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Understand the Kohli incident has cost him 20% of his match fee. A slap on the wrist. He looks frustrated and a bit mentally fragile of late. Maybe a hint to the behind the scenes state of the Indian teams mindset currently - purely my opinion. He should forget the peripheral stuff and let his bat do the talking. So a 19 year old slapped your bowlers around a bit and maybe you think that shows no respect. Best way to square that up is to do the same to the opposition bowlers.
 
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1st Test , Stumps Day 1

Zimbabwe 363-4

Sean Williams 145*

Sean Williams is playing his 16th Test , he debuted in 2013 , 11 years ago

Joe Root has played 17 Tests in 2024 😱

I know there are a lot of issues in Zimbabwe cricket but that is absolutely ridiculous
 

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Understand the Kohli incident has cost him 20% of his match fee. A slap on the wrist. He looks frustrated and a bit mentally fragile of late. Maybe a hint to the behind the scenes state of the Indian teams mindset currently - purely my opinion. He should forget the peripheral stuff and let his bat do the talking. So a 19 year old slapped your bowlers around a bit and maybe you think that shows no respect. Best way to square that up is to do the same to the opposition bowlers.
Yep. Let's fine a multi-millionaire a thousand or two.
May as well have slapped his hand with a limp stick of celery!!!
Would love to know what the penallty would have been, had it been say a Sri Lankan player, rather than a "HiGhLy ReSpEcTeD" Indian player!!!

I guess the standard has been set! (not)
 

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Yep. Let's fine a multi-millionaire a thousand or two.
May as well have slapped his hand with a limp stick of celery!!!
Would love to know what the penallty would have been, had it been say a Sri Lankan player, rather than a "HiGhLy ReSpEcTeD" Indian player!!!

I guess the standard has been set! (not)
One of the standards!
 

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Alyssa Healy was just commenting on the women’s team playing 4 days Tests, which seems to be the standard.

As an o***et, they play 100 over days.

If the men had to play that many overs, they’d be playing until 7:30!
 
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Alyssa Healy was just commenting on the women’s team playing 4 days Tests, which seems to be the standard.

As an o***et, they play 100 over days.

If the men had to play that many overs, they’d be playing until 7:30!
That's possibly a reason one-day matches (100 overs in a day) have gone out of fashion. Must not be good for TV schedules as they would run over time.
 
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As we know there are three Boxing Day Tests this year...

SA v PAK: SA are 3/27 chasing 148 to win - no nightwatchman in there, that's three genuine batters out! Could go down to the wire.

ZIM v AFG: Afghanistan batted through the entirety of day 3 without losing a wicket! This has only happened 26 times in Test history, and this is the 9th time an away team has done it. 2/425, Rahmat 231*, Hashmatullah 141*.
 
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Bumrah is just on another level, all class
I've just realised who he reminds me of... obviously not a cricketer because there's no cricketer like him.

But he reminds me of Eddie Betts.

Freakishly talented and always smiling. He seems very aware of how lucky he is to do what he loves and is so good at, and treats the whole thing like the game it really is.
 
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Was thinking a 270 minimum lead , but that is looking a long way away

Edit : looks a lot closer since I wrote that

Time captain Pat got himself a Test century
 
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