*Official* Match 11 - India v England

[Contra]

Out!

 

[Nate]

Thought that was close to pitching outside leg, maybe high?

EDIT: Nah, just makes it. Bowled Chawla!

 

[sirmallaya]

Beautifully bowled over. This is where we are DANGEROUS.

 

[Bun]

Chawla has certainly England in a spin!

 

[Dhoni_fan]

This is reminding me our bowling of the warm up game v Australia.

They made a cracking start then spin came up and we totaly strangled them Chalw took 4 wickets!

 

[Shri]

Take a look at the champions people.

 

[Turbinator]

Take a look at the champions people.

Hell yeah we are!

 

[silentstriker]

Hell yeah we are!

"We?" Dude you're a Canadian with Mike Hussey as your avatar.

 

[wpdavid]

Yeh, batting for 2 1/2 hours is **** easy. Don't remember the English commentators making a huge deal out of Shahzad's or Swanns poor fielding.

You must have been listening to different English commentators to me mate.

Anyway, given that we have approximately zero chance of scoring at 7 an over for 32 overs against India's spinners, perhaps this is a good a time as any to admit that I need to rethink my opinion of Tim Bresnan after today's performance in the circumstances facing him. Unfortunately, the self-proclaimed 'leader' of our attack was yet again embarassingly poor. Maybe we should send him home on extended paternity leave.

 

[Turbinator]

"We?" Dude you're a Canadian with Mike Hussey as your avatar.

And you're American, with Dale Steyn as your avatar. Surely that's something in common

 

[silentstriker]

And you're American, with Dale Steyn as your avatar. Surely that's something in common

Yea, but I rarely use 'we'.

 

[BoyBrumby]

You must have been listening to different English commentators to me mate.

Anyway, given that we have approximately zero chance of scoring at 7 an over for 32 overs against India's spinners, perhaps this is a good a time as any to admit that I need to rethink my opinion of Tim Bresnan after today's performance in the circumstances facing him. Unfortunately, the self-proclaimed 'leader' of our attack was yet again embarassingly poor. Maybe we should send him home on extended paternity leave.

Trouble is, with our squad we have Hobson's choice if, like today, someone goes down at short notice. As I said a few pages back we could really have used Sidearse today. Odd he'd retire so soon before a world cup.

Wright and Tredwell just ballast, basically.

 

[sirmallaya]

hmmm too many loose balls here. do they want to win this or not? no hunger in the field.

 

[Turbinator]

Yea, but I rarely use 'we'.

That's only because you don't want to be associated with our bowlers

 

[Xuhaib]

Hussain commented multiple times on Swann's poor fielding.

SS watching an OD what next Afridi stonewalling a 100 hour hundred.

 

[kingkallis]

lol @ Harbhajan, what a nut!

 

[sirmallaya]

lol at harbhajan

 

[cnerd123]

Bhajji certainly seems lively out there.


India won't win the WC with bowling like this.

 

[Dhoni_fan]

Hopefully that anger will fire up Bhaji! to bowl better! :0 required rate up to over 7 we need to keep pushing that up!!

 

[wpdavid]

Trouble is, with our squad we have Hobson's choice if, like today, someone goes down at short notice. As I said a few pages back we could really have used Sidearse today. Odd he'd retire so soon before a world cup.

Wright and Tredwell just ballast, basically.

Yup, all true. Just frustration on my part at Anderson's continued no-show.

That being said, once Broad is fit again it may well be Jimmeh to miss out. Flower was prepared to drop him from the 2020 WC side, so there's no reason why he wouldn't do the same here as well.