England V India: Third Men’s Cricket Test, Day Two – Live

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Morning everyone and invited to nan 2nd time of this humanities re-enactment. After spending 3 years trying to make Test cricket exciting, pinch a adjacent magnitude of success, England person abruptly fixed up and gone backmost to nan 1950s.

Yesterday was nan 56th clip they had scored 200 successful an innings nether Ben Stokes and Brendon McCullum, and by acold nan slowest. They pottered on astatine 3.02 runs an over. (Even astatine Ranchi early past year, erstwhile Ben Foakes was still connected board, they managed 3.36.) And nan slowest scorer of each was nan captain, who faced 102 balls and deed only 3 of them for four. Even if he is fresh for nan adjacent Test, Stokes whitethorn person to driblet himself for slow scoring.

Perhaps it was nan heat. As Paul Simon almost sang, it was a slow day, and nan sun was beating connected nan punters by nan broadside of nan field. Perhaps it was nan effect of Shubman Gill, who has truthful spooked England that they now want to play for illustration him. Perhaps it was nan return of Jasprit Bumrah, who has nan aforesaid effect Queen Elizabeth II utilized to person connected her visits to Lord’s – making everyone effort excessively difficult to behave properly.

The forecast coming is for much of nan same. I conscionable dream it doesn’t use to nan batting.