@colonelkilgore As a fellow Souls fan are you also a fan of any HEMA (Historical European Martial Arts) stuff? Or the movie 'Excalibur'? What are your thoughts on those?
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England have the better bowling lineup but just love a good batting collapse. India didn't mess about in knocking off the deficit they had from the first innings before the close of play today.
@colonelkilgore It's the Dark Souls of fencing, just search for it on Youtube, not sure if I'm allowed to link it here as it may be considered violent by the mods etc.
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@TheBrandedSwordsman I’ll certainly check it out… for some reason the idea reminded me of a French fantasy/horror martial arts film called Brotherhood of the Wolf, if you haven’t seen it, track it down it’s pretty awesome!
I'll post in here rather than the fitness thread but a big good luck to @kyleforrester87 who starts his 9 day, 970 mile charity bike ride from Land's End to John O' Groats (i.e. the length of the UK for you foreign types) tomorrow!
@JechtUltima it probably has nothing to do with this but… the fact that ‘most’ gamers incorrectly refer to it as ‘x’ has the ironic effect of making it the only button that appears on all three of the Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo game controllers (albeit in different positions on all three).
Thanks guys! Day 1 was today. I almost didn’t make it as I caught Covid and had to isolate up to last night at 11:59. So it was a mad rush to the start not even knowing if I could get in as the NHS app hadn’t updated to give me a covid pass. Off the back of 3 rounds of antibiotics to shift a throat infection I am not in super shape.
It was a really hard day, going to slow it down tomorrow and drink more water. As if I am still going to be doing this next Saturday 🙈🙈🙈
@kyleforrester87 Oof, that's not ideal prep! Hopefully today was a good judge for how your fitness is doing though. Nice views of St Michael on the Mount from your pics too (I'm not stalking you, honest)
@Thrillho Wasn't great for us in the cricket yesterday was it? India appear to be racing away into the lead, I hope today will be better, and there's a batting collapse for us to take advantage of. Allegedly the ground was quite good for batting yesterday, might be different today.
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@TheBrandedSwordsman Yeah, it was about as bad a day as possible for England really. I don't fancy England to win if the total is over 250.
India can bat all day again today if they want. If they're still not all out, it'll be interesting to see if/when they declare as England will undoubtedly aim for the draw, even if they have over a day to bat.
But India's middle order is just as fragile as ours so I won't be putting any money on a result for either team!
@Thrillho I think you were right with (initially) calling a loss for England as that's pretty much what's just happened, I didn't think that Malan, Pope, and Ali did their job well enough as middle order batsmen and now we can only hope to draw the series
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@Thrillho What were your thoughts on the final day of the fourth test?
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@TheBrandedSwordsman I wasn’t surprised by the outcome really but it’s the hope that kills you.
England seemed like they didn’t know if they were going for it from the start but were going to play normally and see where they were at lunch. Sadly, Burns and Hameed weren’t scoring too quickly so never got us into a better position than we started.
The run out for Malan kind of summed up the day really. There was some good bowling from India but England just fell apart again.
Three certainties in life; death, taxes, and England batting collapses.
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