Should England bat all day today?

Bat till tea i think and you may see Cook make 300.

Why not - like you say - theopportunity is rare these days - personally- I would give the indians an hour tonight - either way - if we are still batting at 5 tonight I will be happy

If they can, why not.
If England could bat all day they'd be nigh on 600 ahead with two days left to bowl India out.
It's a big ask though.

They'll probably knock us over before lunch after all this talk.

If they can, why not.
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spot on.

wickets are likely to fall though.

45 overs away from the next new ball, until then I cant see an issue for England except early on, but Cook should be able to get through, and if there are a few bad balls in the early period to allow Morgan to set himself he should be able to score at least 70/80 if not a lot more.

On the flip side - if the indian attack manages to rip through England in 45 minutes this morning (for real reasons as opposed to a collapse) then the England attack will be twice as ruthless

All unlikely I know - but I thought I would chuck that grenade in

quite amused at the moment by Extras being on 46, 4th highest scorer. shows the real lack of any control yesterday.

I can see why Mishra was called Indias mystery spinner. It's a mystery to me how this flan thrower ever got to play for India.