaming our own players uh Willow
Moon says can’t see England lasting the day uh and then says did I say they wouldn’t last today they won’t last until lunch at this rate uh my poor English friends say Rajan Shak now it’s time to start blaming the pitch DRS Ki and finally the
Umpires no no no no no that’s none of that’s quite right that’s cut by beow and uh no run no India superb team umpires darina fantastic umpire uh really very very good he had a fantastic series as well that’s cut Again by be stow and this time there will be runs
Probably two of them big sprawling save out on the on the boundary I think that’s probably G well out there they come back for two I take absolutely nothing away from India this is one of the greatest India team I think any of us have seen and this is a very it’s a
Very standard average and it’s in the spin Department po England team make no mistake about that and also we we could hardly we could hardly have praised aash deep any more than we have no absolutely no we’re not we are just suggesting that maybe one small part of the infrastructure of the
Technology might need to be just a little bit looked at that’s all we’re saying dot ball from bow out on the offside ni they’ve got a silly pointing for him that’s nice and he Strays just a little onto the legs there but Johnny BTO is on is’s in no mood to be
Expensive forward defensive on leg we one thing we haven’t talked about is Jud is now in his fourth over I don’t think he’s turned the ball really has he no I mean no more than just a few millimeters of straightening so uh that’s interesting slightly Fuller from jadea
Defended Again by johnny. well he missed it that one did turn a little bit but this is my feed I know that’s why that’s why I tried to help you out i’ I’ve been there fory I’ve been there this is the Perils of being in Melbourne and uh VI
Rights I probably shouldn’t be doing this job at all but give it a go that’s just turned around the corner by Johnny and uh he comes through unless you know you can tell me differently I he came through for a single and well he moves
On to seven and that’s the end of the 15th over England 67 for three well let’s go from one side of Australia to the other so Perth uh Messi yeah neoni says any chance of rain in this test well there is a forecast for a few shows
On day five but uh whether we get there or not another question uh cfir says no one is blaming anything I’ve done that uh Leah says morning all I’ve had the worst flu I had have had in a decade hopefully I can do the podcasting later today that a actually looks decent
Though I’m sorry to hear that LE hope you get better a shame do get better our thoughts are with you yeah and uh with us who say oh sorry yeah I was going to say with us is uh iing find T why I it’s this
Man when got find your way from the stre got to away to land there’s only one man who could save us now with M well mam seven overs three for 24 was Akash Deep’s opening spell in t not bad at all muhamad s back into the attack he
Got colled by Crawley in his first spell he went for 27 off four but there’s no more that is no more Crawley and he’ll be fancying his chances against out of form Johnny BTO he’s 7 off 13 and it’s a false start lost his run lost his rhythm didn’t
Quite didn’t look right didn’t feel right on that occasion for Muhammad SJ pulls out is so he’s bowling from the opposite end from which he op he must be because he’s replacing the other opening bowler so he’s uh switched Ends don’t know enough about the uh the
Different ends as to this isn’t Lords where we’re well versed in the different ends cuts by Johnny BTO and I think that will go all the way for one of these goings I hit the BS I hit theall ands that was a very benign delivery wasn’t it from Sage there bit of a
Looser and Johnny Lo but that do that will do Johnny the world of good to to middle one cut he got his head right over the ball has told us that both ends are the mson end both ends of course of course they are yes it’s his Stadium isn’t
It well seraj is doing a lot of running up to to no to no fruition because he comes in again this time Johnny Bulls out he spotted something 100 yards away which is in his ey line he’s very angry I mean it doesn’t take much to get
Johnny bero angry but he’s shouting and he’s saying things and I think um you know some players like Shane war was always better when he was riled up he loveed being in the game I I feel with Johnny’s better when he’s Karma myself yeah yeah he’s
Uh he is his father’s son and um you the the the cliche about the hot-headed redhead is always in play with Johnny isn’t it sure he is and he comes again and that’s uh played out to the man at points and that everyone comes around
And give him big pat on the back they’ve had his stand a bit of Fielding one thing I’ve just spotted there Gary I I see that first slip is marginally ahead of the Wicket Keeper in the echelon stance I don’t comment on that yeah well I mean usually they they’re they’re a yard
Or two back I think the idea is that the the Umpire doesn’t the Umpire the Wicket keeper doesn’t dive into the first slip um but that is unusual yeah I mean maybe he’s well he’s quite wide he’s more of a second slip isn’t he I noticed that the
Wicket keeper actually took a few steps forward just before the delivery so he was level yeah was more or less parallel but even being level is unusual right so sj’s got his uh his head in his hands he felt that there was something in that
Ball let’s have a look at it again I think it was yeah H not really it’s just a a bit of mistiming from Johnny but the ball didn’t really go anywhere just a huge gate all the time with Johnny B I mean historically he gets he gets Bold And as
Lb W more often than a batsman of his stature should be again yes big big gap again just as Gary was describing uh big thick Inside Edge to Mid on uh no suggestion of it being anything other along the ground though but there’s no sense of great permanence
From Johnny so far it’s fair to say we mentioned Johnny berto’s father younger listeners May not be uh across the the the fact that Johnny best’s Father David besto longtime Wicket keeper for Yorkshire and played quite a bit of one day Cricket in a handful of tests I
Think for England a fiery keeper he was maybe best though isn’t it uh Johnny relaxed at the crease and plays a nice forward defensive shot with no Gap and Tall between Batman PS and like many I think that Johnny bur is probably three or 4 Ines taller than his far in my mind’s
Eye David B’s 56 maybe not 5’6 maybe 5’8 Johnny’s pushing six foot better nutrition after the war yeah that’s right it’s all all the bloody additives in the Dos maybe it’s that maybe it’s that sweets didn’t come off the rationing till 1953 I think in again nice nice forward defensive as
Little bit better from Johnny dot ball to end the 16th over England 71 for3 arao says uh if you thought sky was the limit you weren’t ready for Akash deep three wickets on its first morning in test Cricket welcome to the big league young man yes yeah he has been very very
Impressive um so John says what is the GPL I’ll let you describe that in a second um Mo says I’d be happy to do go back to a bit of dice Cricket sudo says well stop being selective funny how it’s always an on an English Wicket where DRS is wrong not not true
Again yeah Willow Moon says nothing used to beat a good old game of car Cricket on a long car Journey as kids um objective your criticism is uh leaning towards whining it a bit just saying yeah no I understand that I understand that um I understand that you
Know it might feel as if whenever you you make a point like that when You’ just lost three quick wickets it does do feel that way and yeah maybe there’s a did you see the ball fory so to describe that ball it left jeru he played at it it missed his off
Stump and it fumbled it turned yeah that’s the point Gary wants the N yes and it turned yes it was a very good ball actually pitched off and just beat jud’s b and that second ball of the over is played out yes we just seeing a replay of that
That was actually a poor bit of keeping from derell didn’t he went at it with rather hard hands and that’s played out to point stop ball it kept a bit low as well so uh anyone who’s put themselves down for commentary on the fifth day or is
Looking forward to seeing much Cricket I don’t think there will be a great deal of cricket on the fifth day there may not be too much on the fourth day at this R well third the corner by Joe rot they go for a quick single and that and
Johnny turns him back quite rightly it’s um much tighter feel now from roit this is much better big forward defensive from joou classical out to the man at City Point stop ball yeah this is what we’re used to with juder bowling very tight line D in again and smothered by jeru
Goes out to uh mid on no run yeah ball so far it’s taken a while for roit to get the read on England’s intentions here which is not Bas balling the boundaries everywhere but playing for later in the day yeah shock tactics early on from Zack Crawley but now this is classic test
Cricket big four defensive from Joe root that is a maiden over end of the 17th England 71 for3 uh Leah says I like PTO being riled up he tends to get out when he’s riled up uh Raj shanuk says uh mess is correct in his analysis of the DRS for a moment
I didn’t think Crawley was bold whereas the lbw was obvious to me um so different folks Different Strokes fair to say uh and uh West doy leads is with us I one will never criticize drs’s I still remember back in the day when all the ball had to do was hit a batsman
Anywhere on the body and it was instantly out lbw in India well I don’t think India were the worst offenders actually I remember Pakistan was a hell of a place wasn’t it Pakistan was not a great place at all and I think you know we we often quote the England Australia series
From 1970 down under when England uh managed to secure zero zero lbw in six tests there quite a lot of tests for there not to be one lbw that’s there was some awful austring umpires around then there’s no that was um that was ex cop Lou Rowan who sat in all oh
Who was avowedly anti- pom I think it’s fair to say income s and that’s um hit back down the P slightly crookedly Johnny Be st’s B there that’s straight back at s yeah he’s he’s kind of he’s kind of groping for form isn’t he here I
Mean he is fumbling around in the dark I can I I could push that analogy a bit further but I think it’s going into dodgy territory so I’ll I’ll resend my uh by analogy at that point this is this is not the Innings The Stance the
Carryon of a of a man who who is uh who one with his with his batting at the minute he’s he’s looking very sketchy I think is the word in comes SJ again that’s a pretty ugly shot he ends up playing it with one hand virtually
Down to long leg from from Johnny but he gets a single for it he moves on to 12 is there a line from somebody who says he’s he’s looking very much at three himself um I think there might be alive from somebody it’s certainly not an
Original one from me but he does look at three with himself yes yes now I remember I remember when one of my friends had uh was was was being a little bit naughty outside his relationship when we were young and it all came to light and someone said
You ruined not one life but three which was true um income income R again to root looks around I mean J root always his um methodology means that he’s really way out of form even when he’s struggling for runs uh he turns that one around the corner and come through for
Uh rout moves on to six it’s these two have played together at Yorkshire since they were you know kids in primary school possibly and um the contrast in the two of them here is enormous rout is being very compact he’s moving into the ball and beow is reaching for it the
Hands are going one way the heads go in the other the feet are all over the place and the it’s such a difference and that’s a combination of confidence technique nice uh nice shot down goodness to Mid off from Johnny and uh some bonus runs some windfall runs as
There’s a bit of woeful fielding and they come back for a couple I think is that for two there yeah best Johnny best moves on to 14 yeah when Johnny was at his Peak a couple of years ago when you know he had his Indian summer and uh what what would you that
Might get Gary’s commentary on what the difference was between the Johnny we see now and the pre-injury Johnny when he was I was I was at Trent Trent bridge when he went berserk and scored all runs after lunch and his back looked just this enormously wide thing that was
Hammering the ball off the middle to all parts of the ground s in again to Johnny and that one is a very nice straight drive I assume it is because my feed slightly let me down but uh I assume it was a very elegant very much a straight drive and
Johnny moves on to 18 rock rock super and that was the kind of shot he played in that Innings at Trent Bridge he simply put his foot down the line uh swung his back through the line of the ball it’s away from the body there but
It’s quite a wide ball but it didn’t quite hit the absolute middle of the bat but at his best he he gets the front foot out there swings through the line hits the middle of the bat like that ugly but effective that’s that’s actually horrible shot I think what that one that
We’ve just seen y the so far away his body half cross back no whichever it’s one of these that went like a traca bullet you’re a hard man if you’re criticizing that um I thought that was a the second I thought the first one I think we
Having a change I thought the second sorry I was watching a replay of the first one yes um yeah uh just second one was a nice Cover Drive just in response to the question about the GPL GPL is a game where you’re invited to pick how many runs will be
Scored in the day’s play at the cost of1 per pick if you get it exactly right you win the pot or you share it with anybody else who gets exactly that number and I posted the link on uh YouTube you just go to the gorilla Cricket website click
On competition and you can play it from there uh was that having a little little turnar around I think there’s there uh that was played into the offside by rout and they went through for a single catch you later see you later oh jeez and and remember to keep promoting the GPL to
149 GPL GPL GPL and Super Chat come on we’ve only got well if this test only goes three days you’ve probably got a maximum of eight days of us left until after the interminably long 12 13 14 week bloody IPL I refuse to cover cuz it’s just too
Much H jja is in and on the back foot is bare Stone just put p is out into the offside and there’s no run who have I got with me then forthy oh you’re doing you’re doing messages fory I think I’m do messaging yes M you’re on the
Messages I don’t often do this so I’m just trying to find where my Twitter account is hang on Jer is in and Johnny B just pushes it up to Mid off and there’s no run I think Johnny B’s got a bigger average on Joe root hasn’t he in
This series so far Joe Root’s average is 12.75 yeah but you wouldn’t necessarily know that looking at the way they’re both playing is looking very the other one isn’t 11 and a half th000 test runs though Joe rout has just bought up an average of 49.4 so he ain’t that bad uh
That’s nicely cut it’s a beautiful late cut and uh he’s running off the face fast enough to J of balls pretty quick uh beats the man at Short Third Man and it runs away to the boundary for four runs two plus Two maybe just maybe this is such a dodgy Wicket that Joe root Knuckles down and he is a class batsman and plays properly that was it though I thought he looked a little bit kind of drives that one big floaty delivery and he he looked a bit ansy or something
Like uh just kind of want to get busy which is kind of all the qualities you want to see from rot which is it’s good yeah I mean he does seem to get sucked into basball when he doesn’t need to for me uh rot goes back that one does turn but it’s
Short and he goes on the back foot as he wants to and just dabs it into the offside there’s no R six off the over though 22 of six overs for Jer nearly four and over ashwin’s taking his hat off so presumably uh SJ is now coming off S has been pretty useless
Ro it has to be said had a good last test but you got a feeling he got dropped off the first two tests cuz he was getting pumped around uh he’s not the man today I uh bestto 23 Route 11 England at 89 for three and Ash’s going to come on ball we
Got any messages yeah I got a good one from kyl Herbert on YouTube who says difference in besto two years ago was the bad batch of Duke balls which did nothing from o 35 to 80 lundle and Mitchell also took advantage of that that’s a good yeah very
True they were they were post post pandemic plus the company changed hands didn’t it bought out yeah uh we have a change in the bowling it’s going to be just a long jingle I’ll talk over the top of it all brown the selector has G great selector has gone great waiting
For a b waiting [Applause] for well first ball to Johnny B is on his legs he pumps it through the offside onside sorry out towards cow wide long on uh look at two may have had three if they’ have gone harder but they didn’t and BTO remains on
Strike yeah SJ seems to get a he gets a bit of pump if things aren’t quite going his way he seems to be someone well this is it if the bowling is bad England are still being proactive I think you got to be quite watchful on this Wicket
Um a was very difficult to get away but just bowling length really and the ball was talking man ni clipped by Johnny B too full by Ashwin get a single up to well not quite long on it’s kind of just beyond what would be the 30 yard
Circle in an ODI or a T20 now that’s who I’d get on to Johnny B he can’t he he doesn’t pick cold de at all uh yeah that was awfully played in that last test how was that the the last innings was it yeah was the first innings in the
Firstest riing back but he just doesn’t pick him out of hand um and know would have him on him Ashwin that’s too full and played not great timing from rout but enough to get it out to square leg gets himself a single that’s a really interesting point though about the people always talk
About the the bar still Purple Patch then obviously you got the injury but the Dukes balls surely we got to add that into the sample size people always talk about like what an incredible few weeks he had yeah great variable it is a great variable but then someone like Johnny B
That’s smashed Johnny Bear st’s got a six over cow Corner he’s picked up Ashwin uh deposited him into the stands beautiful shot six runs so you’ll be calculating your GPL runs uh and if Johnny B keeps going it’ll be 350 if he’s out we could have 20 wickets in a day
250 runs I think that’s your sample size i’ go for around about there somewhere pot is 146 quid come Ash wouldn’t having a few words to himself well I do remember that everyone had written off Olli pop before he got that 200 you just never know in cricket he’s
A good player Johnny bday when he gets going o Poe’s not done much since then has he oh he got a 30 and a 40 and I think he was very unlucky today but like I said yesterday I think you know if you can track a missile and
Intercept it at supersonic speeds you know I think the predictive element is probably reasonable uh Ashwin down the track comes Barto bottom hand comes off the bat he drives it so what’s your theory bear about the missile it’s it’s essentially bull tracking technology I mean I remember
When we did test match SOA all these years ago we we looked into when they first had Hawkeye how was it it’s basically missile tracking technology uh it’s the same sort of principle very highspeed cameras U frame by frame algorithms predictive technology and a parabola of a ball is not that hard to
Predict um if you have enough sample points B plays it up to a long on and as a single uh and therefore I I you know I I do trust the technology it doesn’t always look great but you know at the end of the day I’m not going to argue
With it and I like umpire’s call I think that’s fair enough you know he a subject so basically when they’re saying War what was it good for we got DRS that’s F that was one of that was one of the good things that came out of it yeah yeah um
That’s 100 up for England by the way England are 100 for three so you know they’ve gone along a fair old lick still got 20 minutes till lunch five and over actually cuz they’ve had 20 overs which is not a lot of overs when you got 20
Overs till lunch maybe three or four more um but they’re certainly going on along at a lick be it’s 33 or 31 kierum Rose blade is that the end yeah kierum Rose blade good morning all from a slow snowy L this time doing a bit of skiing with the kids and taking
In some Northern Lights glad to have you guys on the morning did a good bit of skiing as a kid into my 20s but this is first time skiing in my 30s the difference I was a Supple skiing Maestro but now an old broken man with lower
Back pain and the hangovers are so much worse yeah lat land I’ve been to lat that’s the only time the only time I ever went snowboarding was lat land yeah any time I’ve ever done snow Sports was LP land it was good though uh oh that one turns and beats
The outside edge of be back don’t know if it got an edge some hands on heads not great keeping no it’s a tough one but I thought that was G well yeah let’s see it did bite didn’t miss the Edge by much didn’t miss the wickets by much bit and bed yeah
That one’s tossed up and B gets out to it drives it up to Mid off and then so question question for you two guys if the meteorite was about to hit Earth and wipe us out would have we got sufficient technology to intercept it well they
Tried it out the other year didn’t they they crashed the was it everyone crashed a satellite into a meteorite um that one is worked around a corner by Route uh to the man on 45 there’s no run um they they made it they sent out the thing is you got to do it
Far enough away you’ve got to track it from far enough out uh oh that one turns sharply beats the outside of your roots bat these are beauties yeah they are um so yeah you have to track it from far enough out and then you have to hit
It with another Force I mean I think they altered the direction of this one they hit you know when Frank actions of a degree but if it’s far enough out yeah that’s enough that’s all you need uh that’s played Square out to man at point and there’s
No R otherwise you send out Bruce Willis yeah and the team with their nuclear bombs to blur up it didn’t hit anything that one is did it hit the edge it didn’t I don’t think that one’s wide though and that’s beautiful shot by Route done miss out on them cut that
Behind square that was a poor Ball by uh Jer dropped it short wide got what I deserved which was four more Runs we have an advert break and it’s over to you 40 oh yeah right here we go it’s all happening on YouTube rather than Twitter at the moment uh bashes ban says well I would have like daram Salah to be a live match but it really doesn’t look like it
At the moment and he adds I guess I have to jump in for running coverage of the IPL as GC Deutschland if you will and I’ll also do it in English and he adds has YouTube chat been Limited in terms of characters per message it goes on to our Miss tracks by
Radar though bear oh we got a Super Chat of 10 of $5 from Ian South want say the doc Super Chat Super Chat the documentary Armageddon proves we are more than prepared for asteroids all the proof we although Bruce has got Bruce has sadly got demension now hasn’t he uh
Well ashford’s around the wickets to I think was that beo it was beo he’s gone back and he’s cut that beautifully behind Square four more runs there’s not one Bo for me I must have off sorry Ashwin they’ve all gone up for a massive appeal that’s got up here him outside leg
Stump cuz it didn’t really turn much he’s directing traffic again though as Ashan yeah okay they’ reviewed it I don’t think that’s hit him anywhere near in line I think that’s pitched outside leg and I don’t think it’s turned that much it’s going across I agree but we were wrong on
Pope yeah Pop I mean the thing is popes as much as anything I thought he got hit miles outside the line but it was proved he wasn’t that was thing for me I thought he miles outside the line has that pitched in line it might have done actually marginal marginal don’t know if
It’s got bat might actually be going on to slide and hit the stumps you know now how’s it pitched in line there’s no bat on it this is going to be interesting actually it’s closer than I thought yeah I think he was pretty clever he the one
Before that got smacked for four he kind of undercut it slid on like loads of room to drive it this one he got a bit of overspin ripped over it very marginal on pitching could go one way could go the other 50 and if if that if if it
Pitches in line I think he’s yeah I have to I tend to agree uh my initial thoughts were n yeah burto was furiously chewing though yeah violently chewing is gum at least I hope it’s gone well uh and if this is out there’ll be no complain it is it’s in pitched in line
It’s going on to hit surely yeah he is he’s out well uh we were proved wrong there by the technology that’s uh yeah that’s fair enough that one well uh Rod Tucker was with us but uh we have to say goodbye Johnny B that’s annoying man he was looking all right that’s
Giveaway oh well such is life um there’s been some there’s there’s a do you want to play the Super Chat jingle uh I can do I got remember where it is though there it is we got lots of them here we Go there you go super chat it’s Hatty the batty 2486 has given us five quid saying sing as bear said cow twice already that deserves the Super Chat as I’ve got a t-shirt with cow corner on it nice very much well well Johnny B goes what did he
Get he must got 41 42 didn’t even see uh good little Innings not enough though um I’m starting to think that 250 might be enough on this Wicket Al though if I’m honest yeah um ashwin’s been directing traffic and i’ say I’d be pretty confident actually if he was directing traffic uh
He’s been doing a pretty good job of it uh when they’ve been deciding DRS that two good two good referrals today both of which we thought were not out but off way off yeah uh so the new man out is a skipper Ben of course we could have read the
Wicket all wrong and get out 200 and IND your G still 600 yeah maybe but it it doesn’t really look like that kind of wicked to me does look a bit capricious and maybe it’s just cuz it’s fresh and actually it’ll flatten out this afternoon but the crazy
Paving looks like it’s going to just crumble to me uh at some point whether it holds together very long there’s already balls turning sharply from Jer off the straight as well pretty much Skippers out there anyway deep in his cruas to Ashwin around the Wicket with all that crazy
Paving he’ll love that and the first ball he just defends into the leg side there’s short leg in there’s a slip there’s no run yes Frank Rockefeller asks is it a Sticky Wicket I don’t know if it’s sticky it looks like it will break up horribly uh that one is defended by
Stokes out to the covers and there’s no run he went to sweep it I think he thought it pitched outside leg as well thought he was safe but it wasn’t it was just in line which is quite hard from round the Wicket to keep it in line it didn’t
Really turn that much either so he’s got the golden pitch and enough and the angle’s not too steep it’s gone past the off quite incredible Ashwin around the Wicket that’s Fuller and Stokes will get himself off the mark he pushes that wide enough for cover England move on to 110 the four is
Not so good two good very good reviews by India this morning yeah was there not was there not that rule before that like like that depends also on how far you get down the crease or was that Chang no that has they still
Bring that in but it’s 3 m got to be a long way yeah good look yeah yeah and that’s 3 m from the crease as well so it’s you know four and a half really uh rot gets right on top of that works it into the leg side and there’s no
Run coule of tons here from these two our vaunted middle order uh what what have we got there fory oh okay um bash KB apologies for butchering the pronunciation says we can hit a meteorite we have all the WarHeads to stop meteorites that’s very encouraging
Uh and she adds thank you for making me sound like I’m from the subcontinent fory my pleasure I’m not a dude though my correction I go by she her pronouns All Apologies all around sag paraka says jez please send a link game for the JPL and hello in Germany yes well I’m just
Reading what’s in front of me maybe they’re referring to the John play Le well maybe the GPL is on our website just go to competition on the on the tab on our website gorilla cricket.com uh and you follow the rules you have got 10 minutes just under to enter I will tell
What the pot is any second now as uh stes just works that into the leg side out towards deep midwicket he’ll get himself a single if you’re interested in the John player League you’ve come to the wrong place I should suggest El and the wrong time I would suggest
Indeed competitions where are we let’s have a look day W ranchy uh the pot 46 how many is 10 151 currently the 10 minutes to go as that one is uh floated up a little bit by Jer just defended out to cover by Route no
Run got a few men in on that offside just short uh keeping keeping them honest ooh now there’s another appeal now this time uh theel wants it I think that’s pad first as well started the timer a bit late I would say they’re going to review it I
Don’t think that’s a bad shout myself they’re going again I think that’s not a bad shout I think that’s straightened uh on about middle leg middle and leg something like that could be in trouble here ruy for me it’s 111 so that wouldn’t be surprising uh Roots asking is it going
Down leg I don’t think it is let’s have a look pitched it’s gone straight oh he’s got an edge I think they The Edge first it’s very close yeah I think his bat’s just in front of his pad and I think there’s an edge o I think that saved
Him lovely Cherry though absolute Beauty yeah I think that edge is just there just in front I think you’re right of the pad and I think that’s going to save him cuz they won’t they shouldn’t be out of yeah yeah I think that’s Edge first onto pad that’s the noise there
And it’s the sharp noise so I think he should be safe and India should lose a review yeah see we got it right that time just the two is it yeah and uh I think the ones they got wrong were hitting the stumps anyway so I think this is the
First one they’ve lost yeah yeah no they lost one earlier one uh they were just one so they’re down to one are they they went up against rout earlier didn’t they for lbw and it hit him outside theine oh you’re right yeah there you go there’s been some uh vifer appealing
Though where they kind really vicious appealing yeah and it’s like this is a maybe it’s more so to get roit in on in on the uh on DRS to get him interested but didn’t quite work this time yeah but I’ve only got one review left which is interesting cuz they only
Had 22 overs that one uh is defended by rot back towards the bowler and there’s no run well Eng have gotten you know there not fair that amount of runs in one session isn’t it 111 yeah take that guess yeah that’s not the problem no oh
That one just seemed to keep a little bit low turned was quite short rout was able to jab the bat on down on it to the leg side no run doesn’t look easy to bat out there boys I have to say no no extremely watchful from rot which is not
A bad thing no exactly uh that one he does his go back and just works it behind Square between gly and slip but there is a short Third Man back there no run end the over 28 n for West oy lead says even when England play normal test
Cricket they still score 100 before lunch one of the best sporting teams to watch but by contrast Jos Oak comments we’re doomed so two different points of view on Twitter there uh Madan Mohan sha says good morning very competitive match is on England have won the toss and
Batting I feel India is facing a huge challenge here because the pitch will be very helpful for Spinners in the fourth Innings yes it will be well is true if there is enough if there’s enough in the match when it gets to that yeah well also on Ashwin around the Wicket into
The pads of Stokes he just works at behind Square down towards fine leg gets himself a sing carry on give us another one um our female friend in Germany bashet KB says I have pretty bad flu and got myself a stalker pretty good otherwise though those got a stalker
That’s not good stalker unless I mean something else in Germany does it or does it mean the exact same thing we’re thinking of well you’re referring to the kovski film that you’re watching in bed from the 1970s yes maybe that’s [Laughter] it Ashman seems quite pumped directing traffic yeah they’re
All pumped that’s the appealing thing is that like it’s just maybe something to get themselves in the game well yeah rout uh defends back down the track and there’s no run they are a good team they are at home they are two one up so you
Know uh yeah I don’t know if that’s something maybe mental maybe it’s something identified it’s something internal just trying to get themselves buzzing or whatever rot goes back deep in his crease plays it into the to the ground to short leg no run cuz they’re definitely ticking and
That was definitely the case for soon as uh deep guut into the action yeah around the Wicket is Ashwin to root again flicks that to short leg no run 112 you take that you would take that ideally for two rather than four but uh back goes route again for tries
To beat the man at short leg can’t no run yeah right uh and they’ve got a couple bonus overs in here they’ve managed to get if they get this ball doesn’t go for runs well it’s full and he can’t beat short leg once more so there is no run one off
That one off the previous they bow two overs in about four minutes uh and they will get an extra over in before lunch okay well Bashas kban has now been identified as Leah which I was previously unaware of um uh sea Parker says to her I could have said exciting
But I know it can be a harrowing experience get plenty of rest and recover from the flu and Leah replies yes it’s not as fun as tarkovski makes it look so she was there ahead of me with the tarkovski reference and um this interested handob says ding-ding four he
Mentions stalker I have mentioned stalker in the past it is true guilty is charged Steven Kelk morning all and Frank Rockefeller about timing then won the toss fourth time lucky didn’t we win the toss in the first we did win the oh my word that’s out that’s is it Bal him
I mean that’s a horror delivery considering it’s just before lunch and that should be lunch I mean there’s nothing Stokes could do there that’s just scooted along the ground so I hit him in front or it’s Bal him I can’t see which but I mean the ball just didn’t
Get up it’s the second time it’s happened to rout Stokes in this series and he yeah I mean there’s nothing you can say about that uh it’s pitched in line it’s gone under the bat and hit him on the GM badge on on his bloody pad I
Mean me just there’s not a lot you can do about that uh unfortunately we have to say goodbye to stoky and that will be lunch I presume Ion oh I think they might be checking his oh he’s waiting he’s waiting could it be a no ball D does like to bowl a no ball you know Maybe not maybe he’s just waiting cuz it’s it’s the end of the session so uh he’s just waiting to bring
Rot off with him I mean I’m sorry s all Stokes he could do about that I thought maybe he was a little bit back which a little bit as he’s done that a little bit against Ashwin earlier on and the footwork just kind of not quite right
But then it’s fine margins yeah I mean on a wicket you trust with a B this is true that was a short delivery and modern batsman do like to play off the back foot to turn into the leg side or whatever I mean I to be I can’t blame
Him for that uh I mean it’s just scooting on the ground isn’t it and yeah you know shades of K ho shades of KL hoopert and NASA Hussein all those years ago with that one absolutely I mean that was just that was just a grubber um this game could be over very
