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There seems to be quite a few theories as to where it went wrong for India at Edgbaston.

Poor captaincy
The batting in the second innings
Kohli's poor form
The top order not really clicking
Poor bowling from the seamers in the second innings
Jadeja being ineffective with the ball

416 in the first innings and with a huge lead, there is really no way that India should have lost this match.

Where do you feel it went wrong for them and what can they learn from this defeat?
 
100% the captaincy

Bumrah had no clue on how to deal with the onslaught of the openers+ Bairstow/Root in the 4th innings.

Jadeja bowling negative outside of leg stump lines to find dramatic turn where there was none. Not drying up the runs to build pressure for his team
 
3rd innings batting on the fourth day.

Arrogant and lazy.

Proper disaster was that. Left the door open.
 
2nd innings batting helped England to shift the momentum a bit.
2nd innings bowling especially at the start failed to put pressure on rookie openers. They set the tone, and then the onslaught never really stopped.
 
James said:
3rd innings batting on the fourth day.

Arrogant and lazy.

Proper disaster was that. Left the door open.
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No excuses whatsoever to not be able to defend 378. That’s too many runs, let alone enough runs.

India had two of their Greatest ever pace bowlers in the side. This score would have been defended by the likes of RP Singh, Zaheer Khan, Ajit Agarkar and Anil Kumble against the same batting line up on the same track in the 4th innings
 
Arrogance with a huge score to defend.

No world class spinner even though Ashwin is in England.

No real plans to get any batter out.

Up against a batting line up in great form.

Thinking about when the IPL starts again. :kohli
 
Poor bowling.

They were shattered by the onslaught from English openers and never recovered.
 
Ashmal said:
Poor bowling.

They were shattered by the onslaught from English openers and never recovered.
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They did recover though with those 3 quick wickets including the panic run out of Lees.

Jadeja is probably the most useless spinning all rounder outside of the Sub continent. How can India play him as their sole spinner with 4 seamers???
 
Nothing to analyse really. England decided to wallop them in the second innings and they didn’t know how to respond.

A good attack would not have lost this match.
 
4th day was the difference. Bowling and tactics from India were ordinary and Eng was exceptional.

Sometimes as a bowling unit you have to give it to the partnership and try to minimize the boundary scoring areas with the fielders. They did try a bit but, they could have gone more defensive to make the things slow (Which they never could for any prolonged period) especially when someone is in the form like Bairstow and Root while there was no reverse or any such weapon to get them out in conventional ways. Also some of the bowling from Siraj and Thakur was extremely poor, possibly due to the aggression they were facing.

Bairstow and Root played the game at their own pace and Indian team allowed on the back of the highly rated words in cricket "aggressive" and "always looking for wickets" as the mask to justify that. What was required there was to take a deep breath and strategize to slow the scoring down for some period to not allow the Eng team to dictate the game which they have been successfully doing in last 4 matches which could have pushed them to try a bit harder to carry on the momentum which would have mean being slightly out of their comfort zone.

In the end it was top stuff from England. However, as mentioned I believe they were never pushed out of their comfort zone by making the scoring and things a bit slow.
 
I think India is underestimating Ashwin as a bowler. Jadeja outside India should be played as batting all rounder. India need to play Ashwin as a specialist spinner in Tests. It makes a big difference.
 
Justcrazy said:
I think India is underestimating Ashwin as a bowler. Jadeja outside India should be played as batting all rounder. India need to play Ashwin as a specialist spinner in Tests. It makes a big difference.
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According to [MENTION=131701]Mamoon[/MENTION] Ashwin is a better all rounder than Imran Khan :)))
 
The captaincy, leadership, field setting decisions and his own bowling on Day 4 from Ben Stokes were all pure class.
 
Breaking up the momentum of the series. Had India finished the 5th test match last year in August, September 2021 as scheduled, they would have probably taken the 5th test. That English team was stuggling with form, confidence after losing the 4th test. Anderson had been bowled to the grounds and there were talks about having no choice but to rest him for the 5th test match.

