🏏India tour of England 2025: 2nd Test England vs India - Page 36

Originally posted by: Nishnesh

They might not let us posted 450 run lead, their plan A was to reach 350 in their first innings & restrics india for 150 so i Assume their new plan to restrics us in before lunch and take 2/0 lead by tomorrow if rain God not disturb their path

Can we surrender that fast? Our lead is already 244 runs.

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"Hello from a cool and pleasant Birmingham," greets our correspondent, Kaushik Rangarajan, from the ground. Lots of traffic heading towards Edgbaston. It's a Saturday triple bonanza for the Brummies. There's the Sabbath concert , the Colmore food festival and a Test match at Edgbaston. Must say it has gotten a little overcast in the last 5 minutes," he adds.

"Big speech today in the India huddle by Gambhir," informs Kaushik.

Wajid Jawaid: "What England have done is to make it difficult to declare innings against them by completely distorting the time left/runs needed possibilities. They had a 170+ runs session in this match alone. I think India's best chances in this match lie in them getting all out relatively cheaply from here, a target of 410 runs for example. "

Raj Patel: "I have cancelled my weekend evening plans today just to watch Pant bat .. Hope he delivers a stunning innings " He certainly has licence to for an extended solo!

A lot of you might be wondering about the weather updates for today and tomorrow. Well, it looks quite good for today, with very slim chances of an odd shower. There could be a bit of rain tomorrow though. And as the conditions continue to remain murky, Kaushik pings us with an update saying that the "Lights are on now"

Kaz: "Morning, has the pitch shown any signs of changing or can we expect it to break up at all?" -- Yesterday, Deep Dasgupta and Jonathan Trott said that the pitch does seem to have a few cracks, but they felt that those cracks would really start opening up today. So maybe there will be a little more in it for the bowlers over these two final days.

Vikran: "India should look at a target of 500 plus with 90 to 100 overs... So it would be impossible to chase and batters would be to sure if to be aggressive or defensive. Right way to tackle bazzball.. "