Quickly yeah GPL you got 15 seconds get in get get in I’ll just quickly finish off here KL Herbert pit looks pretty variable in need to be in for a good time not a long time Steven Kelk the curse of waking up just before lunch uh siga Parker looks like an absolutely
Awful pitch India better watch their backs for preparing something this Dreadful as history has been against them when they have done this uh Messi says props to Jos o he finally got prediction right uh uh Frank rockfeller says garbage and Leah says Club Cricket has more respective pictures and Leah
Says who’s the here’s the question which tarkovski science fiction film based on the Warsaw pack novel is better stalker or Solaris I would say stalker every day of the week Le okay and Mayan got two-day test alert yeah well could well be could well be uh we ended up having
20 entries for the GPL ranging from 278 all the way up to 373 pot will be £16 if someone wins it today uh any that’s last messages so any last thoughts and then we’ll shall go to what we thought was going to happen we’ll play the podcast we recorded yesterday
Just feel de delectation at lunchtime over to you Dave uh thoughts uh England haven’t really given much away I think uh they just their hand has been forced they’ve got runs on the board but that may tell in the end yeah could do do it’s one of those matches
Where someone gets a big Innings it’s probably going to be a match inning ma match Innings match winning Innings again uh someone can get out there and score 90 120 it’s probably going to be enough from one person from one side uh right we shall be back in around
About 40 minutes we will give you the latest episode at the bishop and bear we were talking about what we thought would happen in this test and see what you think we thought uh and whether we were correct um we’ll see you in about 40 minutes until then goodbye was that not
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Happen as they head to Ranchi well we got in the chat about that there’s a number of things we’re going to talk about uh welcome of course of course grab yourself uh your usual drink uh Our Guest to talk about these things and I’ll tell you what they are in a minute
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Cheer and bonom me in his usual manner uh and whilst attempting to stay awake the bear yeah good morning you sounded a bit like General melit then for a short moment well yeah right things we’re going to talk about um has basb been baz based in Raj
Cot after that pming that England took what do we expect in Rami and you’ve seen pictures of the pitch we also know the England team selection as we’re recording this it literally came out half an hour ago so bags to talk about on there uh strong Yorkshire strong
England uh what though is going on in the heads of Joe root and Johnny basto at the moment can England psychology and positivity and running towards Danger get them through uh uh frankly a bit of a messy patch for the pair of them uh fascinating article uh the was it the
Secretary of the the BCCI saying don’t prioritize the cricket J allegedly Dody J allegedly sha uh that took us by surprise but when you look at some figures of jawell and uh Tas for example you start to see his point and uh England again not saying
It’s nothing to do with uh DRS uh but umpire’s call seems really confusing and to be fair Barat Coy said the same thing a couple of years ago so uh they’re not alone where should we start fory why don’t you um have you sort of recovered
From the rajot Ming what are your what are your thoughts on it um I think my thoughts are there there’s been obviously a huge amount of uh airtime filled with everybody’s thoughts about this uh we can’t just throw the baby out with bwat at the first sign of a defeat
We can’t say well that strategy didn’t work let’s go back to the ’90s that’s obviously a terrible idea I think that first of all India are a very good team and this is Maybe slly been overlooked in all the talk about basor superb batting lineup they they can pluck
Someone like jawell and I’m sure saer as can Will in good time we’ve scored a mountain of runs in rangi Trophy people say oh well it’s a weakened Indian lineup England should be able to beat these people have you seen how well CH well batted this is exactly this is just
He’s extraordinary and that takes us very neatly to that question as well about the the BCC no in the IPL but we’ll hold that thought there’s some fascinating for that and and uh the second main topic is everything every time an an England player does something that is regarded
As incorrect such as Joe root shot it doesn’t mean that it’s Bas Ball’s fault um Joe Ru had been worked over by jasit brra over over over the series and he was trying to find angles and if you look at that shot in isolation it looks
As if he’s lost his mind and that he’s adopted basball um and that why doesn’t Joe root go back to being Joe root I don’t think that’s the story I think the story is jasp brummer has got his number he feels penned in he’s he’s the probably the best fast bowler in the
World at the moment arguably uh and he’s trying to find ways of solving that problem that’s the Joe root story it’s not a basball story so not everything’s about basball the fact that India and they’ve got a superb bowling liner uh jadeja ran through the Australians in
Delhi a year ago and got five wickets in a session and they were all out for about 120 it happens in India exactly it’s let’s let’s not everything is not needs to be referenced to the the the basball in and England if there is a if there is a criticism of
England it’s not I think of either basball or this english team or Ben Stokes management or Bren mullum it’s the fact that the structure of English cricket has send an english team out to India with two rookies the minute that their first choice spinner was injured there ought to have been better players
On the county circuit who they could have sent out there and that’s where the fault lies with English Cricket is there are structural problems in county cricket that’s my feeling about where we sit in between the third and fourth tests well that’s fascinating you could
By the way bear as well you could you can go back to the ashes because there’s a similarity if england had held their catches in Raj Cott it could have been a really really different game all all the could have would is in they I mean
This is the thing about Cricket you can always go back to that um I mean my thoughts are yeah this is just overblown bollocks uh you know it happens once again we we you know the thing about badet ball is if you’re going to lose you’re going to lose in spectacular
Fashion because that’s the way they’re playing right but as I said before the series if you’re going to go out to India and play like we played last time you are going to get hammered uh you need a different approach uh there was no reason why you know we won
One test last time on a flat deck we won one test this time in a really good win um we had chances in the second test we it up and we certainly had chances in this third test uh but there are many there are many things in India
That uh you need to go your way one is winning the toss we won the first toss and okay it didn’t go the way you probably wanted to get the win but we did get the win in the end uh we lost both second toss
Uh and if you put big runs on in India no matter how good your batting attack you are going to struggle I mean I was having this conversation with somebody I think you know if you’re batting second in India you’ve got to get a 100 run
Lead which means we have had to score 550 in that second Innings uh just to be in a rough par going what would probably be a wearing fifth day pitch and it was and it started to misbehave on the fifth day uh it’s just not easy right
Um uh beo is all at se over there you know we miss Harry Brook Harry Brook you know occurred to me that if Harry Brook had been at number where beo is Baro probably wouldn’t be playing right now uh and I’d expect Harry Brook to do a
Lot better you know things like this don’t go against you and and I keep pointing this out and I’ve been pointing it out more and more as we go along and and uh both’s dead right England’s bowling attack is very callow and very inexperienced now it’s telling that India have not
Prepared bunson burners I think because that’s what we all expected right I think they thought England’s bowling attack is inexperienced and whilst they if we create bunson burners it’s going to be a leveler and if we don’t create bunson burners we’ got a better bowling attack basically and they might have a
Slightly better batting attack but we’re in our home conditions and therefore the weight of everything is probably in our favor if we create just standard Indian wickets that are going to break up they are going to turn on the fourth and fifth day and it might be quite
Exaggerated but if they reason to be flat for two or three days then we should be able to get through this with doesn’t that always still place a massive premium on winning the toss England won the TOs and won the game India won two tosses are just better equipped to take advantage I
Think to Fourth his point but the toss still becomes a massive Factor the toss is massive in India because if the pitches do break up and you can I mean the problem with basell to a certain degree is it doesn’t take time out the game but you know if England win the
Toss tomorrow for example come out get really aggressive score 400 runs tomorrow we’ll all be going well you know and then they get another 150 runs say on Tuesday morning before lunch or whatever yeah I’d like to see how India do pumped up against 550 runs you know
They will have a different approach and they might well and that we we’ll find out but um you if you can get runs on the board in the first Innings yeah it really helps England’s spin Ballers just don’t the problem with England spinball is they don’t offer any
Control and if the wickets not offering anything heartley ran armed rout or Basher aren’t going to offer you two and a half runs and over any sort of any sort of control of the game so India always going to be able to score runs um
And and that’s going to let the get game get away from you whereas if if if if england bowls second and the Wicket starts to do something they probably won’t have much control in the first Innings but if you get weight of runs you might be able to Winkle them
Out and get a lead and then if you can get then ahead and you’re bowling last on what is a crumbling Wicket I don’t think your control is necessarily the thing because enough bulls will misbehave that you’ll be out to pick up the wickets in time and I think that’s
Got to be what England strategy is does kind of rely on winning the toss and that is a game of champ well if you look at Ranchi it’s another ground I think where there have been two previous only two previous tests which is true I think
Of every ground except Hydro said it was true of of rikar looked at they a really boring draw and an absolute well it was a draw against Australia with a fair old mountain of runs from uh memory I’m just trying to look it up but then they absolutely batted first and pummeled
South Africa I think the Australia game is 2017 yeah uh Australia uh actually no I’m lying Australia batted in first in that and they put on 451 but India responded batting second with 63 for n and then it was uh hansum and uh Marsh I think called austral kept Australia
Just six down and and it was a draw uh the last test India won the toss they batted first got nearly 500 against South Africa and they didn’t need to bat again sou 162 133 yeah I think uh South Africa worse than us at playing spin so you
Know yeah yeah so so it does suggest that that toss has become important now to quote or misquote Barry Davis speaking of Francis Lee worthy interesting very interesting it’s pretty much how they’ve been talking about about the ranchy Wicket isn’t it very interesting I don’t know anything about
Wi to be the other City what’s look what’s it looking like well it’s much drier and cracked than you’d expect this far out uh apparently just look at the at well it’s interesting isn’t it well it’s interesting that they’ve given bummer a rest and created a crack pitch I was
Reading this last night because based on those results and what I’ve read about the previous two tests it was quite a flat Wicket but then I was reading last night how it was going to be a trial by spin so they clearly said right bma’s not playing he’s not going to get us
Seven or eight wickets in the game so we are going to hand it over to the Spinners cre some cracked nightmare well you say that but but but then look at England’s team selction so on the one hand both Ben Stokes and olle hope have both come out and said on
The one hand five fingers yeah um I’ve said it’s a really interesting uh pitch it’s cracked there is one allegedly apparently according to them very long pronounced crack which pretty much is for a left-hander right where you crawly yeah right where a sema’s going to want want to pitch it
But and but if right hand uh okay duck it then one of the I know we got right hand left hand opening combo haven’t we yes you’re right thank you but good safe but then England’s selection has potentially got three seamers now because you’ve you’ve gone for Anderson who doesn’t get arrest
You’ve bought in hly Robinson so You’ got your wish there Bear yeah I think that’s not a bad choice uh you you’ve potentially got Ben Stokes to ball yeah who says he’s ahead of everything he expected Fitness wise there seems to be so much hype you know Ben Stokes his
Fitness uh but and then you’ve got bashier in for R armed R armed R armed so it’s it’s a much more classical 32 format and you’ve got Joe root potentially for England who’s done more work than he’s ever done in a series before with the ball and has got dodgy
Fingers or dodgy thumb I think there’s something he’s got a problem anyway and clearly has a problem with his with his bowling so you’ve almost set yourself up for a classic in you know a 3-2 attack as opposed to a 4-1 which is where they were where they started they’ve
Gradually edged their way from from 41 to 32 and and and three essentially isn’t you got two around as if Stokes canall and that’s a pretty balanced attack I don’t mind that at all I think that’s probably wise uh if it is if it’s going
To you got to think if it’s going to spin it’s probably going to break up it’s going to break up it’s probably going to be uneven bounce uh aie Robinson you know that’s my whole reason I think he probably the best equipped to take yeah advantage of uneven bounce
Because he bows from such a great height so don’t expect him to come up you get some Shooters you could get some lws he’s pretty accurate he’s not the quickest uh he’s got good little off cut gets it to go both ways so gets decent
Bounce if the pitch if there is any well there probably won’t be but I mean the probably the ones that will get people are the ones that squat probably um uh he’ll be itching to have a go and I think he might be reasonably successful um let’s hope so anyway I’m
You know all these Doom mongers I you know hendo last night on the WhatsApp group was just you know they just whining me up it’s just like oh we lost by so many runs yeah England are prone to do this I’ve done this all my life
But this is a team that is capable of bouncing back I think I think also what is the alternative strategy is it something we tried in the 80s or ’90s none of that worked and I saw that an article by Mark ramash in the guardian which I think SP Spar that debate we
Were having on the group well honestly listening to Mark RAB and getting advice from him on uh you know how to how how to play test Cricket is uh I don’t know what the the metaphor is it’s it’s a bit like you know himler saying well I’d be
You know don’t be quite so harsh on the on the minorities maybe not possibly edging towards an extreme analogy for the with apologies to Mark rast should he ever actually listen to this podcast very unlikely but I mean who would you who would you choose who would be the
Person you’d choose least to to to to to give a balanced commentary on how to keep morale up when you were you when when you were playing test match cricket scored a imaginative runs in in C very technically brilliant cricketer but could not could just could not step up
And not helped of course as we all know by the fact that he was around with by the English management time after time I time think he was dropped and P back about in out in out in out in out you know exactly yeah so I just I’m
Not going to listen to mark ramash on this subject it’s just it’s absurd um I daning on the other hand if you want to know how to do an American smooth Mark R is your man abs every day of the week that’s the point isn’t it I
Mean a test match I think all test matches start at the same point and you have to take each one in isolation and when you start a new test match you have to forget what’s happened in the previous one cuz everything starts from zero again you’re not in a shitty
Position you’re in a position to start winning the game from the off which is absolutely what McCullum and Stokes say you can’t do about anything about what’s gone you look relentlessly positively forward to the next one and you are not out of series you w-1 you’re 2-1 down
With two to play if you get the right result here we have a decid and it’ll be exciting even a draw here you get exciting but you know totally now his point is when someone said well perhaps they should have just you know
Rained it back a bit on the on on on the fourth morning you said no because the minute you start minut you say we’ll do this unless this happens you introduce the element of death and it’s much easier for cricketers just much easier for them maybe not every decision is
Going to be right but it’s a split second game if they very very clear on what the vision is it enables them to execute it and of course sometimes it won’t work but at least you know exactly what the strategy is you’re not double thinking yourself exactly and one of the
Problems there as I said earlier I think his be sto actually looks completely all at sorts C’s got his number he can’t pick never scored a ton in a test in India no uh and he doesn’t look like it either does it I mean he looks of sorts
Uh you know had the series gone out there and Brooks been fit I’m not sure Johnny would have played cuz folks is clearly the better keeper and he’s done really well behind the stumps he’s not scored many runs but then his job is at number seven and it’s not always for him
To score the runs he had a vital partnership with Pope didn’t he in that first test he didn’t score loads of runs but he allowed Pope to get to 196 and for England to create a winning situation and everyone else is there isn’t there a bit of a question with be state
Uh not just this India tour but has he actually been anything like the same player since he had that horrible leg fracture playing golf uh he’s not made a Sentry in 25 International matches but he did make 99 at Old Trafford in the ashes give him that uh so and he’s never
Made 100 in India but he’s gone 25 International games without without a ton I guess they include the World Cup in that that thank you to the to to the times but though that doesn’t feel like a sudden drop in form that feels like well now like a like a like a a
Sustained period of decline not not a not a not it depends I mean if he’s got a few 50s and I cut the 60s and 70s and he’s he’s got 99 is that really someone doesn’t get a ton C didn’t score a ton for how many years three years or
Something you know I mean it’s like as long as they scoring runs I mean the problem with be is always in an out form isn’t he I mean one minute he’s blasting it around everywhere and he’s brilliant and the next minute he can’t hit anything for tofy
And’ll probably take when um Harry Brooke comes back anyway I would imagine that’s probably a fairly straightforward swap well will it because then they’ll come back to England and they’ll drop folks and B go back behind the stumps you imagine and then really yeah unfortunately that’s what they’ll do
They don’t you know they’ll see bear as a better option as attacking at seven than blah blah blah it’s what yeah but a quick word for for folks who has been I think uh maybe not quite Immaculate but excellent behind the stunts and and some of it has been very
Unflashy wicketkeeping just very classical Wicket keeping there was one he took standing up and he just let the ball he just caressed it into his gloves and and took it in a way that you know a part-time wik keeper just doesn’t do that cuz they approach it with harder
Hands I’m sure Gary would be able to wax more lyrical than I on the subject but uh it’s he’s he’s he’s been he’s been superb in this dto highest score this series 37 and that was quite early on wasn’t it Joe root if I’m right is it
Higher score of 29 for he’s got an average of 12 and a half in this series Joe that’s that is a worry more overs and he’s got runs you know there’s there and you can add to you know everybody wants Joe root to do well his place
As such he not in question I think be perhaps he lucky with Lawrence CHP chomping at the bit um or champing he’s champing or chomping which is it champing this is champing can you not Chomp it a bit as well probably the traditional saying is champing all right
Champing bit academic because he’s not playing so let’s move on whether he Champs whether he Champs or Chomps I’m not sure it matters I’ve lost my thread now with champ ch debate oh root yeah root you’ve got to add to Root’s Wes a little bit the the two drop catches the one being
Particularly you know when they conceded that big first Innings lead if you were to take off 80 90 runs which is probably what the roit drop cost it did yeah it would be quite a different game You’ game been a very uh and you can go back to the ashes and
You can look at the drops from beow I think in the the second ashes test where again I’m everyone said oh it’s the overnight declaration what are we doing what are we doing no if you don’t if you if you if if you drop batsman to go on to make massive scores the
Next I mean you say you can say should have would have could have all the way through though I mean if axella CAU o Pope on 110 in that first test match instead of letting get to 196 and he was also dropped on about 180 you probably
Wouldn’t won that first test you know drops happen in cricket uh as much as you don’t like them to they do yeah ask ask Louie yeah he will tell think do you not think guys there’s and I know well this is a slightly vexed question there’s a there’s kind of a
Bigger issue as well is the about the future of test cricket and it does feel as if England’s approach has got to be the way forward um otherwise people will gradually just lose interest in in test cricet we can’t go back to the was played in the 60s and 70s and I know
That it’s getting under people’s noses particularly when Ducket says something like o I think jawell I think jawell was taking notes on our approach is obviously cwell and probably just a bit of PR of course it was don’t don’t buy into that at all but there is a big
Picture about what what is the future of test cricket and obviously we would much rather watch the English approach than uh than even the classical test approach you you know because um young people need to get interested in test crickit again this episode is brought to you by
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Stats this is my super stat of the day which I’ll I bet you’ve already heard but I’m going to tell you I’m going to give it to you anyway there are four men in first class history who’ve had decent number of games behind them who first
Class this is so tests and and and other first class games who have a batting average above 70 okay the first is Dom Bradman yes who had 28,000 odd runs and a first class average of 95 95.4 do you know who the next three are well I was going to say Herbert suck
Cliff but he’s probably just gone down the list a bit these days as he maybe was this is first class not tests not well s is the fourth I know that man yes yes we all knew that they were telling us that in the last test you
Know I mean here jawell okay I’m going to put put you out your misery jawell is second yeah from 2019 2,700 runs first class average of 77.317118 as you rightly said bear is fourth with with nearly nearly 71 and the reason I think that’s interesting cuz that kind of goes back
To that jsha comment about um not over prioritizing the IPL now I realize that that’s you know biting the hand that feeds and you got to take it with a pinch of salt but I think what he’s saying there is you know you’re talking about players who
Who grew up in what do they call the area in Bay the maidens or the madans or or whatever mid yeah the maidans that’s huge area of nothing but Cricket pitches you know getting facing 6700 balls every day what they call that Bombay mentality is if is if you you know batting is
Everything you die to B you just don’t give your Wicket away it doesn’t necessarily mean you have to be dull doing it and look at jawell who is is is is in every you know you telling me on this current form he wouldn’t walk into the England team yeah he’ have be he’d
Be B he’s got basball written all over him in terms of mentality but with a solid technique of knowing when and how to deploy it that I think is the issue isn’t it also I mean you have to look at J well both SRA s scored Those runs at
Home J well scor majority of his ones at home you know those guys the test for them is when they go somewhere if they come to England the ball’s nibbling about are they going to be any good yeah if they’re good they will work it out if
They’re not they will struggle abroad I mean there are many players who struggled abroad uh and it could be quite telling look at shman Gill I mean shman Gill was another one who was you know fited to be whatever but you look at that first innings in that last test
He was all over the shop got a bit Lucky in the second Innings as well and ended up getting a score I think the thing is is this is not a binary thing it’s not either you not either Chris tavar or your your Ben duck it’s you either
Identify t or duck it exactly there’s a great reservoir of great T cricketers somewhere in between and say if you had I think I read this say if you had alist cook who was 20 an aliser cook who was 25 and was averaging 55 or 60 in county
And could make runs in India and and and as we know can make runs in India are you’re not going to pick him as you as your opening batsman now just because he he doesn’t fit a an imaginary stereotype of what basball is I think he probably would get a game
Because he’s not um he’s not Dom Sibly he’s not you know a strike rate of 25 sorry who was this this is oh yeah yeah yeah if he comes he’s not Dom SI with a strike rate 25 he’s probably got a strike rate of maybe 45
Now does that mean you don’t pick him as part of this England team it’ be extremely solid opener and he’d set you up difficult isn’t it because I don’t know if they would even they might not look at him in this instance I mean it would be crazy not to
But that’s all with hindsight isn’t it I mean it’s it’s like I do wonder that I do wonder that um Jonathan tro would he would he have got to run in this F probably what he’ do Jonathan Trot would basically dig a hole towards Australia in that some of these Indian
Pitching when he starts away at hisk alist cooku went on to score 13,000 some runs or something like that for England uh you know obviously a limited player in some ways but England’s top scorer of all time how about Jeff boycott he wouldn’t get a game I yeah that’s an interesting one a
Boycott possibly I think I mean I suspect were Jeffrey here he would argue well I might have a different approach these days no he would you can’t judge he certainly wouldn’t but history would suggest he might find it difficult whereas Alistair Cook I think it strikes
Me more as someone who could adapt I mean yes he played to his limitations but he played to his limitations they ask to adapt would or way they say you do your game and we’ll play around you I was about to say you do have sort
Of 10 baz Ballers and and S Alis St cook to baz around I I think that’s a really interesting thought well that’s what they should do with Joe root isn’t it I mean that’s what Joe root should sit in this side and we’ve been saying this for
ages is Joe root to just be Joe root he scores quick enough anyway when he wants to uh he does no need to do some of these stupid shots I mean I like watching him do those stupid shots and I don’t mind if he does them when he’s on
80 uh and we’re in a very good position but I’d rather he didn’t do them we’re still 200 runs behind and what we could really do with is a big ton get you know get with him 50 and then you can afford to lose a wicket sort of deal you know
It’s like uh it is tricky because I love Joe rout and I don’t really want to criticize him but I do get frustrated with him giving it away on the flip side of that bumra has had his number as four he said and bumra is a Class Act and yes
And he’s not going to be play in this test so it’s going to be interesting well we also got very excited or you my analogy for this was always the articles forthy that appear in the Watford Observer which says who’s not playing for the opposition and then we go out and lose
To whoever the they play anyway and you know we got very we get very excited we got excited about Ashwi not playing didn’t we and then what happened he could take a day off uh they rattled through us anyway oh you know what so what it doesn’t matter play what’s in front of
You not not not not that’s it You’ said what’s in front of you will be good that’s true but what I’m not so worried about is their Spinners because they have plans for Spinners they’re aggressive and if it goes wrong it does go wrong but they are able to get on top
Of the Spinners I mean a lot of the strike rates of spinners you know you don’t expect to dja and Ashman be G at fours and fives and over and they consistently managed to do that throughout the series with the exception that previous in the last Innings of the
Last game but that was pretty much lost anyway soon as Ducket got stupidly run out you knew a game with the gig was up basically um but they have managed to score runs I mean they’ve got they’ve got ax Patel out out the frame haven’t they literally because partly going back
To what I said at the beginning they haven’t created bunson burs and actually tell actually just bows flat darts and if the Wicket offers something he offers variation but if he doesn’t it’s actually quite easy to play there’s no lot variation in his flight he just BS
Flat and fast and allows the pitch to do stuff so if the pitch isn’t doing anything no biggie uh J is a wildy old Fox but he’s been hit as well and Ashwin hasn’t had it all his own way the person who has made the difference the Indian
Side for me has been Jasper Boomer he’s got crucial wickets at crucial times and and and they they’ve not missed Coy at all in a way possibly could AR in a way yeah but because because the Jazz world has been so excellent with the bat they
Bought in s r when they lost kale rul and he’s done fantastically to go back to the you know J Shar and his comment about you know really valuing first class experience if they’d been playing nothing but IP I doubt that they’ve been able to to do what they have done and
India knows very well that that that why that is important and and that’s where that J comment come from the other one that’s interesting by the way I think it was just in the last test and it proves that for years we were going oh who’s going to open with aliser cook who’s
Going to open with Alis cook our openers are a problem we haven’t got openers we had duck and uh Le not duck and Le we had Le and Si oh my God in in the last test the first three Partnerships for England scored more runs than the all
The other 17 Partnerships combined yeah yeah you know Ducket Crawley and Ducket put on 89 Ducket Pope on well mention of Ducket and Pope there um are two of the wickets that fell in the uh first session of this extremely exciting fast moving test match you just
Can’t take your eyes off it um England will resume having won the toss and elected to bat on 112 for 5 it’s been a a morning full of events and I’m joined I think by Messi J and by chrishna ah morning um let’s let’s get your view on the uh considerable events
Of the morning just incredible incredible a very very fast moving test match and uh the odds for a draw must be pretty low now I’d say I think so well juder is in and folks is Off the Mark with a positive stroke he gets L on powery
Turns it around the corner for two uh he he moves 22 off his first ball 14 for five I I thought India bowled very very well and their reviewing was spectacularly good good despite the fact that they’ve used two of them up um as Jud just in again left arm round to the
Right-handed folks uh just defended no run still India won’t attack though they’ve just got the one slip and the man at silly Point as we see Ben Stokes getting the definition of an unplayable ball last before lunch as uh folks drives but with no timing and jadea
Fields off his own bowling so this is a the end of an over so um just be five balls we’ll see before they turn around and jadea beats folks there he was back to a ball he should have come forward to and ended up sort of nudging a bat
Across to the ball the only connection he was going to make with that was to get out but uh it’s early in his Innings we can forgive him a certain hesitancy but forward defensive to the next ball it’s the end of the over 114 for five I’m sure jez were getting some reaction
On the tweet twet yeah Fong’s with us he says fourth Innings concerns some say team tier will be batting for a good hour or so today and we’ll be looking to only back once however if the unknown quantity gets his chance to bowl well then the scenario may change you won’t
Let go of that bone will you and we got a super chat from sigar parar here in Perth uh a little Super Chat to get the afternoon session flowing thank you sigar uh I think you’re joining us on air during this says too aren’t you he
Says with rooted uh stranded as the only Bon Bonafide batter no disrespect to folks I agree England will be all it and then I wouldn’t be surprised if India were three down by the close of play that could be a very good call it might be a good call um speaking of calls
Krishna what is a good score on this pitch well yeah I mean this is one of those games um you don’t know what a good score is until both teams have added but I’m at the moment I’d say 200 yeah I’m feeling anything above 200 England would
Bite your hand off for but it might actually not be a bad score but Joe ruse is playing on a different plane to every other batsman that we’ve seen just gets one slightly outside off stump from Ashman and he plays it late which has been a mark of this Innings and uh he
Picks up two off the full face of the bat backwards of Point um yeah there’s uh you’re not playing any kind of shot to that one Ben Stokes that a ball literally hit him on the ankle as uh as he played back it’s just is going to get
Worse isn’t it if it’s doing that well I’ll come to that in a moment um root just nudges it into the leg side I um as regular listeners will know I’m I’m not one to be short of a theory or two as uh root helps himself to a single
India have conceded too many singles like that I think in the in this uh test match so so far and he gets he gets one I’m just wondering whether the roller that goes on the pitch in the change of innings whether that’ll quieten it down for an hour and then and then there’ll
Be the roller at the start of the day two if India are batting later today and I think that hour of play When the roller is calmed it down may be an opportunity for jwell and and others to make hey when the sun shines so to speak
And look to get you know score at a run a ball over that that hour which could be make a huge difference in the Test match as uh folks just nudges this into the leg side this I’m never quite sure what rollers do so um I may be wrong in
That but is there anything in that Krishna I think so I think that settles down the pitch and India will get too cracked at the roller on the pitch so I think that’s a great Theory you’ve got there and uh folks just nudges that to
