200 up for 3 wickets in 35 overs
Well positioned for an attack now BUT there is a long history of teams collapsing when they try and accelerate in teh sub continent.
Says Cricinfo
Shit Buttler out when he needed to be exploding.
37.5
Pandya to Buttler, OUT, and Pandya sticks to his guns well enough. He has been bowling with mid-on and mid-off up, and has not given them even one drive ball. Buttler looks to manufacture one to a ball just short of a length, and doesn;t get enough of bat to it. Caught overhead at mid-off by Dhawan. India strike again with England looking to run away from them
JC Buttler c Dhawan b Pandya 31 (36b 1x4 2x6) SR: 86.11
37.4
Pandya to Buttler, no run, slower bouncer, Buttler is caught waling down the wicket and is hit on the helmet. Through early with the shot. The ball hits the shoulder and the helmet grille
Avnish: “Kohli is a real crowd charmer. He fielded that cover drive and did a sort of ‘Yes, got it’ gesture by shaking his arm, got the crowd really going!”
37.3
Pandya to Buttler, no run, down the wicket, drives hard but straight to mid-off
37.2
Pandya to Buttler, no run, length ball, slower, outside off, punched to mid-off
Pandya will bowl out before 40 too so the last 10 will go to Bumrah, Yadav and Ashwin
37.1
Pandya to Root, 1 run, drives a length ball on the up, gets a single to deep cover
244 -5 Root gone for 78
286 -5 45 overs
Stokes and Ali hit 40 in 3 overs
Stokes gets to 50 with a six and off 34 Balls which I think gets me a nomination as a mad statto in that I posted the record WAS 35 balls & he just broke that
50 for stokes of 33 balls
Current partnership 53 runs, 4.2 overs, RR: 12.23 (Ali 10, Stokes 41)
7 off a single ball 
4th Beamer bowled by India goes for 6 & is a no ball. Free hot goes for 2 - now past 300 and cracking on Par score is 305 they said
304 -5 46 overs
Bugger
Cricinfo had just said THIS
Now 350 looks on. England would have been happy with 335 when the 41st over began but India have lost the plot here
Next Line says THIS… Commentators Curse
47.1
Bumrah to Stokes, OUT, Bumrah gets a wicket. Will this slow England down? Bouncer from over the wicket. A good one. At his left shoulder. Stokes mis-hits the pull and finds deep midwicket. That innings has turned the momentum for England
BA Stokes c Yadav b Bumrah 62 (40b 2x4 5x6) SR: 155.00
Stokes goes for 62
England 317 - 6
47.1 overs
Ooh Ooh
And Rory has made up a 3 shot deficit on Stormy and is now tied for the lead with 5 holes to play in SA Open.
Why have we been instructed not to ignore this thread?
Well if you’d been told to ignore it you’d all be on here posting shit and I wouldn’t be able to point out that Moen is just out for 28 of 17 balls
336/7
339 -7 Moeen Ali out for 28
into the last over
350- 7 in 50 overs
Englands highest score in India.
Got to be able to defend thay surely?
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And Rory takes the lead!
MORE interestingly Young English Player Jordan Smith is now 2nd. Who?
He’s a Nipper who played last year on the “Challenge Tour” (ie 2nd Division). He won their penultimate tournament which was held about 60 miles up the road in Ras al Khaimah and went on to do well in the finale in Oman
He seems to have the basics and this is an exceptional performance in the 1st Tournament of his first season on tour, should gain him entry to Abu Dhabi next week. Big things expected of him.
http://www.europeantour.com/europeantour/players/playerid=38857/index.html
Beltch can explain that one.
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1 wide and 1 lb of the. First Indian over
Of coure the really BIG Golf Story (Aw) from SA is Stormy.
Last year he missed a putt on the last green in the last ranking tournament to finish in (I think) 116th place in the Race to Dubai (Order of Merit)
As a result he lost his playing card for this season.
Patrick Reed (US Ryder Cup) player then got injured in the build up to the final series of events and then was BANNED by the US Regulations from playing in Turkey.
That meant he had not matched the membership criteria for the European Tour by not playing enough events. So he drops out the list
And Stormy got to keep his playing card by the skin of his teeth.
And Karma kicks in with Stormy in a Play Off with Rory for the Title down in South Africa having battled for the last 18 holes with the main man