Key Events
51st Over: India 178-3 (Gill 39, PANT 13) Tick Tick Tick Boom! Pant is tied download by Bashir Until the Final Ball of the Over Which He Dispatches for Six Over Midwicket.
50th Over: India 170-3 (Gill 38, Pant 6) Stokes with his Dander Up, Hurtling in With Sweat Glistening and Bobbing Flaxen Mane. Another Testing Over, England’s Captain Has Looked Dangerous in this Spell, HE’D Dearly Love Another Before Tea.
49th Over: India 167-3 (Gill 37, PANT 4) Bashir Bowls A Good Over to Rishaabh Pant, Tying Him Download and Keeping Honest. Five Dots and THEN A Single Picked Of The Last Ball.
“Hi James, it sees a shame to cite stokes as the quint equivalent with IDENTIFYINIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIT CRICKETERS for the Other Rolls. Can I Start with Joe Root for Hooper (Baby-Facid, Puppyish Enthusiasm).
Not Too Sure About Chief Brody Though, Let Alone Mayor Vaughn. ”
Giles Clarke for the Mayor? Aham. Rob Key? I’m just spitballing here.
48th Over: India 166-3 (Gill 37, Pant 3) Close! Stokes Gets One to Jag of the Seam and Pant Pokes a Half Hearted Bat At it. No edge this time.
Tom Hooper Wades in on some Jaws Fun.
“Afternoon Jim, I Feel that Chris Woakes Has The Air Of Hooper About Him?”
Do you not think he’s a bit chief brody? Olie Pope Has A Whif of the Hooper’s? I’m like to see theme all compart scars and singing the Odd Salty Sea Shanty.
47th Over: India 164-3 (Gill 36, Pant 2) That wicket of Jaiswal Takes Ben Stokes Level with Andrew Flintoff on Test Scalps. Freddie Had A Decent Game HERE TWENTY years ago This Summer… Bashir Gets Throw A Tidier Over, Targeting The Front Pad, Just Two Singles Off it.
Stokes V Pant Round Two Coming Up.
46th Over: India 162-3 (Gill 35, Pant 1) The group comes to live with that Wicket and English Buzz About in the Field with the Arriving of Headingley’s Double-Centure Rishaabh Pant. Jaiswal Really Dragged HimSelf from the Middle, He Should Have Laruppd that Ball to the Final and He Knows It.
Stokes to Pant is box Office Stuff. Four Dots Are Chered and JERED by The Edgbaston Faithful. PANT HOPS About in His Crease Like A Block in a Beer Garden Who Has Just Troden on A Spaniel’s Tale. He gets off the mark of the Final Ball with a Flick to the Leg Side. Don’t go anywhere!
Wicket! Yashasvi Jaiswal C Smith B Stokes 87 (India 161-3)
That is a gift for English! Jaiswal Flays At A Short and Wide and, as He did ocasterly, Falls off Shot A Little Whilst Trying to Flog it Square. A meaty Edge is Swallowed by Jamie Smith Behind Not a great ball, an even wory shot and English Don’t Give a FFFF FIG.
45th Over: India 161-2 (Jaiswal 87, Gill 35) Bashir Peels Off Another, India Rack Up Erm Three more runs.
44th Over: India 158-2 (Jaiswal 85, Gill 34) Stokes Replaces Tongue, that was not the Most Threating Spell from the Notts Man, Too Many Loose Balls. Can England’s Captain Pull Something Out of The Hat? This is Been A Soporique Session So Far, Even The Hollies Stand is a Bit on the Snoozy Side.
43rd Over: India 155-2 (Jaiswal 85, Gill 33) Bashir Starting to Leak Runs, Gill Dances Download and Pistol Whips a Four Through Mid Off.
42ND Over: India 149-2 (Jaiswal 84, Gill 28) Gill Mishits A Pull Shot Off Tongue that nearly Carries to Ollie Pope Off the Top Edge. England Need to Land One of these Two Big Fish Currently at the Crease. Jaiswal Currently Scenting Blood in the Water with the Pitch Flat and the Sun Beating Download. Yes, I Watched Jaws Last Night (no Further Questions). Ben Stokes Has A Touch of Robert Shaw’s Quint About Him Though (No Further Questions).
41st Over: India 147-2 (Jaiswal 83, Gill 27) Gill Skips Out of His Crease and Plonks Bashir to Deep Midwicket for Two. Jaiswal Misses Out by Crunching A Cut to the Boundary Rider on the Off Side for a Single. Bashir Dos Still Send Download a Loose Ball or Two Per Over. This is an impertant mass for his
40th Over: India 142-2 (Jaiswal 82, Gill 24) Tongue Hits The Pitch Hard Just Short of a Good Length. I got the early train out of das Kapital with Wisden’s Silken Anchorman Yas Rana This Morning and One of the Many Topics of Conversation Was The Awkward Length that Tongue Bowls. With his Angle of Release to the Right Hander at Around 11am The Ball is Always Following You and Perpetully to sees to be speaking in around. “Basically, He Bowls at Your KNOB”. Simple as that. Anyway, Just a Single to Gill Off the Over.
James Wallace
Thanks daniel and hello from Sunny brum. IT’s Been Tight Lines (Vision Dreams of Passion) From England after lunch. Something’s Gonna Give?
Shoaib Bashir is on for a Twir Post Drinks with a Slip and Leg Slip in Place. He Gives It Some Decent Air from His Oft Menteded High Release Point But Jaiswal and Gill Are Content to Pick Of The Singles With The Field Spread.
