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[coolhandfox]

Brook and Root need to put on 150-175 together to give us a sniff.

[CL Fox]

That's some very average cricket all round 🤣

[AKCJ]

Brook getting caught on the boundary edge... 

 

Thank **** Siraj walked over it.

[StanSP]

Oh Siraj. That is embarrassing at this level. 

 

You have to know where your feet are if fielding on the boundary. 

[leicsmac]

53 minutes ago, leicsmac said:

At least one of those needs to be there at the end. 

 

Brook can do circumspect - he just doesn't do it often. Hopefully he figures now is one of those times.

Well, for about 20 minutes, I guess? 

 

Edit: glad it happened to Siraj though, couldn't have happened to a nicer guy. 

Edited 3 August 2025 by leicsmac

[StanSP]

Brook knows what to do against this bowling. 

 

Attack it and the runs will flow. Risky, but it's probably what you need to take the pressure off the players later. 

 

[Lionator]

Love Brook but his luck is a joke

[AKCJ]

India are 250 runs ahead yet we're slogging it all round the park just wating to be caught.

 

How can any cricketing mind think that this is a good tactic?

 

This game will be over by tea.

[CL Fox]

Just now, Lionator said:

Love Brook but his luck is a joke

I still can't work out whether hes any good or if hes the second coming of labuschange.

[StanSP]

Times like this is why I worry we could lose

 

[StanSP]

1 minute ago, AKCJ said:

India are 250 runs ahead yet we're slogging it all round the park just wating to be caught.

 

How can any cricketing mind think that this is a good tactic?

 

This game will be over by tea.

Look at how the game and momentum has shifted though... 

[RowlattsFox]

Not sure if I enjoy Brook or think he's a knobhead 

 

I guess it's a case of if it comes off, he's great but gets out in the next 10 minutes then he's not...

[leicsmac]

3 minutes ago, Lionator said:

Love Brook but his luck is a joke

What was it Napoleon said about lucky/good generals?

 

 

3 minutes ago, AKCJ said:

India are 250 runs ahead yet we're slogging it all round the park just wating to be caught.

 

How can any cricketing mind think that this is a good tactic?

 

This game will be over by tea.

 

1 minute ago, StanSP said:

Look at how the game and momentum has shifted though... 

This. 

 

1 minute ago, RowlattsFox said:

Not sure if I enjoy Brook or think he's a knobhead 

 

I guess it's a case of if it comes off, he's great but gets out in the next 10 minutes then he's not...

Exactly that, really. 

 

The distance between genius and idiocy is measured only by success. 

[leicsmac]

And breathe.

[StanSP]

Brook very lucky this innings. England have all the luck

[Super_horns]

Brook to go on and get a match winning innings ?

 

 

[trabuch]

Oh no, I've got hope.

[StanSP]

England are winning this. 

 

Only 168 left to win. 

 

All Brook and Root need to do is do it in little chunks. They look so comfortable. 

[CL Fox]

1 minute ago, StanSP said:

England are winning this. 

 

Only 168 left to win. 

 

All Brook and Root need to do is do it in little chunks. They look so comfortable. 

Stop it 🤣

[RowlattsFox]

21 minutes ago, trabuch said:

Oh no, I've got hope.

Don't do it. As soon as you think we will win a collapse will occur. 

 

These 2 get it to less than 100, then i believe 

[StanSP]

8 minutes ago, CL Fox said:

Stop it 🤣

I have the same feeling I did for the Headingley test!

We don't look like taking a wicket and the bowlers are tiring. 

[AKCJ]

9 minutes ago, StanSP said:

England are winning this. 

 

Only 168 left to win. 

 

All Brook and Root need to do is do it in little chunks. They look so comfortable. 

I feel like i'm in a battle to out-pessimist you but one wicket and it changes massively.

 

165 runs is a lot to get on a deck that is doing a bit and we only have Bethell, Smith, Tongue, Overton and Atkinson to come.

 

Many twitsts to come but I this pair has done so well to get it to this point. I would say it's about 45-55 in India's favour. Probably Gill's toughest test as captain so far.

[Lionator]

This game is done. Once these two are in, they’re impossible to get out. They had their chance and Siraj blew it. 

[Super_horns]

Joe Root the rock as usual whilst Brook takes them on .

[coolhandfox]

19 minutes ago, StanSP said:

England are winning this. 

 

Only 168 left to win. 

 

All Brook and Root need to do is do it in little chunks. They look so comfortable. 

Long way to go.

 

Not sure of Gill tactics, went on to the defensive to early, and running his seamers into the ground when you have a quality spinner is odd.