Joe Root's (106*) guides England to 302/7 at stumps on Day 1 of 4th Test against India in Ranchi

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Rohit and kohli does not deserve a place in limited format .we should have a team for the future. Jaiswal/Sai are the future and Rohit/Kohli are past and should be left out.sky in 21 tour is t20 inspired selection after gabba and sky under rohit is pure preference. It doesnt matter 1 test or not,rohit should have preferred sarfaraz which helps team.
Yashasvi is already a regular in the t20i team. has barely started his career. He is already in ODI set up. In T20s, his career SR career (domestic + IPL) is 125. You want an accumulator in place of those who strike at 140 in internationals? Your theory on Suryakumar is made up. It was a wrong selection just like that of Mukesh, KS Bharat etc.
 
Yashasvi is already a regular in the t20i team. has barely started his career. He is already in ODI set up. In T20s, his career SR career (domestic + IPL) is 125. You want an accumulator in place of those who strike at 140 in internationals? Your theory on Suryakumar is made up. It was a wrong selection just like that of Mukesh, KS Bharat etc.
Jaiswal SR is 179 in first 10 balls in t20.Jaiswal has not yet picked for odi's. We have to back an youngster than a about to retire player .Jaiswal /Sai are more than a decent players to replace rohit in any format.Sai,Jaiswal and Gill will be the top 3 for next odi /t20 wc . we are not playing odis for next couple of years. So it doesn't make sense the oldies to play the available limited games.
 
This feels like old days when opposition would bat 90 overs for 250 in first inning on a "unforeseen pitch" and India make 450 in 120 overs.
 
Time to bowl Kuldeep? He is yet to bowl a single over.
 
This is root highest score of the series and now he is playing traditional test cricket .
 
Looking at the crowd, there is a good chance Eng has equal number of fans as Ind. Looks barely 2000-3000.
 
Still no Kuldeep and almost half the day's play is over!
 
Jaiswal SR is 179 in first 10 balls in t20.Jaiswal has not yet picked for odi's. We have to back an youngster than a about to retire player .Jaiswal /Sai are more than a decent players to replace rohit in any format.Sai,Jaiswal and Gill will be the top 3 for next odi /t20 wc . we are not playing odis for next couple of years. So it doesn't make sense the oldies to play the available limited games.
Gill & Sai opened against SA (Patidar opened in the last match). Your conclusion: Rohit and Kohli are eating places of him in ODIs 🙏

You are yet to explain how Sai (with a SR of 125) is a great option. Gill himself gets stuck most of the times.
 
Kuldeep on. This could prove to be decisive, either way.
 
That's why more often than not, 5th bowler gets under bowled.

That's why we should look to play 1 extra batsman as batting is our weaker suit.
 
All the hard work of first session is being undone by this partnership.
 
That's why more often than not, 5th bowler gets under bowled.

That's why we should look to play 1 extra batsman as batting is our weaker suit.
Nah. We would be forced bowl out of form Siraj right now if we were playing 4 bowlers.


We have luxury of a real allrounder in home conditions. We should always have 5 bowlers.
 
Gill & Sai opened against SA (Patidar opened in the last match). Your conclusion: Rohit and Kohli are eating places of him in ODIs 🙏

You are yet to explain how Sai (with a SR of 125) is a great option. Gill himself gets stuck most of the times.
Sai Sudharshan is not a T20 material. He doesn't have power-hitting capability. He is good for ODIs and Tests.
 
Nah. We would be forced bowl out of form Siraj right now if we were playing 4 bowlers.


We have luxury of a real allrounder in home conditions. We should always have 5 bowlers.
Probably. But late introduction of Kuldeep may have aided in blossoming of this partnership.

If wickets are getting fallen in clusters then why not? Bazball or no bazball!
 
Sai Sudharshan is not a T20 material. He doesn't have power-hitting capability. He is good for ODIs and Tests.
I am not sure how T20 is relevant to this test match that is going on atm. We have other thread available for this kind of conversation.
 
Very sensible batting by root . should have played this way from start of the series but Brandon M and stokes want root to play reckless bazball
 
root back in form when he isn't trying to play a brand of cricket he isn't suited to, whi would have thought (!)
 
Boo. Bazball stopped after 20 overs. Root and Foakes need to step out and look to hit a few.
 
178-5, just in case someone's wondering..
Need Root and Foakes to get this partnership to 300.
 
Foakes and Bairstow swap in the order? Foakes bats at 5 in domestic cricket. Foakes can maybe stop the rot earlier & Bairstow come in later to do his Bazball stuff.
 
Root's test average inching towards 50 mark again. He is too good a batsman not to average 50+ at the very least.
 
Foakes and Bairstow swap in the order? Foakes bats at 5 in domestic cricket. Foakes can maybe stop the rot earlier & Bairstow come in later to do his Bazball stuff.
To be honest I don't know how Bairstow still makes it into this team, should have bought back Lawrence for this test
 
Gill & Sai opened against SA (Patidar opened in the last match). Your conclusion: Rohit and Kohli are eating places of him in ODIs 🙏

You are yet to explain how Sai (with a SR of 125) is a great option. Gill himself gets stuck most of the times.
Gill have not played in SA odis mate.Gaikwad played in 2 odis and patidar one.Jaiswal have not played any odi till now.Why does Sr matter for u in odi, if a batsman occupies the crease till 40 overs it never matters and sai is an young batsman. Rohit with all his Sr drama won't last more thank 10 overs for 80 percent of the matches.So why can't we bring srikanth, sehwag in place of rohit,if Sr only matters?We can ask a dummy batsmen to maintain Sr of 200 and last for 3 ,4 balls .Sr never matters in odi unless u bat for long for 20 ,30 overs with that explosive Sr .
 
To be honest I don't know how Bairstow still makes it into this team, should have bought back Lawrence for this test

They seem to be picking Bairstow for sentimental reasons now so he can get his 100th Test appearance. I don’t agree with it. Dan Lawrence deserves a chance.
 
England has compensated for losing 5 wickets in the first session.
 
Hope this partnership has now crossed the threshold mark of not being dangerous enough for India for some people here.
 
WHat a mammoth effort put in so far by Root and Foakes. England's session for sure.

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England need to get 350 for this to be game. They are a long long way off at the moment.
 
Sai Sudharshan is not a T20 material. He doesn't have power-hitting capability. He is good for ODIs and Tests.
We can give chance to a youngster to improve,sai scored a hundred in his first ipl final and got a big match temperament. If not him ,we can get pant or someone else to try it out.There is nothing wrong to keep on looking for the best alternatives. I don't want an about to be retired oldie to occupy an youngster place.we should replace rohit, kohli at some point of time in limited formats.
 
3rd session is on now.

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Alastair Cook on TNT Sports:

"The wicket has flattened out a little bit. We haven't seen any more balls roll along the ground. Is that due to the ball getting a bit softer?

"That said, the last 15 minutes or so of the session, it started coming to life again with Ashwin bowling slightly wider.

"Rohit has been very defensive. If India had attacked a little bit more, this came could be very different."
 
3rd session is on now.

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Alastair Cook on TNT Sports:

"The wicket has flattened out a little bit. We haven't seen any more balls roll along the ground. Is that due to the ball getting a bit softer?

"That said, the last 15 minutes or so of the session, it started coming to life again with Ashwin bowling slightly wider.

"Rohit has been very defensive. If India had attacked a little bit more, this came could be very different."
at Lunch Vaughan on TMS said 220 would be good - these experts do change their mind as game goes on . 207/5
 
This is now England's biggest partnership of the series, now broken
 
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