Did you ever expect this kind of miraculous performance by our batting unit

[sarcastic]

Hot and cold openers in Rohit and Rahul, non-existent middle-over in Pujara, Kohli and Rahane, so-so allrounder Jadeja, inconsistent wk-batsman Pant, pace bowlers who can bat a bit...

This is what our batting is composed of and yet they pulled off an unbelievable miracle of 450+ score batting second with 100 runs behind.

Hatsoff to our batsmen... We as Indian cricket fans cannot be less proud about this performance. 

Edited September 5, 2021 by sarcastic

[R!TTER]

This is a flat pitch, super flat - if you're talking about the lower order then yes I didn't expect twin fifties from Thakur saab!

[Vijy]

Just now, sarcastic said:

Hot and cold openers in Rohit and Rahul, non-existent middle-over in Pujara, Kohli and Rahane, so-so allrounder Jadeja, inconsistent wk-batsman Pant, pace bowlers who can bat a bit...

This is what our batting is composed of and yet they pulled off an unbelievable miracle of 450+ score batting second with 100 runs behind.

Hatsoff to our batsmen... We as Indian cricket fans cannot be less proud about this performance. 

it was a good performance, but around 50-60 runs short. but the good thing is that we can say that we at least ended up with a fighting loss instead of a meek loss.

[sarcastic]

1 hour ago, Vijy said:

it was a good performance, but around 50-60 runs short. but the good thing is that we can say that we at least ended up with a fighting loss instead of a meek loss.

They have scored 466 runs... just 34 runs shy of the mammoth score of 500.

50-60 runs short..> Really... you gotta be kidding me... Only mammoth scores cannot be considered as great performances.

And I don't understand why you will talk about loss. There is no way we are losing this match unless English batsmen matches up with a miraculous 4th innings chase. 

[Lord]

total patta

[Vijy]

Just now, sarcastic said:

They have scored 466 runs... just 34 runs shy of the mammoth score of 500.

50-60 runs short..> Really... you gotta be kidding me... Only mammoth scores cannot be considered as great performances.

And I don't understand why you will talk about loss. There is no way we are losing this match unless English batsmen matches up with a miraculous 4th innings chase. 

On current Ind bowling form, we may have been 70-80 runs short. this attack doesn't know how to take 4th innings wickets on flat tracks. scoring 466 is not that "great" on this track. should have scored 550 to ensure draw (or perhaps win)

[vvvslaxman]

Thanks to Rohit and KL Rahul lol This unit is perfectly capable of imploding against new cherry. They saw off the threat.

[SecondSlip]

19 minutes ago, Vijy said:

On current Ind bowling form, we may have been 70-80 runs short. this attack doesn't know how to take 4th innings wickets on flat tracks. scoring 466 is not that "great" on this track. should have scored 550 to ensure draw (or perhaps win)

 

 

Greedy and unrealistic moron 

[New guy]

1 hour ago, Vijy said:

On current Ind bowling form, we may have been 70-80 runs short. this attack doesn't know how to take 4th innings wickets on flat tracks. scoring 466 is not that "great" on this track. should have scored 550 to ensure draw (or perhaps win)

What current bowling form? The one which decimated english attack in under 2 seasions just 1 tests ago?

 

Once again the absolute gall to blame the bowling, which has been the  most consistent is pathethic

 

How many times has our batting failed in recent times? How many times have we collapsed, 36 all out, 78 all out,  losing 8 wikcets under 50 > 5 times. and then you blame.our bowling based on one single test?

 

Shameful 

[ash]

Lower order surprised me. I underestimated thakur. Pant showed again why he is highly rated. Openers were in good form so they cashed in. No surprise there. 

 

Not impressed with Pujara, Kohli, Rahane and Jadeja.

[SrinjayDutta]

I did. The talent is there. The pitch was there. 

[sarcastic]

8 hours ago, Vijy said:

it was a good performance, but around 50-60 runs short. but the good thing is that we can say that we at least ended up with a fighting loss instead of a meek loss.

Actually, my point of the thread is not from the perspective of the match but from the perspective of our expectations from this batting unit which has failed so consistently. It hardly crossed 250 runs in an innings in almost all the matches after coming to England. 

Scoring a mammoth 466 is way above I expected them to score as a fan. It is something I/every fan can feel proud about.

 

And if England does win the game, that is not because India batted badly in their 2nd innings but because England batted really well in both their innings (especially their second) to chase a mammoth target beyond 350.

[sarcastic]

2 minutes ago, MultiB48 said:

700 is par in a test match in these conditions,so their score is subpar but that's due to the 1st inning.

More or less that is my point. The second innings was pretty good in realistic expectations from the team. The first innings is quite sub par and hence that may come to bite them in the end if England does pull off a record 4th innings chase. 

[Frustrated]

It's not miraculous batting.  It's miraculous pataa wicket on which even an associate team might score 400+ easily.   Today we are likely to witness history being scripted by poms.   (Imagine Eng 368/1)