By postponing the 5th test match, they have allowed England to regroup under a new captain, coach, allowed out of form players to get back into form and Anderson came fully fresh.
 
Rana said:
They did recover though with those 3 quick wickets including the panic run out of Lees.

Jadeja is probably the most useless spinning all rounder outside of the Sub continent. How can India play him as their sole spinner with 4 seamers???
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They got their wickets but that onslaught by openers was still playing on their minds.....hence they never attacked Root and Bairstow with aggressive field setting, afraid of leaking more runs, which allowed Root and Bairstow easy singles and a chance to settle in.

That's why they had Jadeja bowling a negative line in hope of stopping the runfow.
 
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Kohli the captain is like a child who throws his toys out of the pram when faced with the prospect of losing. He will not tolerate defeat and will always be doing his best to buck up the bowlers and putting pressure on the batting unit with his non-stop chirping.

Appoint anyone else as captain and you take away the captaincy intensity immediately. Change in captaincy definitely has had a negative impact on India.
 
Ashmal said:
They got their wickets but that onslaught by openers was still playing on their minds.....hence they never attacked Root and Bairstow with aggressive field setting, afraid of leaking more runs, which allowed Root and Bairstow easy singles and a chance to settle in.

That's why they had Jadeja bowling a negative line in hope of stopping the runfow.
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They did create a chance early on in Bairstow’s innings. That drop costed them the match. Next batsman would have been stokes who would play one way in trying to chase another 200+ runs, he would continue to give chances. There wasn’t much left after Stokes
 
Poor bowling by England let India make a big score in 1st innings.How did England let Pant and Jajeda score centuries?.I was expecting England to keep Indian score under 300 in both innings.India didn’t do anything wrong.England we’re going to win this test but made it slightly harder than expected.
 
Fenrir said:
Poor bowling by England let India make a big score in 1st innings.How did England let Pant and Jajeda score centuries?.I was expecting England to keep Indian score under 300 in both innings.India didn’t do anything wrong.England we’re going to win this test but made it slightly harder than expected.
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Pant played Bazball. Reverse tactics against England

This might actually be the way to go now. Add your best T20 strikers at 5/6/7 in order to counter a top order collapse. Jos Butler will soon be back as England’s keeper and he will bat at 7
 
Why are we over thinking this?

India fled last year to play the IPL, missing the 5th Test.

Where it went wrong? Priorities!

For India, IPL was the priority!
 
Nothing to do with Bazball.

1. India were a hundred short in their 2nd I nj fs dud to arrogance and poor shot selection.

2. However - 378 should easily be defended in 4th innings 95 times out of a 100. The reason they didn’t is because India have 2 bowlers - Shami and Bumrah. Thakur is a trundle that wouldn’t make a county team. Siraj is average. Jadeja is not effective in English conditions. The 2 bowlers they did have bowled poorly.
 
Technics 1210 said:
Why are we over thinking this?

India fled last year to play the IPL, missing the 5th Test.

Where it went wrong? Priorities!

For India, IPL was the priority!
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Exactly. We are talking about a cricket board which prioritises the chequebook over anything else.

Indian fans would do well to start realising soon that they aren't the ones getting rich from the IPL. They've been beating their chests for a while but have precious little to show for it really.
 
I believe that England would have worried about and struggled more against Ashwin than Thakur.

By the way Thakur took 1 for 113 from 18 overs in the match and scored 5 runs.
 
hitthestump said:
Exactly. We are talking about a cricket board which prioritises the chequebook over anything else.

Indian fans would do well to start realising soon that they aren't the ones getting rich from the IPL. They've been beating their chests for a while but have precious little to show for it really.
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I have mentioned it several times on this forum that how stupid or dumb one has to be to cheer about how much a Kohli or a Sharma makes in IPL. They are multi millionaires, them making more money has no impact on fans' lives. But then there's a reason we have an ordinary team and that's because we have ordinary fans. Fans who fight over their favorite cricketers who didn't stop playing ipl in India in 2020 when people were dying around them. I dislike overrated Ashwin but have respect for him that he was the only Indian cricketers who decided to leave IPL midway then as he was struggling to figure out the point of playing cricket and hoarding precious clinical resources for games when there was abject shortage of such resources for normal public. Unfortunately our fans are stupid and that's why they deserve this ordinary team.
 
