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[FattusCattus]

jos is looking frisky. He'll need to be careful with all these induckers flying around!

[ppccopener]

Great stuff from Jos and bairstow here, looking at the pitch, no idea what a good score is but bairstow showing what a good player he is now....

Stick around Jos !

[Manormanic]

Plus other than one not out, he's been 6th wicket to fall in every innings so not like he's been left with the tail. Batting well but I'd like to see him make it count more.

I think he is trying to do exactly that - remember how often he was last man out in South Africa last year?

[tom line]

Oh Jos

[csnew]

So 5 England batsmen so far have thrown their wickets away! Poor batting

[Seniorplayer]

So 5 England batsmen so far have thrown their wickets away! Poor batting

Having watched it live have to agree what was Cook thinking playing that shot first  ball against Ashwin

[rickjames]

I love YJB

[smilley792]

Cracking innings from johnny. Got us near a decent total.


Woakes aiming for another not out here to nudge his average up.........

[liscon12]

That ball tracking looked very odd to me, no way was that ball pitching outside off, looked like it pitched on middle

[smilley792]

That ball tracking looked very odd to me, no way was that ball pitching outside off, looked like it pitched on middle

Camera used for looking at edge is not inline with the stumps, so not really wise to use it as a judgement where the ball pitched.

Hawk eye cameras are bang inline(ills smith they aren't 100% accurate mind)

[petehosk]

Well - England did win the toss but seemed to through away half their wickets!
So any advantage from batting first hasn't been taken! To me it's evens at the moment.
India will need to bat well when they bat tomorrow and will have to bat even better in the 4th innings (assuming England don't through the Test away before that!)
England will need to bowl really well to pull us back into this Test though - although you never judge until both teams have batted I guess.

[Manormanic]

I reckon if we could get up to 300 we'd be pretty handily placed given that the pitch will make it harder and harder for batsmen in each successive innings.  Can't help but feel that we will miss Broad though, he is so good when there is any variation in bounce.

[Seniorplayer]

Cracking innings from johnny. Got us near a decent total.


Woakes aiming for another not out here to nudge his average up.........

Yep 25 off 80 balls

[smilley792]

Yep 25 off 80 balls

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[Felix Tito]

Pretty inept batting effort TBH. I literally counted 5 balls that ripped square during the entire day. Granted Hameed got a lifter but again that was a rarity. This was easily an 400-450 wicket yet we screwed it up.