If those posts get moved it would be a joke!Pah, hoped we'd have an optimist somewhere.Just hope his plain wrong predictions don't turn-out to be right through lucky chance this time.
Oh, and go and discuss your football somewhere else FFS. Move these damn posts to it to while you're at it.
Ya I'll definitely be putting all my life savings on a Yuvraj century tmw thx.
Still fancy us slightly, but have a horrible feeling that I will awake to India being like 250-2 or something
Yeah, that's fair enough for mine. Now Don Fabio has us looking like something approaching an actual team rather than a random collection of XI individuals who'd just been introduced I'd have us top dozen.
TBF beating a team who'd never lost a competitive fixture at home, ever, 4-1 is mildly noteworthy IMHO.
Yeah, Adelaide is one of the worst getting up in the morning experiences I've had. The other was probably the end of day one at Brisbane, it was like 945-3 or something.
That's such a familiar feeling as an English cricket fan. I remember waking up at about 5am on the 5th day of the Adelaide test in 06/07 and it was just "For ****'s sake. I bloody knew it."
Yeah, that's fair enough for mine. Now Don Fabio has us looking like something approaching an actual team rather than a random collection of XI individuals who'd just been introduced I'd have us top dozen.
TBF beating a team who'd never lost a competitive fixture at home, ever, 4-1 is mildly noteworthy IMHO.
Yeah, that was the worst. The first day of the Ashes in 1994/5, 2002/3 and 2006/7 were also dreadfully anticlimatic, but losing the Adeliade test in those circumstances was gut wrenching. Perhaps Multan in 2005/06 was similar to how this might feel if we do go on and lose it. Obv we shouldn't, but we know our bowling is weak and that India have some wonderful batsmen, so it could happen.
That's such a familiar feeling as an English cricket fan. I remember waking up at about 5am on the 5th day of the Adelaide test in 06/07 and it was just "For ****'s sake. I bloody knew it."
You reckon India will take it at a canter then?
On the contrary, England to take a lot of early wickets.
You're absolutely right, that's what it is and has always been (not always so obvious on the rainbow version).
Can thank England's baffling tactics for that. They got less runs and less time by playing the way they did than they might well have got had they played a little differently.
Always said CW offers a higher calibre of cricket discussion than elsewhere. Saying India are favourites is plain lunacy. They obviously can't be counted-out and anyone who presumed England are going to win would be being highly foolish TSTL, but England are still firm favourites.
The bookies are rarely wrong, though. I'd love to believe CW has a margin on them but i fear that may be wishful thinking.
Have you ever bet on sports? Strangely, too much knowledge often clouds your judgement.
I haven't - not a better and never have been, never known of anyone make a profit on it - and I can't quite fully comprehend what you say. Maybe I will sometime when it's not 10:15 of a nighttime when I had 5 hours sleep the previous night.