Saj said:
I believe that England would have worried about and struggled more against Ashwin than Thakur.

By the way Thakur took 1 for 113 from 18 overs in the match and scored 5 runs.
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Restrospectivally it's easy to criticize a selection. Had Ashwin played and got similar figures, someone would have reasoned that shardul should have been selected as he won a couple of games last time around. Ashwin played all 3 games in South Africa and took grand total of 3 wickets with 2 of them being of no:10 and 11. So not sure if Ashwin would have done anything considering his past track record.
 
I think India's attack has been a victim of it's own reputation.

The reason they were so successful in Australia and England (for the first part) was they were disciplined. And this is something the then bowling coach Bharat Arun emphasised a lot on.

However in SA we saw these guys lose their cool. Probably took SA lightly and seemed to have run out patience faster and paid price for searching for wickets instead of just being disciplined.

It was just more of the same in England. These defeats will definitely hurt them and make them introspect that just their reputation isn't going to result in wins, they will have to keep putting in the hard work and disciplined bowling for results to show.
 
happydavy said:
Restrospectivally it's easy to criticize a selection. Had Ashwin played and got similar figures, someone would have reasoned that shardul should have been selected as he won a couple of games last time around. Ashwin played all 3 games in South Africa and took grand total of 3 wickets with 2 of them being of no:10 and 11. So not sure if Ashwin would have done anything considering his past track record.
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Surely Ashwin would have done better than 5 runs and 1 for 118 against England.
 
Cricfan4eva said:
I think India's attack has been a victim of it's own reputation.

The reason they were so successful in Australia and England (for the first part) was they were disciplined. And this is something the then bowling coach Bharat Arun emphasised a lot on.

However in SA we saw these guys lose their cool. Probably took SA lightly and seemed to have run out patience faster and paid price for searching for wickets instead of just being disciplined.

It was just more of the same in England. These defeats will definitely hurt them and make them introspect that just their reputation isn't going to result in wins, they will have to keep putting in the hard work and disciplined bowling for results to show.
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It is also possible other teams are now taking India's pace attack seriously and they are doing their homework, preperation on Bhumra's, Shami's relentless line and length and the range of strokes they need to come up with in order to counter them.
 
Watching how Bumrah, Siraj and Shami rolled over pathetically this morning was the big shock for me, bowling freebie after freebie. They are far far better players than that, Bairstow and Root finished the game in half a session like a club match.
 
Savak said:
It is also possible other teams are now taking India's pace attack seriously and they are doing their homework, preperation on Bhumra's, Shami's relentless line and length and the range of strokes they need to come up with in order to counter them.
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That is to be expected but how you react to the opposition plans against you comes into play here.

Both in SA, where we went 1-0 up and here in England - it just seemed like these guys lost patience too soon in the following games. The moment opposition went a bit ahead, they lost the steam and focus and went searching too hard.

This is like India in Gabba, Cummins-Starc-Hazlewood are too good to not be able to defend 300+ on a 5th day Gabba pitch, but they just kept targeting Indian heads instead of stumps, they believed they were too good to be defeated by a weak Indian team and ate humble pie. Guess India had to taste a bit of their own medicine.
 
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Indian 2nd innings. That's where things went wrong.

They only managed 245 runs. They needed to score 300-350 minimum.
 
India's overrated bowling. They have won only in Australia other than that they have been very average.

378 is a huge huge score.There have been only 8 instances where more than 375 runs have been chased in history of test cricket.

India has a poor bowling unit as they have always been poor with ball their test series win in Australia is overrated as they won due to good batting not with this poor bowling.
 
Saj said:
There seems to be quite a few theories as to where it went wrong for India at Edgbaston.