The man who like to see it silly mid on there in the eyeline as Ash this game set up for bad ball so he just nudges that this Ben folks into the leg side and they threw for a single what’s your what’s your your view of that then Krishna because there is a
Sense in which people say basball only works on flat pitches with Juke balls but no no my theory here is that there’s a there’s a ball there with your name on it as as received so um you mitigate that risk by scoring as quickly as you can and put as
Much as you can on the board as as um besto did and as um Bry did as well yeah that’s what I think and I think I think what India will do is once the ball is over pitched as jadea is in and that’s an over pitched Ball but uh folks can do
Nothing with it fielded on the leg Side by Ashman there is no run I think as soon as the ball is there for the drive I think India will drive and he’ll drive hard as uh Judes in that is full to the extent of I think it being a full toss
But folks can only get it to Mid off and there is no run the danger ball on this pitch is the one that’s hitting the top of off stump and that’s where England should concentrate as indeed did aash deep uh Juda takes the outside edge of
The bat there from folks and it just skews to the right hand of roit who is at first I think it’s roit at first slip doesn’t usually feel in the slips so um it may be another folks on three off 11 Juda quick in his work this folks lets that go
Through to the keeper who’s not been as good as he was in the first test as uh Dural but um good enough might be a function of the difficulty of the pitch yeah a big full toss there from jit AIA and he just pushes it as uh folks to Mid off and
They through for one uh it was a tight single but um folks took it he knew he was running to the danger end and uh gets root on strike I did think it was a bit chy of Ducket to say that um the Indians are batting with b ball in
Mind J well and Co aren’t batting because they understand basball they’re batting because that’s how they’ve been brought up to play yeah he’s he’s a bit of a Ru Ru to yeah he a ruing to himself jce well he would have been out there Ben folks with a hit and he wasn’t that
Far away from with sage there from running him out so that was an error that England got away with this route turns this office pads to an open space on the leg side and they isue the second run there and no wonder cuz it have been run
Out by half the length of the pitch uh so route batting serenely on 20 England 120 for5 is there any Serenity in our social well there isn’t our socials because Jos Oak says just to point out I predicted five wickets down by lunch which you did and I acknowledge that on
YouTube mind you broken clock and all that you know yeah uh once once in a while um I I’m going through a bit of cognitive dissonance cuz I’m simultaneously watch you a T20 between Australia and New Zealand being paid on a pocket the handkerchief oh I know I
I’ve stopped looking at um scorecards from T20 cuz so much seems to depend on where the boundaries are now you look at a score that’s a hell of a match 220 for7 plays 27 for four and and you look at it and well you know it it’s the boundaries behind the
Keeper are 50 m oh God Snick for six are very it’s Eden Park isn’t it yeah yeah well it’s always been a little bit like that as root just n nurdles this round the corner and there is no ran fa Eden looks at size Ashwin again is on leg stump and rotth again
Knocks him to backward square and there is no run yeah Eden Park’s always had sort of funny boundaries hasn’t it it’s sort of oblong shapes so there weird kind of Corners isn’t there at Eden Park there ashwin’s in again round the Wicket to rout again it’s on leg stump again
It’s pushed into the leg side and again there is no run he’s uh playing with fire here Joe playing on the back foot you think as’s going to get one to spit or or or just keep low just keep low yeah round a wicket again is Ashwin this is a little
Wider of up stump and root usually in this Innings he’s got that one side of the or the other of the Fielder but instead he just picks out the man there a short extra and therefore it’s another dot to ashwin’s collection as uh this time he does get
The single to the right hand of uh the man running in from the jonty roads position a bit of a scrappy return not taken very well by Durell and a single is taken rout goes to 21 off 50 England 121 for five it’s terribly hard work batting out
There of course earlier today we had Akash deep take a wicket first Wicket with a no ball yeah Englishmen have done that right Mark Woods done oh yeah I think stes did it yeah yeah I think uh Stokes has done it at least twice I can recall um folks playing positively there
He gets one on the leg stump uh half volley and he punches it rather than drives it to deep midwicket and they’re through for two so England are retaining a positive mindset here that’re 123 for five hard work but positive mindset have we got any positive mindsets on the socials Messi well SAR
Paka reminds us in case you missed it this morning that Ryan hared had to fly back to England for family Ur emergency uh and there’s no replacement being named so it may well be back for the fifth test Adrian Lo no he’s not he’s he’s out for the whole tour they’re not
Bringing him back oh is he yeah uh says morning doomed uh mik says Eden Park was where England roll out for 58 in 2018 so I wonder why they couldn’t get many boundaries those 50 m angles uh Jer is in and this is defended uh no run I mean
That was a Nadar wasn’t it as uh Jer in again and root punches a ball that’s wide of off stump to the man coming in from the cover boundary who’s sweeping and he does his job by keeping it to one so route ticking over 22 of 52 and after
The high Jinx of the last session England have just taken a little bit of the heat out of the game but this is a pitch in which you’re never in so it’s a pitch in which you can go rat a tat and lose three or four wickets in a in a
Hurry as England already have uh folks goes back when he should be forward but gets away with it defending it into the offside does he have a reputation of being able to play spin V uh this is defended and there is no run well I’m
I’m not aware of it but in general you always think Wicket keepers are going to be better playing spin because they spend a a lot of time looking at spin bowling from pretty PR much the same place as they’re looking at it when they’re batting it goes back again
There’s folks to a ball he should be forward to uh but gets away with it jabbing the back down no run I think as you said earlier about rout I think this back foot play from folks is asking for trouble cuz one’s going to snake through the gate here as
It comes forward this time does folks and there is no run it’s a swift over from jadea England 124 for five uh kiwi by day says I’d love to be listening to you gillers but New Zealand is being plased all over Eden Park right now yes uh Australia are 84 for two after
6.4 overs I think something like that uh it’s just ridiculous and that’s not necessarily a good score no Eden part you just never know well you’ll know at the end of the match but I I I take your point I take your point chrishna it’s very hard bringing in the summarizer
When J and Ashman are bowling cuz there ain’t much room for them so jump in when you can and now’s an opportunity how it was but ashwin’s in a again and this has defended no run so um thoughts well I’m just reflecting on ashwin’s number 99 on the back of his
Shirt because this is his 99th test and he got bestto out in his 99th test as well yes he’s looking anything but flaky as well as Ashwin uh he goes back does rout and he punches this it’s a good looking stroke when he does that but detuning the risk he didn’t punch it
Hard and therefore it’s just two into the covers rather than a four um he’s looking very composed here Jo Jo the more traditional Jo Ru that I’m used to seeing in love so much yeah he’s um he’s playing each ball on its merits and he’s looking to advance the score with
Singles and twos uh he gets one on very full and uh again almost to make my point there I think he would have been looking to hit that to the boundary for most of this series but instead he’s happy just to drop a bat on it pretty much and uh
Get two for his troubles into the leg side he goes to 26 Ashman just slightly losing his length here if we’re ranking the big four now root Williamson Coy and Smith how would we rank them well Williamson’s in a golden golden run of form um three centuries in a row or four
I think three in a row but he this is Def defended by root back with a point no run every time Hees seven centuries yeah seven seven or eight centuries since the last time he scored between 50 and 100 it’s crazy Smith looks to be struggling
A little bit for for touch yes as uh root just ndles this uh to point and scampers a single uh England go to 129 for five Coy had that run of bad form didn’t he and he came back and started making centuries again and now he’s obviously Miss missing the whole of
The series but there’s good news uh recently so um I presume he’ll be back soon for India after the IPL as folks goes back Jabs the back down on it no run um he and his Bollywood wife have had a baby boy and uh in in London I
Believe so that will be a very very good-looking male cricketer yeah so a is okay qualified for England qualified for England is it Rod Stewart flew didn’t Rod Stewart fly Alana back to Glasgow so his son would be able to play football for Scotland I
Think that that was uh once a thing um but uh but yes jez have you got any more lighting up feeds yeah says about time for it’s reverse ramp isn’t it uh and Adrian Lo says only day one feeling more positive now yeah and J’s in and rout does the
Old Duncan Fletcher press there to the spinner where you take one step and then you just come forward again to the ball defended he looks very much more secure than Ben folks to the spin comes forward again and just touches that into the leg side and there’s some quick work from
Jell running around from Wicket keeper to stop the single it’s all very quiet more comfortable when when roots on his front foot playing those balls yeah J just in again and uh little bit short and rot was looking to get it one side or the other of backward point but he
Ends up hitting it straight to him there is no run I’ve been looking at some rangi trophy games big scores for pajara and others um it’s great to see the treat those rang truffy games because there some some of them are real batting paradises yeah this is defended there is no run
But I think it’s great that puara has gone back into domestic C Cricket both in India and in England and is giving the benefit of his considerable experience to younger players uh this ball is defended again there is no run um and by all accounts he’s enjoying his
Cricket which is which is good to hear cuz I don’t think he I don’t think he plays IPL does he pajara so good on him for for going back back to the domestic stuff this is defended quicker ball from jadea and it’s the end of the over
England 11 129 for five root doing a little bit of gardening and it’s a bit of traditional Cricket this is what we grew up on isn’t it jez oh well I don’t know about you I had to put up with the 60s test Cricket uh Gary
Yeah that was even worse that was pretty Dar a lot of it um I can tell you that Australia are 102 for two off 8.3 overs I think uh give you an idea what’s going on elsewhere yes that’s very that’s very 21st century uh cricket there yes yeah
Just a comment about your remarks about pajara I’m always always have a doubt about a player who’s retired or or will never play test Cricket again sorry I pa this is uh defended to Mid on by folks no run yes he’s passing on his experience
But is he taking up a spot that a young player could take yeah I’ll I’ll come to that as um he rocks back those folks and uh that’s fielded a short extra um my view is that in England and in India where there are lots of teams playing
First class Cricket that is an argument which I think is hard to sustain this is just punched to the man at silly midon there is no run I think in jurisdictions like Australia where I think there are only the six State sides playing In First Class Cricket I think that is more
Of a valid argument but not in India and not in England as uh this is punched by Ben folks it was a half volley again on leg stump by Ashwin and it’s fielded by uh Akash he must be fancying a bowl again it’s a while since he’s bowled he
Was the man of the moment with Akash deep but um he has had a bowl for a good to a couple of hours now uh single folks very true about Australia only 66 club cricketers uh this ball is pushed by root who holds the stance of his forward
Defensive into the leg side and there is noan and and I always felt bad about Ricky Ponting after he had finished test Cricket he just stayed in the Tasmanian side for a few years after that I thought un necessarily yeah maybe so um as this ball is pushed into the leg side
And they’re scampering a single this is good strike rotation from England at the end of the over 131 for five so it’s a recovery of s here from England and indeed the pitch seems to have gone to sleep a little compared to the high jinkx before
Lunch uh like some of our listeners I suspect uh sigar says at least dingham will surpass the number of overs they lasted in the fourth Innings of the third test fingers crossed uh yeah I think there’s a good chance that they will The Listener going to sleep I don’t
Mind I’m a bit more worried about the commentators particularly the one who’s talking now going to sleep all you got to do is replay yourself to yourself gar that’ll keep your away even I would Quail at such solipsism but I do take the [Laughter] point I’ll ask you a question about a
Couple of English cricketers car here’s Jer and uh root is punching this to the man sweeping surely unnecessarily on the offside and they’re through for a single yes what question might you have yeah so um I think I mentioned last time Cricket Australia have a YouTube channel now
Called Cricket gold where they play these archival games yeah yeah yeah one of the games they showed had um John Morris in the England team and Wayne lens yeah uh this is juder and uh just hit into the leg side and or edged into the leg side
There is no run yeah um I remember Wayne lenss but I I cannot remember John Morris well John Morris’s main claim to fame is I think he was in the um in the aircraft with David GA when they buzzed the ground in 1984 was it I’m not sure
Uh as this is defended and there is no run I think he played for Glamorgan John Morris he wasn’t a particularly heavy scorer in um domestic Cricket but he had his chance in test Cricket I think he probably played Four tests but I think it counted against him that he was uh he
Was uh in the airplane with GA that time this is defended and there is no run um I may be mixing him up to some extent with Hugh Morris who uh was also a batsman in domestic Cricket who went on to be a significant administrator in the
English game this is defended and there is no run um but I think that was John Wayne Lins was of a different order Wayne Lins was an absolute um master in domestic cricket and indeed I think he played well in some one day games for England but he never quite was able to
Break through and become become a consistent test match player that Ball’s defended there is no run known as Ned was Wayne loins played for North hence and he had every shot in the book and would have fitted perfectly into the baz ball era as an opener who would look to
Score four five and over particularly once he had his eye in but I don’t think he ever really came through in test matches although I’m sure he scored some centuries in ODI when a century and ODI really was a a matter of some remark I’m just looking at John moris
You’re right he only played three tests and eight Odis but he did play 362 first class matches made 21 a half thousand runs here’s ashin in again and this is punched back to him by route and there is no room he would have played a lot in the days of three-day uh cricket
In count Championship being 30 matches or so so it seems outrageous now but it wasn’t so much at the time this is uh run off the face of the bat to backward Point by Joe root and there is no run so England are transferring the pressure
Back onto themselves here but I think it may be a smart move what about Wayne Lin I would guess he played 10 test matches and 100 Odis but I’m guessing I’ll check for you as root um punches this to midwicket and there is no run did they
Look good Krishna lens always look good when he was scoring runs yeah lens looked good um John Morris he was moved up and down the order depending on resting or who was injured he opened a few games he batted at four or five defended no
Run uh Wayne lens had 13 test matches as an average of 20.5 yeah didn’t make it and 20 25 Odis an average of 24 I thought he had more Odis than that but it does show he was a huge achiever in the domestic game but couldn’t make it internationally AR Root’s been looking
For that full top that full ball on leg stom but again he’s happy to push it really rather than drive it into the leg side and it’s Akash Deepu somewhat unusually I think for opening bowler is um boundary riding on the leg side why would you have your opening bowler
Covering the the long yards of the uh Outfield things are done differently these days so that’s why he’s there two for uh root who goes to 31 and um this is just pushed off the hip of Joe Rus who helps himself to a a single and goes
To 32 this is a beautifully constructed Innings from Route let’s hope he continues 135 534 gone lens also scored 27,000 runs in 482 first class matches an average of 38 something like that 34 34 not as good as I thought another 13 and a 12,485 list a matches yeah that’s a long
Career yeah so would a player who’s averaging 34 even get a look into the test team nowadays uh no but you know averages were different um and especially in first class crickets to say there were limits on first Innings and this ball is punched to uh the man at Mid on and
There is no run um run scoring wasn’t so heavy so you know you look you look at you know great batsmen in test Cricket like David G I think he averaged 44 Robin Smith 43 Mike Adon 37 I think as said this ball is defended and there is
No run um we they all have Peak periods when their averages are up over a period of time too and there has been a bit of um a reduction in average scores over the last couple of years in test Cricket this is punch to the man at Extra cover
And there is no run um but we did we did have a couple of decades I think really where if you weren’t averaging 45 you were probably looking over your shoulder as a top four bat or top five bat this ball is defended and it is no run and
You know every every test SE side seem to have somebody who was averaging 50 or more well you know I think those days have gone Jade is in again and this is defended there is no run and certainly say this pitch sorry I was just about to
Say I must say this pitch is looking very pleased now the morning session it’s it’s gone to sleep again isn’t it I mean it is who knows with pitches they really do have kind of personalities and capric in them this is down the leg side and root misses out on that he should
Have missed the Fielder with that one cuz it was a bit of a free hit but he didn’t he hit the Fielder 135 for five we’ve got five minutes left as a group so um do you want to say anything now is your chance yeah yeah I was just saying
We’ll call Ja and hide PID yeah it might be it it could well be um yeah it’s very quiet on on the socials it’s interesting Joe root for example has played 138 test matches but only 68 other first class games yeah um oh well I mean he started
He was 20 I think when he came in he hadn’t played much for Yorkshire before that and obviously a player of his stature is required an nor well he did play all three formats for a long time uh there’s never going to be a huge amount of uh first class cricket
Available to players like rout in the future I mean how many how many first class matches will jwell play that are not test matches I mean if has he how many has he played now if he’s played 10 I’d be surprised if he plays 20 in in the next 10 years i’ be
Surprised J played 22 first class matches they that include test matches sorry including the seven tests yeah so I wasn’t far off was I 15 matches well he won’t play many more in the rangi trophy or or for India a or whatever he’s played for before as we
Got a change of bowling and it is the man I was calling for and instantly there’s a misfield and uh England will take two from that and it was his fellow opening bowler who Mis fielded it and it’s very much been the man of the morning who is
Uh bowling now if I can find him or maybe I can’t let me have a look here there he is believe Me yes I got to say um SJ is objectively the the worst fielder in the Indian team oh I think Ashman takes that but um two slips and a gully for um Ben folks I think if I got three wickets in my first spell of test cricket and uh
The the opposition 130 odd for five and I’ve been given two slips in a gully I’d say come on skip I want a couple more wouldn’t you well you did take three wickets on your first spell today of course Gary yeah yeah I I I I I did
Indeed and uh he by the way does um Akash have the pointiest beard in test Cricket well co could get very pointy couldn’t it but um yes there’s a certain piratical look about Akash deep as uh this is very full and again Ben folks is in full scale defensive mode because
That was a half volley that should have been punched through Extra cover but he just knocked it straight back where it came from and there is no run and I’m not complaining about that I mean I there’s a time and a place when you’re you’re looking to score boundaries and
Ben folks correctly has decided that um even if the boundary ball is there to hit he’s not going to hit it but we’re seeing here just how brilliantly uh Akash deep controlled length and that’s what Ole Robinson should be looking at every ball top of off stump and he’s in
Again on a perfect length and folks nudges it to the left hand of short midwicket and there is near ran Kash is from Bengal and um same team as mesh Kumar who played earlier in the season but I don’t think I don’t think we’ll see mes Kumar in no he looks he
Looks a notch or two above uh m Kumar I mean distances are hard for us to to understand in India because you know merat projection on maps and stuff like that um as uh aash is in again defended there is no run I mean in my mind’s eye
I’ve got kind of Bengal and rangi and um Ranchi being roughly in the same neck of the woods but you’re probably going to tell me they’re 800 miles apart now or something I know Bengal’s a region and ranch is a is a city but yes sanchi is in the state of jarand
Um neighboring Bengal so they are quite close quite close so he’s he’s not quite as local as uh Ms ston was but um he’ll have some some support from his the Northeast part of India Randy trophy theme is Bal it’s another shout for lbw but unlike previous shouts which have
Gone up with a conviction of a a lay preacher in the United States that was more of an quiry and uh folks survives it 137 for 5 I’ve survived my spell on the mic and uh I’m out that you got that answer in the context of Australian distances by English standards the 41
Kilometers between Ranchi and Kata is quite a long way it is it is and I’m going quite a short way into the green room and hopefully not falling asleep agents Gary’s departed Baltic would not be the way you describe it the bear equally less btic has settled himself
In and uh slightly more btic than slightly more well I mean yes that’s a that’s a low bar be yeah I would admit it’s a low bar where is Will are you going to turn I’ll let him in he was there will you pop your
Camera on mate we want to see you and welcome you and say Hello uh it’s 137 for 5 112 for 5 it was at lunch so so far you could argue it’s hey will sit yourself that’s it so we can see defended by Joe root into the offside and there is no
Run so will welcome delighted to have you with us J in he Cals and that’s looked a bit uppish but it evaded short cover out towards uh man on the cover boundary they’ll take a single uh extraordinary morning um will uh it’s a reprieve and then a disaster
It’s just been an absolute Whirlwind to be honest I defended no run it’s slightly irritating kind of watching everyone sort of in the mainstream media kind of go ball’s dead you have to stop and it’s kind of like well turned around the corner Ashwin is
The Fielder on the 45 no run 138 for five yeah I mean one or two of the dismissals this morning were interesting Ben Stokes possibly could have got further forward but he he was out to a shooter I don’t think you can blame BB for that he was trying to defend this
Was defended out to uh midon cool deep Fields there’s no run just the one run off this jadea over so far he has the slip which is RIT onto the back foot goes folks punches but punches straight to short extra uh and that’s either sh Mill I get
Sh Mill and jawell confused cuz they both kind of tall rangy and and and wear floppy hats yeah sh and Gill you can recognize a little bit more I reckon uh 138 for five anyway at the end of the over uh be you must be on social I am oh
Look we got super chat hooray who is it and what are they saying uh it was MOG and he says play the Super Chat jingle again so obviously we’re going to play one of these you super no shiing unike the bucket hat well I should just warn you when we’re playing
Jingles you don’t always hear them when you’re remote yeah some you will some you won’t so I’ll sort of signal and let you I heard that one you did hear that one okay yeah well that’s that’s uh good to know we’re going to ask you a little
Bit about yourself in a minute we might have a bit of chance between deliveries cuz I cash deep who’s been fantastic leave us a bit of breathing space that one’s worked tidily off his hip down to co deep who is there at uh longleg they’ll take a single so just
Tell us a wee bit about yourself and your your your Cricket associations um so I uh I played for the sunset disabled team and then uh went uh up to Birmingham uni and entirely chose Birmingham cuz it meant that I live 10 minutes away from Edge Baston defended by folks no
Run yep and um and then played warshire oh and I had a couple of England caps as well when I was little little how little how little when you got your England C uh 16 and 17 that’s not so little that’s pretty impressive I mean it was kind of I don’t
Know feels a long long old time ago now well what join the club there’s a few of us say you look a little younger than us so it wasn’t so far away for you as it was for us the bear is still insist he could Bowl in the IPL absolutely and go
For less than eight and over uh yeah it’s there you go Akash Deep’s going to be in again he’s got the slip and aully and that’s steered out towards cover by folks and should they should take a single I would think uh so you play for England or
Under 17 then was it um no it was it was the England PD team right so uh but before any of the funding came in and it was basically run by chance to shine at that point well funded by then and um we trained quite a lot with the women right
And um I happened to be at the same Club as Ana shrub Soul so I used to metet with her quite a lot Akash deep in root plays that beautifully off his toes I don’t think it’s got enough legs to get itself up uh well Sage it is who hauls it
In and yeah it may have been half stopped on its way to the boundary they take two anyway it means there’s been four off this over so far I see you used to so you a batsman or a batter or a bowler primarily oh definitely bowler I
Uh can’t B for toffey okay at all um number 11 uh if I was lucky yeah I was about to say I thought he not that good yeah uh I mean in comes aash deep what a day he’s had and uh this is slash though if you’re short and wide doesn’t matter how
Well you’re bowling if you bowl a loose one Joe root uh you look up and there’s that 40 absolutely there he is cut through points quickly scores and looks like he’s just sort of strolling along getting kind of nothing and then you blink and he’s on 40 actually it was
Backward a point and uh yeah it was he just waited sort of a late cut really cut it superbly I mean we were worried over lunch we were chatting away and saying um in the in the green room and our fear was he’ll get to 40 OD but
He’ll run out of Partners oh that one’s through him though that was a fantastic Ball by Akash deep that just moved away enough and routy takes a sharp intake of breath cuz it went past his outside edge it’s the end of the over it’s uh 4 6 78
Have come from it uh 3 for 34 for Akash deep or 146 for five England they’ll take that after the clatter that uh preceded lunch and uh bear wow uh niton J is in he says hello folks bear is giving good competition to Akash and Coy in the pointy beard Stakes especially
Considering his experience thank you very much I like my pointy beard yeah it looks good the wife doesn’t she keeps threaten to cut it off well I was about to say if your wife’s got a pointy beard get her to shave it off don’t insult my wife I didn’t I said
If as this one was cut to backward point there was no run folks has done well though I think will he’s he’s he’s been careful and uh he’s done his job and let routy just keep the score ticking yeah and quite frankly if you’re that goodl look I don’t really care what you’re
Doing round the Wicket comes jadea and uh beautiful man with incredibly fast hands he he is a goodl looking man with fast hands uh from Epsom I think sort of my roughly my neck of the woods that’s past the outside edge into the gloves of Jerel who’s also as Wicket Keepers go
Look tidy he started the day off I think was was it the first or second ball with a d a dive away to his right and I thought they’ taken a wicket because I was on commentary at the time as this one’s slightly edgy but uh fielded sharply at Short
Third they’ll take a single and everyone run in and they were patching him on the back and I thought they didn’t get an edge did he England have lost a wicket but they hadn’t at this stage it was just such a phenomenal diving save that he
Made that uh I think somebody some Gill or someone came running in from the other side of the pitch complet yeah he did and I thought B me I’ve missed a wicket 147 for five England could be the in the hey Heights of 150 as this one defended away will what
Do you think’s a good score what would England be happy with well see you know in the first test I when they got um in defended into the onside sorry carry on will uh when they were sort of 280 in the first Innings and then I thought oh that’s that’s about PA and
Then you sort of saw what India did and it just completely sort of bip it so you know it’s it’s one of those things that I think in India you don’t really know until you’ve both had a bat the the old adage don’t know until both teams are battered yeah certainly looks
A lot easier after lunch I have to say but um maybe it’s definitely kind of got less demons in it than earlier but maybe because the ball’s getting softer 39 overs old now yeah the other challenge I think England will have and possibly OE Robinson will have
Um a Zak aep’s going to carry on and why wouldn’t he with three for 34 off his nine I’ll just hold the thought as he’s going to be in to Ben folks just the one sliit for him now well defended by folks to Mid on and there’s no run uh the
Problem OE Robinson hasn’t bowled since the ashes at least not in competitive anger yeah uh that’s about best part of eight months seven or eight months isn’t it because the ashes were in June remember it was all got out the way so we could get with the bloody hund the
Ashes were done and dusted by the end of end of mid July weren’t they that’s a long time to expect him to come in and make a huge difference here I reckon will yeah I think he’s I mean he’s got sort of everything that you
Need but if you haven’t got it in the tank then aash deeps in left watchfully alone through to Jerel by folks there’s no run yeah you’ve got to have the sort of miles in the leg or whatever all those kind of sort of I don’t know sayings and yeah yeah is and I
Mean I wonder how sort of what the sort of pitch side kind of conditions are how sort of humid it is down there cuz what’s that doing to the ball and kind of um also what ball are they using again is it SG and IND here isn’t it
Cabar in Australia SGS in India and Dukes of course in in in England Zealand I think I think New Zealand use a a du as well don’t they cook okay this one’s defended to midon no run by folks uh West Indies use a cooko do they sorry no West Indies use
A Juke okay it’s a different kind of Juke is yeah it’s got double lacquer on it or something to pitches I guess and I mean I’ve I’ve never B with an SG so I don’t know how much it kind of you know how how long it holds up and
All that sort of thing and also I’m not b in India so yeah there’s that um which is the big thing aashi any barrels that’s nicely played away between cover and Extra cover it’s not got the legs to get too far towards the boundary Jer BS it in uh and they will
Take two though 149 for five England was not quite we not in recovery territory fully but um they’re certainly making a decent fist of ship steadying let’s say that after that horrible morning in the late route sort of period this would be sort of dizzying heights in terms of
Runs uh in India definitely yeah yeah our last toour there was a disaster oh that oh as Captain yes I’m with you yes this one’s well defended by folks out to cover no run uh who was unluck Stokes You could argue was unlucky but potentially could have got a
Bigger stride in I think uh knowing that the ball was keeping low and jadea does have the capability to make the the ball shoot I thought bestto how was bestto I thought he was quite unlucky can you remember how yeah he was I thought Johnny B was unlucky it looked like it
Might have pitched outside leg but again it was just popon review that was lbw as well yeah uh Crawley batted well but had a life when he was on next to nothing that the no ball we thought that was the sliding doors moment yeah uh aash thought he’d got his first Wicket he
Hadn’t as that one was nicely turned off his legs to backward Square out gallops garage from the riding the boundary to field they take a single three from the over the 150 is up for England there a 150 for five Joe root England’s main hope here is being well supported by Ben
Folks as they try and recover uh and they’ve got themselves 150 for five not bad oh well nitt uh says another story of perseverance overcoming obstacles in Indian cricket there are very small forgotten towns in the bad lands and uh where that’s where Akash deep is from he
Tweets uh Quick Info story about it um he says before becoming known as the town that gave the world Ms dony ranchy was most well known for its huge insane asylum that’s good to know also land of waterfalls there’s loads of waterfalls in Reni and it’s one of the few Indian
Cities to have a British Battleship named after it oddly up onto his toes goes folks punches it into the ground it bounces up at point but there’s no run thought he just might have got not got on top of that but all was well from a Ben folks perspective Jer
In nicely defended by folks he’s getting plenty of turn Jer but it doesn’t look as somehow as Fierce or as sharp will as it had done before lunch I think I I mean it’s one of those things things that onto the back foot goes folks defends with the um you know the way
That this pitch kind of has I don’t know it seems like a it seems like they’ve kind of laid it in two separate kind of tracks uh yes well there’s there is you know what I mean cuz there’s on the on the off Sid there’s so many cracks and
Kind of all that sort of thing and it it just seems to completely D round the Wicket to the right-handed folks defended well this was the big conversation this is you’re absolutely right it it’s if you’re Ben folks so if you’re the right-handed Ben folks it’s
