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Cloudy day, peak Jimmy

India 30 or 40-4 by lunch?

Wrong type of cloud cover at Trent Bridge this morning?

Woakes disagrees

well played woakes

For those who didn't see the Chef do his part today (3m35)
https://youtu.be/xxzZPsyMdgs?t=3m35s

An absolute ripper from Broady!

That puts some pressure on Dhawan as he opens the Indian 2nd innings.

Some proper tailend batting there

After 4 batting line up failures, and 2-0 down in the series, I can understand the Indian bowlers wanting to have a bowl on a possibly favourable pitch, rather than faffing around for 10 or so runs.

just seen that ball from Broard . 😮😮😮 .
Swing bowling....pow !

If India enforce the follow-on, they could win this before Close of Play.

We're within 200 runs so no follow-on

Sigh

And yet another dropped catch. Aggers estimates 25% of chances dropped. That's shite even at club level. Do these boys actually practice?

Nah

Having a lovely time with this pink ball stuff at the Oval though, lovely weather all day and everything.

I managed to see about 35 minutes with my three and half year old twins today. I'll head back tomorrow afternoon with an older companion to drink all the beer.

Doesn't look like it'll last four days!

I’ve been to two days of Test cricket this summer and seen 30 wickets. Not really Test cricket any more.

Nobody values their wicket. One day cricket has mostly had a good effect on the longer game but not sure it’s going to help in the long run. Counties need these games to go into the fourth and fifth day.

My prediction is that they’ll stop using the Dukes ball in England to make batting easier.

My prediction is that they’ll stop using the Dukes ball in England to make batting easier.

Not a chance, there's much more of a push for use of the Dukes ball (Or a kookaburra with a more pronounced seam) in the rest of the world in order to get more exciting games.

Another dropped catch...

FFS

YJB confirmed broken finger. Who to replace him? Roy? Vince? Gubbins? Hildreth? Bell? Some chat about Pepper - not seen enough of him though.

Obviously I am assuming that Buttler will take the gloves - otherwise Foakes as a left-field suggestion?

India win, over in 3 days. No-one gets a century. Kohli gets about 80 in total.

Still on for 2/4 of this...

If Jennings could catch, you'd have had 3!

broken record...

If they want another keeper in then I imagine it would be Foakes, however that leaves us with only Burns who can keep, a bit much for a bloke who is also captain.

This pink Kookaburra does fuck all in England