*Official* First Test at Lord's

[Uppercut]

I suspect if England could take a player from India it would be Tendulkar actually. Not sure Zaheer would get into the England side, he isn't a vastly superior bowler to Anderson and his fitness record of late is woeful. A very good performer but would struggle to make the England side due to unreliability of fitness.

lolwut

 

[Spark]

lolwut

Haha indeed.

 

[Rush]

Yo KP! Offside, heard of it?

He's probably as comfortable with offside as female referees.

 

[superkingdave]

KP getting a long way accross to Sharma

 

[Spark]

I can only assume he's watched Trott scoring millions of runs by flicking everything towards mid-on/wicket, and decided to do the same...

He's ticking though. Three of those past the stumps.

 

[Uppercut]

I can only assume he's watched Trott scoring millions of runs by flicking everything towards mid-on/wicket, and decided to do the same...

Other way round if anything. KP was flicking everything towards mid-on/mid-wicket while Trott was still in nappies.

 

[Spark]

Other way round if anything. KP was flicking everything towards mid-on/mid-wicket while Trott was still in nappies.

Haha, but I don't remember it being quite this extreme. Seems to be working now though.

 

[hazsa19]

lolwut

imagine selecting Broad ahead of Zaheer.

KP doing what it takes to score runs. Bumble still thinks he is funny.

 

[Cevno]

Sehwag could have been useful today too.

 

[Howe_zat]

KP's just fine with these dead straight drives. Lovely.

 

[vcs]

This is really good batting by KP. Dhoni needs to devise some way of keeping the scoring down, because the only chance this attack has of getting him out is by frustrating him.

 

[Uppercut]

Haha, but I don't remember it being quite this extreme. Seems to be working now though.

He played like this around '07-'08 in Sri Lanka and New Zealand. Jayawardene set him some pretty funky fields.

Big inswing from Ishant there. Not sure attacking leg stump is the way to go when he adopts this strategy, though.

 

[hazsa19]

Do bowlers forget the leg stump yorker in situations like this?

 

[Spark]

Do bowlers forget the leg stump yorker in situations like this?

I've always wondered why bowlers seem to completely forget the yorker in Test matches, tbh.

 

[Uppercut]

I've always wondered why bowlers seem to completely forget the yorker in Test matches, tbh.

Especially considering how often KP has got out to it in his career.

 

[Jacknife]

I've always wondered why bowlers seem to completely forget the yorker in Test matches, tbh.

Agree, It's one of my pet hates.

 

[vcs]

I've always wondered why bowlers seem to completely forget the yorker in Test matches, tbh.

Ishant doesn't seem to have it in his repertoire. And the idea of Praveen bowling one seems oddly incongruous.

 

[hazsa19]

So does anyone think Zaheer will make friday at TB? Or will they save him for Edgbaston

 

[Cevno]

Do bowlers forget the leg stump yorker in situations like this?

Exactly. Any sort of swinging yorker can have KP in trouble.

 

[Spark]

Not great this. An over of leaves is never a good thing.