*Official* First Test at Lord's

[Goughy]

The dibbly dobbler from CC gets on the honours board

Others have also. Anyway, nice honour for the young man. Whatever I or others say, he gets the seam in a great position and can bowl all day. Fair play to him.

 

[Anku31]

I want to know how many bowlers have bowled more than 50 overs in an innings in tests.

 

[BoyBrumby]

It's balls like that one that make me wince with Kumar.

When he overpitches he looks cod ordinary. KP clips it to the fence. Lovely shot for his 150.

& then a beautiful straight drive, no blame to the bowler there, high quality shot.

 

[Howe_zat]

Yep, well bowled Pk. Bowled vastly better than yesterday and single-handedly kept India in it.

 

[hazsa19]

Fair play to Praveen.

What's the plan for tonight then? Keep going? Try and grind them into the dust? Or up the rr and get bowled out in search of quick runs, with an eye to bowling tonight?

The commentators said bad light would come into play, I can't imagine why with those floodlights and a nice evening.

 

[NasserFan207]

Well bowled Praveen, showed great mental strength after an unlucky bowling performance yesterday. Exactly what his team needed.

Becoming a bit of a fan of the fella

Also 40 overs christ. What a hero

 

[Furball]

Ishant closing in on his ton, might as well give Cevno my avatar now.

 

[Jono]

It's balls like that one that make me wince with Kumar.

When he overpitches he looks cod ordinary. KP clips it to the fence. Lovely shot for his 150.

& then a beautiful straight drive, no blame to the bowler there, high quality shot.

Why do bad balls from him bother you more than bad balls from Ishant or Sree? Particularly since he bowls far less of them then them both.

Bad balls will be put away whether they're 130kph or 140kph. Sometimes pace will let you get away with it, but not at the pace the other Indian bowlers bowl at, which begs the question, why is Praveen's pace even an issue? He's not blocking out a bowler bowling at 145-150kph.

 

[BoyBrumby]

Why do bad balls from him bother you more than bad balls from Ishant or Sree? Particularly since he bowls far less of them then them both.

Bad balls will be put away whether they're 130kph or 140kph. Sometimes pace will let you get away with it, but not at the pace the other Indian bowlers bowl at, which begs the question, why is Praveen's pace even an issue? He's not blocking out a bowler bowling at 145-150kph.

Because his bad balls look utterly awful. Him overpitching negates his swing, so he looks like a 70mph club hack when he does.

He's like the little girl who had a little curl.

 

[vcs]

Does Nasser read CW? Pretty sure he used the word "gun" just now.

 

[Furball]

Why do bad balls from him bother you more than bad balls from Ishant or Sree? Particularly since he bowls far less of them then them both.

Bad balls will be put away whether they're 130kph or 140kph. Sometimes pace will let you get away with it, but not at the pace the other Indian bowlers bowl at, which begs the question, why is Praveen's pace even an issue? He's not blocking out a bowler bowling at 145-150kph.

Because a guy bowling bad balls at Praveen's pace looks really rubbish.

 

[social]

Why do bad balls from him bother you more than bad balls from Ishant or Sree? Particularly since he bowls far less of them then them both.

Bad balls will be put away whether they're 130kph or 140kph. Sometimes pace will let you get away with it, but not at the pace the other Indian bowlers bowl at, which begs the question, why is Praveen's pace even an issue? He's not blocking out a bowler bowling at 145-150kph.

Exactly

Ishant has been bowling the wrong length for 2 full ****ing days and people worry about a couple of half volleys delivered to a guy he "got out" 100 runs ago

The problem is not Kumar - it's the rest and the fielding

 

[Cevno]

Ishant closing in on his ton, might as well give Cevno my avatar now.

As much as i am a backer of Ishant was pretty sure of that bet in english conditions. You are lucky the other bet got messed up due to Sehwag's injury

 

[hazsa19]

Bet Swanns trying to wind Harbijhan up here.

haha should have had DRS my Indian friends

 

[Jono]

Give an LBW Billy ffs

 

[CricAddict]

I want to know how many bowlers have bowled more than 50 overs in an innings in tests.

It has occurred in so many instances,680 to be exact. Murali has done it quite a few times for Srilanka

 

[Cevno]

wow!that looked plumb. Billy is such a batsmans umpire though.

 

[Tom Halsey]

What does it matter how it looks? It should be 4 whatever it looks like.

EDIT: At BB and GF. And that LBW appeal pleased me.

 

[BoyBrumby]

wow!that looked plumb.

Stone dead.

Bowden proving a point, one suspects.

 

[NasserFan207]

Does Nasser read CW? Pretty sure he used the word "gun" just now.

Confirmed