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[mighty_tiger_79]

pakistan 7/229

[Brodlach]

Poms 2/140

Root and Sibley going along nicely

Odd seeing/hearing an Indian test without people and noise

[Senor Moto Gadili]

Has Mrs. Kholi had the baby yet?

[The Dark Knight]

Has Mrs. Kholi had the baby yet?

Yes, a daughter Vamika, born on January 11th.

[The Dark Knight]

Progress scores-
England 2/153
Sibley 59*
Root 56*

Pakistan 8/257
Babar Azam 77
Faheem Ashraf 71
Nortje 3/48
Maharaj 3/84

Bangladesh second innings 2/12, lead the West Indies by 183 after they were dismissed for 183 in their first innings.

[The Dark Knight]

England 2/209 from 75 overs
Root 98* (162)
Sibley 67* (234)
Partnership of 142

This match is Jasprit Bumrah's first home test match after playing 17 away test matches before his first home match which is a test record, equal with West Indian Darren Ganga

[Senor Moto Gadili]

Root gets his hundred which makes it 3 in consecutive test matches. He's in career best form.

[The Dark Knight]

Root gets to his hundred in his 100th test match without much fuss, his 20th test match hundred and third in a row. He becomes the 9th test cricketer to score a hundred in their 100th test match.
England 2/227
Sibley 83 (250)

Great partnership between these two, the discipline has been impressive. They've clearly targeted old mate Denzel Sundar and left arm spinner Shahbaz Nadeem to score most of their run off of.

[batmanbegins]

Root gets to his hundred in his 100th test match without much fuss, his 20th test match hundred and third in a row. He becomes the 9th test cricketer to score a hundred in their 100th test match.
England 2/227
Sibley 83 (250)

Great partnership between these two, the discipline has been impressive. They've clearly targeted old mate Denzel Sundar and left arm spinner Shahbaz Nadeem to score most of their run off of.

Superb again by root. Sibley did a tremendous job also, he's far from pretty but we have become a much better side with him in it. Personally reckon we should bat into day 3 if we can, this pitch will be a road till day 4.

[locky801]

Root gets to his hundred in his 100th test match without much fuss, his 20th test match hundred and third in a row. He becomes the 9th test cricketer to score a hundred in their 100th test match.
England 2/227
Sibley 83 (250)

Great partnership between these two, the discipline has been impressive. They've clearly targeted old mate Denzel Sundar and left arm spinner Shahbaz Nadeem to score most of their run off of.

Superb again by root. Sibley did a tremendous job also, he's far from pretty but we have become a much better side with him in it. Personally reckon we should bat into day 3 if we can, this pitch will be a road till day 4.

Sibley very much in the Geoff Boycott mould

[The Dark Knight]

Root gets to his hundred in his 100th test match without much fuss, his 20th test match hundred and third in a row. He becomes the 9th test cricketer to score a hundred in their 100th test match.
England 2/227
Sibley 83 (250)

Great partnership between these two, the discipline has been impressive. They've clearly targeted old mate Denzel Sundar and left arm spinner Shahbaz Nadeem to score most of their run off of.

Superb again by root. Sibley did a tremendous job also, he's far from pretty but we have become a much better side with him in it. Personally reckon we should bat into day 3 if we can, this pitch will be a road till day 4.

It was a great partnership to watch, they were in complete control and maybe the Australian openers should take a leaf out of Sibley's book and how he batted for such a long time showing great concentration and discipline.
England 3/263 from 89.3 overs at stumps
Sibley out for 87 from 286 and Root is 128*.

[locky801]

Becoming a toss up between Root and Williamson for the number 1 ranking

Root currently 137*

[locky801]

Root to 150*

Stokes 50*

Eng 3/326

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Sth Africa in trouble at 5/121 against Pakistan

Bangladesh 2nd dig 4/149 over the Windies, Bangas lead by 320, that should be plenty

[The Dark Knight]

England 6/521
Root 218
Buttler 26*
Bess 17*

Pakistan second innings 2/43, lead by 114.

West Indies 3/103 need 292 to win.

[daysofourlives]

England 6/521
Root 218
Buttler 26*
Bess 17*

Pakistan second innings 2/43, lead by 114.

West Indies 3/103 need 292 to win.

WTF are England batting on here, shouldve declared when they lost 2 in 2 at the very latest. Have hardly scored a run since, surely getting the curry munchers in for the last 10 overs after 2 days in the field would be far more beneficial

[The Dark Knight]

England 6/521
Root 218
Buttler 26*
Bess 17*

Pakistan second innings 2/43, lead by 114.

West Indies 3/103 need 292 to win.

WTF are England batting on here, shouldve declared when they lost 2 in 2 at the very latest. Have hardly scored a run since, surely getting the curry munchers in for the last 10 overs after 2 days in the field would be far more beneficial

Joe Root at the end of play yesterday-
"We've got to look to try and get as many as we can - 600, 700 if we can, really try and make the most of the first innings while it's good," Root said. "Those footholes are starting to wear quite quickly. So, if we can bat the whole of tomorrow and maybe into day three, then things could speed up quite quickly for us and you never know what can happen from that point onwards.

That's why they're still batting.

[mighty_tiger_79]

Bangers made a declaration and set the Windies a total.
Should be a good day 5

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[The Dark Knight]

Stats from Joe Roots 218-
Becomes the first player to score a double century in his 100th test (Therefore has the highest score in a 100th test too).
Root has gone from 8th to 3rd on the most test runs for England list, he now has 8467 runs going past Boycott, Pietersen, Gower and Stewart and is now 433 runs behind second placed Graham Gooch.
Root now has three double centuries as England captain, the next best is just one each to Cook, Dexter, Gooch, Gower, Hammond, Hutton and May.
Root now has 5 double centuries in test match cricket, Wally Hammond has 7 and Cook has 5 aswell.
He has 644 runs from his last three tests, the third highest amount of runs in three straight test for England. (Hammond 779 in 1928/29 and Gooch 763 in 1990).
Root now has the highest score by a visiting batsman in Chennai. (Previous best was 210 by Dean Jones)
Root is just the second test captain after Don Bradman to make scores of 150+ in three successive test matches.

[mighty_tiger_79]

So Root is the new Bradman
#smudgewho?

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[daysofourlives]

England 6/521
Root 218
Buttler 26*
Bess 17*

Pakistan second innings 2/43, lead by 114.

West Indies 3/103 need 292 to win.

WTF are England batting on here, shouldve declared when they lost 2 in 2 at the very latest. Have hardly scored a run since, surely getting the curry munchers in for the last 10 overs after 2 days in the field would be far more beneficial

Joe Root at the end of play yesterday-
"We've got to look to try and get as many as we can - 600, 700 if we can, really try and make the most of the first innings while it's good," Root said. "Those footholes are starting to wear quite quickly. So, if we can bat the whole of tomorrow and maybe into day three, then things could speed up quite quickly for us and you never know what can happen from that point onwards.

That's why they're still batting.

So that was said at the end of day 1. Not like the English to be inflexable.
At 8 fa and no recognized batsman in with 10 overs to go surely you change tact and get them in, grab 1 or 2 wickets and India are under the pump