wpdavid
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Even without Sehwag, India's 400+ run-chase 3 years ago will play on Strauss's mind, especially as Lord's really doesn't deteriorate a lot even by Day 5. I reckon he'll want to set 500 by 5.00pm tomorrow.
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*Official* First Test at Lord's
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centurymaker
Cricketer Of The Year
should set 450 and give india 120 overs, so bat for around 75 overs
BoyBrumby
Englishman
I think that sounds about right. It was the sort of chase that leaves a scar.
Obviously we don't want to be counting any chickens; India could bowl us out, of course. I'd hope we'll be able to dictate the terms of the chase tho.
Aggers isnt optimistic regarding an aggressive declaration:
BBC Sport - Jonathan Agnew column
Personally got a feeling he may just surprise a few people.
If Zaheer doesn't bowl I'd expect to see more of Dhoni tomorrow in the second hour, I imagine England will go after him, though like Pietersen said, no one wants to get out to Dhoni lol. Wouldn't be surprised to see some 8/1 fields and a wide line from Dhoni either.
BBC Sport - Jonathan Agnew column
Personally got a feeling he may just surprise a few people.
If Zaheer doesn't bowl I'd expect to see more of Dhoni tomorrow in the second hour, I imagine England will go after him, though like Pietersen said, no one wants to get out to Dhoni lol. Wouldn't be surprised to see some 8/1 fields and a wide line from Dhoni either.
centurymaker
Cricketer Of The Year
there's man called laxman who's bound to step up in this sort of situation, so I reckon england need to give themselves 120 overs.
edit 120 overs = declaring an hour after tea
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AlwaysProteas
U19 12th Man
Is this the same pitch England played Sri Lanka?
zaremba
Cricketer Of The Year
I never know what to make of this kind of stat. Seems virtually meaningless really. If I could guarantee that my team's number 3 batsman was going to make at least one century in every Test, and if, apart from him, my team had a pretty stron batting line up, I wouldn't expect my team to lose many matches at all. Particularly if the number 3 batsman in question tends to spend a lot of time in scoring his centuries.
silentstriker
The Wheel is Forever
Dunno if they can bat fast and get 230ish more, they can still declare with almost four sessions left. Yes India chased down 400+ but you can't really expect it to happen all the time, and definitely not in an away game.
centurymaker
Cricketer Of The Year
yeah especially when theres no sehwag.
plus dravid will ensure that india don't win by taking up tons of deliveries
england should back their attack. if india cant get 300 on day 3. they surely wont get 450 on day 4/5.
bat for 70-75 overs at 3.5 runs/over to get 250ish.
hazsa19
International Regular
Lol it doesn't ALWAYS rain...forecast looks good. India will have to bat a lot of overs, rain won't save them, bad light won't save them, but it is easier to bat under blue skies...
JBH001
International Regular
Watched Tendulkar bat until lunch - from what little I saw, he seemed in reasonable nick, I wouldn't have guessed that he hadn't played any competitive cricket for 2 months. He seemed mentally refreshed too, as if his break had done him good, so I hope to see him ton up in this series.
He looked really good. But I knew he'd get out the moment he started fussing over the sightscreen and getting annoyed about it. He lost his concentration and drove at the ball without getting to the pitch. If he'd just gotten past a couple of Broad overs, he'd have been on that honours board now.
centurymaker
Cricketer Of The Year
he looked quite nervous before lunch imo
reckon he needs to face ishant in the nets to sort out his defensive technique against the tall bowlers because he seemd a bit uncomfortable facing tremlett, who BTW was mainly responsible for tendulkar's dismissal as he had dried up his runs.
Sachin every now and then poked at balls outside off-stump from tremlett instead of leaving them. Moreover the back-foot defensive shot at times didn't look very convincing against him either.
looked good for about 40 mins right after lunch though.
I was surprised that tremelett wasn't bowling any bouncers at him.
JBH001
International Regular
Well, he played and missed a few times because England were bowling well but he still looked to score and seemed relaxed about the fact that the bowlers were on top; he seemed mentally up for it despite his long layoff from serious cricket. Also, I'm not sure about bowling short at Tendulkar, sure he can fend a few (not out of fear but out of looking to score on the leg side with that hop glance of his and letting the ball get big on him) but I don't think that a weakness. He scores a lot off that stroke too.