Which Indian team do you think will win in a 5 test series ?

[Spark]

Better get used to it. Indian internet penetration is still only 20% and English language proficiency is not widespread. Over the next 20-30 years as both hit 100% the internet is going to be overrun by Indians. You didn't see it with the Chinese because of the great firewall and the fact that they speak no English but we are coming.

Pax Indica!!!

I don't understand how people post stuff like this on a cricket forum without shrivelling up from embarrassment

 

[Starfighter]

I don't understand how people post stuff like this on a cricket forum without shrivelling up from embarrassment

I'd give reasons but some of them wouldn't go down to well. Lack of self awareness is one.

 

[Arachnodouche]

Pax Indica? Is that like pot dude?

 

[OverratedSanity]

I don't understand how people post stuff like this on a cricket forum without shrivelling up from embarrassment

Tbf, he is right that the internet will overrun by Indians soon. ****, it's going to be a complete ****show.

 

[Spark]

Tbf, he is right that the internet will overrun by Indians soon. ****, it's going to be a complete ****show.

This has already happened on some websites tbh. It's not that bad, earnestness is much more common than the above.

 

[jimmy101]

Pax Indica? Is that like pot dude?

Don't think so. Pol Pot was anti-civilization from what I can gather.

 

[Burgey]

More interested in the fact I can send my digital dictation to someone in India who’ll transcribe a decision for me overnight.

 

[Kirkut]

And before anyone of you accuse me of trolling , name me an English batsman who are better player of spin bowling than these players .

There are no English batsmen better at spin than any of Indian greats but I know Graeme Hick scoring 300 odd runs at an average of 50 in that 1993 tour of India. I don't see Cook and KP surviving that attack in those conditions let alone averaging 50.

 

[Kirkut]

I think Tec's post has a fundamental problem with it in assuming these new Indian fan posters are in anyway worse than the long term Indian fan posters, whose dross we've had to put up with for years.

Are you this hurt by the series loss?

 

[Borges]

Are you this hurt by the series loss?

Yes.

 

[Burgey]

Are you this hurt by the series loss?

No, I would need to have been more surprised by it for it to hurt. Certainly disappointed, as losing at home to a SC team is as low as you can get, but not hurt. I enjoyed Pujara and Bumrah too much for there to be hurt.

 

[Burgey]

Yes.

Thanks champ, but I'll deal with this one.

 

[_00_deathscar]

I feel like I have to apologise for my misleading stat about Lillee and Alderman when I was clearly looking for a pace trio.

Yea, it's a bit arbitrary isn't it...

 

[_00_deathscar]

I'm hoping that as more Indians get access to the internet that the non-****ish ones will drive the rest of you away.

Before any of that happens, India will break the internet with good morning messages as more and more Indians go online...
https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-in...ing-millions-of-good-morning-texts-1516640068

 

[Burgey]

By England's historical standards all of Sehwag, Pujara, Siddhu, Azharuddin would be ATG. Such a shame these players never had the luxury to play in only 2 or 3 countries .

Not really, given their records in, you know, England.

 

[Kirkut]

No, I would need to have been more surprised by it for it to hurt. Certainly disappointed, as losing at home to a SC team is as low as you can get, but not hurt. I enjoyed Pujara and Bumrah too much for there to be hurt.

I felt exactly the same as you are feeling right now when we lost to England and Australia at home. Nothing in cricket beats watching a non Asian batsman looking confused in the middle of a hot day on a crumbling subcontinent pitch and surrounded by fielders for bat pad catch.

 

[Burgey]

Yeah I can understand that, but there’s no physical threat to you in that context. Sure it’s difficult but there’s no risk you’ll end up in pain (other than on the brasco). Takes away a lot of swagger.

 

[Starfighter]

Nothing in cricket beats watching a non Asian batsman looking confused in the middle of a hot day on a crumbling subcontinent pitch and surrounded by fielders for bat pad catch.

You clearly didn't see the summer of Mitchell Johnson.

 

[cnerd123]

Yeah I can understand that, but there’s no physical threat to you in that context. Sure it’s difficult but there’s no risk you’ll end up in pain (other than on the brasco). Takes away a lot of swagger.

Why are you so scared of pain. Like, I get that being hit and getting broken bones hurt, and it takes courage to face that, but is the physical pain of an injury really so much worse than the emotional pain of being made to look helpless at the one thing you've spent your whole life training to do by a guy who looks like he just got off his desk at an accounting firm? And in front of millions of people at that, with essentially your career and your income on the line?

Atleast with a Mitchell Johnson everyone sympathises with your struggles because it looks so dangerous. And if you get hit, you can then stop batting, go off injured, and tend to your wounds while everyone calls you a hero for being willing to cop a blow. What is your way out when a spinner has your number? How do you salvage your ego then? And these are elite athletes we're talking about- their pride and ego is a big part of what makes them who they are.

To me they both are fascinating battles in very different ways. The lack of a physical threat doesn't make one inferior to the other IMO. If anything it just adds an extra layer of humiliation to a batsman's struggles - they can't just prove their bravery and walk off with some credit to mask their lack of skill.

 

[OverratedSanity]

Watching big strong burly batsmen look completely helpless against portly bankers who lob the ball at them at 70 kph is one of the great things in cricket.