Agreed. A canny few will probably watch the odis and t20s only
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TheRey
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That's cool, its all cricket at the end of the day.
I'd consider myself a purist, Test/CC above everything, but my first ever game I attended was a T20. There's no way in Hell red ball cricket would've held my attention as a nipper
Gateway drug effect.
If England win it will be some achievement in the tests. I hope our leading players root, stokes, jofra really turn it on to inspire a fewThat's cool, its all cricket at the end of the day.
I'd consider myself a purist, Test/CC above everything, but my first ever game I attended was a T20.
Gateway drug effect.
TheRey
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If we win I'll be amazed. I think we're slightly underated as a side (by our supporters I mean. I think we tend to expect the worse) but India imo is THE toughest place on the planet.
I'd be happy with being competitive in 3 out of the 4 tests and losing 2/3-1
I said the other day, the only England win would be 2-1 at 12/1. I can’t see a 3-1 or 4-0 weather permitting.
to win, we need to win the toss, bat and get a minimum 350 every first innings.
TheRey
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And get Kohli early every time
Silly Point
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Absolute minimum that I would say. You need to go really big in India. Last time we batted ok first up in most Tests but they just gazumped us with 5,6 even 700s
Agreed but I always return to my old favourite, a lot of series are turned on contributions from the bottom five, either with runs themselves or helping the top order turn 70 odds into big tons.And get Kohli early every time
if our bottom order chip in, at least we will be in the series
TheRey
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Gonna need your man Bess to fire and Archer to prove he can actually bat!
TheRey
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Til Virdi comes in and outbowls him anywayDon’t worry about big Dom. He will chip in with a few 20 odds and 16 wickets
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Reckon every one of the top 6 will need at least one hundred....
Til Virdi comes in and outbowls him anyway
Not seen much of that lad but have read he was not the fittest player for Surrey
The Red Telephone
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I used to have a Saturday job in a sports shop in Eldon Square and during the 81 Old Trafford Ashes Test Match they had to get security to move the crowd outside who were watching Botham on the telly which was situated inside the shop as they were totally blocking the entrance and indeed the mall. The past is indeed a foreign country.
TheRey
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View around the Oval was that Stewie has really harsh on him, so we'll see! Sure England wouldn't have selected him if that was the case
Don’t know if you went to roker park but there was a programme shop, nearby and there was always a crowd outside, when they stuck up final scores on paper in the window, also people looking through windows to see if they had grandstand on with the typewriter
nyron4england
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what bus you travel on?
It came out when I was in my late teens and became my drink of choice (I first had it on a bus to Swansea in 2013) but these days it's not something I'd go for - but I'd rather drink rats piss than Fosters!
test cricket is the boyo like. by far my favourite format. can't wait for this India series to start.
wayne entwhistle no9
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Half time entertainment when the scores from the other matches went up on the wooden board scorecard at the Roker end with the alphabet letter to check from the match program. Christ thinking about it now it was Jurassic park at Roker park and it feels like it was just like yesterday.
Remember it well and then we went technology mad with the “Attack” electronic scoreboard in the roker endwayne entwhistle no9
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SAFC and Vaux in partnership what could possibly wrong.
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