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[JB]

Root and Ali have both given chances! Cook looked like he is ready for home

[Calzehbhoy]

Feel sorry for Cook to be fair. There is not s chance he wants to be here, must be so hard to get motivated for the game when your 3-4 week old child is back home!

[Woodyspin]

Can someone explain to me why if you pad it away you have to be careful it doesnt then come off your glove? Surely uts what ever it hits first?

Otherwise it can be can be same for 'leg byes' if after its flicked your pad you then glove it for 4?

[Mtown Don]

Can someone explain to me why if you pad it away you have to be careful it doesnt then come off your glove? Surely uts what ever it hits first?

Otherwise it can be can be same for 'leg byes' if after its flicked your pad you then glove it for 4?

For LBW it is first point of impact but as far as scoring and catches are concerned, any contact with bat or glove holding the bat is sufficient. No different from pad-bat catches which are common

[JTtaylor145]

When watching first thing this morning I wasn't too keen on Moen batting at number 4. Hoping now he is in and on 40 odd he will prove me wrong...

[smilley792]

Jennings!

Scored a fine century looked good once in. Lovely find.

But

He was dropped on 0 - d his career start could have been 0,0,1 with an average of 0.3 recurring.
That would have been a painful start to a career(nic Maddison anyone)


Not saying he isn't good, fin player once in, but is he really that much better than duckett(who has had starts) duckett just struggles vs Ashwin.


Either way never of them are hameed. Straight back to the top when fit I reckon.

[Big Mac]

Root's fuming but I'm sure I heard a noise in real time and the snicko just confirmed my suspicions. I think that's decision was fair enough

[Woodyspin]

For LBW it is first point of impact but as far as scoring and catches are concerned, any contact with bat or glove holding the bat is sufficient. No different from pad-bat catches which are common

What i thought but multiple times havs commentators said "watch is doesnt clip the gloves" as it bounces up off the pad.. I was mafe to assume there was some random law?

They looked at similar when (i think bairstow) padded away then nearly gloved it to patel?

Surely its not out on first impact?

[Felix Tito]

Root's conversion rate is a bit disappointing. Passed fifty 38 times yet only the 11 centuries

[roco]

Root's conversion rate is a bit disappointing. Passed fifty 38 times yet only the 11 centuries

i'll agree with that

if he wants to be in Kholi class he needs to make more daddy hundreds but getting 50 all the time and getting out is a problem I'd like to have (getting 10 all the time and getting out would do me tbh)

[ppccopener]

Jennings!

Scored a fine century looked good once in. Lovely find.

But

He was dropped on 0 - d his career start could have been 0,0,1 with an average of 0.3 recurring.
That would have been a painful start to a career(nic Maddison anyone)


Not saying he isn't good, fin player once in, but is he really that much better than duckett(who has had starts) duckett just struggles vs Ashwin.


Either way never of them are hameed. Straight back to the top when fit I reckon.

Hammed is a real find, should of opened in Bangladesh to be honest, but better late than never, Looks like he will bat old-fashioned-style i.e hard to get out once in and can bat time. Quicker scoring rates in Test cricket these days I know but someone has to do this for the team-normally an opener.

Jennings good point, to me seems to of come from nowhere, was playing 2nd team cricket in 2015.

but it's early days

[smilley792]

Roots conversion rate is poor. He seemed to get over it earlier in summer but has dropped back to failing to convert.



But


Looked at roots stats in India. Only after atherton mentioned he has scored a fifty in every tests vs India.

He averages 60 plus in India alone.

Over the last 4 years(basically since roots debut) not many have got near that. Cook and prior over fifty, Clarke 47, smith 43.

Decent record against the worlds number 1 in there own back yard.

[ppccopener]

Root's conversion rate is a bit disappointing. Passed fifty 38 times yet only the 11 centuries

its the same situation as before the tour, 50 to 100 is the area to work on.

Root has got 11 half centuries in 11 matches against India-that's some going

but to be the best it's hundreds(once you are in)

other side of the coin is we were 21-2 and after he got out about 170-3......so he gave the innings momentum.

[Felix Tito]

I think Root's concentration seems to slip once he passes 50. In the last two years he been out between 50-100 too many times.

[edge]

Very rarely do fifties win you test matches, it's becoming more than just unfortunate for Root sadly.