*Official* India Tour of England 2018

[91Jmay]

Not having to bat at end of today is kind of ideal as well.

Plan should be to bat 120 overs I think, which should give us lead in excess of 250.

 

[OverratedSanity]

Pretty sure that whole Gillespie > Anderson thing was just a windup that went on for too long. Surely no one actually believes it.

I'm pretty sure those Aussie posters did. It'd b like if Indians started claiming Zaheer was better than Gillespie.

 

[Pratters]

Gillespie was actually pretty great till the fag end.

 

[vcs]

Gillespie was actually pretty great till the fag end.

 

[Groundking]

201 wickets at 21.08 since the beginning of 2014 for Jimmy

 

[S.Kennedy]

Same old, ''India v swinging/seaming ball'' but England bowled exceptionally well.

 

[marc71178]

Pretty sure that whole Gillespie > Anderson thing was just a windup that went on for too long. Surely no one actually believes it.

I'm sure Stephen does...

 

[LegionOfBrad]

The way Jimmy is going he'll have a better bowling average than Gillespie by the time he retires.

 

[Arachnodouche]

Took for granted the fifteen odd years in the middle there. Back to the 90s we go.

 

[Arachnodouche]

Vampire jokes aside, Jimmy Anderson in England has the ball on a yoyo. Complete mastery over length and swing. Makes for beautiful viewing.

 

[91Jmay]

We bowled great but there is far too much generosity to India's bats here.

Vijay closing the face in the first over against ATG when the ball is swinging, Kohli trying to whip ball through mid on that was swinging away and started on middle, Pandya just threw his hands at everything. Rahul also just lunging hard hands at a good ball. Karthik's gap between bat/pad has been shocking in every innings thus far.

Wasn't impossible to survive conditions by any means.

 

[LegionOfBrad]

We bowled great but there is far too much generosity to India's bats here.

Vijay closing the face in the first over against ATG when the ball is swinging, Kohli trying to whip ball through mid on that was swinging away and started on middle, Pandya just threw his hands at everything. Rahul also just lunging hard hands at a good ball. Karthik's gap between bat/pad has been shocking in every innings thus far.

Wasn't impossible to survive conditions by any means.

Agreed. They should have got to 200.

 

[Pup Clarke]

Jimmy looks like he's put on a bit of weight

eh?

 

[Adders]

I'm sure Stephen does...

tbf to stephen he was rightly rubbishing the idea......it was TJB and Burgey (and someone else who I can't recall) who were seriously saying it. Laughable really.

Edit:

Slifer was the other one.

 

[Starfighter]

I love how England bowl a team out for a tiny total and still manage some truly rubbish fielding moments.

 

[Adders]

I love how England bowl a team out for a tiny total and still manage some truly rubbish fielding moments.

Yeah it really is a worry. What I don't get is our fielding in ODI's is generally excellent......how come we've become so **** in tests?

 

[Prince EWS]

Yeah it really is a worry. What I don't get is our fielding in ODI's is generally excellent......how come we've become so **** in tests?

How many catches at second and third slip are they catching in ODIs?

 

[flibbertyjibber]

How the hell is that side number 1? They can't bat at all.

 

[stephen]

I'm sure Stephen does...

Maybe if you'd read my posts you'd find I've been consistent in saying I think Gillespie is quite overrated and Anderson is way better than him.

 

[stephen]

How the hell is that side number 1? They can't bat at all.

Favorable scheduling and subcontinental conditions are more prevalent than swing bowling conditions.

Also lolindia.