Poor captaincy
The batting in the second innings
Kohli's poor form
The top order not really clicking
Poor bowling from the seamers in the second innings
Jadeja being ineffective with the ball

416 in the first innings and with a huge lead, there is really no way that India should have lost this match.

Where do you feel it went wrong for them and what can they learn from this defeat?
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A few points;

- During the first innings, the weather played a huge part, the wicket was not easy to bat on due to the cloud cover, constant start/stop, start/stop.

- During the second innings for India especially the batting totally flopped, even though the batting was a still not easy due to the weather. I blame this mainly on Pant as he was the one person who couldve taken India to a 450-480 target, however he for some reason did not have the fire and determination which he showed batting in tough cloudy conditions during the first innings. Pant looked bored and careless.

- When Eng was batting in the 2nd innings the sun was out baking the wicket, there were no frequent interruptions and the wicket had turned into a batting friendly one with no swing, seam barring the odd delivery. Having said the above even if India had set a target close to 500, I feel Eng may have still chased it down due to the nature of the wicket in the last innings.

- Also one point to mention, Bairstow being dropped by Vihari when he was on a low score definitely added to the Indian loss, however I feel Stokes and Root would've taken Eng home.
 
[MENTION=428]Romali_rotti[/MENTION] bro weather goes both ways, I felt like India really benefited from the frequent rain breaks in their first bowling innings. The \ball was swinging everywhere under the clouds and in the humidity — it also meant that on the second day Bumrah and Shami could effectively bowl unchanged because they kept getting a rest to freshen up during the rain interruptions.
 
Bharat Arun is a huge loss as bowling coach to India. He knew how to strategize and get the best out of every bowler.
 
James said:
3rd innings batting on the fourth day.

Arrogant and lazy.

Proper disaster was that. Left the door open.
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England would’ve chased 500 runs the way they batted in the 4th innings.

I think Bumrah’s own inability to potently swing the ball was the issue.

May be it was the poor quality Dukes ball that didn’t suit him? Who knows, but he was the trump card of Indian bowling attack. And it didn’t work for them - otherwise we all know Bumrah is an excellent wicket taking bowler. A true match winner. But it was not his day.
 
Colorblind Genius said:
England would’ve chased 500 runs the way they batted in the 4th innings.

I think Bumrah’s own inability to potently swing the ball was the issue.

May be it was the poor quality Dukes ball that didn’t suit him? Who knows, but he was the trump card of Indian bowling attack. And it didn’t work for them - otherwise we all know Bumrah is an excellent wicket taking bowler. A true match winner. But it was not his day.
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Credit to England and Joe Root, he handled Bhumra very well and negotiated his angles line of attack.
 
James said:
[MENTION=428]Romali_rotti[/MENTION] bro weather goes both ways, I felt like India really benefited from the frequent rain breaks in their first bowling innings.

Agreed, I should have made it more clearer, the weather did play a huge part in the first innings for both teams, Indians flopped and wasnt for Pant and Jadeja it would have been curtains. The constant stop start also affected Eng big time also in the first innings.


The \ball was swinging everywhere under the clouds and in the humidity — it also meant that on the second day Bumrah and Shami could effectively bowl unchanged because they kept getting a rest to freshen up during the rain interruptions.

Agreed.
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Bold &

Apologies if it sounded like I was taking credit away from ENG, that's not what I was trying to convey. Eng deserved to win this, I just felt when ENG batted last, the wicket had not much in it for the bowlers as the clouds were gone and the sun was hitting the pitch.
 
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Savak said:
Bharat Arun is a huge loss as bowling coach to India. He knew how to strategize and get the best out of every bowler.
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Yes he was exceptional in his role and feel that he remained a bit under the radar. I have praised him quite a few times on the forum, every pacer that played while he was coaching was performing at his optimal level and sometimes even above that.
 
Indian batting in this test was simply not on England's level. Even in the first innings it was Pant who bailed them out by playing an absolute blinder, and to a lesser extent Jadeja who played a great knock too. On top of that England gave atleast 55-60 extra runs. 35 from that Broad over and 20+ in overthrows and byes.