On your off side and it’s a strip of uh of um cracks of cracks basically defended Again by folks out towards cover uh Jer does not mess around he whips through his overs at some speed that was a maiden it’s still 150 for 5 route on 40 folks on 14 uh and speaking
Of cracks bear what have you got for us nothing nothing nothing nothing will come of nothing speak again it’s no no it’s it’s almost volcanic that surface you know you know when you see all those kind of like videos of volcanos when they’re all kind of bubbling up and there lava kind of
Thing it looks a bit like that and it seems really odd that it’s gone so Placid well Ben folks described it as interesting I mean you do wonder you know were England almost talking themselves into it being a Minefield and it’s taken this time to for them to realize well maybe it’s not
As mine Fieldy as we feared uh changing the bowling we’re going to see some Co deep who’s going to come into the attack he’s replacing aash deep so we’ve got a cool deep for an aash deep uh this partnership’s going well it’s 38 from the1 runs faced and called
Deep is going to be bowling to the former England Captain Joe root who lunges forward and defends back to him and there is no run can I have a jingle for him if you like yeah go on then I that science fiction He comes forward comes root rinse and repeat back to the bow and no Run didn’t play in the first test did he cool de but he made his Mark I think on the second he didn’t play in the second either didn’t he okay yeah you did actually about well I will let you know um once I find him what did he you’ve
Got me asking myself now whether he did or not well aa oh no no he did play in a second didn’t he because the man was in the second test was just AER yeah and he comes defended past the man who is at forward short leg and they’ll take a
Single uh yes at Visa puam uh he made eight KN out of 42 took three for 71 got Ducket folks and Ryan armed uh none uh who’s this uh K deep oh right yeah uh let me see then 4 for 24 at uh rajot in the first
Innings uh no four off 24 two for 77 I beg you pardon he took it rajot onto the back foot defended by folks and then two for 19 in that second Innings tumble of England got Stokes and Ryan armed again Ryan armed of course who
This morning we found out has uh had to go home for personal reasons defended into the offside by a very watchful Ben folks end of an over boy they whistle round quick uh just a one run from it 151 for five uh don’t come back to me
There’s nothing here not even on YouTube uh one comment on YouTube Brian brisman he sent some stuff for us oh oh Brian fantastic what a gentleman you are oh no uh the ship isn’t named uh for the town it’s named after rear Admiral Thomas ronchi is it who accidentally
Incidentally was a noted phander uh and then they realized that the name is a bit indelicate and changed it to HMS ranchy oh really that’s amazing how long do you think it took them before they realized I don’t know should we be calling a British naval battle fit ship Rony well maybe Rony
Came out of the phandra that was you know how words work out of the fander that was possibly Thomas ronchi uh I don’t know about Thomas R and then it became common parli and he’s not really sort of up there with Casanova in terms of my knowledge of runchy
People uh two slips a Google yeah have a yeah have a look and let us know will thank you as this one’s turned away Ashwin that uh inverted jot on his back how he spelling Roni what a r a u n c h y okay so is actually okay what do
We know about what was he who was Mr ronchie he was a rear Admiral he was a rear Admiral he’d have to be rear Admiral yeah it was a rear Admiral a rear not a front Admiral def rear adore with his 152 for five this partnership moved on to 40 42 for Joe
Root a cash deep in he comes and uh that’s worked away towards midwicket there’s no run what a start to the day what a start to his test career as he sent the off stump of Zack Crawley cartwheeling backwards with an absolute cracker of a delivery only to find to everyone’s surprise that
Rod Tucker slung out his arm and called him for a no ball since then he’s made up for it though will yes so what what have you found about the rear Admiral I’m I’m not going to lie um when you Google it it just comes up with all sorts of uh pill
Porn yeah pretty much I hope you’ve and then and then and then some tayor thrown in some tailor Sailors I think sailor oh sailor this was vented into the offside are you sure bear what well no you’re only look we got Mackie D sweet oh wow that must be the Brian and Brisbane
Delivery thank you so much Brian there’s s muffin in there um almost certain there will be what else would you do from a Macky D’s breakfast W exactly 152 for five England represents a real recovery 112 for five they were at lunch and when did the Wicket go
Down I can quickly tell you that it went down obw fall week they were 112 that was at lunch wasn’t it uh that one has uh somehow evaded the but it’s a fourth slip but there’s only two it’s leg by wow unire Kum karma karma karma K Kumar
D That’s what I was trying to go uh it was a oh it was high caught Ben folks on the upper thigh seemed initially to be going down leg but then skewed away beat the dive of second slip went all the way to the third man boundary
Four four sorry I was looking trying to find the uh four one of these two plus two Is nicely turned away by folks but straight to Ashwin is at midwicket no run on this occasion well its origin only started appearing it was only started using for the 1930 the word runchy yeah so I am going to look up rear Admiral Rony and find out when he
Was alive because maybe that was well I’ve got be honest I’ve found I I I I looked at a number of sites to find out stuff about Ranchi and they all mentioned the battleship so it could be that our oh I say that shot straight drive and it knocked the
Stumps down uh I think we can safely say will there was uh no hand involved from aash deep but it would have been four wouldn’t it so I I think this this pitch is just sort of it’s just really interesting and totally baffling me I can’t get my head
Around it cuz that sort of I don’t think that the pitch speed is making shots like that possible and I think that you know England definitely free game we’re talking as if they you know Wonder Bar thank you thank you so much Gary’s just delivered the coffees
Courtesy of our good friend Brian in Brisbane who sent us another care package the Golden Arch Care special Co Deep’s going to continue over the Wicket to the right-handed route who defends towards forward short leg there is a forward short leg and a slip for Co deep but there’s no
Run the only thing Gary hasn’t done is pull off the the top thing right that one is and there’s another cup underneath it because they send it so you have to take the whole thing off oh Lord okay oh I better wait for a second then uh no
Run as I was trying to negotiate my my coffee cup 1 15 can you do mine then cuz I can’t do it and talk at the same time I can’t multitask anymore 14 for folks 43 for root Co deep I don’t want flock of hair of
His as this one in he comes played off the back foot by folks to four short leg will I don’t want to jinx it um so I’m not going to say the thing that we’re thinking but Joe Root’s looking [Laughter] good yes you wouldn’t be the first to uh to
Create that sort of jinx as folks is on strike and defends into the offside this time who I have to say is doing his job in exemplary fashion hardly been exciting this is the the antithesis of of of uh basball to a point but what
Else can he do his job is to keep Joe root Company and to make sure they keep moving that score up and they’re doing it thrown up by Co deep driven sweetly by folks that should make it all the way yes it does a gorgeous straight time
Dive beat the dive of Co deep and it’s four more for England and four more for folks would you say that these two are the kind of least basb in the side well that will is a great debate isn’t it because you know root uh is he trying too hard to be
Basball is it just a question of uh you know one premeditated reverse ramp to too many and at the wrong time I mean class is permanent as they say form temporary class permanent hell niton you bastard I spent the last 5 minutes looking trying to find rear
Admal Thomas Roi was just about to announce that I couldn’t find anything about him never heard of him and he goes that was hash history come on folks there was oh yeah right okay hash be I didn’t see that at the bottom oh man so it’s a complete red herring oh
Man what can of worms have I opened by Mak will ever has to take his laptop in to be repaired they’re now going to look at his search history and go hello what’s this lad been up to Absolute bastards absolutely been stitched up this the the C you know the knock on
Effects for this could be could be was nitan you put a couple of spaces between that and I didn’t so you know if it had just been in the line at the end BS history I’d have clocked that but I didn’t clock it oh well there you go
There he’s laughing at us well that’s not surprised well he should he should we felt we did indeed uh anyway it is the uh the end of the over we can get some more messages if you’ve got some bear platform uh we got mug uh Macky D sake yes that’s it
We’ve got it also Steve Smith securing a place in Australia T20 World Cup squad with a fur yet powerful 11 against New Zealand oh yeah the first T20 was a was fantastic did you catch any of that will I sort of did um I but to be honest with you I was
Just actually trying to maintain the sleeping pattern but they are this this Australia sort of side are baffling and sort of I don’t I don’t really understand how they’re doing it really they just find ways to win and that’s a real quality in any sport it’s really annoying cuz it’s like
The late 90s again and I don’t like that um you know I I like it when Australians are suffering yeah I want them to suffer I know we all want them to suffer sorry about that we we’re not going to do it I think we do a change in a minute
Aren’t we gosh where did that we are we do a change did that time go uh Tim is going to join us will an Aur debut delighted I think hopefully we’re going to see a bit more of you after after after tea uh I’m going to be joined love you and leave
You I’m going to be joined by messes and Tim hello hello hello hello hello hello good day Tim Mar we’re all right how are you all good man all good yeah certainly an an interesting uh uh first session in a bit for me very interested to see how it’s all
Going yeah the pitch seems to have chilled out a bit yeah uh I think it’s maybe more to do with the fact that the Bull’s a bit older uh so up and down is a bit softer um got to ask you how do you think the C team did in that second
Test I think they did it as well as they could have but I think they genuinely gave the de do a bit of a fight yeah I think so too with the batting particular again just the B of the fight the fact that we were were in the game
Potentially winning it with the bat says a lot yeah uh that was good I suppose uh for South African Cricket you know find out who’s there someone got highl session since I think the highlight of the session since lunch was the fact that the three of you were taken
Completely up the Garden Path by newon B I thoroughly enjoy that uh I I just I literally spent five minutes would would have given you out in a big way I just spent five minutes going what well you know there’s got be a record of this Thomas Rony dude nothing on Wikipedia
What the hell’s going on yes go and right the partnership is 49 of9 we are back and Akash deep is coming in to bow to rout he pulls out just as he’s about to get to his delivery stride uh must have seen something behind the batsman and there’s no run I think this
Is route’s highest score of the series isn’t it 43 uh yeah it is uh and he’s patted you know D properly yeah exactly funny that is it he look quite secure really I think so folks you know I think they’re both well suited to this sort of cricket
Yeah uh oh that’s cut very late cut from root but there’s going to be no one down there and he’s going to four runs good shot supposed to by a blound jingle then four that was very very late very close to him wasn’t it he’s play quite a a lot of in the
Yeah offered offered just for a single yeah when he’s very good at that isn’t he I mean he’s very good at chopping it down behind Square finding a gap he’s really keeping his head over the ball today I think you have makes such a difference yeah this is one of
Those wickets you’ve got to try and play straight there’s no yeah it’s up and down isn’t it that’s dangerous AC cross batted shots uh root gets right behind that defends it back to the bowler and there’s no run he’s on 47 now of 95 it’s a very um awkward sort of period
For for England because they know that that creep Cory one is is probably just around the corner but they’re batting very well so far yeah again I think the ball has got softer it’s 45 overs old now um I it’s not better to All Parts but uh it’s just deadened
Its uh Effectiveness a little bit I deep was in again the Ford is Route the defends it out to the offside there’s no run and a speeds are down this this spell from what he was in low nearly up to 90 mph in his first spell
Mind he was probably pumped he got all those wickets and has looked very good s has been a bit disappointing I’m looking forward to England bowling on this I think yeah I’m looking forward to OE Robinson on this with a new ball going through the surface keeping low causing problems
Awkward length because of his height a steep is in and rout is again forward defending no run yeah it’ll be interesting I I’m not sold on this idea that you’ve got to continuously be playing Cricket saying that he hasn’t played a lot of a lot of cricket recent times so that’s certainly
Going to be a test for him yeah yeah he might have a cutle of quiet overs but uh hopefully you know he’s a professional he’s bowling Forever and Ever Knows the score I’m sure he’ll have lots of advice about you know Anderson will tell him you know lengths to bowl etc etc and
He’ll figure it out reasonably quickly uh Akash in again well defended by root back to the Boulder and there is no run England will be feeling a little bit better about life right side of 150 without losing another wicket partnership must be nearly 50 now was
112 for five wasn’t it when rout was out when Stokes was out closing in on a 50 partnership as well very solid very solid so far but uh offering Indian pitches uh Indian conditions things changed very quickly they do indeed they do indeed aash deep is in again that one’s into Roots pads
He works it out to move Wicket there’s no run that’s the end of the 45th over England 165 for 5 folks is 18 off 67 rout 47 of 99 over to you so I got a a mayor Cula from nitton he says mine sincere apologies jent having said that
Though though it’s not true wouldn’t be wouldn’t it be wonderful if it was a truly English story of eccentric atmology uh oxy moronica says caught the TNT replays of wickets and Bowlers have well but batsman to play PL shots Crawley BS through the gate twice Pope playing across the line beo sweeping and
Missing States not getting forward sorry the pathetic performance um I’m not sure pathetics quite fair but it wasn’t great it wasn’t great I think I think the new ball was up and down uh some of the balls were exaggerated movement off the seam as well the two
That did bow craw him he’s lucky got away with the first one obviously it was a no ball but both balls jabed back quite considerably Pope I think you know looking at in real time yeah he missed it but Christ he didn’t look out lbw it’s a very very uh good review from
India uh and likewise actually were be St looked like it pitched outside leg stump and I guess those are the split decisions you make as a batsman he thought a sweet that pitched outside leg it’s safe if I miss it I’m not out turns out he wasn’t
Um as for Stokes I don’t think you can blame Stokes it was a short delivery uh C is it in and it’s defended uh to saat who’s an on Hayden um I think Stokes as well in his right to go back to that delivery it was short from jja it’s a
Slow pitch on on a on a normal pitch it would have bounced up he just played off his off his pads either into a space on the leg side or straight to a Fielder would have been no run or a single uh defended back to the bowler and there’s
No run um but it grubbed I mean it literally went under his Bat and hit the badge on the bottom of his pads from about 6 M short no you can’t you can’t legislate for that it’s interesting it’s been the only ball I think all day that’s no there have been there were
Some certainly some earlier that did but they gen were outs but nothing as nothing as exaggerated as that yeah uh defended again from cool Deep by folks England those those deliveries are also wide the stabs yes exactly they were some earlier that were um defended
Once More by Folks up to Mid off and his no run England playing old school test Cricket proper test Cricket well they’ve got to think they got to get an A score on the board um yeah if the pitch is going to wear then they’ll get last used to bowl on it
Which probably be the best time to bowl defended by Folks up to Mid on no run and need someone to get a big score Roots the KNE halfway there Pokey bom finger was on to KN and he said I call on Captain Roni cat Martin says I’m now waiting for
The fake history behind the naming of headingly that one grabbed a little bit and folks jabbed his back down on it fended it up to sres and there’s no run yeah I mean it was actually quite a good story because it you know yeah the entomology
Maybe I put that in there but suddenly it’s kind of made sense yeah I got the hiccups now from my uh McDonald coffee um David Shar says the poms are stuffed um and Brian brisman says okay Bears preference for sausage muffins is noted PO said the sausage Mar was
Originally a sex position in the midwest during the Great Depression now that one isn’t going to catch me out I like it though I do like it uh Akash deep is uh in to routy who works that off his hips nicely down to Long Leg get himself a single moves on to
48 and England onto 166 so looks like a a nice period to be betting it certainly does doesn’t it h the intensity seems to have gone out of the Indians when they come back after tea and England have been a to settle in which is really what they want to do
Settle in for a Long Afternoon presumably the longer the ends are out there the more TI they’ll get S has been pretty ineffective um everyone else is B okay and obviously Akash deep was very effective early on doesn’t look so effective second spell did b a long spell though at seven
Overs and but presum didn’t want to take him off cuz he was doing so well a Ste is in again to folks throws that up outside off stumps lovely shot no one out there it’s two full long half volley outside off stump gets what it deserves
Which is smashed out to the square bound for four runs and folks moves into the 20s I should hope he uh get gets some runs before the end of the tour well folks I think he’s bed all right I mean no he has he has b b fine but I I I I
Know that the noise is oh it’s not enough that’s what the noises will be what what well it’s him and beo for keeping spot bto’s unworth really it’s into his hip yes works it Square that’s a square leg and there is no run the other thing is
It’s not always about scoring runs it’s also about being there and being in a partnership he was with Pope I was just about to say he was with Pope when he got his 196 and he was there for quite a while with Pope while he was able to
Accumulate Those runs so exactly that it is about and he’s he’s you know he might not score B Pace but um he has tended to hang around with people at times you know he’s got a couple of 20s you want more but it’s not the worst when you
Look at some of the other players in the side I mean we talked on the on the podcast actually you know what a big Miss as that’s pulled by folks stuck in a pitch it seemed or it was a slow delivery one or the other uh no run
Anyway couldn’t beat the man at midwicket uh you know Harry Brook was well well I mean you don’t know what what he’ had done but uh considering bto’s frailties on this series so far I mean he batted okay today um you wonder how much of different Brooks would have made at um
Five cuz it would have been a battle out between those two places I don’t think you could put be behind the stumps in India when you got folks in the side yeah you can’t be sure but it’d certainly be the type of player that would do well here you would have
Thought yes exactly he’s he’s got an amazing eye as well BR uh hit Square by folks out the point O run and uh one ball left in a 47th over whipping through the overs in this session might even catch up might not have any over SP if they do
Carry on like this of course with England not hitting it to all parts the game does move on a little quicker and it allows to D to gain control yes yeah that’s certainly true which I’m not sure you’ll get out of heartley and Sh Basher but we shall see
Uh Akash steep is in again and once more forced out to the covers by folks to end that over five off it Eng 170 for five over to you Messi hey Barrett says basball is all about doing what the opposition doesn’t expect so it’s totally logical to block the out of it block
Harder nice I like it uh dve wood says Captain Roni was originally assigned to HMS kinky but due to an accident involving the ship was transferred um and over on YouTube uh Dave Shear says 400 a pass score Pope not a player Pope’s yeah he’s very up
And down py bum fingers says just so you know Ranchi had a weird name for the Navy because uh she was requisitioned from civilian Duty as a passenger liner Ah that’s interesting question for Tim on an unrelated topic David Bingham going to get a run when the proper test
Side is uh reconvened now I don’t know if rot got any bat on that but it’s gone very fine down towards fin L they’ll come back for two is it two two route he’s not going to get his 50 it’s not it’s off his Pad I thought it was
Um but rout will be just up yeah it was tossed up go uh bam is the only batter that will definitely be in the next year series of that went to New Zealand he the only one that is guaranteed to be in that series he’s quite young goes back theout beats short leg
And he gets a single he s in between he uh 29 okay that’s yeah he’s moving on a bit he’s sort of a cardi Cricket journeyman almost isn’t he but he he’s does his trade well was he the one we were trying to get qualified for England corrector
M oh well root saying that was off his Inside Edge and he might well be right too late now yeah can’t if he get s now be complaining oh cool deep uh into folks B it quite flat quick and he just defends it on the offside and there’s no
Run yeah definitely did it came off the Inside Edge but you could say that was a drop then because it went through uh daru behind the stumps and C deep down leg side and works into the leg side wide enough of midwicket that they’ll get a single and the whole band’s out today
Barmy Army out there and some Indian fans well they’re in Bary Army I no they’re the Barrett Army aren’t they and they’ve got their own trumpeters in fact they’ve got a Trumpeter and a French horn man and our English Trumpeter looks a bit bed 174 for five as root faces up to CU
Goes back sweeps can’t beat the man behind Square it’s a first aggressive shot I’ve seen from rout for quite a while coincidentally 174 is exactly what Australia made uh at Eden Park against New Zealand they fell in the heat basically after they scored 100 in the
First eight overs oh wow that’s kind of Australian in 220 uh that’s where it’s into L side there’s no run as the K Ki B says he’s back with us for a few minutes between Innings at Eden par there you go um I’m presum we’ll get you at the end
Of the game when uh that’s all over yep I think New Zealand will thrash it Australia I think they’ll get in 15 overs on that pitch fin now will make uh 90 off 32 balls or something it’s very short square if I remember rightly isn’t
It it’s a rugby pitch yeah well no it’s particularly short uh behind the wickets oh straight they turn it around so it’s 50 m from the stumps the W is that oh that’s tiny yes that was tin head got two sixes in the first over both of which were just thick
Edges so yeah it’s it’s a city ground to play cricket on in my judgment but anyway there been some big scores there if I seem to remember rightly uh well ashwin’s back into the attack he’s got eight eight overs and one for 34 so far he’s going to bow to folks first up
So around the Wicket to him down the track comes folks just drives it up to Mid on he’s Akash he’s a bit deep as his name says and uh there is only one run bringing Ruth on strike on 49 that well played by folks get right down to the pitch of the ball
Root surveying the field Ashman around the Wicket and that’s just defended back to him for no run current partnership 63 of 145 st’s pass yeah very much so and again rout pulls out just as uh Ash was about to Bow and says he heard something not sure about that Ashwin
Around the Wicket oh that one kept low rout manag to jab his back down on it up to Mid on no run if root sensible here the experience he’s got and the man of he is he should be thinking if he gets Beyond his 50
Which he should do as he just plays that defends that square on the offside there’s no run he should be thinking about a 100 I don’t want to get too far ahead but he’s that class of batsman it’s like if you let Kane Williamson or you let verak get
To 50 you know you got to think that there’s a good chance they’ll go on uh Ashwin is in it’s worked into the leg Side by root out towards deep midwicket he does get his 50 First of the series for rout in the fourth test which is quite surprising really
Um but we will give him his mindstone CU it’s been a good flash quite accumulation that just grows and grows pluy or lucky inducing Rey these are a few types of half centur folks comes down to wickets to the last ball of ashman’s over and just
Plays it to yon Hayden there’s no run you look at Roots conversion rate one and two gets a ton so well the last ton he got was when uh Stakes declared on him on 118 not out at headingly oh yeah of course the test that uh we stupidly declared in and then
Lost yeah exactly um so we’re very quiet uh on our socials at the moment uh I don’t know where everybody’s going but they they there oh here we go AR bro over says despite the M the mill England selectors of folks sorry I should read these things first despite
The mill England selectors have put folks through you can’t fult his dedication but if in the summer as we all expect he dropped again and B gets the glove back it Beggars belief one it begger belief and two folks will be justified to walk away well yeah so he probably likes a
Few little jollies abroad every once in a while uh on the back foot rout goes keeps low again from K punches out to cover and there’s no run I was just looking at that score root score more runs against India than Ricky Ponting um Works into leg side at no run
An average of 57 pretty good going that’s not bad is it no cuy over the Wicket to Joe root gets forward and defends that out to the offside and there’s no run the average is 43 in India which is pretty damn good it is yeah wonder what baz makes of all this
Though not going hard enough it’ll be like Dave Barrett going mental that’s just work around the corner by rout but to the man on the 45 and there’s no run there’s nothing much to complain about is there well no not really I mean it’s a very kind of traditional test Cricket
I think they’ve realized that the pitch is difficult um and I guess I mean it was quite clear that they weren’t going to be out go off at the pace that they were uh early on in the first few overs the ball was doing all sorts when it was hard and
New worked into leg side no run and these two are probably the best in the team Ed to uh this type of cricket tradition yeah yeah exactly folks is pretty stra and Stokes actually who can he can I mean he got you can’t I can’t fault Stokes for that out that was just
You know and that one kept low as well and R went back to punch it in the offside managed to adjust and hit it back down the track there’s no run a mid off and that’s the end of the 50th over they rattling through these
Overs and uh there was no run at end of that one uh over to you Messi uh we have nothing going on oh there’s two how did we end up on the GPL uh oh well there were 20 entries when I6 yeah that’s that’s what we ended up with yeah lower score was
278 so if they B like this they might not even get there I know they should do 100 more runs yeah got an hour and a half yeah half an hour another session but I think I might have been over optimistic I my lowest pick was 323 oh
Yeah um well if you’re lucky it’ll all miss out and carry over to tomorrow that’s what you’ll be have get oh of course a I suspect M and omo might will be in there today too uh I saw MOG was in then let’s have a look uh yeah om
Noova was in and so was m in fact it’s down to the three of you chasing that 156b all of which is mine um oxy moronica say is well done to root showing his class has he played a reverse shot today I don’t think he’s played a single one he’s only played One
Sweep and he didn’t get that right uh play ashon has decided to come over the Wicket now uh and folks just defends him back and there’s no run oh I’m sorry my prediction about Finn and Allen getting 90 off 30 balls is wrong he’s out for six off
Six click past midwicket down to a wide long one for a single he faced six balls he hit one six and was out that’s the final and I know yeah rout surveys the field once more behind Square on the leg side Wonder are he stinking here Ashwin bows it straight
Ooh I think there was an under Edge onto his Pad there’s a half appeal but root went for a l like a premeditated sweep it’s quite straight for that and then he shakes his head as you say premeditative wasn’t the correct uh shot to that ball he’s looking to try and score some
Runs I think you you can’t let these guys sit he goes deep in his crease Works into leg side there’s no run they’ve kept it pretty quiet for the last couple of overs haven’t they I mean they’ve only gone for ones and twos rather than you know a few threes and
Fours yeah it’s a big Inside Edge hit hit the boot of dreo behind a stumps that’s full and clipped nicely by rot presum there’s a man out there there is indeed it just be the one run partnership moves on to 66 with Route 66
We do a change at the end of this over I think uh yeah we are who’s on after miss so that’s to be the last session Dave is going to take over some ball by ball Tony is going to come in do your uh that’s forced back by folks you can’t
Beat the on Hayden no run Tony’s going to come in and do some socials and agit agit was in for the first time today we’ll give you some summary so here we go come on tone get your ass in here uh It’s Time to Say Goodbye boys all right Dave
And Hello Goodbye Sun by The Beatles is I’ll do I’ll do one social message Tom P says some solid almost old school batting here from rout and England’s most handsome man B folks they’ve both had a good look now so they need to hang about and get a big pivotal partnership
There you go that would be very nice and on that note I will pass over to Dave and we shall welcome in agit if there AET hello going a he’s there definely in the waiting room there he is all right AET how are you mate hello hello good
Afternoon Sor I just got a call of nature at the last minute thought i’ finish it good to know uh well you’ll taking over Dave tone are you awake mate you’re supposed to be somewhere yeah I want to go and have my I want to go have my
McDonald’s do it go enjoy okay I’ll see you have fun have fun it in RS it in to root who plays today to the short leg root with 51 had in the last test curious to see how they handle him I like the approach BTO had towards as unfortunately it
Didn’t work no that’s played out to the offside by Ru just it’s always a tricky tricky strategy to attack somebody like Ashwin from the outset it if that’s what we try to do right so the basically don’t let him bow on his length try to
Attack it to hit it away try to get him to think it is yep it’s it’s always the way to go um pull deep in again metronomically so just on that middle and off stump yeah you you can try and make Ashman think but he very often will outthink you uh he’s playing
Probably so in this case yep Kip has dropped his space again so when we saw him Bowl in the Odis right C de again and that’s clipped by route to the Manry yes you see now he’s balling very close to what is classical left arm spinner or classical spinner speeds which should be about 80 kph 85 kph yeah in the Odis you saw or in the T20 as you saw he had actually upped the pace a
Little and that made him that much more dangerous but here he is back to classical Cricket doing classical things being very classical and very aesthetically pleasing comes in again it’s a bit wider for comes down almost it just drives it lightly to Mid off for no run yeah he’s he’s he’s got that
Range now doesn’t he he’s worked on his speeds um which at least he he’s got something he’s got a bit more range to work with which is very helpful you can kind of go to the speeds that’s a bit shorter a bit flatter and it has played
To midwicket by folks and that is the over one 79 for five after 52 overs Partnership of 67 hello Tony h I’m very well indeed thank you uh I have no idea where we’d got to on socials ombre noo does that ring a bell to
Either of you um I don’t think we had ombre we had a tweet about um old school batting I believe was our last uh despite the mil England selection have put folks through you can’t fult his dedication but if in the summer as we all expect he’s dropped again and
Bestto gets the gloves backs one it beggar belief and two folks would be just ified to walk away I don’t dispute that for a moment oxy moronica World on Route showing his class has he played a reverse shot today no he hasn’t that was yeah I think we had we might have had
That that was ashin just comes in for his next over it was slid on that off stump falling over the Wicket and replays it off the back foot by not caring too much about the Run rate I think they’ve done the right thing in this partnership it’s not just
The five wickets that have gone down I’ll wait is just playing that of stump rout hits it to midwicket has a little shimmy down the pitch to say is there maybe a run there and now he turns back wisely n that would have been unwise I think yeah they did they did extremely
Well so yeah in that first session because the Run rate was so good that they have afforded a bit of space just to play this out a again it’s a bit shorter on that middle and all it’s caught the shot like on a I think he’s caught him on the Hop he he
Bit of pain there I think that’s suras ah suras yeah the suras he was ringing his hands there stopping that ball there was a bit of face on that the way root had glanced that but well done him he stopped the ball there it’s it’s sort of crucial I think there’s some
Plan being worked here when you look at the leg side field yeah that is flicked through the square leg region for one apart from the short leg there’s a catching midwicket and then on haen as they call around these parts M so there’s a clear line and length that
Ashin is maintaining it’s he’s attacking the STS continually of rout I think he’s looking for an lbw and maybe up to a point sort of challenging you know route to see if he can get him to sweep more or rever sweep inter HS this time comes
A bit wider FS plays it off the back foot yeah he hasn’t he’s played he’s attempted a couple of sweeps it doesn’t look like he’s very trusting of the shot today he’s still keeping quite low in his stance he’s kind of got his knees bent wide apart but then keeping low po to
Focus does Ashwin you see the interplay right there where sorry there’s a phone here that picks up messages no but you you see the interplay what ashin is trying to do here he’s getting to open his stance a little bit and try to play it in the air
Which you can when you see that ball nicely flighted on your leg and there are two catches right there let’s see if it really off yeah but it’s it’s very interesting to see that web play eight Tony what have you got uh what I forgot is is a memory that forgot I was
