The rest don’t matter much? India at home, the World T20 and the Ashes in the rest of this year – not to mention there are two more Tests in short order after this one.

I thought the same thing last night as well.
They need to play their best XI for this series and the rest don’t matter that much, also there can’t a much better sense of achievement than beating this current Indian team.

It’s finally happening, folks!

I understand the reasoning, but can’t think of any past cricketing examples of where such a crucial game (if you think the World Test Championship is as important as, say, a World Cup) is an opportunity to give certain players a break.

Bess just gets lucky wickets regardless of the pitch.

On that point, I think that they are surprised that it moved so much so late, seeing as both balls went around the outside of the bat meaning that both batters thought it would move in more maybe.

This only makes both the wickets even better.

I believe Anderson hit a rough patch with this one. Of course thats what he was aiming for but the jagging makes it more unpredictable for the batsman. So thats why Rahane looked back just to confirm that the ball really bent back so much after hitting the stumps

I agree totally with you Ged, there is a sense of traditionalism and heritage using wooden stumps and bails, Zing bails do add that clarification for those that need it, it can also enhance the ability for the onfield umpire to make decisions as well, with the flashing for runouts, stumpings etc, which can be noticed without having to focus on them meaning the umpire can look at where the batter may be, in or out of the crease.

The stump camera is also a very quirky way to look at it as well, I don’t know if there is footage somewhere of Andersons two wickets from the perspective of the stump camera but I would guess it could look quite cool.

I was being extreme at that moment, Ged.
However, I still stand by the fact that Zing bails do not belong in Test matches.