Granted, the England batting did not fire in the first innings either but you just knew that they were going to let loose in the second innings regardless of the target because that's just how they have been going about their business in the last three test matches.
 
No 1 reason - England was coming off three successive wins with a captain who thinks positive and in form batsman . Root baristow combined are peak sehwag tendulkar curently

No 2 reason - pitch . It supported the side batting last . No spin , no movement .

No 3 reason - indian batting . India has won inspite of poor poor batting from Kohli rahane etc . Wins have been due to bowlers and ashwin - pant - jadeja combo . Supported by Rohit and rahul who were absent

India carried deadwood - Kohli , Ayer , gill and vihari are either in no form or technically and mentally flawed .

No 4 - indias poor selections of late . India seems to select out of form pacers or wrong bowlers for wrong pitches . Siraj post injury of wrist has not been moving the ball . Tall hit the deck bowlers like krishna / mohsin khan absent .

Dare I say that the bowler who got india control abroad - sir Ishant was missing in South Africa and here .

No 5 - coach dravid

He has not yet produced any results . Will give him time though . He has not made tough decisions except kicking out rahane .

All in all ,it’s the batting that let india down . Last 5 years , india has the worst batters across all formats .
 
In my opinion, none of the above. Just luck.

They met an England team on the up - who have discovered a 3rd and 4th innings success formula.

Any team would have been defeated no matter what. It's just luck.
 
Savak said:
Credit to England and Joe Root, he handled Bhumra very well and negotiated his angles line of attack.
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Oh yes!
They must have reviewed his bowling action in slow motion a million times to perform a deep analysis on this crooked elbow.

On the other hand, Bumrah himself was off color. He has a pretty good Yorker but we didn’t see none. His ability to swing was also not as good.

All he had was a great upright seam position and was able to produce only a very few good deliveries.
 
And I think Bairstow’s form was also another crucial factor. He has been batting like a beast!
 
Saj said:
Where do you feel it went wrong for them and what can they learn from this defeat?
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It went wrong when they walked off the tour last year. Had they stayed they would have won the series 1-3. They were facing a hopeless batting side then, though a stronger bowling attack than England can field currently.
 
For me when Kohli was captain the body language of the Indian team and attitude was always on the edge, they basically would never give in. Yesterday and day before once England got on top Indian team mentality looked fragile and lost.
 
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By postponing the test by 1 year.

This England is different. Any team's spirit would have been broken if their bowler had been smashed for the most expansive over in the history of test cricket.
 
The Indian bowling attack was completely dismantled on day and 5 of the Edgbaston Test as the duo of Joe Root and Jonny Bairstow slammed unbeaten centuries to guide England to their highest successful chase in Test cricket as Ben Stokes' side chased down the 378-run target with 7 wickets in hand. The Indian pacers got no help from the wickets as the England batters made merry on a flat track.

Former India captain Sunil Gavaskar was asked how this could happen on a pitch where three innings have already been played and whether the heavy roller had a role to play in the pitch offering no help to the Indians bowlers.

Gavaskar explained that the Edgbaston pitch has traditionally helped batters as the days progressed.

"Well the roller does play a role for the immediate half an hour or so because it flattens the dents or whatever that might be there and there could be quite if you dents if there are fast bowlers who are pounding the ball on the grass. The roller just helps to even that up," Gavaskar said on Sports Today.

"The Birmingham pitch has generally been very good for batting as the days go on. May be day 1 it is in favour of the new ball bowlers. But as the days go on it becomes a very good pitch to bat on. Very little help for the spinner.

"If you look at the ball that dismissed Kohli, it bounced from length. And nothing of that sort really happened when our bowlers were bowling. Whether our bowlers didn't bowl that length and line, I am not too sure. The pitch just seemed to have flattened out and that was to England's advantage," the legendary Indian batter added.

The loss meant India and England shared the spoils as the series ended in a 2-2 draw.

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India's average total for 3rd innings has been 220 since SA 2021.