39th Over: India 141-2 (Jaiswal 82, Gill 23)
38th Over: India 138-2 (Jaiswal 81, Gill 21) After Jaiswal Takes a Single, England Again Try to Get The Ball Switchared, to no Avail, then Continue with thems Tight Lines. For now, India Play Along But, As I Type, Jaiswal, Back on Strike after a Single to Gill, Eases A Short One to Deep Third for Four. And that Is Drinks, which Means My Watch is Over; Here’s Jim Wallace to Coax You Through The Rest of the Day’s Play.
37th Over: India 132-2 (Jaiswal 76, Gill 20) The Pitch Looks to Be Flatting The Going, Though is Tough -Wheen Jaiswal Misses with a GLNCE Around the Corner, They Run a LEG Bye, then Gill Flicks to Fine Leg, Adding Two More.
“I haad resolution that I was not going to Write in today,” Says Richard O’Hagan, “But Your 2005 Piece Struck A Rial Nerv Monhs behind you. The Odds Have Not Only Persuaded Her to Love Cricket Despite Being America, but to actuallly train as a scorer. A sportswriter. ”
It’s never to late to save yourelf.
36th Over: India 129-2 (Jaiswal 76, Gill 18) Tongue Replaces Carse and Jaiswal Turns His Loosner to Deep Square for a Single; Five Dots Follow, and that’s Much Better Stuff from A Bowler Who Was Expective This Morning.
35th Over: India 128-2 (Jaiswal 75, Gill 18) Woakes Did’s Start This Spell Especially Well but he’s back in GROOVE now, Sending Download Five Dots Before His Final Ball Hits The Pads. Again, there’s a reducted appeal, probably becuse there was An Outside Edge, and this time there’s no review. Maiden.
34th Over: India 128-2 (Jaiswal 75, Gill 18) This Time, Cars Runs in With Tongue Proterning-His Tongue, Not Josh Tongue-and Gill Defends to Mid-FF, then Takes One to Midwicket.
Review! Not out!
The Only Thing That Coup Save Gill Was An Inside Edge, and He Got One.
34th Over: India 127-2 (Jaiswal 75, Gill 17) Carse Continues, Banging One in, Out the Way of You, Jaiswal Sares. A. But he might be regretting it now beccause when Carse Goes Again, He Raps The Pad, Low, Celebrapet Low, and when Was there an Inside Edge?
33rd Over: India 126-2 (Jaiswal 74, Gill 17) Gill Waves Bat At A Wide One and Winds Up Edging Past The Slips for Four … then, Three Ball Later, DOES SIMILAR for For More.
32ND Over: India 118-2 (Jaiswal 74, Gill 9) Carse Sends Download Here then runs download to deep thred for one before Gill Pushes of the HIP for Anotter, and English are not three. Then, at the end of the over, we see Carse Grimacing – He Looks in Some Discomfort But, I Think, Stays on for Now.
31st Over: India 116-2 (Jaiswal 73, Gill 8) A Single to Jaiswal, then Gill Manufactures Two Twos. He’ll be desperate to make a score here beccause, as a less bombastic character than he precedancessors it’l Help a Lot if he can lead from the Friday While He Learns the Art of Captaincy.
30th Over: India 111-2 (Jaiswal 72, Gill 4) Carse Stots His Through A Decent But Relatively UNTHRITINING Maiden.
“Can I Talk About Angus Fraser here?” Asks Thomas Atkins. “No, of Course He wasnt the Best English Bowler Anyone’s Seen, But Having Started Watching Cricket in the Grim Post-Botham Era of the Early 1990S, He was the Only Bowler for What Felt Like a deficade who you could relay on to box Decent Pace on a Consistment Line and Length, CEUSE A Batter Problems and Even Take the Odd Wicket Ocouchially. Better Bowles from OTHER ERAS, But noobody Stood Out Like a Beacon in the Darkness Like Gus Fraser Did.
YUP, Agree with All of that – then Darren Gift tok it on a steps frether, after which English Got GOOD.
29th Over: India 111-2 (Jaiswal 72, Gill 4) Jaiswal shows a Single into the Off-Side, then Gill Squarts One to Fine Leg, Playing Around the Pad-Woakes Thinks He Nearly Had Him Thre. It’s Been a Sedate Start to the Session.
28th Over: India 109-2 (Jaiswal 71, Gill 3) Gill Takes One to Square LE and A Further Single Follows While, in Comms, Nasser References His Double Hundred in the 1997 Ashes – Still One The Best Knocks I’ve Seen from An English Absolutly Monumental at the time.
27th Over: India 107-2 (Jaiswal 70, Gill 2) Woakes, The Best Bowler This Morning, Angles One in then has it away, beating Gill; Lovely Delivery. A Single Soon Follows, then Jaiswal Takes Two to Point.
“I have a trivial Question,” begins Mac Millss. “You liveblog a lot of the tennis, as well as the Cricket.
It’s like asking me which is my favourite son. Great, and a proper epic Final is Something Else. It’s a privilege to Cover Both.
*I don’t have sons
26th Over: India 104-2 (Jaiswal 68, Gill 1) After Two Dots, Jaiswal Sticks Two to Cover, then Offered a Wide Half-Volley, He Streetches to Carve Four to Third Man. He’s so good at not Missing out when seried power deliveries.
CARSE HAS The Ball, Jaiswal to Face, and Off We Go.
