England vs India, 5th Test, 7th-11th Sept - The Oval

[zen]

Just now, Pollack said:

Can we actually cause this total?

If we do, it would be like Kol - a couple of players doing it for Ind 

[Pollack]

Pant needs to calm down. Flurry of boundaries from him

 

[Lala]

They are going with great guns

 

[RAZPOR]

Chotta Bheem playing well

[Laaloo]

Just now, Pollack said:

Pant needs to calm down. Flurry of boundaries from him

 

He's fine actually. Rahul played a bad shot against broad first ball.

[raki05]

21 minutes ago, Moochad said:

The English commentators know the conditions at their home better than Indian fans(including myself) who watch their matches once every 2-3 years. None of them criticized the conditions we played in except during the 2nd test when Botham and Nasser said we were unlucky to lose the toss and that the English got the better of the conditions.

 

Otherwise the conditions were the same for both teams and none of the pitches were unplayable.  

 

Most runs

Player	Mat	Inns	NO	Runs	HS	Ave	BF	SR	100	50	0	4s	6s
V Kohli (INDIA)	5*	10	0	593	149	59.30	1025	57.85	2	3	1	67	1
JC Buttler (ENG)	5*	9	0	349	106	38.77	515	67.76	1	2	2	44	4
AN Cook (ENG)	5*	9	0	327	147	36.33	718	45.54	1	1	1	39	0
JE Root (ENG)	5*	9	0	319	125	35.44	608	52.46	1	1	1	34	1
KL Rahul (INDIA)	5*	10	1	282	132*	31.33	390	72.30	1	0	1	42	1
CA Pujara (INDIA)	4*	8	1	278	132*	39.71	726	38.29	1	1	1	33	0
SM Curran (ENG)	4*	7	0	272	78	38.85	436	62.38	0	2	1	32	5
AM Rahane (INDIA)	5*	10	0	257	81	25.70	639	40.21	0	2	1	27	0
JM Bairstow (ENG)	5*	9	0	230	93	25.55	362	63.53	0	2	3	32	0
BA Stokes (ENG)	4*	8	0	200	62	25.00	519	38.53	0	1	0	22	1

That's everyone who scored over 200, Rahul will probably score over 300, but again Cook, Root, and Rahul all got their top scores in this 5th match. You are free to value it however you like. I don't view it as great innings by any of the 3 as I don't value runs in dead rubbers.

 

 

 

So you don't value kohli inning in the final test against SA. Btw series is 5 match series even though we were 3-1 down we had to play 5th match or was it run scored wkt taken and loss in this match would not matter as we have already lost. It still require application and determination to grind out in 4 the inning which pant and Rahul are doing at least some entertainment and positive for team moral and themselves and for crowd. Just because it's dead rubber  and u don't rate doesn't matter a zilch.

[RAZPOR]

Highest 6 the wicket stand for India in 4 the innings

[Pollack]

Just now, Laaloo said:

He's fine actually. Rahul played a bad shot against broad first ball.

Ok. Following on cricbuzz. Not able to watch. Still needs to calm down a bit since there is still plenty time remaining.

[Nikhil_cric]

Why is pant trying to play so aggressively ? 194 off 40 is near impossible. We can still lose this :(

[zen]

Don't worry about win or loss and put pressure on yourselves .... just carry on w/o worrying about losing wkt

[Laaloo]

1 minute ago, Nikhil_cric said:

Why is pant trying to play so aggressively ? 194 off 40 is near impossible. We can still lose this :(

So he doesn't let the bowlers settle in. You can't let the bowlers dictate how to bowl. Need to unsettle them. I didn't see any stupid shots so he's playing fine.

[Pollack]

3 minutes ago, zen said:

If we do, it would be like Kol - a couple of players doing it for Ind 

Kohli has always fallen short of in winning India tests with his bat.He more often than not throw it away after being close.

[RAZPOR]

2 minutes ago, Nikhil_cric said:

Why is pant trying to play so aggressively ? 194 off 40 is near impossible. We can still lose this :(

Only way to even draw is to push England to the backfoot and bring the fear of loss in Thier minds,might just make them defensive

Edited September 11, 2018 by RAZPOR

[RAZPOR]

This is some innings from Rahul.

[RAZPOR]

Gadhadhaari chotta been on a roll

[goose]

they have already forced Anderson and Broad come one with 13 overs still left to new ball. 

[vishalvirsingh]

10 minutes ago, Lala said:

They are going with great guns

 

they are not going for a win...still fighting for a draw.

[zen]

what I like about Eng is that it is still trying to go for wkts. Ind would have had LOI field now if the opposition was playing like this

[RAZPOR]

We need to score around 85-90 runs in next 18 overs or so England will be pissing Thier pants then

[Nikola]

When we will come close to draw or win we will loose wickets for sure.