***Official*** England in India

[wpdavid]

Originally Posted by BoyBrumby

Lol.

Imagine Denis found better use for his than mere micturation, tbf.

His grandson does at least share his illustrious forebear's good looks tho, if that's not too metrosexual a comment, so maybe he cuts a similar swathe with the fairer sex.

Helps to pass the time in the west country, as they say.

[Cabinet96]

Originally Posted by Burgey

What happened to Mishra? Is he still in the frame for India at all?

Fell of the radar after Bell and co took him to the cleaners in England. Everything that has happened since only shows how much he was not up to it.

[Prince EWS]

Originally Posted by Burgey

What happened to Mishra? Is he still in the frame for India at all?

Dropped way down the pecking order; even got dropped from his Ranji side at one point recently IIRC? Seems to be more successful with the bat than the ball of late regardless.

[smalishah84]

Denis Compton will be turning in his grave watching Nick bat again

[flibbertyjibber]

Originally Posted by Burgey

What happened to Mishra? Is he still in the frame for India at all?

Well he captained against us in one of the warm up games and hardly bowled at all. Probably planned to not give us any practice against decent spin but seems well down the pecking order now.

[Prince EWS]

Originally Posted by smalishah84

Denis Compton will be turning in his grave watching Nick bat again

Nah seriously, this wasn't funny the first time and it's definitely not funny this time. **** off with it.

[wpdavid]

Originally Posted by flibbertyjibber

Two nice shots by Captain Cook. Need to at least get a decent score here and give the team something to cling to for the remainder of the series no matter how small the crumb of comfort may be.

I'd be amazed if we don't lose 4-0 to be honest as we just can't play spin at all but it would be nice to see certain players have learnt and found a way of playing through the series instead of doing what we did in UAE and India did in England and Australia by starting badly and getting worse as time goes on.

I wonder how India will play it regarding wicket preparation if we do bat way better but still lose. They'll probably plump for avenging the 0-4 last summer. I certainly hope we don't see a re-run of 1981/82 with tracks as dead as can be after the result in the first test.

[Cabinet96]

Oh and Mishra apparently hid himself from KP in England's last warm up game.

[BoyBrumby]

Originally Posted by wpdavid

Helps to pass the time in the west country, as they say.

Speaking from experience of your salad days in Devon, you old dog?

[Spikey]

Originally Posted by Prince EWS

Nah seriously, this wasn't funny the first time and it's definitely not funny this time. **** off with it.

Denis, like all champions, was cremated instead of buried anyway.

[flibbertyjibber]

Originally Posted by wpdavid

I wonder how India will play it regarding wicket preparation if we do bat way better but still lose. They'll probably plump for avenging the 0-4 last summer. I certainly hope we don't see a re-run of 1981/82 with tracks as dead as can be after the result in the first test.

If it was me in charge i'd back the Indian side to beat England 9 times out of 10 on pitches like this and prepare 3 more exactly the same and go for the kill and revenge. Even if we bring Monty in he is hardly going to strike fear into the Indian batting line up despite being a far greater threat than any 3rd seamer we could choose.

[BoyBrumby]

You know play's drifting a bit when Beefy's bringing out the "Gatt's a lardo" gags.

[wpdavid]

Originally Posted by BoyBrumby

Speaking from experience of your salad days in Devon, you old dog?

[Spikey]

england have been cruising every since that reverse sweep #gamechanger #timetodeclare

[Teja.]

Ashwin leaking at nearly five an over.