England's tour of India - 2021

[Satan666]

20/3, top order demolished inside first five overs.

poor start from the Indians!

 

[Bevab]

Some top class bowling so far.

And of course, India's ancient T20 batting tactics come to the limelight again.

 

[Bevab]

And of course, we have a viewer comment on Cricbuzz stating how important it is to keep wickets in hand to accelerate instead of going for the big hits now to lose wickets.

Mate, the team's chugging along at 4 runs per over and you want them to play it even safer? No wonder we don't produce/maintain magical and dynamic batsmen when their risk-taking ability is beaten out of them by the chore of 'responsibility'.

 

[wasteyouryouth]

Top quality bowling so far. Forget how good a T20 side England is when they hardly ever play a strongest XI.

 

[WickeySticket]

India's all like, "fearsome tweak this covid stuff." Edit: haha the 'fearsome tweak' censor
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[Ed Smith]

If we bat even halfway decent this game is already over

 

[Bevab]

Top quality bowling so far. Forget how good a T20 side England is when they hardly ever play a strongest XI.

I assume that barring Sam Curran it would be your strongest bowling unit. Get a finger spinner in for him and the team looks set. Wonder how good Mo was in the last T20 Blast?

If not, there's always Rootalitharan to play the Billy Root role for England.

 

[LiveLoveABD]

How hard could it have been to tell Dhawan that he's the reserve opener in the scheme of things?

 

[NILAYSHAH60]

58/4 in almost 12 overs but I am still not worried today. Strange!!!!!!!

 

[wasteyouryouth]

I assume that barring Sam Curran it would be your strongest bowling unit. Get a finger spinner in for him and the team looks set. Wonder how good Mo was in the last T20 Blast?

If not, there's always Rootalitharan to play the Billy Root role for England.

I think we might see Mo play a couple of matches. At the moment batting seven/ fifth bowler seems to be the only place in the side up for grabs.

 

[NILAYSHAH60]

We might get around a 60 in next 5 overs. If Hardik stays it may well be 80!!!!!

 

[Khan Sahab54]

India will atack now!

 

[LiveLoveABD]

Team selection and batting order aside, I have no issue with India's intent today, specially Kohli.

Social media twerks now bashing Kohli for his batting and that "not got a century since" stat being thrown around just goes to show how fickle we've become as a society. He's a class batsman and it's a matter of one innings.

 

[Satan666]

This pitch seems to be a 185 plus one. India will do good if they can scrape around 30 or so runs in these final overs.

 

[Khan Sahab54]

brilliant 50 under pressure from Shreyas Iyer