3 out of 4 tests they set a target the opposition chased down very easily.

India's bowling average in 4th innings in these 4 tests has been 54 and they picked just 19 out of 40 wickets. 10 came in the win at Centurion, so 9 out of 30 wickets while defending 200+ targets on day 4+ pitches in 3 tests.

Mind you 2 of the tests were against a very weak SA batting lineup in tougher conditions unlike Edgbaston.
 
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Failure in second innings contributed to it.

I believe even if the target was 500, England would have chased it easily. They are a transformed team now and their middle order is playing at ATG level. No bowling attack could stop them.
 
The Ind batting has no guys outside Pants that can take the game away from you. It's only a matter of time that we see Shaw play at the top and Gill is moved to 4. The bowling on flat wickets outside Bumrah and Shami looks ordinary. I always thought Jadeja was a decent bowler but having seen him last year and this test, he looks awful on wickets that have no raging spin.
 
I think the way India batted in the 2nd innings, it was almost as if they thought the match was already won.

Poor effort and strange approach in a very mediocre second innings.
 
Over confident after being in a strong position for most of the Match. They thought the match had already been won. The second innings batting effort was not good enough probably over depending on their average pace bowlers to dismiss England cheaply for the second time. Should have stayed at home instead of returning for the 4th Test.
 
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Loud mouth shami and the so called greatest bowling attack couldn’t defend 378 and the bowling was treated like a club level side. It wasn’t chased before the second new ball was available lol. That was brutal by England and it clearly tells us what they think of the greatest bowling team ever. Next time jadeja should take a custom made pitch with him from India. These guys are taking 5fers for fun in India and as soon as him and Ashwin step outside India they struggle to take a wicket. According to one PP expert who’s deserves this humiliation, think Ashwin is better then Imran lol.
 
Bewal Express said:
The Ind batting has no guys outside Pants that can take the game away from you. It's only a matter of time that we see Shaw play at the top and Gill is moved to 4. The bowling on flat wickets outside Bumrah and Shami looks ordinary. I always thought Jadeja was a decent bowler but having seen him last year and this test, he looks awful on wickets that have no raging spin.
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It was all the case with jadeja and Ashwin they unfortunately can’t take custom made pitches to other countries.
 
Saj said:
I think the way India batted in the 2nd innings, it was almost as if they thought the match was already won.

Poor effort and strange approach in a very mediocre second innings.
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Maybe they thought they were playing the English mentality from last year.
 
Saj said:
I think the way India batted in the 2nd innings, it was almost as if they thought the match was already won.

Poor effort and strange approach in a very mediocre second innings.
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My counter argument to this is,
Lets say India had batted well in their 2nd innings and had gotten a lead of 500 runs. So what?

The way England batted, and the kind of form Bairstow is in, England would’ve probably still won the game.

A 378 runs target to chase in the 4th innings is usually more than enough for the bowling team to defend.
lol Come’on dude! 378 lead is not a joke!

IMO, Bumrah was the trump card in the Indian bowling attack but he didn’t fire.
That was one of the major factors.
Could be poor ball quality? Could be bowling conditions? Could be dead wicket? We don’t really know - but we do know that he is a great wicket taking bowler and ranks top in the world for a reason.

Personally, I have a great respect for Bumrah. Very cool and humble looking guy who doesn’t seem to indulge in cheap tactics of sledging or acting childish on social media.
He usually lets his bowling do the talking.
 
What's all the fuss over Shami and Siraj?. Bumrah seems as if he is about to fall over with that follow through. It is time for that Umran Malik to show himself!
 
Saj said:
I think the way India batted in the 2nd innings, it was almost as if they thought the match was already won.
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Precisely. I pointed this out during the match thread that this 132 runs lead may prove to be our bane.

And this was not the first such instance. We batted similarly during last 2 SA tests.

Its our 'batting' which must take the lion's share of blame for our last 3 losses. Even WTC final loss is on our batting.

lol, still our selectors are afraid of dumping these useless batsmen. Never before our selectors been as spineless as this and last bunch was.
 
