India v England Fourth Test Report Card, Day Four

Featuring aerial Anderson and Jurel repetition

Aerial Anderson
Grade: C+

India started the fourth day in an absolute bloody rush, Rohit Sharma and Yashasvi Jaiswal galloping along towards the target at five runs an over. 

Perhaps there was some kind of IPL auction to attend (they do tend to sneak up on me - probably because I don’t have millions of dollars at stake in them). Or perhaps nobody had told Jaiswal the double century was off the table. 

Either way, a ten wicket India victory definitely loomed likely. But then Joe Root took a wicket.

Now, for some time (ie, since yesterday afternoon), I’ve been calling on commentators, whenever Root next takes a diving catch, to refer to it as ‘the aerial Root’. Ideally, the sentence would take the form of “Jadeja takes the aerial route, and the aerial Root takes Jadeja”.

Good wordplay. Fun stuff. Something I’ll never remember to do whenever it actually happens, so I’m crowdsourcing it.

BAD AI IMAGE OF: Clarifying the ‘aerial Root’ wordplay

Root didn’t get aerial here. But Jimmy Anderson did off Root’s bowling. So, for now, I’m calling it an ‘aerial Anderson’. Just to keep the idea in the zeitgeist.