Supposed to be doing tweets but if you give me two seconds uh fically yeah 180 for five we are 53 overs just the eight extras two of those memorably of Akash deep who has three for 47 of 13 overs well he had Ducket one St off a noall yeah prob yeah uh
That is full just off stump rout has a drive and gets it through the Gap perfectly slides across the ground ashn is chasing he makes good ground will we get a second look I think it was just in uh he was fine there I think he done
Well to have stop that so that’s good commitment from the senior FL he did very very well he’s in the middle of a big spell as well very important spell um let’s just have a look yeah oh just out that last touch I think those I not
Sure the size shoes that Ashwin carries but probably a 10 or 11 yeah I’d imagine might trouble there and I think that’s that’s a it’s been given it’s unfortunate because he it looked like he had done quite a bit of work he committed could have some would have
Given up but Ashwin did not that was by that they made England that’s important it’s just it’s a classical shot rout waiting it out the ball was slightly Fuller right so you know what rout is capable of he just placed it beautifully to the left of extra car so let’s see if
He can get going again leap in again this was more on middle stump than the last one which is on off stump which seemed to allow rout to get into that drive to move his feet to get his head towards the ball he played it so brilliantly simply and elegantly not
Simply it’s important that they go through the session with lless just to keep India very important Co deep in that’s a bit short and the off stump rips back right on his back foot kind of crabs back and blocks it and you see somebody like a there that’s an
Attacking shot like if there’s such a field position where he’s running around trying to stop a ball even if you’re trying to sweep it trying to throw the stumps down that’s all nice to see so there’s a lot of good camaraderie yeah that is just flicked away two midwicket by
Rude if you see that in theory both these Bowlers bowling currently bring the ball into the batter right hand of both of them but there is no on hiden when Kip is bowling simply because that is less of a chance if anything there’ll be an offhe
On just on off and M play back the baller for that sort of a rist spinner you expect that the ball might come back at you but more to the let’s say right arm over s of a p if he miscues it because this guy has a rest action on
The ball yeah yeah fantastic interplay going on here Co deep in that is just pitching on leg it rips out fast leg tries to turn around the corner but fails to do so it is Fed Up by S fros and that is the over they’re flying through them Tony uh yes indeed right
Steven Kel sending some serious proper love Cricket love to root and folks uh Tom P says some solid almost old school batting here from rottin England’s most handsome man Ben folks they’ve had a good look now so they need to hang about and go big pivotal partnership yes it is most
Definitely uh if I go back to the artist formerly known as Twitter uh kiwi by he happily listening to New Zealand’s alternative commentary Collective commentary for the black Caps game almost as good as wh line gorilla type dudes I like the almost that is a way to stay friends with everybody there
You go there you go Ash that off stump that was flicked by folks tidy up for no run that’s good work by Gil I think uh very good work look I think he saved two runs there but more importantly this interplay between ashin and uh rot where
I was talking about L that keeps him that much more frustrated R because that was an excellent shot to have worked it to wide of that you know midwicket traditional midet FKS is facing he comes down again Gil makes good coverage they get through for a single because he just
Lost that ball it’s tidied up by the mid on Fielder still very good work by Gil he’s very busy in the region he’s got two sets of glasses on his head and a very big H um but it was good for by folks coming down to
Ashin nonetheless I mean this was to the other side of him but he was ready to go and still alive immedately shoot in a bit wider just P up the back foot to Wick it that’s an interesting shot right there yeah for the first time Root abandoned
His straight bat approach and tried a flick Alit with the straight bat that’s what Ashwin would be looking for Ashwin it’s just short another off stump R tries to turn around the corner fails to do so the Mount of 45 covers it no run he’s getting him to go on the back foot
Consistently here all he’ll do now is hang one in between length to see if he can trap him on the crease let’s see if that happens that’s what Ash is trying from what I can see Ash he’s wide still short yeah he almost almost there there’s a web being
Put together only one off the over rout will be thinking of getting busy as he always does we got Gil at midwicket in the meantime uh New Zealand chasing 175 have lost another all right a that is just played into the offside very neatly by root for a single alleviate some of the
Pressure that was building in that over so well 186 for five 55 overs there’s a partnership of 74 Tony have you had any more TW no we’re pretty much up to date I mean I’m I was just thinking England batting first rot gets a chance to bat
How much is his bowling going to be important in this game do we think I think be crucial I think it’s going be crucial what do we think of the the debate about whether the the bowling is taking away from his batting uh I I
Think possibly it is I mean I think he’s never bow as many overs in a series as he has in this and I you know I think that it’s very draining it’s it’s not like a cool April Day in England it it it’s quite hard work I would
Imagine I think it possibly just does have a mental effect on you we saw what happened to England collectively in that last innings in ranch cot you know once you’ve been out in the field for a long time your brain does get a bit fried
We’ve got J and we’ve got a change of bowling uh we do ball would you like a jingle for cha why not go on give us a jingle here it is then first ball was blocked to short Third Man nothing nothing much else yeah metronomically so he does almost the
Exact same thing again except it’s blocked just in front of that’s that’s exactly what uh J does if if ashen’s the man of making you think doing different things J is the man to make you play the exact same ball over and over and over again and that is blocked into the
Offside by JY 58 of 137 90.3 quite noticeably sorry not a bad idea quite noticeably sorry yeah you’re first me first no all right okay quite noticeably ji was getting it to really rip earlier it doesn’t seem to be kicking and spitting or shooting the way it did B
Blocked to the offside now I was about to highlight that he’s bowling faster compared to the first session now you can see the speed is about 91 6 to 7 KP or even a little bit more than before now this is J the containing bowler that
You can see in action I think that’s why I say it’s an interesting move with 20 minutes left bit wide curs off them blocked by re so what they’re trying up trying to do is basically block out all the runs from the other end Kip is always a bit more adventurous and give
You one closer to the bat and so on he may have come to the Natural end of his spell but this is a clear move to allow Ashwin to confront the Batters because will not give you anything from the other end right or rout is happy to play him out
Yeah yeah and that is a m number 186 for five we’ve got Sun flowing from the heavens uh almost Godlike well that’s that’s what that over was like from Jade he’s considered a God in these parts he is Sir Sir Ravi jadea U yeah so it looks
Like we’ve got a change of plan basically he was ripping it he was getting all things to happen in that first session and now he’s taking on a more containing roles the new role that J is playing he’s a man of many roles in India are seeing the dynamic of this
Game do need to break this partnership but they need to quiet the the runs first I wonder if they’ll bring back Akash de maybe or s for a quick burst maybe a two-hour burst just the last the last uh two hours from one end before a
Te break from a facer just to mix it up a little I I may see that it might something I would think to do just to see they’ve gotten into playing spin over the last 45 minutes or so they’re used to their footwork and to just hurry
It up a bit yeah just a little bit of a change Ash continues over the Wicket that’s flicked across his front pad is by folks to the van it’s TI up deep Square leg they get a single brings rout onto strike ah I thought they might have run
Two because I thought they did more finer of that sweeper there but the sweeper did well there I think it was yeah yeah the sweeper see kind of bit forward kind of more towards C and that was a bit behind towards deep Square leg Ash and again that is just a off stumps
Blocked by root busy busy looks at making a single but uh making for a single but does not quite you see a potential counter measure from Route he played that ball a second later compared to earlier where he was forced to play off his Pad you
See he’s looking to take it a little later and short by Ash play off the back foot to Safra 94.5 km exactly a couple of balls I think ashun is also trying to vary the pace this we do in a spell where if you’re bowling at the same place bow one
A little faster at the same place just to see if it may shock him into giving one to cover or just ballooning one up in the air whatever whether it carries to hand or not maybe a moral Victory Ash in just a bit wider that’s outside the
Off Stomp and that’s played nicely off the back foot it’s a beautiful drive races along for a lovely boundry Beautiful shot just kind of airing maybe in line but he wants maybe he wants in to play out there exactly that pulled the cover out so there’s only an extra cover and a point so they’ve offered the Gap to Route yeah what does this mean is
It a two car trick is the question now get too one towards midwicket or get one to slip you’re going to have those gaps and ashon goes slightly wider this time and the off stump rout just kind of plays it behind square off the front foot um yeah it’s fascinating looking at
This web kind of coming together I mean the other part is that I think the pitch maybe is flattened out slightly so ashan’s you can see the wheels working in his head that’s played up the back foot by roof just outside there a just on that off I’m sorry 191 for five Tony
Any tweets uh yes we do uh for wrong batting Paradise so far in the second session is giving the ascendency to the Bary Army over there the Pani Army I think it’s the Barett Army on broo uh if as Cricket has in the past gone too batter friendly and as teams
Are allowed to use rollers between Innings and in preparation could we Advocate the use of a lawn arator to break up the Wicket uh that would be interesting thought uh I agree uh I believe I recall plenty of stuff going on on YouTube Crazy chap oh wonderfully named Crazy
Chap uh get on with it root uh we should have been all out two hours ago for a thrilling 80 uh Steven Kelk you know what root should do crazy chap I think go hard is probably the answer and yes he does confirm that de in ooh just on that often middle stump
Line curls in folks leg folks get a yeah folks get a get a big Inside Edge there was no man short leg there o that would have been a nice easy catch for srz if he was on the other side yeah right in the page short leg is
That yeah got a man at a short cover B just not offside HS facing up that’s a bit shorter it bounces up folks might have been thinking of putting it away but it just ripped it really did 91.4 km keeping an eye on that speed
Gun which okay it’s to the that’s a bit slower flighted up um has a bit of a drive to folks uh or he’s Edge again Inside Edge um wasn’t quite sure he’s mixing it up as a that’s what you should how I get this shut that
Sort of crazy strip of uh cracks yeah is czy for for the crazy strip yeah for crazy strip for folks Fuller again he has a bit of a drive he gets through the Gap o do they get a single I think they ran one they got through for one I’m
Curious if that was a chance whether half a chance to catch Square point right there there possibly was oh there was indeed a good bit of Interest J you with 2011 runs in the series and 13 wickets earning his keep uh that is just a off and middle stump line Ru gets a
Bit of batet if he didn’t he could have been in trouble but he is 62 from 147 but I think it’s just a little bit too far out to help a left armor isn’t it you’d have to be pitching it right outside of the leg stump and hope it brings the ball
Back in that is just short outside the a play it is uh nicely played Away by Ruth just behind Square H he curses himself just to T it’s gotone for four it’s just another score it’s just another four sweet 84 the partnership off 203 196 for five off 58 overs not to forget
The very important role the folks played in that uh big partnership with oi Pope in Hyderabad um so there’s something potentially building here uh but the lads will be they’ll know exactly shut sh they might shut shop shortly because that’s what I would do maybe waste some
Time get maybe not three but two hours in right India are not too far behind in terms of overrate they’re all right so 60 hours end of team it’s t it’s all right but they’ll be very keen to not give a wicket away run rate might have
Improved from 2.45 to 2.55 that’s really neither here nor there it’s about that extra Wick still feels like a ground a game where a a big Innings will Define it Define the maybe it could be root it could be root he’s on absolutely if it’s
A 130 he makes 300 is not a bad score on this pitch by the way no no no some on the pitch even that’s been revised though AIC we were saying 250 earlier so we’ve revised it upwards Ashan in it in that off stump he’s getting close to the
Stumps from Over the Wicket uh as opposed to the slightly wider trajectory he was taking uh in the last over FKS just plays it into kind of a squarish midwicket for no run 84 of 204 very important runs now I wonder what’s going on there’s no Square leg for aswin
Either there’s a catching with Wicket there’s an on hiden there’s a short Third Man and square leg has been Ro in if I saw that correctly that is curled in again it’s played off the back foot folks tries to turn around but he cannot get it past SAS ah no mind
Now he’s back at square leg bit deep but he’s right there the formidable surfras ooh just off the BS one one hand one bouns perhaps um he was looking to dive forward you know to see if he can pouch that just out of his reach potential ooh
That kept very low it was very full slightly quicker 95 km on off stump folks plays back off the back foot um how did that not bow him I don’t know they going to review it oh no they’re not no not no but it just kind of
Skimmed along the floor and no they run for a single anyway uh which brings Ron to strike I don’t same time last session I think Stokes got a grber yeah this full on off and middle returns it to M Wicket re is having a few words with
Himself perhaps let’s have a look again at that delivery to folks skip down it just yeah it for stump Tak a St out of the ground I would have I should have that’s just hitting that leg stump um it’s turned around Ro see he’s doing that soon is
Purposefully slowing it down for rout trying to get him to you know hit one in the air and the leg but for um FKS he’s bowling faster sort of challenging his a more rather than the other two two very different batters Ashwin and uh that is
Flighted oh just ripped H got up a bit on those gloves but rud manages to keep it down away from the short leg who is waiting for such a chance one 197 for five absorbing Cricket has to end in five minutes really fantastic Cricket both sides Aki leh is very concise he
Simply says uh England wins uh he might be at least a day and a half early depending on how this goes 85 without loss though since lunch after the craziness of the morning when five went down for 112 I think England will take that in in Spades weren’t they
N once they cross 200 there’s a Cy still barrier cross right there you need a couple of good handy 20s even if your Wicket Falls after that you can still get to 300 right so that’s I think this is the everything to play for sort of
Over FKS is taking his time p in curls it in that leg stumped folks folks playing that supporting role uh he’s not really he’s he’s not a be Stow going to score 200 off 100 Balls uh but he’s playing a very important supporting role and he knows what he’s doing he’s doing
Good year actually very good very good uh just drives that doesn’t really get much on it but it goes down to Mid on ashin there with the big white Bred hat big outside of that missed ball of Ashwin right he looked very comfortable and that’s very important that gives has
And O it hits him on leg they’re having a pel for like I think it was going down I think it was sliding down cursed him terribly on the Wicket because it was given not out Tim it’s their last one they’ve lost they there’s a lot of chat there’s a lot
Of chat red has reviewed it yes he has reviewed it we have left off in the meantime we seem to have also cursed New Zealand who lost the third one who else can we curse no Ellis has come on to take a India review raal decision not a
England 197 for five this would be a crucial impact is on umpire call yeah the the impact on the stumps will be on umpire call because he’s been stuck um well in front of the stumps that’s not a problem you know what that might not be
A very bad review at all isn’t it inside of the pad it’s WR many times this morning so it has to carry on as it is to hit the leg stump yeah otherwi it’s ire call on the impact of leg stump that might save the batter because it was
Given not out it’s a very close one really close one the ball was not doing enough to straighten to hit no middle and leg so it might be hitting leg stum flush but it might just be going down the angle my feeling is UN we get in that meanwhile here we go
It’s pitched in line Miss missing a key key moment in this day the ball is missing the leg St no reviews India have burned them all they got very excited uh but there you can see why even I thought get it reprieved meanwhile New Zealand are in a bit more
Of the Meer no padal Etc Chapman has been just dismissed by Marsh ooh good H 29 for 4 in the seventh over chasing 175 looks like 250 now in it’s shorter a bit slower on that off St folks goes back just kind of plays it to the bat pad no
Room for hes there’s a catching Point very close I think shifted to the other side therefore there’s let play to sa yeah he’s a bit further back as well yeah it’s kind of at that point position catching point but what I like is they’re they’re making him I think
Both the bers are attacking his off St folks as CS in it’s short it’s not really short enough to be going back to but he goes back that’s the over he gets his half in the Umpire 197 for 5 60 overs and that is the session I believe
I think they’ll get one more in they’ll get one more uh in the meantime mes had said England wins crazy chap said actual win or moral Steven Kel said lots of oo from the commentary team England led to two and crazy chap said a fifth test low-scoring ball
Draw think Dar M Dar Masala is likely to serve that up no chance no chance not with that sort of conditions are the pitch both will be spy and England May find it closer to their home conditions they find it to the liking actually who else can we curse says Paul grubby 78
Whomever he may be uh go in big letters and in in exclamation marks go go go go go go well ashwin’s go go gadget Ashwin um he comes in for potentially the last over fight to that off stump Ruth just plays that to midwicket Gil that midwicket who was
Waiting has been feeling so very well 87 km yeah you can see he’s loow it up and we may see him I know Tred his full box of tricks with six balls remaining and nothing to lose why not Ash why not Ash comes in here fight on those
Stumps curs is slightly away but just keeping a tight that off stump he’s Bing very close to the stumps from Over the Wicket just having a look again at the B that curled into folks that they reviewed leg side didn’t it that one now looks yeah yeah I mean that was good
Decision making from kind of easy to be wise after the event of course but oh of course yeah it’s the best place to be to make a decision Rohit really did not look convinc but he did in the end no no Ash flight side end it is driven they
Take the single that’s on aler brings folks onto strike it it was sort of dinked up to Mid off but folks did not seem really ready to run he thought Jo will shut shop and eat the remaining balls yeah the strike has been changed you can see
From rohit’s body language that you know whether he was going to review he was really not happy to do it no did this earlier right and took a wicket he like come on come on give me give me the come on I need a wicket he’s a wicket junky
Needs it right burned the three reviews himself that will happen Ash comes in again it is Titan that off turned around his Pad by folks to Gil for no run 28 of 106 is Mr B folks the most handsome man in the England team is that what we
Think yes I think Ben Ducket is going to be massively upset at that will will well Ducket well probably have a chance not too bad lanky leg Yeah Yeah a bit of height yeah Ashan is having conversation to his cover Fielder maybe just moving things slightly around Ash comes in a bit wider
Outside that off stump is that a car ball perhaps actually yes yes yes bag trick away at the last it didn’t even hold it line so there you go bag of tricks bag of tricks last which one is the one that’s making comes in and that is a conventional ball cles
To the stumps and that looks like it’ll be the over he’s been given a sombrero by the Umpire 198 for five is that going to be it for T should be we think shouldn’t it yeah it’s tea time Tony what do we got
Uh I can tell you well I can tell you uh Annie chave a certain Annie chave of exitor said seeing rout on 66 I wondered what would happen in the match if everyone scored the number on their shirtt would been and I can tell you gorilla Cricket aka me cuz I’m the one
Driving the social media at the moment replied and goes what a good question could you work out for us over and let us know afterwards whether she will or not I think I can hear the cries of buger off from exitor but there we go we’ll see we’ll see if she wants to
Give it a go or not let me have a look on YouTube uh Saga what a session for England wicketless fantastic old school batting by The Duo here yes it was uh run rate of what just under two and a about two and a half there you go matter
Though does that matter though in the context of the game uh they were going they were flying at the start so they can afford it they need to keep it going uh right your final um thoughts chaps and then we’ll lay on some tea P me some
Tea Time Entertainment lay some tea on Tony and final thoughts great session um some two players uh just uh hump men each other very well what do you guys think no absolutely they’ve batted classically they’ let whatever is called out of the window theyve batted classically and they’ve done well they
Kept India out and it brings a semblance of balance but really they’ll need to bat out more time get closer to 300 these two because there is a chance Robinson can back you know all this fine and um there’s no rahan but sh can back
So they’ll want to not really be all out B out before the day done and it’ll be crucial for them so these two need to keep it going as long as possible uh very quickly I would say Lord Aram has also replied to Annie uh following up us saying well can you work
It out for us Annie uh he wants to know the bowling figures as well so I’ve Got a Feeling s an ofter might be sitting there thinking why did I te why did I what have I said why did I even think of that uh right we should lay on some
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We’re amidst a fascinating India series my goodness me um what’s going to happen as they head to ranche well we got in the chat about that there’s a number of things we’re going to talk about uh welcome of course grab yourself uh your usual drink uh Our Guest to talk about
These things and I’ll tell you what they are in a minute is the ever aidite melburnian are you a melburnian is that what they call folk from Melbourne are you a melburn yes indeed yeah we’re not meel melians like the tasmanians they’re tasian we’re melians melburnian well you
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About and has basb been B based in Raj cot after that ping that England took what do we expect in Roni and if you’ve seen pictures of the pitch we also know the England team selection as we’re recording this it literally came out half an hour ago so bags to talk about
On there uh strong Yorkshire strong England uh what though is going on in the heads of Joe root and Johnny basto at the moment can England psychology and positivity and running towards Danger get them through uh uh frankly a bit of a messy patch for the pair of them uh
Fascinating article uh the was it the secretary of the the BCCI saying don’t prioritize the domestic Cricket g j allegedly Dody J allegedly sh uh that took us by surprise but when you look at some figures of jawell and uh Tas for example you start to see his
Point and uh England again not saying it’s nothing to do with uh DRS uh but umpire call seems really confusing and to be fair Barat Coy said the same thing a couple of years ago so uh they’re not alone where should we start fory why don’t you um have you sort of recovered
From the rajot Ming what are your what are your thoughts on it um I think my thoughts are there there’s been obviously a huge amount of uh airtime filled with everybody’s thoughts about this uh we can’t just throw the baby out with bwat at the first sign of a defeat
We can’t say well that strategy didn’t work let’s go back to the ’90s that’s obviously a terrible idea I think that first of all India were a very good team and this has maybe slightly been overlooked in all the talk about basball super batting lineup they they can pluck
Someone like jwell and I’m sure sa forz can Will in good time we’ve scored a mountain of runs in the rangi trophy people say oh well it’s a weakened Indian lineup England should be able to beat these people have you seen how well J well P it this is exactly this is just
He’s extraordinary and that takes us very neatly to that question as well about the the BCC prioritizing the IPL but we’ll hold that thought there some fascinating talk for that and and uh the second main topic is everything every time an an England player does something that is
Regarded as incorrect such as Joe root shot it doesn’t mean that it’s Bas Ball’s fault um Joe root had been worked over by jasit brra over over over the series and he was trying to find angles and if you look at that shot in isolation it looks as if he’s lost his
Mind and that he’s adopted basball um and that why doesn’t Jo root go back to being Joe root I don’t think that’s the story I think the story is jasp brummer has got his number he feels penned in he’s he’s the probably the best fast bowler in the world at the moment
Arguably uh and he’s trying to find ways of solving that problem that’s the Joe root story it’s not a basball story so not everything’s about basball the fact that India and they’ve got a superb bowling lineup uh jadea ran through the Australians in Delhi a year ago and got
Five wickets in a session and they were all out for about 120 it happens in India exactly it’s let’s let’s not everything is not needs to be referenced to the the to basball in in England if there is if there is a criticism of England it’s not I think of either
Basball or this english team or Ben Stokes management or Bren it’s the fact that the structure of English Cricket has sent an english team out to India with two rookies the minute that their first choice spinner was injured there ought to have been better players on the
County circuit who they could have sent out there and that’s where the fault lies with English Cricket is there are structural problems in county cricket that’s my feeling about where we sit in between the third and fourth tests well that’s fascinating you could by the way
Bear as well you can you can go back to the ashes because there’s a similarity if england had held their catches in rajot it could have been a really really different game all all the sh could of wooders is they I mean this is the thing about Cricket you can
Always go back to that um I mean my thoughts are yeah this is just overblown bollocks uh you know it happens once again we l we you know the thing about basketball is if you’re going to lose you’re going to lose in spectacular fashion because that’s the way they’re
Playing right but as I said before the series if you’re going to go out to India and play like we played last time you are going to get hammered uh you need a different approach uh there was no reason why you know we won one test
Last time on a flat deck we won one test this time in a really good win um we had chances in the second test we it up and we certainly had chances in this third test uh but there are many there are many things in India
That uh you need to go your way one is winning the toss we won the first toss and okay it didn’t go the way you probably wanted to get the win but we did get the win in the end uh we lost both second tosses uh and if you put big
Runs on in indiaan no matter how good your back batting attack you are going to struggle I mean I was having this conversation with somebody I think you know if you’re batting second in India you’ve got to get a 100 run lead which means we have had to score
550 in that second Innings uh just to be in a rough parity going what would probably be a wearing fifth day pitch and it was and it started to misbehave on the fifth day uh it’s just not easy right um uh beo is uh all that see over there you
Know we miss Harry Brook Harry Brook you know it occurred to me that if Harry Brook had been at number where Barto is Barto probably wouldn’t be playing right now uh and I’d expect Harry Brook to do a lot better you know things like this don’t go against you and and I keep
Pointing this out I’ve been pointing out more and more as we go along and and uh both is dead right England’s bowling attack is very cow and very inexperienced now it’s telling that India have not prepared bunson burners I think because that’s what we all expected right I think they thought England’s bowling
Attack is inexperienced and whilst they if we great bunson burners is going to be a leveler and if we don’t create Fant and burners we’ve got a better bowling attack basically and they might have a slightly better batting attack but we’re in our home conditions and therefore the
Weight of everything is probably in our favor if we create just standard Indian wickets that are going to break up going to turn on the fourth and fifth day and it might be quite exaggerated but if there reason to be flat for two or three days then we should be able to get
Through this doesn’t that always still place a massive premium on winning the toss England won the toss and won the game or India won two tosses just better equipped to take advantage I think to Fourth his point but the toss still becomes a massive Factor the toss is massive in India
Because if the pitches do break up you can I mean the problem with basell to a certain degree is it doesn’t take time out the game but you know if England win the toss tomorrow for example come out get really aggressive score 400 runs tomorrow we all be going well you know
And then they get another 150 run say on Tuesday morning before lunch or whatever I’d like to see how India do pumped up against 550 runs you know they will have a different approach and they might well and that we we’ll find out but um you know if you can get runs on
The board in a first Innings yeah it really helps England’s spin Bowers just don’t the problem with England spin Bowers they don’t offer any control and if the wickets not offering anything heartley Ry armed rot or Basher aren’t going to offer you two and a half
Runs and over any sort of any sort of control of the game so India always going to be out of score runs um and and that’s going to let the get game get away from you whereas if if england bowls second and the Wicket starts to do something they probably won’t have much
Control in the first Innings but if you get weight of runs you might be able to Winkle them out and get a lead and then if you can get then ahead and you’re bowling last on what is a crumbling Wicket I don’t think your control is necessarily the thing because enough
Blls will misbehave that you’ll be able to pick up the wickets in time and I think that’s got to be what England strategy is does kind of rely on winning the toss and that is a game of chance well if you look at Ranchi it’s another
Ground I think where the in two previous only two previous tests which is true I think of every ground except hydron certainly was true of of rikar looked at they a really boring draw and an absolute well it was a draw against Australia with a fair old mountain of
Runs from uh memory I’m just trying to look it up but then they absolutely batted first and pummeled South Africa I think the Australia games 20 17 yeah uh Australia uh actually no I’m lying Australia batted in first in that and they put on 451 but India responded batting second with 63 for
Nine and then it was uh hansam and uh Marsh I think called austral kept Australia just six down and and it was a draw uh the the last test India won the toss they batted first got nearly 500 against South Africa and they didn’t need to bat again 162
133 I think uh South Africa worse than us at playing spin so you know yeah yeah so so it does suggest that that TOS has become important now to quote or misqu quote Barry Davis speaking of Francis Lee worthy interesting very interesting it’s pretty much how they’ve been talking about
About the ranchy Wicket isn’t it very interesting I don’t know anything about Wicket to be what look what’s it looking like well it’s much drier and cracked than you’d expect this far out uh apparently just look at the pitch look at the pitch well it’s interesting isn’t it well it’s interesting that given
Bummer a rest and created a crack pitch I was reading this last night because based on those results and what I’ve read about the previous two tests it was quite a flat Wicket but then I was reading last night how it was going to be a trial by spin so they clearly said
Right bum’s not playing he’s not going to get us seven or eight wickets in the game so we are going hand it over to the Spinners great some cracked nightmare you say that but but but then look at England’s team selection so on the one hand both Ben Stokes and Olie hope have
Both come out and said on one hand five fingers yeah um I’ve said it’s a really interesting uh pitch it’s cracked there is one allegedly apparently according to them very long pronounced crack which pretty much is for a left-hander right where you know Cory yeah right where a
Sema’s going to want want to pitch it but and but if right handed uh okay duck it then one of the I know we got right hand left hand opening combo haven’t we yes yeah yeah uh tone always goes to the website I don’t know
Why he always goes to the website but he does uh got to let in Sag here another perian is that right Messi and Messi is supposed to come back but he’s not there either come on ah hello sag here you’re you’re back early I thought that was them coming out
It was them going in and after the Highlight so so we get to speak to a couple of minutes I’ve just realized that myself which is a little bit annoying but there you go they should be out any second it’s good to have alista cook in
The studio with us too yeah well you know yeah so this is your first time SAR how are you not too bad yeah today first time today I’ve had a busy day which is why I haven’t really contributed much to the chat on YouTube um but I’m here now
So that’s the important part and what have you made of it so far well without having access to feed uh it’s really difficult to say what’s going on out there I think uh you know with the five wickets going down in the morning without actually seeing what was
