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On 7/2/2025 12:20 PM, John Hall wrote:

In message <6fe4f959c84b53909bf201e62778fe7c@www.novabbs.org>, miked <dmike2004@gmail.com> writes

So India do rest Bumrah, replaced by Akash Deep, Sudharson and Thakur
out, Reddy and Sundar in. And Stokes puts india in. Again. Hes got a 1
track mind. No doubt the statsguru told him to do it, but England got
lucky in the last match; surely india wont drop so many catches again,
and having picked 2 spinners, they prob wanted to bat first anyway.

mike

Edgbaston seems to be like Headingley, in that in recent years there's
been little or no deterioration in the pitch during the game. Apparently
the last four Tests there have been won by the side batting second. And
of course England believe they can chase down almost any score in the
fourth innings.

Considering the pitch and their lack of luck with "umpire's call"
decisions, England had a reasonable day. With an almost brand new ball,
if they can break the overnight partnership early on they will hope to
limit India to about 400.

Finally Baz ADMITTED they made a mistake of electing to bowl first after winning the toss at Edgbaston.

England team requested curators to prepare pitches which SUIT bazball.





Ben Stokes revealed on the eve of this Test that requests have been put
in for pitches that "suit what we we want to go for and how we want to
play our cricket".




McCullum admits England got the toss wrong: 'We ran second for five days'

"It's just we thought this pitch might get better to bat on as we went
through the five days but as we saw it didn't"


https://www.espncricinfo.com/story/eng-vs-ind-2025-mccullum-admits-england-got-the-toss-wrong-we-missed-an-opportunity-there-1493873
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From Newsgroup: uk.sport.cricket

On 7/4/2025 9:34 AM, David North wrote:

On 04/07/2025 16:53, David North wrote:

On 03/07/2025 22:28, miked wrote:

Now if India dont drop their chances, they
should win weather permitting, becos as we know england dont do draws so >>> if they have no chance of winning they usually collapse in a heap.

When they have had "no chance" of winning, they have almost always had
even less chance of drawing, so if they have collapsed in a heap, it
hasn't had much to do with not doing draws.

As Andy Zaltzman has just confirmed, 407 is the lowest Test total to
include a 300 partnership. The previous lowest was England's 446 in the infamous 2010 Lord's Test v Pakistan, when Trott and Broad put on 332
for the 8th wicket.

Here is another one for the records since you are the resident uksc statistician.


The first two scalps gave Akash Deep a rare record. No one since the
great West Indian Michael Holding has taken down four of EnglandrCOs top
five batsmen without any assistance from the fielders.

Ben Duckett, Joe Root and Pope were bowled by Akash Deep while Brook was
out lbw.
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From Newsgroup: uk.sport.cricket

On 7/4/2025 9:58 AM, David North wrote:

On 04/07/2025 17:34, David North wrote:

On 04/07/2025 16:53, David North wrote:

On 03/07/2025 22:28, miked wrote:

Now if India dont drop their chances, they
should win weather permitting, becos as we know england dont do
draws so
if they have no chance of winning they usually collapse in a heap.

When they have had "no chance" of winning, they have almost always
had even less chance of drawing, so if they have collapsed in a heap,
it hasn't had much to do with not doing draws.

As Andy Zaltzman has just confirmed, 407 is the lowest Test total to
include a 300 partnership. The previous lowest was England's 446 in
the infamous 2010 Lord's Test v Pakistan, when Trott and Broad put on
332 for the 8th wicket.

It is also the lowest to include two 150+ scores.

Is this Edgbaston test itself a RECORD for BREAKING SO MANY RECORDS of batting, bowling and scores?

India is the FIRST ASIAN TEAM to beat England at Edgbaston in tests.


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