MP2011 said:
Precisely. I pointed this out during the match thread that this 132 runs lead may prove to be our bane.

And this was not the first such instance. We batted similarly during last 2 SA tests.

Its our 'batting' which must take the lion's share of blame for our last 3 losses. Even WTC final loss is on our batting.

lol, still our selectors are afraid of dumping these useless batsmen. Never before our selectors been as spineless as this and last bunch was.
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Makes sense if you guys were playing for a draw.

Otherwise, defending a whopping 377 runs in the fourth innings was not enough for your bowlers?
 
Apart from the Pant/Jadeja partnership in the first innings, nothing was good from their batting line up.
 
Colorblind Genius said:
Makes sense if you guys were playing for a draw.

Otherwise, defending a whopping 377 runs in the fourth innings was not enough for your bowlers?
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It should have been, ideally. But considering the start England got in their 2nd innings and their recent history of shooting down totals with consummate ease meant we were always up against it.
 
England intentionally wanted to chase, they were gonna go after whatever score India would've put up. It's the bowling that let India down. Didn't bowl to a plan as they thought England would crumble to scoreboard pressure.
 
Colorblind Genius said:
My counter argument to this is,
Lets say India had batted well in their 2nd innings and had gotten a lead of 500 runs. So what?

The way England batted, and the kind of form Bairstow is in, England would’ve probably still won the game.

A 378 runs target to chase in the 4th innings is usually more than enough for the bowling team to defend.
lol Come’on dude! 378 lead is not a joke!

IMO, Bumrah was the trump card in the Indian bowling attack but he didn’t fire.
That was one of the major factors.
Could be poor ball quality? Could be bowling conditions? Could be dead wicket? We don’t really know - but we do know that he is a great wicket taking bowler and ranks top in the world for a reason.

Personally, I have a great respect for Bumrah. Very cool and humble looking guy who doesn’t seem to indulge in cheap tactics of sledging or acting childish on social media.
He usually lets his bowling do the talking.
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The turning point was when Pant dropped Bairstow.
 
Colorblind Genius said:
IMO, Bumrah was the trump card in the Indian bowling attack but he didn’t fire..
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No bowler has against England in the fourth innings this summer. Kiwis, Indians, all clattered.

I think you have to give the batters credit for their attacking play, knocking bowlers off line and length.
 
Former India batting legend Sunil Gavaskar is not happy with the fact that some senior players get rested during the Indian cricket team's international calendar. Gavaskar in an interview slammed senior cricketers for taking breaks from India matches while playing the entire season of the Indian Premier League. It is worth noting that India had rested the likes of Virat Kohli, Jasprit Bumrah and Rishabh Pant in the first T20I against England as a part of workload management before including them in the team for the next two matches.

While saying that the Test matches take a toll on a player's mind and body, Gavaskar stressed that players shouldn't skip limited-overs cricket, especially the T20Is.

"See I do not agree with players resting (during India matches). Not at all. You are playing for India. You don't take rest during IPL but rest while playing for India. I don't agree with it. You will have to play for India. Don't talk about rest. There are only 20 overs in an innings in T20. That does not take any toll on your body. In Test matches, the mind and the body take a toll, but in T20 cricket, there is not much of a problem (in playing)," Gavaskar said on Sports Tak.

India defeated England 2-1 in the three-match T20I series that concluded on Sunday. The sides will now meet for an ODI series of as many matches, starting July 12. After the ODI series against England gets over, India will be touring the Caribbean for three ODIs and a five-match T20I series. It commences on July 22 at Port of Spain in Trinidad.

NDTV
 
Robert said:
No bowler has against England in the fourth innings this summer. Kiwis, Indians, all clattered.

I think you have to give the batters credit for their attacking play, knocking bowlers off line and length.
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I don't have an issue with giving credit to the English batsmen, but that won't answer the question in OP, or will it?
 
where did they go wrong? Simple, including a non-performing Virat Kohli who can't bat/field. Waste of a spot.
 
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