Going on on the pitch I think it was a bit easy for me to say at that point point that okay maybe England might get fall out by T time and uh you know Ben folks and Joe rud have put on a classic dis display of test match batting over
Here and they’ve just played the ball on Merit by the looks of it which does make me wonder whether the wickets to fall this morning were as a result of poor judgment in stroke play or whether they were like really terrible go yeah it’s
To say I mean it’s a little bit I mean it come of very very very you have to say good reviews by India because both didn’t look like they were out one Ashman got bed to lbw and it looked like he’d swept at it but he missed it but it
Looked like it pitched outside the line of leg stump and it hadn’t it pitched in line and was going on to hit uh and on Pope you know came down the Trap tried to work it into the leg side got hit by was it deep it was deep and it just
Looked why the hell are you appealing for that and it turned out to be dead on and correct uh the ball did misbehave I mean the ball that got stoked just grubbed along the ground um that was a shocker but that was Absol you know the rest is
Sort of thing that might happen in the first session of a test match a bit bit of Mischief in the Wicket uh but since then it’s certainly calmed down hasn’t it well it has calmed down but the old one still you know noticeable that some are keeping low uh not going through at
All uh the ball is now what 60 overs old so uh they got 20 overs to a new ball England just got you know that they B 36.5 overs in that session I know it’s amazing isn’t it most I can ever recall I think quite extraordinary uh what you
Get when you have two spinners in Tandem and they’re not and they’re not in England AR baset balling the ball’s not going to the boundary a lot either so so we may get more than 90 overs in uh within the 6 hours today you never know yeah unfortunately there’s not that
Many punters on the ground to actually enjoy the game are there I think for the first day crowded pretty Spar um it is possible that they might turn up tomorrow given that it’s a Saturday indeed uh defended by Joe root first ball after T inside after bat goes down
The man on the 45 and ain’t no run yeah first day crowds in India don’t seem to they don’t they don’t like the first day that much it’s starting to fill up a little bit the stand behind the Bowers arms got a few people in it
Uh rout works then out to Mid Wicket no run he’ll be looking to set himself in the the other thing to bear in mind is that Ranchi is not exactly a hot bit of cricketing activity where as if this match were at uh Bangalore or Mumbai or
Chenai we’d get better crowds yeah well uh nice late cut by Route it goes down to the man but just wide enough for the man short on the third uh that they folks can get through for a quick single if they’ wanted to cry they would have picked him surely yeah yeah still
Going that’s right he he can you know I would have said he brings the boys to the yard but that would have been a highly inappropriate reference yeah uh is he going to play is he still playing inpl or did he finally retire last year he is playing still what is he
Now 43 or something uh defended up towards mid on there’s no he’s got to be 43 isn’t he 42 42 okay well I suppose Jimmy and him same age yeah they were playing test match at the same time when did dony retire from test on the back foot uh folks pushes
That out to cover and is there on about 2015 something like that maybe no 2018 in that t series versus Australia Midway so he captained for two games and then just retired from captaincy first uh defended into the offside and there’s no run and then KY was Captain for the
Subsequent two test matches so was still in the team and I think it was about a couple of years later that he retired from all international cricket okay I mean he was still absolutely worth his place in the IPL last season yeah he still got it well he won last year too yeah
Yeah uh mle’s with us he says uh morning primet how are we all love and sausages uh we’re very well thanks matley good to see you uh Steven Kelk says he’s lost his voice but apart from that he’s fine good um lazy 40° here says West doy
Leads and I haven’t moved since the last week and getting thirsty it’s cooled down a bit here it’s 30 35 up in the hills uh and it’s the last day of the heat wave thank Christ which part are you in gear you’re over there as well
Aren’t you yeah same as J oh yeah uh oh that Oneal yeah that one keeps low and uh goes under Roots back through to the keeper no run yeah that one he got an under Edge over the Wicket Ashwin clips that nicely a very root way
Turns the wrist finds the Gat outs a man in the Deep who is aash deep and’ll be a single you know aside from the odd ball that has stayed low uh especially the one that got Ben Stokes how has the pitch been playing since morning cuz I
Never got to watch the live feed CU I was at work well that’s what I mean in the F in the first you got to say in the first session the pitch was going to do all sorts it’s it has quietened down um it’s defended up towards mid on there’s
No run I mean there are cracks everywhere and some of them don’t look particularly even and quite wide already if they start if it starts to crumble and those get wider it’s going to become a Minefield to be my bet um but it might not do that I mean we’ve thought that
About some of the pitches but this looks the most likely to do that to me uh that’s worked out to deep mid Wicket and you know I reckon the curator at the wacka would be proud of some of those cracks that are there on this pitch yeah
Totally I mean I mean I guess if it’s not that hot as you say Messi 26 I mean that’s still hot enough to bake it eventually but it’s not a really hot Indian Sun I presume oh that’s played out into the deep a slight mfield at long
Leg and will get back I mean there was a bit of movement for the fast Bowers as well both yes I me Crawley got bowled twice by akos deep and both times it cut back in from outside the off stump beautifully bow um but you know that’s
The sort of thing you might expect on a first morning pitch in a lot of places in the world just dropped into the offside by rout and then quickly noticed that there was no fielder in now Ashwin didn’t exactly leg it after his own bowling and they got three for an easy
Single rout will a strike 204 for five England rout moves on to 72 folks is on 29 and over to you messy uh Tim T says I just popped out for half an hour I’m pleasantly surprised to see Rootin folks are still in what are the chances of root sentury
After our return from a quick swim and a soak in the hot Spa well if he keeps going like this pretty good yeah and Leah says let’s the Indians find this week it hard to bat on as well otherwise might turn out to be a very one-sided
Match well yes there is also that uh I mean England these two have just got to keep batting if they can bat let’s say uh that’s work it’s into the leg side and there noow run they don’t lose another Wicket for another 60 70 runs uh there’ll be a
Reasonably yeah I don’t see just where that Wicket would come from cuz you know if if the team expects hang on uh punched nicely by root behind Square there is a Man Out In The Deep don’t even get back for two it’s a single nicely time yeah I mean the question
Will be uh if it carries on like this will take will they take the new B before the end of the day if they do uh was it the new ball that was doing things or is the pitch fled out a little bit cuz if it’s if it’s the hardness of
The new ball then it might get tricky towards the end of the day again um that’s spun but short and it’s wi it’s parried from cover down to Mid off where it’s fielded they’ll get a single that’s a very rare bad ball from jera I mean the question that was on my
Mind was this uh very peculiar field placements that Rohit has in place I mean if you’re expecting the pitch to play a few tricks quite every now and then wouldn’t you be better off having a few close in fielders you’d have thought so wouldn’t you uh defended into the
Offside there’s no run I mean that position that sraz is in that sort of short point with a helmet on what’s that for I don’t even know what that exactly it’s doing nothing uh I mean he’s got it covered on the leg side but maybe a short leg um
But then you might go to rout n what’s the point he’s too good a player works that down to the man on the 45 and there’s no run but yeah and a bit earlier I saw Rohit positioning SRA just on the leg side but that one kept very
Low with leg either side of the cre and it’s a very unorthodox position for forward short leg to be in cuz normally you expect that Fielder to be a bit in front of square on the leg side for any bad pads yeah are that or yeah slightly behind um but yeah roit
Isn’t the greatest Captain though no he’s not and I think uh and this is just my opinion right and I might sound very overly critical of the two leading Indian Spinners here but sometimes it does feel as if J and asashin just rely on the p to do their job rather than
Actually getting those wickets with the use of false shorts or using the bounce or the uh closing fielders I mean it’s it’s just going back a couple of tests ago there were a few catches that went in wak in second slave or Gully regions only for Rohit then to pluck the Gap
After the catch has gone through a lot of captains do that I think that’s why Stokes is pretty good actually he’s pretty proactive that’s full clipped nicely by f but can’t beat the Fielder wide mid on I mean it’s good to see Ashman in this game at least drifting the ball a
Little bit as in giving it flight so you can see that drift on the offside before it sort of kicks back in yeah uh that’s clipped to a short midwicket by folks no run cuz for a off spinner you know that is what you rely mostly on and previous
Matches I’ve been very disappointed with sort of a T20 style setup where he comes just yeah that’s driven nicely by folks wide enough of mid off who does field it San there and they will get a single I think that’s partly how you know I mean England have are
Certainly batting more traditional here but I mean I think the pressure that England have managed to put on Jer and Ashman has been good they just haven’t managed to do it for long enough at period for long enough periods uh it’s defended in the on side and there’s no
Run I mean they were both going first cut the test they were going at sort of fives and over the pair of them which I can’t imagine they’re much used to in home conditions no but I think this is a different kind of pressure as well isn’t
It where you’re just milking them for singles like one to two runs per over yeah uh I think that’s probably how they like it that’s just worked again can’t beat short leg no run cuz whereas with the last test match we saw that the Batters were trying to play sweeps and
Reverse Scoops and things like that to put pressure on the Batters and it just didn’t pull off and very rarely does it pull off successfully in a consistent manner that was a horrible buw when just shoved down the leg side route just turns it around the corner to Long Leg
Gets himself another single partnership moves on to 96 and England at 208 for five after 65 and Messi’s going to give us some of your messages yeah s Kelk says rout must have a mountain of runs his average is still only just under 50 despite a bad run uh Willow moai says I
Just woke up to find root still in is this his Redemption perhaps and yeah yatman says if england are really buying into b ball and challenging themselves constantly to see how far they can push themselves root should play in Innings where he only allowed to play Reverse Scoops by the way I can
Confess my prediction of a comfortable New Zealand win at Eden Park is completely out of the window New Zealand are 8 86 for seven ooh that was defending the offside no Run next ball defended back to the bowling his sorry D’s bowling we’ve had what three balls now two balls in about 20
Seconds it’s nuts yeah he’s very quick through his overs uh Jer in again root defends once more and there’s no run I mean I kind of like this though sigar because uh if the pitch is only offering marginal stuff I mean this is it if you bowl straight and you bow the right
Length and right line you get it on the spot unless someone’s prosed to take the chance uh you’re not going to go for runs and it allows you to sit on a batsman uh the pitch isn’t offering a huge amount uh that’s defended no run I mean he’s only a they’re only
Finger Spinners after all they don’t have any mystery really I mean for years I thought J was a bit of a one-trick pony uh that’s defended out into the covers and there’s no run he was only actually be right and that’s what his mod of Randa is you know just
Come round the we get darted and expect for that really marginal and get the BS to play fall short mostly on the basis of line rather than length exactly uh defended well length to defended out to the offside and try and drag them forward and and that’s it if you’re on
An Indian pitch and it starts to break up all sorts of happens right whereas uh I mean he has learned to bowl abroad he’s bowled well in England as well so uh but early in his career I have said he was really a hes for course
Is a home boy spinner but you know he’s obviously a good cricketer a sharp cricketer and he’s learned to bowl abroad Jay Graver is with us he says uh morning all I’m feeling guilty I missed the day but a combination of sobriety and a proper bed meant I slept for over
3 hours sorry looks like an intriguing day he also says I think football is fairly popular in Ranchi we had five overs in 13 minutes since T by the way wow pretty good going pretty good 23 overs hour well uh folks is facing up he’s come down a track and he’s always he’s
Decided to give it some and he’s hit Ashwin for six over Cal Corner what a shot uh just a couple of strikes down the track he’s a good bat his folks and he gets six and he bats five I think for SAR so he’s a genuine batsman anyway
Which is a good thing I mean everyone says oh be though B be though but you know he’s just a different type of batsman but he is a good batsman uh he goes back plays into the legs side no Run come England did miss a
Trick by living FKS out for a couple of series when they were uh sort of huffing between Butler and BTO for that keeper batter position and I think they missed out on the services of a really good keeper be count down a track again he comes
Doesn’t get all of that one uh but he’s going to get four for it as he’s managed to sweep it behind Square uh now I’m just going to make a little comment about this cuz a friend and I we were chatting about this earlier that as soon as somebody hits Ashman for a
Boundary he just goes into this uh T20 sort of mindset and it’ll change his line he’ll change the sort of pattern of attack and sort of try and bow a little bit defensively and I think sometimes in test Cricket you have to stick with tried and tested methods well uh this is
Quite mad from Stokes what folks uh there another four out to Cal Corner slog swept him this time that’s six. 44 Madness and you and you just see Rohit sending a Fielder to the boundary yeah following the ball yeah following the ball exactly and sometimes you’re in
Test Cricket you just need that little bit of patience you stick to your tried and tested methods and just wait cuz nobody’s going to sustain that sort of assault all the time so you know you just keep chipping away at outside off stamp as has been conventional wisdom
Yeah just drops into the offside and there’s no run England on double Nelson for five and this is I think folks is high score of a series so far 45 pretty much yeah I think these two have batted really sensibly I mean yes taken unnecessary risks no uh and this
Time he goes down a wicket nearly gets beaten in the flight gets the outside off the bat it’s going to go down towards Third Man it won’t go to the B we followed down there holded in for two to folks moves on to 47 and that’s the end of the 67th over
Christ David David Barrett says uh shows us the flexibility it just says rootball um Adrian L says good old Rootin folks the work Starts Now um and Dave Wood says I’m not sure that being worth their place in the IPL is a rigging endorsement well it depends it is what it
Is and uh it doesn’t make them a test player necessarily but no but it makes them quite wealthy usually yes indeed indeed uh New Zealand uh I’ve just lost another we get that 100 for eight oh who’s in there’s only one still in that can actually do anything or is it the done
Dusted not really uh who they got coming in Lucky Ferguson and somebody else coming in okay lucky Ferguson’s on four from six so yeah they’re not they’re not going to get there they need to score at uh they need three a ball from now on 75
In 25 balls okay ain’t going to happen ain’t going to happen we got a new bowler I’ll give you his jingle in a second his first ball is to root is down leg side and he just works it down a long leg and he’ll get a single uh this
Man is back into the attack when you got to find your way from the streets got to find a way to land your food there only one man who could save us now is current part is 113 and Rohit looks a bit you know after the
Morning looks a bit flued to be honest looks like Rohit doesn’t have any idea of what he’s supposed to be doing here he just thought probably the pitch would do the job for them well exactly that’s what his leg is now he does he has a massive tendency to
Just let it drift yeah yes bit a bit of Swing on that delivery from SJ in the second ball that he bowled bit of inuck yeah I it’s kind of strange bringing Sage back now with the new Hall 13 overs away isn’t it I think he’s looking for reverse swing which is
Probably what we saw Justin you know that previous delivery and he’s got to try something Ashman just went for what 18 out of an over or 14 or whatever uh yeah defended back to the bowler no run uh another observation is England are now in the 68th over which is very
Close to the 71 ORS that they lasted in the first Innings of the previous test match well and that another thing maybe on this you want to be out there as long as possible let the pitch deteriorate as quick as possible but this is what Des
Get his about isn’t it you assess the situation and make the most yeah but a lot of this I mean you have to say that is definitely in swing and that is out so Ranch does get his wickets uh as folks tried to clip it into the
Leg side it definitely toed in right at the end there it’s good well you have to hand it to roit there he’s made the right change folks will be upset he’s missed out on a 50 thought it’ come into his AR but it just caugh the Inside Edge
Of the bat and England finally lose a wicket uh which they’ll be really happy with the Indians he’s just clipp that just lifted it air is slightly inside half the back cloth it a bit it’s been caught by midwicket he’s upset with himself but he has to go bye-bye to uh
Folks that’s he doesn’t No on your fight mate byebye throws his gloves down at the boundary uh and that is that Harley now comes out what we going to see from Harley today this is going to be interesting this now will be over quite quickly I think if the past three
Matches have had an indication to go by Hardley is not going to take it easy he he he’s likely to attack the Spinners isn’t he yes you thought he uses his feet and he gives it a good old back so Ang light together 225 for six what
TR and get up to near 300 who’s left you got Jimmy and Sh sh give it some Tonk and a Robinson oie Robinson can bat but then he wouldn’t B he hasn’t he hasn’t batted for donkeys in a competitive situation or played in a competitive situation for that matter uh right then
Let’s give Harley his jingle sounds like this shut up hard Le G you give Spinners a bad name what do you jents uh Reon the par score would be on this first day pitch 300 320 well yeah I mean initially when I saw it I thought 250 might be enough but it’s
Definitely flattened out from the first session if it yeah if it stays like it is for the for the next two days then you know you’re looking at 450 as a par on keeping low are a bit Danger yeah exactly that SJ is around the Wicket first ball to Harley who defends
That up to Mid on and there is no run bat miles away from pad I mean this is it is it is it a new ball pitch is the new ball the thing that’s well that’s it if the pitch is going to deteriorate it’s only going to get worse and if it’s
A new ball as well I don’t know is he what simple catch shman girl straight he’s all up for 102 by the way Jesus yeah uh s Raj is in to Harley who defends that and there’s no run now in that situation I would have preferred a forward short leg as well
Assuming that the balls either cuz if you remember very early in the morning there was a ball that kicked off from a good length I think SJ bow that one too and if he can manage to hit that crack again there’s no saying where that ball
Would end up so to me with a new B at the cre rohit’s missing out a little bit here in terms of closing fielders cuz even his uh slip placement is not conventional he’s got somebody in first slip and then he’s got somebody on the fourth slip sort of position hasn’t he
Yeah yeah he’s hedging his bets very much OD ey stuff hoping it goes somewhere in that Arc well I think he’s probably hoping that Hardley might hit a reverse scoop to that fourth slip position it’s possible it is possible yeah but I mean to be fair to Harley his test average is now
23 um he’s bad all right better than a lot of others he has yeah he has actually batted all right well rout is facing up ashwin’s over the Wicket and root just knocks that out into a gap on the offside they’ll get through for an easy single now what will Harley do
Here smacking for the six Maybe well maybe he should be out there for a good time not a long time I I think we’ll give that Wicket to Adrian Low by the way he was the one who had just tweeted good old roots and folks the work starts now yeah hell ruining
Things should we call it like a responders curse uh Ashwin around the Wicket uh inside half of the bat for Harley uh root root recognizing what’s going on here is very much on his toes actually he wants to I think what he wants to do is immediately try and even
If they’re not going to hit boundaries try and find gaps rotate the strike annoy them a little bit and quickly settle back into their Rhythm rather than India uh Ashwin around the Wicket root tries to turn it into the leg side but hits it straight to the man a very short straight
Midwicket not quite an on hayen root looking around oh he thought about going back and maybe cutting that and it turned in but it was short didn’t get up much but he had time to adjust just played it out on the legs side no
Run J now off up is he s he was the one replaced Ashwin that was quick for Ashwin and rot just played with very soft hands dropped it on the leg side no run another over with through by The Spinners still been reasonably expensive three and a bit over for ash uh that
Time rot can not find a gap in the leg side nearly did but there is a midwicket between two short fielders uh they don’t get the single and that ‘s a 69th over 227 for six mess uh easyy o says bad ball isn’t as fun when we’re losing uh Tom P says bloody
Disappointing that folks was about to kick into gear well he he just hit 14 off an over he yeah um Steven G Kelk says let me guess it’s still possible to see the birani stains on ol’s shirt and Leah says row as Captain has not been up
To Snuff this series he he was pretty good in the past I’d say uh and I’d have him higher than veret yeah I think he has been pretty ordinary as a captain in the series well that’s you know that’s the thing that Bas does to captains opposition captains I mean when they’re
Playing it properly even when it’s not going well it still asks questions that not a lot of them expect to have to answer a lot you know some of them play it like one day cricket and have everyone out but then you offer loads of singles on the
Infield so uh that seem to reverse a little bit seem to go away from uh Harley from around the Wicket a little bit but it started too wide and although he couldn’t get enough bat on it it went nowhere and there was no round you know if rahan is
Batting are you guys there yeah y hello can you hear us yeah can you hear us or have you frozen oh does he look like he’s Frozen he does but yeah yeah I think I think oh he’s Frozen it’s per well we’re changing at the end of this over so just as well
Yeah uh Sage around the wickets to Harley he takes a step across drives he bounces it over Sage but doesn’t and there’s no run oh is that unfrozen oh you’ve unfrozen unfrozen yeah and it’s time for me to I think take my leave cuz the half
Hour is coming up isn’t y uh yeah indeed end of this over will can you turn your camera off until the end of the over yep love thank you um yeah this over suddenly slowed down because we’ve got a pace Boulder back on there’s time there’s time between balls yeah that’s
Weird suddenly will liberated yes exactly folks looks a bit upset with himself sitting on the balcony all alone uh Sage around the wickets defended by Harley up towards midon and there’s no run I always think that the seamers look at uh currently a little bit more dangerous than Spinners on this
Wicket just because yeah I think you’re right but partly because of the variable bounce the variable bounce you got a little bit more time to adjust to a spinner whereas with a SEMA you have less time and if it keeps extraordinary low then you’re going to be in trouble I
Mean although having said that I mean the exactly that I mean if you get it at PACE the one that got Stokes out it’s going to be impossible oh that’s very full well dug out well dug out by Harley attempted Yorker from SJ there from around the Wicket angling into the
Stumps you imagine somebody like cly Ambrose on this pitch balling accurately at the stumps and the ball Miss behaving in terms of his bounds yeah that’d be horrible which is what we got hope oie Robinson does you what it’s his second highest release point in the world isn’t
He after is it is it Cameron J Carl Jameson Carl Jameson that’s right is he injured again Carl Jameson he he is he’s not he’s not going to be paying in the series against Australia uh that’s so there’s something in the New Zealand wat if it’s not Kane
Williamson it’s Carl Jameson yeah or it’s SII or somebody or the other is always injured well you know modern sport in it uh that was another one that’s swung away an away swinger from Harley from around the Wicket just there’s a bit of reverse s’s hands reach Skyward no run
Though one ball left in this over and one ball until we have a change and then tone will jump into my chair uh will will be back oh no I am still here what I want I’m doing social I thought I was off just different responsibilities they
Bear yeah well you know and you got me on for four sessions out of five thanks a lot T I’ve been up since three and I know but I don’t see you we’re up to dat on tweets You’ be pleased to know bear lovely outside the off stump s thinks
There might have been a little tickle through to the keeper there wasn’t uh no there was a big gap B and ball at the end the 7 overs England 22746 We Say Goodbye uh thank you for coming along good to have you let’s hope we have a
Good last session now well let’s hope so and we say hello to Will and we have say hello to Tony hello hello it’s been ages how are you oh I’m okay hello I do need to go I need to go have a leak I might
Get a beer actually in one and out the other yeah it’s just a constant recycling job isn’t it be all is uh a wicket for India Ben folks cursing himself I think will after all that hard work um it just seemed to be a bit of a
Loose shot it was a half fly from Sage that he just flicked away to um I can’t remember where it was taken uh but it it looked a loose shot to me I think he he had a sort of funny period Ashwin in worked into the onside by route upon whom England’s hopes
Rest uh Harley’s got a couple of scores will this this uh series well obviously his debut series reverse swept possibly For the First Time by rout uh goes down to well it’s Third Man the reverse sweep sort of turned it into long leg they’ll take a single no they take two so well
Run 229 for six route onto 78 I’ll never stop being nervous when anyone reverse sweeps it never sits well with me and I don’t know why I think KP might take issue with you on that one the slip goes down RIT root plays that nicely deliberate angling of the bat to
Steer out towards Sage who’s a extra cover they’ll take another single Harley’s got a 36 and a 34 I think to his name at uh vishka puam and then uh at rajot so he can he’s got them being aggressive though hasn’t he rather than than defensive yeah it feels a bit nigh hawky
Ashwin in well the new Nighthawk or Hawk boy as we’d called him has sadly had to leave the tour and wouldn’t have been playing in this game anyway uh but yes wind do sort of in Nighthawk mode yet England be happy to be in a situation at the close where
They were needing a Nighthawk I think that one’s driven back and fielded low to his right by Ashwin to 346 really some recovery that remember 112 for five at lunch England uh and everything looked really dire I wouldn’t say it’s UND dire now to be perfectly honest but uh it’s a lot
Less dire than it was yeah to the back foot goes Harley defends that well I think um the I mean this last session was definitely Joe roots for sure but I don’t know how how many more would you feel sort of comfortable with well at lunchtime we I’d have said 250 would
Have been absolute riches and England would have been thrilled at 230 for six clearly that’s you’d be very disappointed if it all fell over and you ended up with 250 uh I think 350 Joe root should be thinking 400 if he could keep but but well why not he’s he’s got
His eye I think I think I think he should be thinking that he probably won’t get that but he should be thinking that why not he wants a big hund if he gets a big hund and a combination it’s a question of whether we can run out bat
Well he’s got unfort his problem I think might well be that Robinson I think got five not out at heading leag last July and nothing and not even a match since then which suggests you know his ey is not going to be too much in that one’s nicely flicked away the
Second new ball of course he’s duing nine overs time we’ve whistled through overs with the rotation of spinners as well as seamers there was qu there was about 36 37 overs in the afternoon session wasn’t there well actually the new the new ball is going to be quite
Telling cuz if the new ball is what’s reacting to this pitch especially on on a day one I.E if it starts jagging about again and keeping low again it’s because the ball is hard um The Englander got a feel that actually 280 might be enough if they can knock over some you know
That new ball last 20 overs 22 overs where they can really put some pressure on yeah he’s uh one is heartly off the 12 his face so he’s definitely not in uh NW walk mode at the moment as this one is swinging away left well Alone by Harley and there’s no
Run there aren’t really runs to come hos heartly cuz I mean well Robinson like you said Jimmy is great for a sweep exactly and then and then and then gone much though I love him and I won’t have a word said against him the man’s a legend but his
Batting’s not show Basher don’t forget shab Basher but again the pedigree is not really there hard to tell sage in this is cut cut nicely by Harley out towards cover Reet Fields diving away to his right scraped a bit of elbow and hand in the process I
Think no he landed on it think that thing where you landed ribs landed on it that’s painful would have been painful we get a warm Round of Applause from Sage for the effort whether that not going to make a big difference but he’s rubbing his tummy which clear as you rightly say
Landed on the ball rum rates improved it was going along at what two and a half wasn’t it in the probably that one from folks isn’t it uh we’ve got oh less than 20 overs left today uh so I don’t think we’ll be into too much overtime think we will income
Sage rout weights drops the bat on it they take a sharp single good running 232 for six could all slow down of course when the new ball comes and yeah the timing of all that’s going to be quite interesting so we’ve got 18 overs left today the new ball due in
Eight of those so there’s going to be 10 overs with the new ball but well I I imagine they will take it as well because I mean there’s a long time left today to bowl out the rest of the day with an old ball I mean they’ll get to a
New ball in about 20 minutes so half an hour I was going to say do you think they’ll take it straight away well particularly thinking about the impact Akash deep had early on yeah been there was two slips go down there is also the man at uh a very short
Mid-on but heartley works it into the onside towards midwicket and there there is no run I I think it’s been a very it’s been certainly probably driven by the pitch but it’s been a notable a notably different approach or or adapted or I suppose just adapted given the conditions approached by
England but uh since the loss of those early wickets this morning these two have played well not these two but certainly folks and rout that one’s left alone again by Harley through it goes to gerage saraj throws his hands up as if to go what do I need to do how did that
Not get him out well it didn’t get him out because it was very competently and securely left by Harley and there was no run it’s the end of 72 overs it’s 233 for six uh 11 overs this session 35 runs the one Wicket yeah 2.33 the Run rate will
In the afternoon session positively pedestrian that’s almost going backwards in the world of basetball isn’t it well yeah this last sort of 18 months two years it’s that’s almost standing still but it is it’s like old man shuffling across a zebra Crossing compared to us
Bolt yeah but CA kind of I don’t know 2018 that’s zipping along at quite a rate uh it is anyway 2336 bear have we got any quick messages uh sorry I was just checking my text messages from my kids schools oh Lord do they they haven’t been sent home or anything have
They that’s the most important thing telling me about PE less oh right okay everything’s done now you know you’re getting notes sent home text email I know I know it was even when my two were at school that one’s worked into the onside no run by routy 81 for
Him how he will be craving not only 100 but to go on and and and just make it as big as he can make it that’s defended Again by root same place same result another dot board good tight bowling by R ashin you’d expect nothing less although he did get
Carted a couple of times by was it Ashwin that folks carted sorry are you still texting school no they’re texting you no no no I was checking out the tweets this one is defended again when you say text from school it’s not actually your bookie is it no no it is
Actually school all right just checking will sorry I I was just going to say it was Ashwi folks yeah I thought so I thought and almost unfol likee so it’s almost like there’s been sort of a folks is the one who says look I know I’m not
Basball I play my own game uh and he’s he’s come out been them been quite aggressive for for for about one over and then there we go just defended again rather like a tus withdrew his head back into his shell and carried on just playing secure and safe kept rout
Company and then just frustratingly just I think rather gave it away down the track comes Harley he doesn’t stand still for long he’s launched uh that up and high over long on he’s got himself six penny worth England move on to 246 heartley for Eight uh this yeah go I was just going to say I do know that uh heartley is using a new bat um because I know the guys at B3 a little bit and I was just talking to them about it and he’s changed his specs and apparently it’s a
Bit weightier the one that he’s using now um in comes Ashwin oh no well that’s forced INB looks like it’s going down leg I think it’s been given well it’s 240 for 6 it could be 240 for 7 Joe root saying review review review England have all three reviews left so they
