Bravo

So when do we start swinging? We could get 700 here today dead easy then slowly and mercilessly pick them apart over the next two days*

*Well, two or three hours 🙂

Lots of talk on Sky of Cook going for Gooch’s 333.

I’d like to see England start going at it reckless now to shove some quick runs on, then put India in again. Longer they have to bat the less the chance of them holding on for a draw.
edit: especially given changeable weather.

(caveat: I know next to nothing about Test cricket)

especially given changeable weather

That is the worry – anything could happen with the weather although it is looking better for tomorrow and especially Sunday at the moment – get that ball skipping down the dry track rather than being held up…

Lots of talk on Sky of Cook going for Gooch’s 333.
I’d like to see England start going at it reckless now to shove some quick runs on, then put India in again. Longer they have to bat the less the chance of them holding on for a draw.
edit: especially given changeable weather.
(caveat: I know next to nothing about Test cricket)

Calm down people, this is a 5 day test lest we forget! Ok we’ve gone off for bad weather at the moment, but set not to last long. India struggle to bat for a day, let alone 2 and a bit! I’d like to see us go past 700, and set India 500 just to make us even have to bat again. They’ll be so tired from having fielded for something like 200 overs, they won’t be able to bat at all, and Jimmy Anderson, Stuart Broad and Tim Bresnan will be banging in having had 2 days sat doing nothing! And it’s swinging… And they’re all 10mph faster than the Indian bowlers…

England should just bat right through today and totally demoralise India, then probably declare overnight.

then probably declare overnight.

Nah – give them an hour tonight 😈

It does not matter what they do only the weather can defeat them tbh

or a power cut! 🙂

credit to the BBC tech team keeping TMS going!

Gone dark and raining here, not too heavy at the moment

Gone dark and raining here, not too heavy at the moment

very painful slow progress at the moment

credit to the BBC tech team keeping TMS going!

And neither snow, nor rain, nor heat, nor gloom of night, nor the winds of change, nor a nation challenged, will stay us from the swift completion of an afternoon’s waffling about cake, stick o’ roobarb and the odd snippet about the cricket

This made me chuckle on twitter

@Aggerscricket powercut seems to have coincided with debut of Sir Geoffrey’s Grannie

they need to shift Prior up the order, this getting boring.

Cook now leads India.

Ok bored now

Bring out the fireworks!

Declaration once Cook’s passed 333.

boooooooooooo!!!!!!!!

boooooooooooooooo

ffs off for bad light. blowers it’s “barking”

Stick o’ roooooobarb!

whenIwerten

It’s bl00dy daylight! ffs

back out

Klunk – Member
back out

Or in?

You have two sides, one out in the field and one in.

Each man that’s in the side that’s in, goes out, and when he’s out, he comes in and the next man goes in until he’s out.

When they are all out the side that’s out comes in and the side that’s been in goes out and tries to get those coming in out.

Sometimes you get men still in and not out.

When both sides have been in and out including the not-outs, that’s the end of the game.

TMS rocks only danger is to cooks bat 😆

Cook is going smash all records for an english batsman at this rate. The guy is a batting machine.

Just beaten his previous best score apparently.

India seem to have upped their fielding game a bit today, more vigour about them.

Bopara’s not going to get a go is he? (or if he does it will be totally meaningless with nothing for him to gain)

Cook is going smash all records for an english batsman at this rate. The guy is a batting machine.

FTFY.

lot of work to overhaul sachin.

What is the highest ever score? Isn’t it that little West Indian guy?

Thinks…

Lara.

Goes off to Gooooogle…

He’s only 26….

lara’s 400 unbeaten.

Yep – Lara, 400 no

Well done Morgan

Come on, a boundary please! Can’t think of the last one, before lunch perhaps?

😕

Right on cue!

😀