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***Official*** England in India

flibbertyjibber

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Lets hope if he does return he is spotted by the mods. All that before the series, quite happy he has gone as he'd be even worse when we get gubbed.
 

vic_orthdox

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He bats in a line up which plays 5 specialist bowlers and arguably only has 4 class batsmen who you would back to make a big score reasonably regularly. He does his role.

Perhaps unnoticed is that his strike rate is higher than both Ian Bell and Ravi Bopara's, yet he gets more stick than either of them for his slow scoring. I think people criticise him because he's not a boundary hitter, and thus gives the impression he isn't scoring quickly, while in actual fact he is.
Because, unlike the other two, he's in long enough for people to notice.
 

grecian

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More fitness worries:(

News slightly more encouraging on Finn, but they'd be mad to risk him for the First Test, IMHO.
 

Daemon

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As far as I can tell only the top 3 Haryana batsmen can bat and two of them scored fifties, one of whom is currently not out. Bresnan says the pitch is the best for batting that he has ever seen though, so there's that. Can't read too much into the game imo, yeah the spinners got 8 wickets for <200 but it seems most of those were when the lower middle order onwards were on a cbf mode with 500+ already on the board.

Most importantly however -

Poor Prior was obliged to make two emergency dashes for the bathroom, but England's initial request to use a substitute wicketkeeper from outside their playing XI was declined by the umpires and match referee. While the convention in English domestic cricket permits a substitution on the grounds that the ECB believes that county cricket could be lessened as a spectacle by the use of a make-shift wicket-keeper, the Laws of the game (Law 2:3 specifically) actually forbid it. Ultimately, however, the BCCI, in an admirably magnanimous gesture, were contacted and made a special dispensation towards England. Jonny Bairstow took the gloves and Prior retired to a dark room.
BCCI doing something good :-O
 

grecian

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Is it wrong of me to wish Meaker get's a Test ahead of Onions, just to see Scaly's reaction?
 

biased indian

International Coach
i am ready if i can get rid of this if i win :)
is it confirmed that sky will be doing the commentary in England itself ?

wonder who will be representing England in star commentary team ..

and just now saw add in star saying warney is part of the commentary team now...is he not part of the channel 9 or sky team ?
 

Prince EWS

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is it confirmed that sky will be doing the commentary in England itself ?

wonder who will be representing England in star commentary team ..

and just now saw add in star saying warney is part of the commentary team now...is he not part of the channel 9 or sky team ?
Warney's a freelance commentator; just does things game by game. Not actually a permanent part of either team.
 

nsniks

State Vice-Captain
is it confirmed that sky will be doing the commentary in England itself ?

wonder who will be representing England in star commentary team ..

and just now saw add in star saying warney is part of the commentary team now...is he not part of the channel 9 or sky team ?
Geoffrey Boycott and Paul Collingwood
 

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