***Official*** England in India 2016/17

[cnerd123]

Also I already announced on the podcast that I dont see England winning a game all tour. Too late for me to gambhir now.

Not that I need to. England are outclassed here.

 

[Blocky]

Umpire needs to be banned for ball tampering.

That ball looked like something out of three to four net practices on concrete wickets, and it's only the 28th over...

Screw being an Indian seam bowler.

 

[91Jmay]

You got a little robbed of some of your younger talent to be honest, James Taylor having to give the game away would've been a blow, but I refuse to believe that Duckett is the best you've got available back there.

I recall Bell being able to hit spinners reasonably well; I think the thing you'd tell him is to at least take on the challenge, at the moment, stoic 60 ball 20s aren't doing it for England, especially with pitch deterioration and how dominant these guys become when the pitches turn to unpredictable ****.

Duckett is a fantastic talent. Just picked for totally the wrong tour in hindsight. He'll be a great player long term though.

 

[91Jmay]

Also I already announced on the podcast that I dont see England winning a game all tour. Too late for me to gambhir now.

Not that I need to. England are outclassed here.

England will win ODI series and likely the T20 as well.

 

[Blocky]

England will win ODI series and likely the T20 as well.

Against Kohli? I don't like your chances.

 

[Heboric]

He was fine at 5 for this series when you have Stokes, Bairstow and Woakes coming in after. The trouble is we have nobody to bat at 4 so he had to and then at 3 after the injury which can happen at any time anyway so it not like he is going to bat there again.

God help us if Hameed is out of the tour though. Duckett back in to open.

I thought Duckett was the guy, the new wunderkind

 

[91Jmay]

Against Kohli? I don't like your chances.

We just beat a very comparable ODI team away from home (in terms of their quality at home) without two of our best batsmen. We've got a better batting line up and Moeen/Rashid are good ODI spinners. Pace bowlers probably about even with neither team particularly impressing there.

 

[Contra]

yesssssssssss

 

[Contra]

Exceptional from Parthiv, he's dropped a lot but that's full credit to him considering how low it kept.

 

[Blocky]

Good luck playing that ****.

I'm guessing that bounced through regulation height too though?

 

[Contra]

Bring on Ashwin I say.

 

[hazsa19]

Can you have a better/ worse day of Test Cricket for these respective sides?

 

[Contra]

Just get the spinners on man, there isn't too much reverse yet and Stokes has just come in.

 

[Shri]

Sure; it's not like that ball skimmed off the surface and through the gate that he left open. It's not like it's doing different things each time it pitches, it's not like other people have already commented on it.

It's also not like Cricinfo pointed out that the ball did something different, either.

From Cricinfo: through the gate and smashing the stumps! Simply played the wrong line as Cook played for turn but left a gaping hole between bat and pad. Probing line from Ashwin but the seed of doubt caused by a nibble of turn was enough to unsettle England's master player of spin

Yeah, its not like you can put less revs on the ball as a spinner to not get it to turn. Seriously, go away.

 

[Blocky]

You just saw a wicket where the ball didn't bounce higher than the average worm, and you're telling me it's the skill of the bowler.

OK.

 

[Contra]

England have tried stalling so much this innings, still can't slow India down.

 

[honestbharani]

So any ball that does anything different to the average "worm" is due to the pitch.


OK.

 

[Contra]

Ashwin for an over please.

 

[wpdavid]

I thought Duckett was the guy, the new wunderkind

Really? No idea why you'd think that.

 

[Shri]

Lets go Ash!