England v India: third men’s cricket Test, day five – live

Updates from the final day of play at Lord’sEmail Daniel | England want crowd to spur them on“You know when you get up at sparrow’s fart to get an early train at 0829 to be sure not to miss a single ball,” begins Kim Thonger, “and then there’s a points failure and you just sit next to a field outside Hitchin watching cows for an hour and finally get to King’s Cross at 1035 and the train staff proudly announce you’re entitled to ‘Delay Repay’ refund like it’s some sort of special honour/treat that’s akin to a Nobel Peace Prize with an MBE attached? That.”“There appears to be much hand-wringing about this England side’s approach to cricket,” writes Ben Heywood, “a consensus being that they continue to throw away good positions with silly shots. I think this is indisputably true, but most England sides of the past wouldn’t have pulled off a run chase like Headingley in the first place, so I can take the rough with the smooth. What many casual observers seem to be forgetting, however, is that this India side are no 1 in the rankings – it’s no disgrace to go down fighting to what is, on this evidence, a very, very strong line-up that has an all-time God in its bowling ranks. England, in contrast, have a flaky opener, a flaky no 3 and a collection of semi-permanently injured fast-bowlers currently missing their brightest new breakthrough act and their previously most successful seamer (albeit for very different reasons). We also do not have an experienced front-line spinner. I suspect that we, the gen pop, haven’t quite given this India side their due. If the opposition were Australian, expectations would be tempered accordingly. India by four wickets for me, but if Jofra and Brydon can bowl fast, straight and nasty in the first hour, who knows…?” Continue reading...

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