The Cricket Thread 2014

[PaulWinch again]

Not been paying much attention to this as I've been watching the Commonwealth Games. Is the pitch a carpet or have we just been batting well?

It's not like Trent Bridge, the is something there for the bowlers. If India had held the early chance off Cook it may have been different.

[Villan For Life]

Great to see Bell get his ton. What a class way to reach your century.

[PaulWinch again]

Bell 6-4-6! This is what we need, acceleration and putting Jadeja under pressure.

[PaulWinch again]

Another 4!

[Villan For Life]

We needed that over. Bell should be able to really push on now.

[Villan For Life]

Ali's gone, so with Buttler in next we could see fireworks.

[Villan For Life]

Bell has also passed 7,000 test runs.

[paul_e]

That over was important,  I understand the idea of batting to lunch tomorrow but that puts us in a position of needing to enforce the follow on and potentially bowl for 2 1/2 days without a break. Push for 500 a little after tea today and we have time to put in a session for the 2nd innings if needed.

[peter w]

Well with Buttler in , bell looking like he's pinging everything off the middle 550 and declaring in the last hour isn't completely impossible.

[PaulWinch again]

Ali slightly unfortunate there, he was clearly playing to force the pace.

[taylorsworkrate]

With Woakes, Jordan and Broad all to come, the scoring rate should only be going up now.

[PaulWinch again]

That over was important,  I understand the idea of batting to lunch tomorrow but that puts us in a position of needing to enforce the follow on and potentially bowl for 2 1/2 days without a break. Push for 500 a little after tea today and we have time to put in a session for the 2nd innings if needed.

Yeah Warne was saying as much, we should be looking at 500, bowling India out and then having another bat before setting a total so that the bowlers can rest.

[peter w]

Yeah, not knowing the weather conditions, and seeing that we've had two bowler intense tests it makes more sense to give them some time to put their feet up.

[taylorsworkrate]

Definitely carried

[PaulWinch again]

Buttler caught on 0 and got a bit of a let off on replay I think.