The International Cricket Thread

[PaulWinch again]

That’s some effort from Salt and Brook, at the end, to win that game.

[Villan For Life]

What a ridiculous test match this was!

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cricket/67881684

The Saffers were all out for 55, India went from 153-4 to 153 all out in less than 2 overs and still won the test.

[PaulWinch again]

Shamar Joseph looks handy - Smith and Labuschange as your first two Test wickets isn’t bad.

[PaulWinch again]

Brook out of the India tour for personal reasons, hope he’s ok.

[KNVillan]

Viral Kohli out of the first two Test Matches for personal reasons too

https://twitter.com/SkySportsNews/status/1749370739059290440?t=pbM1rWTwWGUFiiIrnjQHbg&s=19

[PaulWinch again]

Foakes is playing with Bairstow as a specialist bat.

[PaulWinch again]

Blimey 3 spinners and 1 seamer, with two of the spinners being Hartley and Rehan. The seamer is Wood, so Leach is potentially going to have to bowl a lot of holding overs.

[taylorsworkrate]

Anything other than 5-0 India will be very surprising. That's not to knock England, but India is India is next to impossible with the pitches they will prepare and their ability on them

[Dr Butler]

Blimey 3 spinners and 1 seamer, with two of the spinners being Hartley and Rehan. The seamer is Wood, so Leach is potentially going to have to bowl a lot of holding overs.

add Root into that as well...unless Stokes can bowl a few.

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[PaulWinch again]

Yeah Root is a good option, but I don’t really see him holding. It’s a very bold selection in terms of bowling options.

[Villa Lew]

I see the Indian authorities have at last seen sense and granted Shoaib Bashir a visa and he is due to join up with the squad this weekend.

[tomd2103]

Yeah Root is a good option, but I don’t really see him holding. It’s a very bold selection in terms of bowling options.

Unless Stokes is using a bit of kidology, I can't see any other option than opening the bowling with a spinner.  Wood isn't really an opening bowler either, so maybe we'll.open with two spinners?

It doesn't really give us a lot of options tbh.

[Risso]

Standard India away performance.

[PaulWinch again]

Who knows - pitch sounds likes it’s very dry, maybe if they could get up around 200 it might be ok. Hard to tell.

[PaulWinch again]

Although the thing that would worry me about that theory is there has been a couple of good partnerships, plus the quality of their spin is light years ahead of ours.