England v India Test Series!!..

[Ted Maul]

This is getting ridiculous since lunch we’ve had 10 overs with Pant injury, now 10 mins later we have a drinks break.
No wonder some say test cricket is boring. 3 hrs play 37 overs 12 .2 per hr. Something has to be done about it.

So you need scheduled drinks breaks, especially in this test match which is shaping up to be the most consistently warm I can remember for a long time.

Issue with the timing of Pant's injury was that the umpire has no idea how long it's going to take, although I agree, why can't they call drinks on the second it tips past 2-3 minutes? 

I know it's also part of the game, but the rise is dicking about with fields between balls needs sorting, especially when it's a player moved five yards one way and then five yards back.

Final gripe with the over rate issue is that it's all teams, yet in the last WTC cycle, only England seemed to really get hammered by it.

we’ve stopped again because the ball needs changing this is bloody ridiculous, the umpire strokes on and then they don’t change the ball. I love cricket but if I had paid to watch this today I’d be fuming.

Lords, 30c, pretty absorbing test cricket featuring the current best test batter and England's leading run scorer against one of the best fast bowlers of a generation, you'd be a couple of bottles of VC down by now as well. If you can't enjoy that then I don't know what to suggest