India England Test series

Pope only averaging 18.16 in his other 6 innings this tour. His one brilliant innings is saving him.

Another innings with too many playing shoddy shots, leaving it to one guy to try and save them.

 

Looking a lot better than at lunch. Joe's class has come through.

 

Form is temporary class is permanent. No Bumrah to rain on his parade!

 

Finn just described Roots innings as being very un- Bazballian !!

 

Just how he should play if we want a test to last longer than 3 days!

 

Definitely

 

I prefer to call it Pujaraesq.

 

At least we have something to bowl at now.

 

It's like watching Geoffrey Boycott in his prime

 

Roooòooot. He dug deep with wickets falling quickly. We are in the game batting first on a pitch that looked at the start like it had already been played on for a couple of days.

 

From what?

He basically won the first test single handed, for my money he doesn't need saving from anything.

Sometimes Dreamboat, your choice of words leaves a fair bit to be desired.

 

From having an average as poor as those who haven't scored yet. Too many players have had one good innings and six poor knocks out of our seven innings so far. It's good that today after losing many early wickets they remembered test cricket is five days. Bazball went in to hibernation.

 

I think the first test was won with a lot of help from Pope and Hartley.
Have I misread the thread ?

 

Most batters would have a poor average if you take away their best innings.

 

Apologies … I was thinking we were talking about Root

 

Do keep up.

 

Decent knocks are like Woodrow penalties. They don't count.

 

I’ve slapped my wrist and will try harder

 

And if my aunt had a çock she’d be my uncle.

 

Great to see Root back among the runs. If we can get at least 350 it might turn out a good first innings score on this pitch.