All it takes just one bad session for the batting side to bundle up, looks good to see some fight back from the Kiwis at finally still anything is possible and tomorrow morning play will be crucial and Kiwis has to play as deep as they can to reduce the deficit to zero cause they are still trail by 40 even after this long fought battle.

English men always had issues against wrist spinners but this unit more experienced than Indian batting line-up didn't show any sign of fight back at all and you said it right this is not happened in usual rank turners so the English players can't hide under that for poor batting performance. I still like the bazball but as I said they have to adapt to the condition and apply that batting style instead of going all guns blazing.

India squared their win loss ratio of all time with this match. And they are having the most winning ratio in the last 10 years and in second place Australia.

If I am not wrong, this is the first loss for them since they started playing bazball. And the attacking form of test cricket is good but they are trying to hit every ball which is why they failed, they have to strategize better if they want to win in subcontinent and have to make adjustments when to attack and when to go defensive.

Another win that made the no.1 position more comfortable for India in WTC table.

Looks like ENG is playing hopeless and can't control the wickets falling.

Joe Root back to his pre Bazball style of batting and that is provided some partnership for now but it looks like the innings might over before the day or even possibly the match could over by the end of today's play.

Ash added another 5-fer under his name.

Well the variation in the bounce help here and there so what they have to do is bowl consistently on certain areas which English spinners can't able to do throughout the series and give one or two freebies every over. Test cricket can be agressive too and today our batsmen showed the visitors about how to play and construct innings instead of just hitting the every balls.

Tomorrow the ball may break so will get tough to bat on, India already posted over 200 runs as lead and tail enders are contributing beyond their expectations.

Especially kuldeep and how he evolved his batting style like top order grinder, he always known for hanging around with a batter in the other end but in this series he took that to next level and really frustrated the opposition by facing more balls than half of their batting unit.

India already got enough runs as lead to go for an innings defeat.

Indian batting unit has the complete freedom to go with what they really wanted to and the lead is over 200 so there has to be some miracle of India has to lose this match from this situation.

I expected Stokes to bowl but getting a wicket of centurion in the very first ball he bowled in years is interesting. And he almost picked another one too in the next over.

At this moment 8 wickets down and so far spinners are taking the wickets, Jimmy may aim the tailenders to reach the milestone especially Siraj can be a good candidate.

Anderson didn't get much assistance and this isn't new ball so considering who picked up all the 10 wickets in the first innings is spinners so Stokes expecting the same from their spinners too.

Now both batsmen are in their 90s and probably a wicket may arrive in the nervous 90s but so far both of them were looking very comfortable with every bowlers and I am keen whether Stokes himself get himself into the play.

Jaiswal already in the top run scorer because of two big tons already and fifties too and probably he couldn't get past 50s 2 times in the entire series if I am not wrong and he scored 700+ runs in the 9 innings while the second most run scorer is just sitting over 400 that tells that he already made enough contribution and probably sealed the opening slot in test format for this WTC cycle.

Indian batting looks non stop with the run scoring again today morning as well and Hitman really deserves a ton.

Team India did exactly what they are capable of and it's done in a venue where more assistance for seamers and conditions similar to England and not just this venue but every venue was fair and gave equal opportunity for both the teams and one who actually performed crossed the line. India started with bang in their batting too and England might be approaching a huge lead and what I admired is how Kuldeep increased his fielding skills too in this series.

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This is not an unusual thing though in cricket but he took a wicket somehow so celebrated as much as he can. I just want to talk about the quality of Indian bowlers which is not getting enough praise as they deserve. I would say Indian bowlers made the Englishmen is playing ordinary cricket so far with their performances and Kuldeep again bowled really well and proved his quality, remember this is where he made his debut and got Man of the match as well.

India is actually playing better bazball than England does or atleast in the final session with run rate over 5.

England openers were so lucky to get past so many outside edges from Indian pacers in the first one hour period then the spin came into the attack and Pope gifted his wicket before the Lunch. Still England played decent enough and post lunch will be good to score runs which means the first innings score is going to be huge unless they starts gifting wickets like Pope did.

As expected two changes but Rohit mentioned Patidar unfortunately got injured yesterday at the time of toss is kind of hilarious because as well all know he didn't prove with performance in all the 6 innings so they could be bold enough to state that he is not in the good form.

This series is more entertaining that's for sure but the results are much expected that India will win because they have been dominating every bilateral series for the last 10 years.

ENG gave fights but they didn't play sensibly enough to win matches or else they could made the results into more favor of them but making test format entertaining seems to be the primary goal of ENG that is superb for the future of test format cause its already dying and very few nations are concentrating to keep it alive.

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India go by the traditional way, there is no need to announce playing XI to be honest and if ENG does means they just want to exite audiences but India will pick the XI based on the pitch condition that we can only find before the match begins so captian and team management will assess the condition and pick right players like whether two seam attack or the pitch is hard enough for three pace attack, etc.

TN vs MUM is getting spicier and to be honest Mumbai added over 200 runs as lead that too scored by 8th, 9th and 10th wicket pair from 106/7 to 353/9, Lord played like God in this inning.

TN was looking good in this season but their hope of winning Ranji after 35 years is getting thinner, any anti climax or MUM is going to the one.

Jurel is actually a destructive batter but he controlled his natural action and try to adapt to the playing situation in all the innings he played so far. He is good for the future but still a long way to even consider for someone like Dhoni.

Bumrah will play and Siraj is going to be rested that's the most latest news regarding the playing XI and the only one spot is uncertain which is Patidar will be given one more chance or he got enough and failed to prove so swap him with Padikkal.

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Do you think we have any ideas to reach more Indian people to participate in this contest?

I am thinking of every active member can wear personal message saying "IPL contest on Indian board - win xBTC".

Do you guys think it will work?

As expected, NZ lost the match and the domination by Aussies over NZ in their home land continues. NZ should have played Santner on pitch like this and even Lyon mentioned that he is surprised to not see Santner when a part time bowler Glenn Phillips got 5fer for them. NZ should play the right combination of they really want to rewrite the history and should avoid run outs which is the most terrible thing to witness in test matches and that too when the core player in the batting unit has to walk back with such kind of dismissal.