***Official*** India in England

[TT Boy]

Really enjoyed the series, probably one of the more competitive series I have seen in ages and regardless that the standard of some of the bowling has been appalling the excitement has been second to none. Saturday’s game should be a cracker.

 

[andyc]

What would you do with Robin Uthappa? You have one of the best specialist openers (and a Test contender) batting at number seven!

Wtf is Uttapah doing at no.7 this is seriously dumb stuff from India.

India's performance And Rahul's captaincy in this game has been comical. If Guys like Uthapa, Gambhir are the future of Indian batting then I must say the future isn't very bright.

Hindsight, ftw.

Fair play to the India though, sounds like a hell of a match.

 

[PhoenixFire]

Yeah it was, if we'd have had Flintoff, then we'd have won, no doubt in my mind.

 

[Turbinator]

Yeah it was, if we'd have had Flintoff, then we'd have won, no doubt in my mind.

Yeah well honestly too bad you didn't. I am sorry man but I am tired of hearing people say if we had this we had that we would've won. It's not India's fault Flintoff's such a weak frail player at the moment. Maybe if he kept a check on his fitness, he would've been good enough to play. But guess what he isn't, he isn't good enough to play and therefore England wasn't good enough to win today. You put your best team out on the field, and they lost. Stop the ifs ands or buts. Heck anyone can say, if their former greats were young and at their peak today this and that could've happened. But reality is, it didn't and won't because you don't have the players for "this and that" to happen.

 

[Dubilog]

awesome game, and awesome thread! So pleased I came across these boards! Had to go to work and miss the end, I come back and instead of reading the Cricinfo report, I come here and read all this!

Twas like I was there, drinking beer and shouting at the bloke next to me! Must have been great to have been there, used to live next to the Oval. Toady would have been great...

Cheers, y'all!

 

[Turbinator]

Anyways, what superb game of cricket. Man the only game I miss because I had school . Ah well watched the replay. And must say eventhough I knew India had won, while watching the replay my heart was beating pretty fast. And I'll be honest, for the first time ever, first time ever... after I heard that England scored 316... for the first time I actually thought India wouldn't win this. I kept trying to tell myself they can do it, but really inside I had a strong feeling that we would go down this game.

Tendulkar and Uthappa

Great work India great work. Series win here we come .

Chak De India!

 

[silentstriker]

Yeah it was, if we'd have had Flintoff, then we'd have won, no doubt in my mind.

Flintoff, IMO, is done. At least as a long term consistent player for England. Just as much as Simon Jones is. And probably Harmison.

Though Hoggard will still probably be around and will do well for a while.

 

[SpaceMonkey]

Flintoff, IMO, is done. At least as a long term consistent player for England. Just as much as Simon Jones is. And probably Harmison.

Though Hoggard will still probably be around and will do well for a while.

I agree with Flintoff / Jones. But Harmison will be around for a while yet. Given how well Tremlett / Broad have performed maybe you are right. But i just cant see it happening given how England like to stay loyal to certain players.

 

[neutralguy]

Yeah it was, if we'd have had Flintoff, then we'd have won, no doubt in my mind.

Yeah, if we would have had kapil dev then we would have won the fourth ODI, where he would have been able to break the 8th wicket partnership.
Heck we would have won , all the one dayers as he is 1000 times better than agarkar. So no ifs and but's buddy and no lame excuses.

 

[R_D]

hahaha awesome win

I didn't get to see the ending of the match and wasn't near internet so called up my friend and he commentated the last 2 overs for me....... it was great.

 

[R_D]

Tendulkar contemplating retiring from ODI game .. after playing against AUs and Pakistan at home.
good for india i guess but still is sad news thou

 

[TheGreatAusie]

Well... we have one more ODI that has relevance. Saturdays game should be a cracker though, both teams are similar in strength and everything is to play for. We should get the best competitive cricket we've seen and the Lord's atmosphere will just add to it. Series on a whole has been a great watch, certainly my favourite.

Can't wait, saturday seems a year away and I hope the weather holds up too.

 

[Salamuddin]

**** me dead, that was atrocious. God i don't even want to watch the rest of the game.

 

[Salamuddin]

Four bowlers for India would not be a bad option if they four they picked were reliable in the roles they were given. When one of them is Agarkar and two of them are spinners (and hence have limited situations in which they can bowl), four bowlers simply isn't enough. It's not like Gambhir and Uthappa offer so much with the bat that they demand selection ahead of a fifth bowler, either.

I'm not sure India have got an option here...without a genuine allrounder. Playing 5 bowlers when none of them can genuinely bat at no.7 is fraught with danger and it's something that contributed to India being short of runs at Old Trafford IMO.

No , I think in present circumstances, they've gotta go with the 7-4 option. But really regarding AA, surely today's gotta be the last straw....you can't pick im for LOrds and IMO the 20-20 WC should be his last tikme in Indian colours.

 

[Jamee999]

Yea agreed.

Time to end Shah's ODI career, not good enough.

Skull. Skull. Skull.

 

[Salamuddin]

Exactly.

Another 5th crappy bowler (theoretically, if they're not in the team ahead of AA, they're worse (not true I know)) would have been pounded too.

I hate Munaf Patel. If he actually gave a crap, and got himself fit India would have a decent ODI bowling line-up.

Play RP or Sree ahead of AA FFS.

I'm not sure why RP's not bowling ahead of AA, the only two reasons I can think are 1) he's got some kind of injury or 2) Dravid feels the right arm pace of Agarkar complements Zaheer better - he'd have a point if AA was bolwing well but he's been rubbish.

 

[Jono]

Yeah it was, if we'd have had Flintoff, then we'd have won, no doubt in my mind.

Nah you would have batted first, and he would have skied one down to long-on off Powar's bowling instead or Wright's quickfire 50 which turned the match

 

[Jono]

Can't wait, saturday seems a year away and I hope the weather holds up too.

That's a good point. Anyone know how its generally been?

 

[TheGreatAusie]

That's a good point. Anyone know how its generally been?

According to the bbc - predominantly sunny intervals with a north westerly wind of 2 mph.

geez agarkar will be deadly in them conditions

 

[Nate]

Deadly in any conditions according to SP, what with anyone he gets out getting shot.

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Not really that funny Nnanden.