Live England vs India: Latest updates from Lord's with Stokes ‘fine' during practice
There are always some cricket phrases in vogue. 'He'll take that' for example. When have you ever seen a batsman, after nicking a boundary, running over to the scorer and saying 'please don't add that four to my score' ?
Or when this same batsman – say it is a tailender batting against Jimmy Anderson – edges another four, and as steam comes out of Anderson's ears the commentator cheerily announces: 'He won't mind that!'
Now we are blessed with the phrase 'It's moving day', usually applied to day three. Well, day one was a non-moving day in that neither side was ahead at the end of it any more than at the start. England restrained themselves, and the slow dry turf restrained them, in addition to India's patient bowlers.
It was too hot to move, you might say, and it might be the same today… but eventually something will crack.
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