*Official* England in India

[BoyBrumby]

Ha, FFS. Kieswetter follows a wide one that gets progressively wider and nicks behind. 0/2.

Jesus wept.

 

[Howe_zat]

Immense.

 

[Howe_zat]

We scored a run!

Gotta appreciate the little things.

 

[BoyBrumby]

Woo! A wide. 2/2.

Ball nibbling around to be fair but no English batsmen (yes, yes...) should have early ball movement as a problem.

 

[Cevno]

The bowl is swinging a bit in the these early overs and the carry is decent for a Kotla wicket too.

 

[Howe_zat]

It's nice that England can always have an ODI tour of India to remind nostalgic fans what the team used to be like.

 

[flibbertyjibber]

Good start.

2-0 down already then.

 

[BoyBrumby]

Bloody hell. Three boundaries on the skid for Trotters.

Like waiting for a bus, etc.

Some pretty friendly bowling from Praveen to be fair. Said it many times before, but may he looks gash when he gets it wrong.

EDIT: 17 off the over. The comeback starts here!!

 

[mono]

what just took over trott, three boundaries in a row.

BTW, neo cricket sucks

 

[flibbertyjibber]

Bit ominous watching those boundaries that we will end up about 50 short even if we get 250. Quick outfield.

 

[Daemon]

Have a feeling it's make or break this series for Vinay Kumar, hope he does well today.

 

[Howe_zat]

Just when I was starting to get interested again.

Ah well. Ravi to ton up.

 

[Cevno]

Good to see Vinay doing well today, IMO.

 

[ankitj]

When Tendulkar and Sehwag are both injured, Gambhir must open. I don't know why we are playing Parthiv. Let's give a chance to Manoj Tiwari in the middle order instead, we don't have a long term plan with Parthiv anyways.

 

[Furball]

Get Kieswetter out the team. He's hopeless.

 

[Burgey]

England's bowlers will be loving this bit of bounce and carry.

 

[Burgey]

Jeez, nice shot that

 

[Howe_zat]

Ravi's got his confidence up it seems. Big chance for him to nail down a spot.

GF, I agree. I was willing to go with him for a while to give this opening partnership a proper run, especially while it was working. But his shortcomings as a batsman are too much to ignore now.

 

[Prince EWS]

Have a feeling it's make or break this series for Vinay Kumar, hope he does well today.

He has a particularly high List A economy rate for someone who has supposedly been picked purely on performance. I reckon he's a better chance of being a decent Test bowler than a decent ODI bowler but I highly doubt he'll ever get a crack at being the former unless he can manage the latter.

 

[Prince EWS]

Ravi's got his confidence up it seems. Big chance for him to nail down a spot.

GF, I agree. I was willing to go with him for a while to give this opening partnership a proper run, especially while it was working. But his shortcomings as a batsman are too much to ignore now.

Nah drop Prior from the Test side as well.

Wish I hadn't closed that thread now.