England V India - Predictions

[GIMH]

Don't just tip a winner, tip the following:

Score:
Most runs:
Most wickets:
Most catches:
Biggest innings:
Best bowling:
MOTS (Eng)
MOTS (Ind)
Axed:
Surprise pick:
Random prediction

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Country with the most infracted poster:

[GIMH]

Score: 4-0 to England if the weather holds, 2 or 3-0 if it doesn't
Most runs: Ali Cook
Most wickets: Jimmy Sex Machine Anderson
Most catches: Strauss
Biggest innings: Trott, 326 at Trent Bridge
Best bowling: Anderson, 8-62 at Trent Bridge
MOTS (Eng): Anderson
MOTS (Ind): Jono
Axed: Zaheer Can't
Surprise pick: Jono, drafted in for the 4th when the rest bottle it
Random prediction: Swann or Broad to hit a ton

And just for fun, the CW version:

Country with the most infracted poster: India

[Teja.]

Score: 2-1 to England
Most runs: Tendulkar
Most wickets: Tremlett
Most catches: Prior
Biggest innings: 600 or so, both teams 1 time each. One 200 from Bell, One from Tendulkar
Best bowling: 6-50, Zaheer
MOTS (Eng): Tremlett
MOTS (Ind): Tendulkar
Axed: Both India and England's No.6s
Surprise pick: Praveen Kumar to bowl very well if he's picked. Gambhir to average 50+
Random prediction: Swann to retire in embarrassment after being humiliated for 4 tests.

Would try to answer the last question but confirmation bias might kick in due to that and people don't want that.

[four_or_six]

Score: 3-0 to England
Most runs: Cooky
Most wickets: Jimmy and Swanny to tie, after Jimmy drops a catch off Swann to deny him the last wicket of the series.
Most catches: Prior
Biggest innings: Cook, 334 at Lords
Best bowling: Broad, 7-12 at Lords
MOTS (Eng): Trott
MOTS (Ind): Jono
Axed: Harbhajan, Dravid.
Surprise pick: Partiv Patel
Random prediction: At least one mod will have a nervous breakdown

And just for fun, the CW version:

Country with the most infracted poster: Australia

[weeman27bob]

Score: 2-0 to England
Most runs: Ian Bell
Most wickets: Stuart Broad to have the series of his life.
Most catches: Sehwag
Biggest innings: Sehwag, 230 at the Oval
Best bowling: 7-35 in an inspired spell from Broad
MOTS (Eng): Broad
MOTS (Ind): Tendulkar
Axed: Strauss
Surprise pick: Mooen Ali
Random prediction: Series to have less exciting cricket than this one.

[Outswinger@Pace]

Score: England winning 2-1
Most runs: Cook (Eng), Gambhir (Ind)
Most wickets: Anderson
Most catches: Prior No seriously, it'd be Strauss.
Biggest innings: Tendulkar at The Oval
Best bowling: Jimmy's match-winning 6-fer (6-45 or so) to run through the Indian top-order
MOTS (Eng): Anderson
MOTS (Ind): Zaheer
Axed: BCCI administrators
Surprise pick: Ali/Monty drafted in for Swann after the latter loses form woefully!

Random prediction: Bhajji to end up slapping Fletcher in frustration before the rubber ends


And just for fun, the CW version:
Country with the most infracted poster: Does Mongolia qualify as a reasonable answer?

[centurymaker]

Score: 1-1
Most runs: Trott
Most wickets: Zaheer Khan
Most catches: Prior
Biggest innings: An indian batsman- 220 at Lords
Best bowling: 6-55 Khan
MOTS (Eng): Anderson
MOTS (Ind): Tendulkar
Axed: Dravid
Surprise pick: Yuvraj
Random prediction: Ali Cook to have a poor series

[vcs]

Score: England winning 2-1
Most runs: Cook (Eng), Gambhir (Ind)
Most wickets: Anderson
Most catches: Prior No seriously, it'd be Strauss.
Biggest innings: Tendulkar at The Oval
Best bowling: Jimmy's match-winning 6-fer (6-45 or so) to run through the Indian top-order
MOTS (Eng): Anderson
MOTS (Ind): Zaheer
Axed: BCCI administrators
Surprise pick: Monty drafted in for Swann after the latter loses form woefully!

Random prediction: Bhajji to end up slapping Gary Kirsten in frustration before the rubber ends


And just for fun, the CW version:
Country with the most infracted poster: Does Mongolia qualify as a reasonable answer?

Doubt he'd go all the way to SA for that.

[Shri]

Don't just tip a winner, tip the following:

Score: 1-1
Most runs: Sachin Tendulkar
Most wickets: Zaheer Khan
Most catches: Andrew Strauss
Biggest innings: Trott
Best bowling: Anderson
MOTS (Eng) - Anderson
MOTS (Ind) - Zaheer Khan
Axed: Broad/Ishant
Surprise pick: Morgan
Random prediction: Kallis to debut for England

And just for fun, the CW version:

Country with the most infracted poster: GIMH(as big as a country tbf)

[Outswinger@Pace]

Doubt he'd go all the way to SA for that.

Oh dear! I had a momentary lapse. Gary's gone. Thanks for reminding!

[Manee]

Score: 2-1 (India)
Most runs: Sachin Tendulkar
Most wickets: Chris Tremlett
Most catches: MS Dhoni
Biggest innings: Jonathon Trott
Best bowling: Harbhajan Singh
MOTS (Eng): Chris Tremlett
MOTS (Ind): Harbhajan Singh
Axed: Ishant Sharma
Surprise pick: Rohit Sharma

[Borges]

Why haven't all these threads which have been sprouting up like a rash been merged by some trigger-happy moderator?

Or - dare I hope? - is there going to be a sub-forum after all? Where each of these will have a legitimate individual existence, without their very life being snuffed out by a 35,000 post monster.

[kingpin]

Score: 1-2 (England)
Most runs: Sachin Tendulkar
Most wickets: Chris Tremlett
Most catches: MS Dhoni
Biggest innings: Jonathon Trott
Best bowling: Harbhajan Singh
MOTS (Eng): Chris Tremlett
MOTS (Ind): Harbhajan Singh
Axed: Ishant Sharma
Surprise pick: Rohit Sharma

[Daemon]

Score: 1-1
Most runs: Sachin
Most wickets: Anderson
Most catches: Prior
Biggest innings: 185 - Sachin/Trott
Best bowling (innings): 6-100 Harbhajan
MOTS (Eng): Anderson
MOTS (Ind): Sachin
Axed: Pujara
Surprise pick: to be decided after the WI series
Random prediction: Swann to pick up a hat trick

[Howe_zat]

Score: 2-1 England
Most runs: Ian Bell
Most wickets: Jimmy Anderson
Most catches: Graeme Swann
Biggest innings: Jonathan Trott, 188* at Lord's
Best bowling: Zaheer Khan, 6-80
MOTS (Eng) Ian Bell
MOTS (Ind) VVS Laxman
Axed: Ishant Sharma
Surprise pick: Amit Mishra
Random prediction: Tim Bresnan to come in when an England bowler gets injured. The Lord's Test will be drawn with VVS Laxman clinging on for India.

And just for fun, the CW version:

Country with the most infracted poster: Scotland.