Definitely will the bear you called it straight away and said that sliding down he was quite far back though wasn’t he he was quite far back but I thought it hit him virtually on leg stump or outside leg stump remember it’s been given out by uh umpire Dharma Cena I
Think so you do fear for heartley as uh this could be a six and out uh catches him why I think that’s sliding down I mean that’s you think that’s sliding down it hasn’t straightened a lot of all has it uh well quite the opposite if anything it’s
Going the other way well that’s what it seems it could be the the is it the caram ball that he tweaks the other way and there’s also a big hint of an inside Edge yeah there was a big hint of an inside Edge there we need to have a look
Is it that’s an edge is this the bat this is the bat that’s been remodeled well done him good but good an extra millimeter on that edge has saved him umpire dhina says look I know Joel’s not iring however I can do it with the
Best of them I can be blind as well you know and we’ve got blind umpire Kumar darina goes sorry I’ve joled I’ve joled that one frustration all around for India relief for England and for Tom Harley and indeed for Jay root who will now have the strike seven off that over
From R Ashwin 240 for six still England bear uh well Jay um says the Roses must unite for the greater good I heard are rather w quote from Robin Yensen yesterday this is the longest I haven’t uh haven’t bled Cricket played I presume that is not blade Cricket since I was
Six years old worrying yeah very true I’m way says if we get close today if we get to close today with batter still out there or recently out when it seem that despite statistically it is India on top it will feel like day one to England especially after our poor start I’m GL
Glass half full saying yes I kind of yeah I mean it’s difficult I mean what we saw from the pitch in the first session suggested that it was going to be horrific but it might have just been a fresh pitch cuz it hasn’t seemed as bad since then there are bulls that are
Staying low uh and there is a bit of movement Sage is going to be in that Spears down legs Jerel Dives again not for the first time today shows his athleticism and saves buys there gets a high five from uh sraz for his work and probably deserved it too he’s been he’s
Quite sharp on the dive isn’t he o he really is a rather dark tweet from David G that Paul has uh grubby has said time to come back David as David G has tweeted you need to find a copy of an endangered species the updated autography the title seems yet more
Relevant as I sit for my cup of coffee in front of the TV David G yes oh right fantastic getting his commentary stints I presume that me is referring to Oh I thought you meant playing well no obviously not we could do with a couple of wafty cover drives and in between
Some amazing high scoring cre scored a lot of runs against India didn’t he David G yeah yeah yeah is an endangered species an autobiography as him uh I don’t know I don’t know we keep he keeps dangling the the prospect he might come
And do do a spell or two with us so I don’t think we should give up well I don’t think we should give up the thing is then someone actually offers him a job and he goes oh yeah what uh but eventually we will get that time as if
One of England’s finest ever batsmen should be paid to come and do stuff with us all exactly but someone in paying him OB comes in in front of us root defends and pushes into the onside there’s no run 137 odd kilm most humans are venal
Beings and if you say come here for no money or come here for a few grand what are you going to do uh I’d probably go for the few ground exactly and David gal who’s used to that all his life probably goes I’m gonna go for the
Money yeah no those lad sound really nice we are not not going to hold it against him at all of course not in comes Sage forward comes root who’s looking very much like the old Joe root it must be said will yeah I I mean I I he’s he’s really
Great in India like last time we were out there he was pretty much the only person that got a footo hold as far as I remember yeah and then that all tailed off when everyone else couldn’t do it and the pressure got too much by the end
Of the series even he was bu is that when he got his Fifer uh yeah it was yeah sage in he comes there again arms go up was a little uppish perhaps jumped on Route a little more than he was expected but dropped well short of a shortish midwicket let’s have another
Look no catches him on the P pad actually yeah but it swung in that was a bit late it did maybe a little bit of reverse for well that’s what I’m think in which case might you just keep the old ball going I guess it depends on
The results in the next couple of overs well that and how long can you keep Sage going for anyway maybe you you do this and then you take the new ball and put a ash deep on for the new ball yeah but my guess with the new ball at this stage in
Play you’d Pace at one end and spin at the other as that one’s stoutly defended by Joe root and there is no run little bit calmed on 240 at the moment England I’m not sure they should be overly worried by that though given the patience and uh well correctness with which they
Played through since lunch 112 for five remember at lunch they got to te 1898 for five courtesy of a fantastic partnership between root and folks but that has now been broken uh as indeed was finally folks’s concentration and that’s what did for him as that one’s worked getting into
The onside rout looks frustrated he mustn’t do he just needs to crack on with every ball and not worry about that 240 for six at the end of the over will I’d say that um this kind of Ste like I I would take the steady kind of last 15
Or so overs it you know it’s not what we’ve been used to for the last sort of couple of years but I think given the circumstance aners just a bit of kind of steady taking well then you get you get into the debate about you know is it’s
Unfair on Bas ball to make it purely one-dimensional it is about getting runs on the board quick enough to give yourself time to bowl out the opposition you sense this is not a track that where time to bowl the opposition out on day one is an issue uh and what they’ve learned from
The previous test is if you’re in a hole you have to work Jolly hard to steady the ship and then start to build your way out of it and Joe Root’s done that well yeah so did folks there’s something else I’ll say after this ball we’re
Going to wait for R Ashwin anyway he’s going to be bowling to young Tom Harley who’s chewing furiously underneath that helmet of his and he defends towards a short midon I mean and there’s no run doesn’t it say something about the Wicket that England don’t feel they can
Bow ball on it I mean it must say something about the Wicket it must say it’s not very true they don’t feel confident in it defended Again by Harley who seems to be very much in the mindset of my job is to keep being here and to keep Joe root Company that’s a
Very interesting looking uh retro West Brom second strip shirt I think I caught a glimpse of there so it’s not some third division in no I’m pretty sure he didn’t looked like he was a bra the favellas of Brazil he looked like he was more like a chunky
From from dudle H one of those uh 240 for6 England we got a friend of mine who’s an aid BR down the track though comes Harley he’s flamingoed that in some style but he didn’t really get hold of it at all he did hit Ashwin G oh he’s a bit
Unfortunate uh half stopped he’ll get a single anyway the intent was there that nicely oh he did Ashwin stuck out a big old right leg and uh but for that I think it would have been a four it was then Mis fielded by Akash deep uh who will
Forgive cuz he’s done a pretty solid day’s work today started in the most spectacular of fashions that ended up not being a wicket flicked into the onside by ruy fielded at forward short leg and there’s no run at least England have got off that
240 mark they seem to be cled on uh will be it only to 241 Ashwin in that’s popped up tickled around the corner there’s a man on the 45 Ashwin looks fed up as though the whole world is on his shoulders but he’s only gone for one in that over uh he
Hasn’t got a wicket though 75 a complete 241 for six be well Leah says I think David G needs to come on to my podcast I get to front to get a foot in the door of the lucrative German Cricket Market sorry I really shouldn’t have
Laughed I think you suggest that to him he’ll be sitting there thinking what do I do next what maret do I what do I get that’s what he’s thinking the market for Cricket Germany’s where the future is well actually why not why should it not be Cricket’s a wonderful game where
Don’t they play it enough Germany Big Country there’s every reason you’ve got enthusiastic supporters of the game like Leo who promote it very well why on Earth should it not be a success in Germany someone like David GA going unfortunately the problem with not not many Germans would have a clue who David
G was as this one is defended into the offside just back with a point by Harley who gets that big front foot forward the other thing I’ve noticed will today is England have conspicuously a lot of the time got a big stride in and when they haven’t they’ve got themselves in
Trouble so they’ve either gone forward a lot or they’ve gone back a lot very little in the middle I I mean I I think CU I’m a bit of a sh ass I I I just assumed it was because they were ridiculously tall cuz I mean Hardley 6’4 is he something like that
Some of them yeah I think I think duck is unlikely to consider himself ridiculously tall uh little bit smaller than me I think which is nice SJ in edged and edged on the bounce P second it’ll be four runs do you think it was a
Drop it was a drop I think it jaale has the Jaz whale let him L his team down I think so I think he’s he’s got credit in the bank a it’s Edge no well short come on ladder break because the camera was late and it
Caught it coming up on the bounce that’s why I thought there’s a good Dive by the Jazel not quite in the Jerel class though of of dive handy four runs very handy four runs England on to 245 that 250 which we thought looked an awfully long way away
At lunchtime is H looking quite a realistic Prospect now that’s beaten Harley that’s got his man what a ball that was and uh I’m afraid Harley has did he Edge that I think he did or did he missed his outside edge and it’s knocked his off oh
Right I thought he got an edge either way he’s gone uh Edge one second slip on the bounce for four and but gone next ball yeah look at that another one bites the dust I think that is going to be out Fred Another One Bites the Dust an off
Cutter just beat heartley all ends up and he’s walking off with that expression that says yep I got a good one there no shame in that Tom Harley 13 of 26 most most wickets gone to se as three that’s five to the seamas out of seven
Yeah well three three or four to aash deep three to aash deep couple to ashwin’s got one LW and an absolute grubber from Deer the other one right well anyway 2 457 England rout is still there he needs Partners to keep him there I haven’t played this for a while
And here’s man we haven’t seen for a bit he’s got a snear on his face how long do you reckon he last less than an over less than an over you could be right I’m kind of tempted to go with you on that one yeah sadly I think that could be the
Case g i Reon he’ll get one run I think wonder what he’s thinking he’s probably thinking the same as we are what can we expect of a bloke who hasn’t played any competitive Cricket since July who’s now got to come in well you trust him with a ball newsan because
You get many chances but with a bat when you only get one chance yeah you got to think this isn’t probably going to go that well and then what does what does root do when he gets down to showb and thingy he wants to get his Tong doesn’t
He I mean does he try and force it I tell you what he’s been at the hair Dy along with me if that picture that came up on our screens there is anything to go by I mean you can’t under that actually that ball did a lot it did a
Lot like I said it was a real off cutter it went off the seam didn’t it beat the outside edge of the bat straightened up quite well I I think oie will like this I think Jimmy will like this and uh if Stokes is good enough to bold he might
Go you know what having three seamers available is not such a bad option be interesting to see how olle plays this though because uh let’s have a look at the field first interestingly there’s two men on the leg side there’s a forward short leg and a very short mid
On he plays that one ins Inside Edge onto the toes I was going to say sage who’s who’s clearly a bit pumped now and he turning around with a big smile on his face although even his smile is kind of shark likee isn’t it well cuz he’s
Got big he’s got big canines isn’t he looks a bit vampirish he does look like he’s uh he’s uh out to get you even his smile but that was a huge that low I suppose you could argue Robinson did well to keep it out well yeah when you
Haven’t B it for eight months and that’s your first ball will will had him will had him down for one and then out he hasn’t got that one one out in less than an over okay 245 for S there’s two balls left this over is looking to York him was
Sage and Ollie played it pretty well and in fact sage just didn’t quite get it right and it turned it into a full toss well he’s got first half T hasn’t he is that right or is he not his highest score is about 80 or something uh have a
Look I can’t remember I thought it was about 82 83 is was it I I don’t know though gives him a chance while he’s batting of course to think now let me see how many overs do we think left today how many overs left in the day bear
Uh well minimum 14 after this but they’ll get more than that in got an hour so yeah there’s every chance he might get some bowling tonight as he plays that pretty well actually and he’s going to get that run will he’s got run run got his run it
He’s only got three balls left out to midwicket God I wish I had money on this well he it’s the end of the over anyway 246 say that now when he’s on 50 for seven four overs until the second new ball Robinson on one rout on
82 uh and the bear on on your social media messages oh I was looking up OE Robinson oh it’s all right you were looking up OE Robinson uh are you inar are we do a change uh one more over is he being a bit Keen Gary’s are being a bit Keen of Gary
Gary Gary the Keen they call him but fair enough so Keen he’s come and planted himself in the spare chair now that’s how is 246 for hasn’t got over the uh the shock of me being early to pick him up this morning jadea well you won’t have long
To wait if Jade’s bowling defended Yeah by OE you Nick the strike of course with that single right OE Robinson batting career stats bowling batting uh uh first class high score 110 Jer who’s uh may or may not get a jingle for being the replacement also someone needs to be let
In there probably uh it’s got 150s In First Class Cricket okay onto the back foot goes Robinson defends very competently to Point again no Run play D jingle can’t be honest well okay there’s me over so well yeah he survived that danger in oh that’s a horrible Ball but it’s a full
Toss Robinson has has got most of it yes all of it he’s launched it uh but it dropped well short of midwicket it’s been given as a no ball as well so uh doesn’t that mean it should be five to England yes it does no it’s five
To the score don’t five to the score well five to England that’s what I said four to Robinson five to England over 250 is up jadea got that all wrong the 250 is up Robinson will move on to well he’ll get I know he’ll get four
Won’t he for that yes he’s on to five no he already had a single single hello hey look we’ve both been up since very early in the morning 251 for seven that well there’s the 250 anyway that we uh we we never thought we’d see at lunchtime Jer head banded forces Robin
Onto Robinson onto the back foot he defends right in front of his off stump into the offside there’s no run will where’s your money to for England to finish are they going to be bowling tonight or are they still going to be batting uh 13 left uh worked off his
Legs to midwicket no run I think they’ll be all out but I don’t think that they’ll get a bow cuz I think that it will get close enough to stumps that they won’t bother well okay the last two overs of the game 251 for 7 it’s late in the day is what will
Suggesting I’m going to I think got a little break for a moment or two Gary is going to maneuver in and uh m is going to join them thanks for God will see you again and on uh see you tomorrow yeah see you then all right all right bye
Cheers bye bye hello thanks for having me on I face a little bit of a logistical issue here if I keep the window open you’ll hear some ambient noise otherwise it gets H that’s all right not too bad always adds adds to the interest yeah it’s interesting I mean I think England
Looking good for 300 here absolutely I mean and if J and despair can get back about 5 six hours more closer to the end of the r play I think they might even get to uh 325 330 yep well I mean there’s what 14 13 overs left um
And they’ll probably get through that almost exactly at the schedu close of play so they won’t need the extra half hour I I’d be surprised that they scored more than 40 runs in that time so uh if they’re still there uh then yeah just about 300 um although I’m over
Suggests that England’s tactic now should be to get the Innings over before the new ball so it doesn’t become an issue and of course who’s to know whether in fact uh Stokes might declare to get 20 minutes at the Indians tonight I was just going to say that the moment
Joe Roots out I think Stokes declares yeah I think he probably will at least he’ll wait till Joe Roots out this time last time0 not out why not let bash have some fun if rout were to be out like have a go swing a couple and maybe you get 10 runs or
Something yeah I think 10 runs in two overs I think Stokes would rather have two overs tonight at Jaz Jaz whale in particular um or jce well I should say got to try and get that about the way you call him every time gets me good but nonetheless I mean that’s a proven
Quantity as far as the series is concerned so they’ll probably want to see him off if possible today there’s there’s no better situation to roll out the cliche that you don’t know what a good score is until both sides have batted than this 251 for seven here um I have no idea
Whether this is a good score or not my feeling is that it is a good score but it could that could easily be blown out of the water but from a master class from uh jwell and um some hitting from the likes of sarz and J AER it’ be
Interesting to see sarz on this pitch actually whether he’s able to deal with this as well as he was in the last his of additional Pace that’s going to be interesting if uh he can still play the bully boy well here’s SJ has come back after getting a bit of tap in his
Early spell and he’s met with a Immaculate forward defensive from Joe root who has been a model of Orthodoxy um pretty much throughout this I think one reverse sweep I think he’s tried but I think we can suggest that the reverse sweepers as Orthodox as any other shot these days
So in the meantime Netherlands trying to chase 204 have just lost tanu so they’re 116 for6 it’s it looks a little long way away let’s see if they can get who are they playing namia Namibia and the required is B run the ball as well just
A one slip for root and a a very a very backward forward short leg if that makes sense cuz he’s quite deep there and uh rout stifling a yawn just punches it to the man at Short midwicket um so I think they’re planning for a ball tailing in if you look at the
Field of s they have very clear plans as if the ball will tail in yeah I mean I I don’t think they’ll take the the new ball at 0 but is still an hour to play here so I think if they take it at allall it will be towards the end and
It’ll be taken by aash Deepu Bol so beautifully this morning with it and probably Ravi Chandon Ashwin who does enjoy bowling with a new Cherry SJ is in this is a horrible full toss the first rather a succession of bad full tosses from India and slightly surprised as
Roose is only able to punch it to the Man sweeping on the cover boundary and they threw for a single given how well uh these two have bored I mean I might even have S Bowl one or two along with Akash what I like about Akash well his story of getting to
The top is very inspirational but outside of that he hurried the batsman and he has a little bit in it yeah for but he was quicker than I expected him to be he he was touching 140 which is you know sort of the marker for a fast
Bowler rather than a fast medium bowler and um absolutely but his control of length was absolutely Immaculate which I think is the key on this pitch as OE Robinson comes forward Jabs a bat on it like he’s a proper batsman and uh yet another misfield but it doesn’t cost any
Runs this time as they threw for a single the Indian ground Fielding has been very shudy I think in this uh in fact it has been shudy throughout the series really but it’s been very poor today I’m thinking is the heat getting to them or what well they said it wasn’t
The last half hour they said it was well maybe lack of it is get into them either way I mean they they’re up uh closer to the foot of the Himalayas it’s Ranchi will not be too high but I can’t really blame anything else it’s lack of concentration punching is Jo
Root and again as a misfield albeit you could say it was a half decent stop uh to be honest by absolutely not sure who that P oh no it’s par he’s on he’s on to somebody on he’s lankier than pidar yeah and I was actually happy to see pdar included
There are all of these talks you know would they play paral ahead of pidar but I’m happy to see they kept him going for one more game yeah I mean well well I mean it was a decent stop I should say cuz that ball was going quite fast and
Uh he did get enough on it so so I’m bagging him a little saved yeah rout on 85 now as he gets a ball and he’s played that shot so often today and he’s India have conceded runs risky so often but they have conceded that run so often
Where rot gets a ball sort of on the off stump and India have targeted the stumps quite successfully and um he just gets a sort of inside part of the bat on it doesn’t really time it but gets it into a gap on the leg side and scampers a
Single uh rout spin is scampering best here uh but it’s the end of the over and so we need the scampering messy to Scamper through your tweets uh Leah says well recording my day later today should be fun I still like death on holiday sound like death
On holiday uh Brian in brisbon says England have done well after being five done at lunch um where does death go on holiday says Moog Gaza Venice uh Ste of course it does yes uh Steven Kel says Gary can you give us an update on your vicinity to the river swing Theory I
Don’t let going go back there yeah this is reverse swing though different different kind of swings the one I was talking yeah death on holiday East Midlands in England yes he well in well in roots are well in this Innings I think they’ve to get the
Skates on Scamp at Singles I think India have conceded I would suggest in the field at least 10 runs today um and if you add in some overly defensive field setting with too too many men out deep I’d suggest it’s more like s of 20 or so runs and
What might prove to be a short uh or a low-scoring match that could be can be quite important well OE Robinson called for a drink not long after the drinks interval so whether he’s whether he’s um suffering a little here uh Deli belly maybe I’m not sure but he he hasn’t been
Out there long and uh is it humid I wonder that high up um or that part of India I wonder if it’s humid because well he’s Tak Tak you is low uh I can give you the figures uh right now the temperature is currently 26° humidity is
34% you’ll remember J uh jez the um players Comfort uh set of dials that um World Series Cricket had yeah Channel 9 Tony Tony Greg would get the uh the players Comfort out combination of sort of temperature and humidity various other factors now Gary I I forgot to mention
Earlier a cause for celebration certainly on your part is that between lunch and tea India bowled 36.4 five overs it was extraordinary wasn’t it it just goes to show that when um the players do want to bowl they can of course it helped that deer and ashmin
Bow a fair proportion of those and there were no reviews but if you want to get on with it you can get on with it this ball is defended and there is no run very classic uh front for defense there from Joy he doesn’t look like he’s
Going anywhere no no he’s he’s played the textbook forward defense uh very well uh in this Innings as this ball is defended there was a bit of analysis uh on the uh host broadcaster um saying that um he was playing back to balls that were not on the stumps and
Playing forward to balls that were on the stumps so he was playing back off forward on line rather than length as he comes forward to this one and punches it to deep point and they’re thre for a single and what that gave him was run scoring opportunities because when he
Went back he was able to cut late or early um depending on where the Fielder was and find gaps but it was would be very unhappy with the exchanging of strike Robinson Just Clips this one around the corner but uh backwards Square leg who’s been very much in this game um does the
Fielding Co deep who’s been under bowled in my opinion in this uh I I guess so but maybe with a little bit of pace available on the pitch he will come into it on the third day whenever thir this ball is uh nudged again to co deep
Around the corner well if um if olle Robinson if there’s one bowler olly Robinson does not want to be facing now it’s k d adav as uh this ball is just pushed by Robinson to Mid on no tail Ender wants to face a left arm wrist spinner I promise you that fair enough
257 for7 and jez uh so Jay Grover says death comes to Sheffield and gets very depressed although I can tell you Jay that on the 15th of April David G is coming to Sheffield to cre speak at the shefield cricket lovers dinner so if you got the
Night free that probably will be well worth getting to um if we go to stumps seven or even eight down you’d say England have a nosed in front I think this deck is going to be dicey by day three it’s so hard he’s been saying that all serious
So hard to tell no absolutely even a 50 run lead will be very critical here on the switch yes it’s so hard to tell um sirj is in a again and uh ru’s batted so well today in the style of Joe root um Clips it around the corner and cool
Deeps rather deeper than he was but um and therefore he allows to single at long leg and uh they’re through for that as um Akash deep uh who man of the day is uh warming up so that suggests there might be a new ball on its way right
Maybe around 80 second over or so they well ahead of well it’s it’s available at the end of this over right I mean I think because s is B bowled out on a spell it’s something they have to think who will share it well Ashwin would be
The obvious one he’s taken a new ball so many times SJ is in and a bouncer uh which barely gets above stump height uh goes through OE Robinson bending very deep there he’s 65 is Robinson and he had to get very low underneath that one 10 I think you may have underestimated
How high it went it was still low for a high man that all for sure yeah I don’t like it when players turn the back of their head to the ball it’s a natural reaction particularly for a a batsman who is down the order to turn your face
From the ball but it’s inviting trouble um I think he saw it well out he saw he had his eyes facing the ball until the ball almost passed him and he dropped his head that’s all right so s there no Periscope either who went for 446 remember in his first spell from Crawley
At one point this is defended by Robinson uh Extra cover and there is no run yeah one one of the things that’s making me think that India will fancy their chances of overhauling England’s score is that Tom Hartley who is a nine really for his first class County
Lancashire and OE Robinson who hasn’t had a bat in the middle since July have both looked fairly comfortable you know they they haven’t been they haven’t been sort of discomforted by Pace nor by Spin and um you know they they haven’t scored 50 each by any means uh but they
They haven’t looked uncomfortable two men in close on the leg side as this is full and it’s driven but without any timing by Robinson field at Mid off there is no run the p as such it’s available I think it’s not very it’s not very bothering if you are going to play
Technically correctly and the ragging turn that you saw requires a specific Pace to be bowling at and it’ll really all fall on heartly I expect him to do the J like role and it might be a bit much to ask shab to fill in for Ashwin but he might yet have
Something I have a feeling that ole Robinson would be critical if he can hit a length that taken the top of off stump he’ll ask questions on this pitch uh as it is he’s got bat in hand now and that was a bit of an ugly attempt at a cut at
Least he did get some bat on it uh fielded a point as Sage gives it the uh the Rong there I think it came on slower than he anticipated because he was sort of aiming to drive it behind that Fielder or final of that Fielder but it
Went straight to the Fielder I think it was taken back by how slow it came off the pitch that might be another indicator there has been an occasional grubber as well if you remember Stokes if you haven’t seen it then you know have a look at Stokes it’s reminiscent
Of a famous delivery that NASA Hing got from I think Carl Hooper back in the day yeah and uh that was I think the West days pretty oh and slow all right but that goes in surprising to see this year the first day of test match just before
Lunch few kept low but that kept particularly low as Robinson just comes forward dabs the ball down they’re going to get two here they are going to get two you know that’s real one day running there and England have been very good at maximizing their opportunities to score
Runs in the field it’s 260 for7 Robinson has eight Joe rout has 88 and it’s the 8th over if there’s any Chinese people who are watching now that have enjoyed all those eights uh M ask for an update on the GPL I can tell you that uh the score is 278
287 which has been picked twice 289 293 298 303 and 307 are all in play so it’s going to be interesting come the end of the uh 90 overs this evening well one wonders if you’ve uh got MO going as well M with your enthusiasm uh well M’s somewhere in
There as his dis sorry as his on BR over my picks are too high today uh Tom B says to be fair it’s been very much the norm that the pitches have given a lot to the bowlers at the tail end of the tour thus far I think this one has
Potential to break up considerably well Juda didn’t get much out of that delivery because root was able to just lean on it and get it to the Man sweeping on the offside boundary and there through for a single which brings Robinson back on strike but he he’s looking confident and comfortable
Obviously the new ball has not been taken despite its availability no I I I expect this pair to Bow another couple of hours maybe 84th over they’ll give as this is a superb delivery from jadea which pitches on the stumps turns and Kumar darina has to make it very
Clear that it’s not out to Jade who was dancing down the Wicket there there’s no reviews left for India they burned three relatively early now they’re ruing it let’s have a look here the ball pitches on middle and it turns and he edged it that’s the reason why and it was a a
Sharp catch but um let’s see if he took the PAD as well I mean it would he just took the B by the yeah it would be a good a a very good catch there’s always an element of luck when you stand up there and yeah I
I don’t like this with fielders war was always one for doing this where omire made a decision and then he’d start asking them well what what’s wrong with that and everything once the umpire’s made a decision what you do is you get on and your bowl and next ball and uh
He’s had he’s had a word with um oh he’s had a word with uh rits there as um J is in again and this is defended and there is no run yes um aggressive uh appealing yeah well I’m all for strong appeals you can appeal as strongly as you like but
As soon as the Umpire makes a decision you turn your heel and you bow the next ball this ball is defended and there is no run and appeals can be theatrical they can be strong but maybe roit was being asked about oh yeah he’s slightly gone into the Red Zone there J making
The appeal but that was oh it wasn’t I don’t think it was was it a warning maybe it was this ball is defended not the official there is no run yeah it was It was a quiet word in the ear but I think if a player appealing then they
Put half a foot in the area I don’t think that’s a a big deal but could this be the new ball because it’s a new man coming on and it’s the man of the day it’s this guy I cash deep but no one believe me all
Right uh it’s also not smart to run on the Wicket uh when you’re batting last right why would you do that yeah um just a word about taking a new ball after 84 overs I think we’re going to get possibly more than 90 overs in the day
So there may still be 10 maybe 11 overs to to be bold here although let’s have a look at all 22 minutes past if no I think they spot on yeah I think they all must be spot on I think you’re right gentlemen because um it’s going to be
Paced from one end yeah I mean says it’s good to see D Cena knock far up the arm there OE middled that I don’t think he didn’t middle it he got a very fine Edge which Nick actually he was lucky he wasn’t still bold cuz it just missed the
Off miss the off St by that much that was the whole excitement I think because of the turn but then you you can’t expect the keep keep keeper well just one element just one element of that and it’s I don’t know enough about Wicket keeping I never did it and it’s a Arcane
Art but I just want to mention one thing about it as Akash deepers in and immediately hits that lovely line in length it’s defended by rout and there is no run if you watch um uh Jurel behind the you see he didn’t make it that was his Pad I
Think did he no yeah just looking at the replay I think it missed his Bat entirely and that would have been out all the gesticulations all that was justified I was sure he’ Hit It Go I was sure he’d hit it but if he’s missed it then that’s a poor decision because well
It’s another poor decision we all thought he hit it I think or do no wonder all the justicul and stuff but uh this is clipped leg stump half volley and root gets it Round the Corner to long leg and he helps himself to one of
These there’s not one boy for me I must have two or three I need four slight tired delivery there from Akash I think that’s R’s first four since T it might be England have not scored many boundaries uh the whole the whole day actually a flurry from Crawley
I think they went 100 100 Balls without um scoring the boundary when folks and root were together as uh aash is in again it’s a leg stump half volley and this time rout gets it squarer and it’s chased down by rajat who think is he the substitute
Fielder I think he is no no he’s playing today I P is playing all right yeah oh it’s R pidar right yeah yeah thank you um yeah and I wonder what root was looking at point when when he glanced that beautifully down the leg side the
He’s um he’s been slightly in his own bubble today rout you often see him sort of having a laugh and a joke with his partner or sometimes with the Umpire opposition players you know he’s a jovial presence but he’s been very much wrapped in his own bubble today he’s on
95 get another leg side delivery it’s taken well by jell um yes I was going to mention the Wicket keeping of jell to that delivery um which would not it’s not now a missed catch because if there’s no Edge it’s a it’s a missed lbw decision um but
When as the ball comes through to him he moves his gloves in line with the ball which means that his keeping gloves were behind the stumps um which obviously you can’t take the ball behind the stumps but he didn’t keep them outside the stumps for the
