England squad: Joe Root (capt), Moeen Ali, James Anderson, Jonathan Bairstow, Rory Burns, Jos Buttler (wk), Sam Curran, Haseeb Hameed, Dan Lawrence, Saqib Mahmood, Dawid Malan, Craig Overton, Ollie Pope, Ollie Robinson, Mark Wood Squad for next test
It's about time Sibley and Crawley were taken out of their (and our) misery. I'm all for backing young players, but this is the England Cricket team, not a Gentleman's Club whereby election to it leads onto permanent membership!
What a day it’s been for England! If they don’t go on to level the series from here something will have to have gone seriously wrong.
Both Bairstow and Buttler out for less than 60 At this rate India could be batting before close of play tonight
Root has now scored 1398 runs in this calendar year. he has a potential 9 innings before New Year to increase this total (probably 8 in fact, not sure he will bat again in this match), Not sure what the record for a year is. I have a vague recollection of the papers going mat when Alex Stewart got a thousand in a year, so would assume not a lot more needed to be the best.
Player Year Mat Inns NO Runs HS Ave BF SR 100 50 Mohammad Yousuf (PAK) 2006 11 19 1 1788 202 99.33 2854 62.64 9 3 IVA Richards (WI) 1976 11 19 0 1710 291 90.00 1584+ 72.85* 7 5 GC Smith (SA) 2008 15 25 2 1656 232 72.00 2516 65.81 6 6
Great win by England this morning. India lose 8 wkts in a session. 278 all out. England win by Innings and 76 runs
England squad: Joe Root (capt), Moeen Ali, James Anderson, Jonny Bairstow (wk), Sam Billings (wk), Rory Burns, Sam Curran, Haseeb Hameed, Dan Lawrence, Dawid Malan, Craig Overton, Ollie Pope, Ollie Robinson, Chris Woakes, Mark Wood. Squad for next Test. Buttler not available, his wife is about to give birth.