***Official*** India in England

[Turbinator]

You'll be facing better quality bowling in Australia. And better quality batting too.

Okay I agree we'll face much better quality bowling/batting in Australia. But that doesn't mean we can't still draw the series or even win it. Expect us to be better by that time too. If Sehwag/Dravid/Pathan come back into form, it's over for you guys!!!....... Okay well maybe not over for you guys, but still it'll be an interesting series!

 

[adharcric]

Dhoni is a bloody idiot. He is doing the same thing he was doing at Lord's. 48 ball partnership, Kumble has faced 34 of them. Utterly ridiculous.

And another single of the first ball!!!!! Looks to me like he is going for a not out.

Kumble is very capable of hanging around, especially on such benign surfaces.

 

[silentstriker]

Haha, let's see if Bumble reads my email aloud. Sent it under the name 'Mike'.

 

[Prince EWS]

Fair enough. This is one of the few times when people can fairly 'criticise' the English bowling attack. But They don't have a poor batting line up. They've just performed poorly. If you think otherwise, please suggest to me the changes you'd make with available players.

You seem to be under the impression that as long as you don't have better players to select in given positions, then the men in possession are not poor. For the life of me I can't see the logic behind this - is Javed Omar not a poor batsman just because Bangladesh don't have any better?

If players don't perform well consistently, they simply aren't very good, whether there are better players to replace them with or not. And they will be criticised accordingly. When someone says X bowling attack or Y batting lineup is poor, they aren't necessarily criticising the selectors - simply calling it as they see it and pointing out when someone is not test standard.

Personally I think England has a good batting lineup, but the fact that they don't have better players to select doesn't automatically make it so.

 

[adharcric]

Okay I agree we'll face much better quality bowling/batting in Australia. But that doesn't mean we can't still draw the series or even win it. Expect us to be better by that time too. If Sehwag/Dravid/Pathan come back into form, it's over for you guys!!!....... Okay well maybe not over for you guys, but still it'll be an interesting series!

Turd, you're making us look bad now. Really.

 

[adharcric]

Haha, let's see if Bumble reads my email aloud. Sent it under the name 'Mike'.

Haha, about what?

 

[silentstriker]

Breaking news Simon Jones has broken down injured again - this time it's his calf. He won't play a further part in Glamorgan's match against Northants at Colwyn Bay.

 

[adharcric]

Time to just start random hitting by Kumble. No one now is going to stick around.

.

 

[adharcric]

Breaking news Simon Jones has broken down injured again - this time it's his calf. He won't play a further part in Glamorgan's match against Northants at Colwyn Bay.

or ... not sure tbh.

 

[silentstriker]

Seven 50+ partnerships in this innings, first time in history of Test cricket.

 

[silentstriker]

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Yup, completely missed that.

 

[simmy]

Why is this pitch so hard?!?!
Dont the groundsman understand how this works?!?!

We need to get a result... therefore dont put out a complete road of a track that guarantees a draw.

Pathetic. I hate every Oval test, boring as hell.

 

[Turbinator]

Turd, you're making us look bad now. Really.

That's what was said before this series too !

 

[Fusion]

"Real test"? No one has won in England since 2001. This is awesome, if we pull this off. The best series win in my lifetime of watching cricket.

Ahem

 

[silentstriker]

Ahem

Not close IMO. That is still in the subcontinent.

 

[Fusion]

Not close IMO. That is still in the subcontinent.

India have won in England before. They had never won in Pakistan in their history.

 

[ColdSnow]

India have to declare right now and try to get a result.

This sucks.

 

[Fusion]

India have to declare right now and try to get a result.

This sucks.

Why? From India's perspective, they are in a perfect situation. They will bat as long as they can, addding runs and taking time away. They are fully in control.

 

[Pratters]

This is not a great inning by any stretch. We are 4 down <300 and another wicket and your fav. Captain Dhoni will be on the crease. So all the talk of 560 is history now.

564/7...

 

[silentstriker]

India have won in England before. They had never won in Pakistan in their history.

I realize that, but they won in England when I was 2 years old. As far as I'm concerned, in the nineties and this decade when I've watched cricket, they haven't really won anywhere.