Edge as is in that’s what you have to do well that’s what I’m I’m asking really this ball is clipped to short midwicket and there is no run I mean I just don’t know whether Keepers just naturally follow the line of the ball and therefore their gloves go behind the
Stumps but if the there’s an an edge they’re not going to catch it whereas if they if they’re able to keep their gloves low and just outside the stump then any kind of edge then at least are him with a Chance of catching it I don’t know enough about Wicket keeping and I
Don’t look closely enough when keepers are are uh working with spinners to know whether that’s a standard technique or not as uh rot gets another on leg stump and uh finds the man that short midwicket um what is bold would be happy he got away just considering six runs I
Think there were five balls on the badge yeah down the leg Yeah it was a bit of a tired comeback uh there from Akash maybe some of the emotional energy that he’s used up in a supercharged first spell and he was very much on adrenaline calling for reviews every 10 seconds it
Seemed but um I’m calling for your uh social media uh Mr P says morning all uh this would be Root’s 10th Century against India if he makes his that’s correct it also be twice as many centuries as against any other tennis playing Nation uh Leah says now watch
Him getting out in the 90s after that Jinx uh um J is in Robinson defense and Leah points out there’ve been 29 boundaries in the day th far 29 that’s rather more than I thought there was there had been all right yeah 29 as I’d Li out some more than half of
Before lunch yeah juder this ball is defended and there is no runs so no sign of a new ball um Akash certainly wasn’t getting any reverse swings they would have clearly highlighted it they would have shown the Empire showing the new ball I think he they gave him an over to
Get into the groove that’s why yeah maybe that’s uh maybe that’s it 267 for seven England Robinson on eight gets a A he’s full ball and he slightly agriculturally sort of lifts it between the mid on and the bowler and um gets it to the boundary for uh one of these and
If you kids can’t listen and you bound to see the way you get shot for crossing a boundary crossing a boundary you saw this coming oh that’s a lovely delivery from jadeja the ball pitches on Fifth stump draws the back forward turns past the edge and the
Keeper takes it well I mean that’s the kind of delivery which suggests that this is a good score uh-huh that ragged off a pace yeah that’s excellent bowling uh this is defended by Robinson who shows admirable s By ignoring the previous delivery and just playing the line on the next one I
Think he’s going to wait for his chance if he’s close enough he’s going to have a go at it as he defends this ball as well so another Swift over from jadea the highlight of which was that clumped four to long on by Robinson 27147 there’s a switcher coming you want
To do it before the war or shall we carry on for one more oh yes there is isn’t there uh well I’m not sure who’s due in next I know I go to the summarizing chair it it’s bear Tony and and you all right so it’s be and Tony
There yet well they’re still in the green room so we’ll carry on unless they both invade ah in the meantime we looked at uh some of local fans I’ve had yes I’ve had the uh yeah some pink saries there is there any um any significance to the
Pink sari except that it suits uh many women yeah uh this ball is full and turned off the pads by root who will help himself to two c deep should be bowling I think is uh Fielding down there at long leg Yeah and uh through for two so rout is within a
A boundary of his 100 indeed and I think a root will not miss out it’s it’s it’s important for England it’s important for R well but I dare say India would want him off the moment he well he’s got some chances now because it’s Akash Deepu is struggling
To find that Immaculate line and length that characterized his opening spell there’s only one slip who’s actually at sort of second stroke third there a big appeal for lbw as R Falls over a delivery that was going down leg and there’s a lot of sort of double teap
Pots here from India saying s that’s hit it all three and they did have a case with the previous delivery but no case surely with this as we’re seeing it again as it hits him in front of leg stump angling down and comfortably going down yeah comfortably going
Down uh dhasa sorry yeah Mr tuer is all right as well yeah he doesn’t get too many yeah I mean I think you’re allowed to show disappointment and that was more of a show of disappointment than dissension I think so but they’re used to it it’s also towards the end of the
Day it ising in rout on 97 who shown no sign of tiredness at all it really has been a superb Innings whether he gets his three runs or not as that ball goes to short midwicket and there is no run you can see now he’s beginning to get
Into that that ball the previous ball is the one that categorized his excellent morning might be finding his Gro now yeah the previous delivery where India were very disappointed not to get the uh lbw um was two stumps outside the leg stump so a decent call from Rod Tu it
Does seem to have some quite strong glasses on there strong prescription but uh many batsman have had strong prescriptions and still batted well as uh aash is in again and and will this be two more for root yeah the scampering excellent Fitness from Joe root there he’s been
Batting most of the day and he turned swiftly to get back of course there is always a little bit of added speed in your legs when you’ve got uh 100 within sight but he he’s been busy he’s been scampering the footwork has been excellent it’s uh it’s like welcoming
Back an old friend uh seeing Joe rot back like this I mean he placed it well enough he placed it Square enough of that field leg I said earlier that he’s had like a midlife crisis I think with some of these shots he’s been playing he’s he’s he’s like been driving around
A red sports car he’s had a couple of a couple of sets of points for speeding and now he’s gone back to the Volvo and we’re all rather happy at seeing Joe root in his Volvo he’s on 99 he comes forward plays an Immaculate forward
Defensive and there is no run so he has one ball left in this over to see if he can uh convert his 99 to three figures which I think he richly deserves for aggressive as England play but as aggressive as England play I think there
Is a room for this Jo R in this L precisely for days like this yeah where know you’re in trouble but he’s your banker and he has the experience to soak up 70 Wars of pressure he has and one of the things that’s that’s so pleasing
About Joe rot is that he obviously plays spin very well but he plays Pace very well you you can’t really get a match up against rout because he’s good against all kinds of bowling um and so you’re not looking to attack him on any particular weakness as he gets what’s
Required it’s a really lovely stroke came forward didn’t try and hit it too hard got it through Extra cover and I’ll tell you What well he’s answered the critics there if he was NASA Hussein he’d be pointing to the number on his back at the Lord’s media center and going going through all of that you Lads were writing me off but that is is as good a 100 as I can recall seeing from Joe
Routin he’s got some good ones in his locker but I think that was chanceless um it’s obviously critical to the Innings into the series he scored 100 out of 279 for seven he looks tired he’s taken the helmet off he looks all of his 32 33 years there but that’s the effort that’s
Required to make hundreds in India well played on well played and we’ll hand over to some new gorillas we will indeed you’re staying here stay here I am you’re one of them so I’ll see you guys tomorrow just GPL the gpl’s very much in play so keep an eye oh yeah we don’t
Have whatever whatever the last score what was the pot somebody tell us the pot CU I can’t remember 151 151 okay well the barrel keeper cross that I’m sure whil it’s also being on Ball by ball when you’re ready I 156 I tell a lie 156 got even
Bigger very interesting to see Joe uh to see Ben stokes’s reaction he’s absolutely punching the air and clenching his fists and almost as though he’d got that ton himself you could see how important that is to him uh what runs have we got uh well cool deeps into the attack
That one keeps outside your St Ry Robinson just defends it on your side there ain’t no run I mean what’s clear in the Sam Mendes film about um Ben Stokes is that he’s been through some hard times but he is a he’s just a naturally emotionally intelligent man
And it’s remarkable how he’s been able to broker that emotional intelligence for all of his flaws and he had plenty of flaws when he was younger into his leadership of this team uh that one is defended back up the track to the bowler C you have and there ain’t no run it it
Doesn’t mean that he never makes a mistake but what it does mean is he’s able to command such loyalty from those who follow him even the previous captain and he gives it back and it’s just fantastic to see C de over the Wicket uh defended it
No it wasn’t he got nowhere near didn’t sorry Co deep has got no Robinson has got no idea against C deep which is why he should have been on the moment he came into bat well yeah there is that isn’t there all he’s uh probably not seen much like
Him that one keeps low but it’s short and he can whip it out into the leg side I should get two for that no but they don’t that goes over the head of England haven’t missed many runs but I think the emotional charge of Route reaching as
100 the end of the day is in sight I think it’s quite wise here just to sit in the game not try and push it too hard he’s he’s batting with a tail Ender the last thing England need here is a run out of the man on
103 well most hundreds of a man in India from a foreign side is Joe Ruth played a lot more games than Steve Smith who’s in second uh that’s Works into the leg side there ain’t no run in that time he’s faced spin of all kinds and he’s also faced some excellent
Paces as well which underlines his versatility as a bat he has more more runs against India than any other English batsman I think doesn’t he generally yeah he a top scorer against India all all comers now I think isn’t he probably uh that’s worked into the
Leg side and there is no run I think Clive lyd was top of the overseas batsman in India wasn’t he with something he must got to second now he got a big 262 quite early in his career I think big CL uh loads of stuff going on on YouTube about uh time
the root contributed says a certain Mr hand job uh M von Eric well done Joe root actually uh Tom P absolutely gamechanging sentury that yor here Mr P who has more centuries and rout against India nobody apparently very true uh sag Paka wonderful traditional
100 for rout just the way he should have played in the previous two matches exactly Brian and brisman three gray coordinated clothed gorillas you wouldn’t want three gray coordinated unclothed gorillas to be fair you definitely would I do think I know what you meant I would suggest that you’re
Actually wearing blue Gary is wearing gray and I’m actually wearing green so uh green if that’s green I’m a Dutchman it’s green you’re kidding no uh that’s down towards fine leg and I’ll get that for brown it’s not brown it’s bloody Brown there’s an internet meme waiting here realize that it’s it’s
Green it’s brown green I’m I never it’s a brownish green but it’s the right side of Green if it were really green wouldn’t you be invisible against the Green Screen yeah exactly isn’t this like discussing the Wicket well Poss you’ve even got look you’ve even got the mark feeling a
Knee yeah he he tumbled after that a little bit well Robinson has done all right considering he hasn’t batted for eight months isn’t he is on 15 or done four off this ball oh yeah you might well be right no nearly strangled down Alexa as he tried to just tickle that
Round the leg side kept quite low I think and there’s no run what’s that it’s not green oh c deep has only bowled eight overs that has to be a mistake from roit just has to be now he’s hobbling uh we should have played a Sentry jingle by the way by the man
Who’s on the controls I was eulogizing Joe root instead of playing that I’d like to point out wasn’t me to anyone on YouTube who might have suggested it was no I was eulogizing him rather than giving him his Century I can give it at
The end of the over Sage is in and oh well that’s a kind of weird shot plants his back between his legs uh does Robinson and trying to guide it down to third man but doesn’t and there’s no run okay I’ll give you it it’s one I think
It’s a boring jingle but here we go 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100 congrats boring well my friend Mr hanjob uh has said uh what the is Gary babbling about with brokering and emotional intelligence defended uh out towards Point by Robinson no run you should see
What I’ve written in my review um that I wrote for last night’s Musical that I went to see it’s the most tged Pro that you could imagine so I’ve got to get home and tidy it up once I’ve had a bit of a sleep but um I I was not at my most
Inventive uh at the at the keyboard earlier tell me about it in the car on the way home I Shan Tony cuz I know how much I know how little you review of I don’t know oh okay waiting for godo at the uh Kingston Rose or whatever Kingston Rose nice theater
Beautiful theater thank you into the pads oh dear of Robinson I think he played the a into leg side but in front of square and midwicket was a little bit deeper and so it didn’t carry no run the the only problem with the the uh Rose Theater at Kingston is it has these
Double seats where you have to coordinate when you sit down with the person alongside you you do yes you do and um it’s rather more than my coordination and teamwork can manage but it’s a theater in the round that’s why I like it is in the round just superb
We’re not fully in kind of hesy isn’t it yeah it’s not a Thrust stage but it’s not entirely in stage a Thrust stage a Thrust stage a Thrust stage is where you’ve got kind of three sides oh okay that one came in a bit from Akash de but uh oie Robinson
Was up to it defending the offside done I think England are just batting through time now there’s only four overs left in a day well they might get more more than four in because there’s also sort of 16 17 minutes and jadea could Bowl 10 in that time anyway anyway chaps on YouTube
Uh Mr Henderson replies to Bri in Brisbane about the three grade coordinated more coincidental than coordinated I suspect Tom P aggressive tactics are all well and good but this demonstrates how root should be the anchor and should play his natural game quite right uh Gil Tom hey why no
Century jingle for ruy well that’s uh SED now that has been remedied it I’m not going to say who it was who said it it was my fault because they were also kind enough to send us a fantastic breakfast this morning I have to say we were extraordinarily grateful for yes uh appr
Propo of your sweatshirt bear um and Mr Henderson says it’s the Brown side of brown bear for sake off it’s the green side of brown uh Mr hanjob said do you want a more exciting hund jingle why not yes absolutely never turn him down JY uh 282 282 for7 uh back
In his crease goes rout to just works that into the leg side out into the deep he’ll get himself a single maybe we could have something by herut 100 you know your favorite shot is on the line do a some assault on your head you know
Love plus one I used to drink but you not a couple of times I a few drinks with uh Nick Haywood yeah in a pub in Kensington elf in face Nick Hayward because he used to drink in a pub in Kensington just around the corner from
Where I used to rehearse in a band I was in at the time I once went to the Hammersmith odion to try and see herut 100 and couldn’t get in it was uh full do you remember the the old swimming thing love plus one used to do yeah cool
De oh man that’s a grubber but uh just a little bit short and Robinson could keep it out and there’s no run well Tony you’ve just dropped a bombshell that you were in a band I wasn’t aware of this other the listeners aware been in a few in the
Past yeah yeah playing what harmonica harmonica vocals yeah yeah finger in the ear and harmonica in the mouth uh something like that yes something like that well C comes in again he’s over the Wicket and it’s defended into the offside and there ain’t no Run well you’ll have to you’ll have to you have to do it live jingle here we go the live jingle on the harmonica it’s been a long time they’re still sitting in a cupboard in my uh in our in our wardrobe uh I Mr hand job says juny
Give it a go more look at be JY defend it back down the track and ain’t no run jy’s got an element of on a matter peer about it hasn’t hasn’t it you know it feels a JY word JY bit like our AB Thomas Rony earlier oh y yes yes oh we
All fell for that we did well he did actually signal the fact in the in the Tweet of course of course tweet reader at the time the problem is it’s early in the morning uh on the back foot Robinson this time defends into the offside there is no run you know
Robinson is a handy bat he has a first class C but he is a number nine and he’s playing cool deep off the pitch here that suggests to me that India will be able to play England Spinners off the pitch England’s Spinners can be played off the pitch then uh Robinson and and
Anderson are going to have to do some work up top well they are uh and that’s what India did and England will have to do that um yeah and it might encourage Stokes to have a bowl well that’s been hoed I don’t think there’s anyone out there
There’s not has it gone all the way Ollie Rob yeah it’s gone all the way I tell you what when somebody loves you it’s no good unless they love you all the away six Rounds England has scored England have scored a few smack simum haven’t they they have they haven’t been afraid to attack occasionally it’s all been sort of to cow corner it’s all been sort of lifted well matter they all count six is a six is a six uh just ideal it’s green
Bear it’s green it’s green it’s brownish Green pythonesque from gorilla Cricket oh we’ll take that uh I expect you to show up tomorrow says Leah greenish Brown not brownish Green tomorrow morning wearing this now what’s the picture of it’s a picture of a dress so
I’m going to have to look oh it’s the famous dress which is neither green nor blue that’s what I was referring to as an internet meme ah yes is it there’s a dress which looked blue or something else yeah uh it’s into the hip of roots he just turns out around and Corner
Green to me single 88th over two overs left in the day after this but then they need to play the full up until 11:00 yeah they have to play until 11 we’re not going to have any over spill though thank God for that no over spill indeed not I tell you
What Robinson’s batted very well hasn’t he yeah for a man who hasn’t played Cricket for eight months and the the other thing I I want to mention a refreshed brain maybe the other thing I want to mention which um I’ve got a little bit of time cuz zash de’s bowling
England were absolutely hammered by 434 runs in the last test and they lost three wickets in no time at all that’s defended by Robinson back to the bowler no run and they’ve fought back today yeah and they there there are times when England would have English sides especially overseas would have
Folded big time you know and it’d have been all out you know half of us expected it all out just have to te for 150 and be up against it but this they’re made of Sterner stuff and again I’m going to credit the leadership not just in this instance Ben Stokes but
Brendon McCullum they do talk about putting the stuff behind them and I tell you what they stand up those words they do and you yeah I mean you have to say that we all said in the podcast and everyone thought you know Joe Root’s two good a batsman to miss out the entire
Series and today was a perfect time for a repul really England really bloody needed it the reaction from Stokes um suggest that they have sat down and had to talk and Ben Stokes has said little look Joe if if if you want to do it you
Can carry on doing it but if you don’t want to do it nobody’s going to say anything against it so it did look like it was a product of the conversation I think also uh that is defended up to Mid off and there’s no run you look at the
Way I think England have assess the pitch when they’ve gone out and the early batters have gone there this isn’t the kind of pitch you can really be that aggressive on it’s just it’s just too inconsistent and therefore they have had to grind it out and they’ve adjusted to that you say
That bear but Crawley and BTO were both really aggressive yeah they were but they got away with it um they did others didn’t look comfortable with it at all and so they didn’t do it and actually you know folks and root when where they were together I mean they’re the two
Least basball players in the of the top seven anyway yeah uh and they decided to settle into a routine that’s short and goes quite a way off the pitch Jella is a Jack In The Box isn’t he that was that was the kind of Swing you get at places
Like edgebaston um where the and Trent bridge where the ball can swing after it’s gone past the batsman because if you watch that it starts to go yeah and that’s what made it a good take a little bit of Hollywood dive but um look I
Don’t want to be Mr glass half empty but Australia thought they were probably in tidy order when they made 451 in the first test ever here uh to which India counted with 603 for nine sh who who who got the who got those 600 those veret in
Therea got 202 oh there you go he’s rman Rhyman Sahar got 117 wow uh that’s short again through to the keeper and there’s no run yeah rman Sahar who was surprised to learn is in his late 30s now I think so um that’s yeah I think he might presume
He’s might have played his last test cuz jal’s look quite good behind the stumps not perfect but quite good oh R sah yeah now he was dropped last year wasn’t he got no I thought no no he got it was chos Barett earlier in the series yeah
That’s right kale Rahul took over didn’t he in some test R had a bit bit of a half when he was dropped I think if I remember rightly uh Akash deep coming in to Bow last ball of this over full driven nicely and super super shot yeah it a
Bit late he didn’t really get his foot across to it he’s not going to be chased down by the Fielder it’s four runs to oie Robinson he moves into the 20s to 25 when he was already in the 20s England at 294 for seven o that’s just gone past one of messy Jersey
Picks and while you look that up Dave says uh Gary UL eulogizing Joe he’s not dead yet Adrien low a new 100 jingle could be a while before we hear it well yeah you never know uh Chris the see oh it’s another no ball from aash it’s the only thing used to got
Wrong really on his uh dream of the debut day um but I tell you what that was a that was a shot of a middle order bat wasn’t it he waited for that did Rob just punched it as well didn’t he one more to score one more ball in the over
Indeed well hopefully it’s not a wicket Here Comes akes deep oh it’s onto the pads though and it’s clipped down to deep Square leg it’ll be a single and he’ll retain the strike yeah that’s that’s one of my bug Bears really because I think in that situation and no
Ball is bowled I think England should be able to say we don’t want the extra ball um England are playing for the closeth it was another ball at Robinson um Eng should be able to turn it down as it was they got a single so they’ll be happy
With it but you shouldn’t be obliged to receive the extra ball Chris the chire says juny Jingles a MOG specialty he also says JY sounding jawy is like Gary sounding Gess J Grover Bear’s color is army green apparently therey green it’s not it look
I’m sat next to it and I it’s it’s brown it’s definitely green was that was that Lawrence Corner wasn’t there in Camden that s sold Army kind of fatigues and yeah ex Market no no in in in Camden uh the end of Drummond Street and uh
Yeah Lawrence corner I think I bought um some socks there once when I was going to Moscow um but they had lots of stuff that was kind of carky green and fatigu is uh Dave also wants to says give us your review of poor things Gary uh
Excellent five stars um I think it’s the best film of the decade so far I saw it twice in a couple of days uh extraordinary achievement in acting cinematography uh construction um Innovation uh not for everyone but I thought uh a superb film uh C deep is around the Wicket and
O that’s uh kept low came into oie worked it in the leg side no run and that’s a number nine playing the ball off the pitch so India be looking at that and thinking well we should be able to do that they should be but I think the pitch will only get
Worse if if it gets slower it can get worse if you like but slower and be easier to bat on H possibly true uh C around the Wicket that again comes into to oie Robinson and uh he just defends on the leg side and there ain’t no run
Yeah cuz Ben Stokes got the shooter but it sort of scuttled onto him a little bit didn’t it it was very short as well just kept low under his back that was the gazunder ball as he used to call it in Australia the gazunder gazunder that’s what they called potties wasn’t
It in the old days cuz it they weren’t under goes under the bed around the Wicket and oie Robinson defends once more and there’s no run not Michael bene’s Potty Time strange strange thing that was that was I don’t know if he was ever on anything when he did those I
Used to watch it they never saw them all you saw was the little like little Footprints of of them moving along it was cleverly done very bizarre it was bizarre but but clever what was that Michael benin’s potty time no for my time uh tossed up well outside the ostop
By CI trying to get a big spinner back in uh Robinson went to pan it I’m not sure if it hit the pad but would have been difficult to give out had it done probably wasn’t well wasn’t hitting anyway um two balls left in in the 89th
Over uh cool deep is in tosses that one again wide and uh this time Robinson get right forward and defend Robinson looks like he’s taking to this doesn’t he he do he’s enjoying himself now but that’s when a tail Ender gets out once think
Hey look at me I can bat and then um you know the top Edge one now to long leg or something not quite he’s the beginning of a tail he’s not the tail no he’s not he’s not the tail end of the Tail full tail I mean he’s a number nine
He’s a number nine he’s a number nine you’re very precise about what a number eight is Cle he doesn’t quite am there oh he doesn’t county cricket but he’s a nine in uh test that one o again spins in keeps low but oie Robinson is
Able to fly it off the pitch defend it back to the bowler there ain’t no run 89 overs done at least one more over probably only one more over because only four minutes left and Akash deep will probably bow it which means that’ll probably be it for the day uh should be
Mr handob says even I knew Tony Rock the mouth organ back in the day uh Messa says grind jaunt uh Tom p calling it now OE Robinson Century possibly over uh optimistic but you never know uh timas t uh Hotpot is onen in Japanese I’ve
Been in Japan so long I don’t know if onen is a word in English no it’s not but it’s they’re well known because anybody who goes to Japan as my brother is going uh on Sunday eventually um yeah the it’s it’s to on The Bucket List hello hello hello hello well he’s
Got two double centuries and now guess what he’s got bll in his bloody hand leg break my God it’s this Man what was that the am batty something or other end no and batty cement all no guys this is if this is the last over it’s worth watching the GPL has a 298 pick I did see that yes don’t you worry I’m on it just build the excitement that’s do
We know who that is messes uh I can tell you 298 is uh has well can the golden back become a golden arm uh well no not not like that that was a filthy delivery that cut out to the well he’ll be there tomorrow that that reminds me it was was it
Muhammad ashral of Bangladesh or um who bold leg breaks and would often do drag Downs I think one bounced twice or was he the he was the victim of one that bounced twice so maybe I’m getting mixed up but I’m slightly Delirious haven’t had an hour’s sleep last night it’s the
Amitab Talan chrien uh doesn’t show me on my phone that’s a better spinner that is a decent ball uh and Robinson well just uh defends it do you want to click on the first tab on there and it’ll tell you who the user is he’s got 298 cuz
It’s now on 297 one run required I’ll tell you what that did not only did that turn but it drifted and dipped as well so he’s getting revs on it first tab well he smashed that it’s going to go for four so that takes that out uh takes us to 301 anyone
301 here we go 303 I’m presuming that’s Messi Jaz guns I hit the BSS ombre noo has uh 307 who has 303 uh I’m just going to have to look and see trying to find that at the moment well it’ll be below 307 303 is a Mr hand
Job Mr hand job a Mr hand job disinterested uh yes that’s the fell cut well that’s going to be a single so it’s 302 with two balls left Mr handob are you paying attention the excitement ooh I don’t like giving away money but eventually to a man who writes
Like 80% of but eventually you always do because it’s the nature of the game that it’s going to be given away so it doesn’t matter but I don’t like it J well uh it’s just defend it does that appeal off that a bit enthusiastic yeah J father just just flicks a finger
Say leg side mate leg side yeah I never understand this cuz hendo used to complain about it didn’t he given away it’s like being a casino you don’t like to lose yeah but the money is given away I know unless it lasts forever left alone though genius Joe
Root has left that alone ends on 302 for7 no one wins the GP car over hang on hang on hang on they haven’t walked off yet are they yes they have it’s just gone past the hour money is safe bear woohoo yes it’s the big most excited
You’ve got all day one is arguing for the color of your sweatshirt and two was the fact that you’re so tight you don’t want our most prolific jingler to actually win the GP no I just wanted to get to a much bigger pot fair enough fair enough well what a day test Cricket
Gentlemen indeed indeed indeed a very good day test Cricket eom flows England lost five wickets in the first session two very very good reviews by India n neither of them looked out uh uh but they were both given an absolute grubber for Joe r one that nipped back quite a
Long way for Crawley got in between the gate after he’d been bowled on a no ball on N I think um he got away to 40 um Ducket was a decent ball nipped away from um ashap D from outside is off stump nipped away caught the edge classic left handers
Delivery you know can’t stop himself from playing it uh and then uh who went after that there was a court there was a bold and then there was a lbw which was oh that was OE Pope o po was Bloody unlucky mate he came down the track kind
Of working to the legs side got hit they all appealed it looked for all the money in the world it’s like what the hell are you appealing for they reviewed it which even looked more stupid and it turned out to be out which made us look stupid
Um uh followed by uh Johnny BTO was out lbw to um uh Ashwin and then Stokes got an absolute grubber from jja that you can’t say was anything to do with his fault there was no rash choice in shot the ball just shot under his Bat and hit him
On the GM sign on his Pad just above his boot lapel his boot uh tongue uh he was given out obw England didn’t lose a session the entire second afternoon session uh folks got to 47 had a big over off of Ashwin and then uh next over the interesting thing about that session
As well was they got 85 runs they were going about 2 and a half an over yeah they were being so careful and they Ved a lot of overs as well and it was when root and folks were together building that big partnership and they clearly were in a different mode and yeah
Exactly uh they decided to put their heads down it’s not I don’t think it’s easiest pitch the bat on it’s pretty slow uh and it’s cracks all over the place I don’t know if you trust it looking at it as a batsman and then in the afternoon session yeah folks was the
Next man out he clipped uh an inswinger uh reverse swinger from SJ to midwicket and then uh SJ B an absolute Peach around the Wicket that left heartly beat his outside edge and knocked his off stump an absolute cracking delivery Robinson stayed there till the end rot
Got to 100 we all knew he was capable of it he’s the best batsman England have and he got himself to just one of the characteristics of the Innings just as you’re summing up the be and we saw it earlier is that the the wickets fell in three clumps there were three wickets
Fall for I think 10 runs then there were two wickets fall for three runs and then two wickets fall for another 15 or something so off in the way one brings two a few final messages uh I’ll start on YouTube Mutley thanks for the coverage primates love and
Sausages uh Willow Moon oh MOG that’s rough Mr handob simply said it uh Mr P unlucky hand job uh oneoff MOG I empathize said M Willow Moon some Redemption excuse me some Redemption Arc from route uh will his bowling be up to scratch as well BS he bowls better when he bats
Indeed Michael bentin was a mad genius Marty Felman of his era Brian and brisman maybe bear could turn on the room light there and prove his greenness uh pleasantly surprised at the fight back that’s Joe rout we remember says cfir play the Sahar jingle said MOG uh let me
See great SE rout get his 100 after a very brief fonson by me uh apparently the dress that was being discussed earlier looks uh is either perceived as blue or white and I’m seeing it as green which now starting to make that makes sense it’s starting to make I’m seeing everything
As green everything’s gone Black Adder when he when Lord Percy is doing Alchemy and he instead of gold he creates something green I’ve discovered I I green I was thinking of the New Order song everything’s gone green which one of my favorites of that uh era a beasts
Side I think uh this is nice Tom P thanks for the Insight jent fantastic work as always that’s really really kind of you uh and thank you for your company I’ll quickly head over to the artist formerly known as Twitter Adrien low good day folks thanks for
Cheering us all up keep up the good work 303 I say uh morning all and good night says Warren Fong H the bear is wearing Bangladeshi ritual green after a dust storm perhaps very good very just ideal Oar batted like a seven at the beginning of his test career then lost the plot
Yes I find it tiresome how cheap a price bowler how cheap a price Bowlers put on their wickets when batting uh Paul howth aka the grubster or he’s in tomorrow El Gro says Ray the green brown chat how many of you are color brine brackets I
Am uh well it seems to me like I’m I’m beginning to question myself but I don’t think I am the more I look at that the more I am convinced that that ain’t green it’s not uh and I think that is us for the day and bloody hell what a day
It has been has been a great day it’s just just one little detail that I enjoyed at the end of the day there is that and we all know that the IPL has changed the relationships between players but quite a few Indians were coming over and congratulating Joe Rose
Who was acknowledging them there and of course you know they they are mates if they’ve been to After parties with the IPL uh over the years but um this there’s been excellent Spirit played in this series it’s been hard Cricket sometimes it’s been difficult for some of the players especially in the last
Test where England were hammered um or but we in the game for two days and then hammered at the end of it but it just goes to show you can play sport and retain decency and friendship and it’s really good to see indeed indeed indeed
Right and no I think you should play the jingle and we should get out oh yeah how do what do you mean how do you do it theme tun where is it where is it theme Tunes number one number one we’ll be seeing you very soon with this excellent test from
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Ooof. That 9th over was a rough one.