Lionator

All depending on Sol here, needs to keep his head and knuckle down for a few overs.

Doubt they’ll get that long. I’d imagine they’ll bat two sessions and set us around 500?

India will be happy but England still favourites given their ability to chase anything

Told you all it'd be fine. This is one of the greatest batting line ups OF ALL TIME. And nobody has realised it yet. Whatever they set, we will chase. India will likely just bat out for the draw if they have any sense and wait for a greener wicket.

Horrible football club. Horrible man. Conviction rate is still very low for these offences though, even when there’s good evidence.

Got a Guinness bar these days in the old George Geary stand. Otherwise it’s trash unless you get it from the pavilion bar.

It won’t be a draw, there’s too much time left in the game. As long as England have enough time to get 500, we will win on this road. Top order won’t fail twice.

Not quite but I think a final innings chase of 550+ would be too much. Therefore we need to at least get to 250-300 here, which Brook can do alone he’s that good.

Call me delusional but I’m confident England will still win this test.

England can still win. Get a quick 500, bowl them out in the second for 200, then chase 400 on the last day.

A bit of talk about India declaring but they should bat as long as possible, England will move the game along one way or another. If they can be at 700 come close today, they’ll be at about par given the superiority of englands batting.

These two could bat all day if they stay disciplined. Pitch is dead. India to get 600 and still lose.

It’s hilarious that people thought this would be done by July 1st. The chairman doesn’t care and the rest of the idiots in charge haven’t got a clue (perhaps due to a lack of high level direction).

I’m not totally against that, it gives every team the chance of becoming county champions at the start of the season.

His only competition around that time was 40 year old Shaun Udal. Monty had a much better test bowling average than Giles which I think says it all.

I think two wins from the last five will pretty much guarantee promotion, especially if we avoid defeat v Derbyshire. I can’t see any more than one other team, probably Glamorgan, getting over 200 points. We’re still in a great position folks.

Good end to this game. 96 ahead, 7 down with 16 overs remaining (minus 2 for innings change). Think Glos need to hang around for another 7/8 overs to cling on. Glamorgan could probably chase 12-15rpo if needed so would want 8 overs chasing I think.

England are going to win this series 5-0 and it’s going to be bad preparation for the ashes. India are pants. Odds on Gambhir surviving the series?

Absolute tosh from Pant.

The problem is that people still act as if the 90’s and 2000’s are the norm whereas they were actually the abnormal boom. Post 2008 it’s been a slow decline while everything lead up to the late 80’s was beset with societal and economic issues. So as living standards have dropped, more people are experiencing mental health problems and disability to the extent where it affects their ability to work. In the 60’s or 70’s the mentally unwell men would drink their problems away, while the women would stay at home. Now we do better than drink our issues away and more women work so we’re in completely new ground historically.

Looks like Derbyshire are going to lose. We just need Gloucester to hold on for a draw v Glamorgan and not too much damage done overall.

Have also seen Dyche hammered regularly in the Castle pub in Nottingham while he was Everton manager, make of that what you will.

Well we will have our best bowler back for one. One of the issues of the last two games has been not having Holland to tie down an end. Hopefully more of the bowlers will be back fit too.

Holland will be back from America. Ahmed just needed a rest I think as he has a side injury but will be fine. Hull is playing for the seconds today unless it’s his brother(?), Scriven seems to struggle to stay fit. We should be fine. We could really do with an extra batter finding form, it’s really been Ahmed who has been scoring heavily recently

What sort of bowler is he and how old is he? Those figures in a second XI game can’t be sniffed at.