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*Official* First Test at Lord's
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Hildreth's steady but I wouldn't rate him as test class. Taylor has shown a lot of potential, but he is playing division 2, also he's very young, wouldn't have played test cricket before a couple of years a go at the very earliest. Like what I've seen from Stokes, (seen him play at the riverside a bit) but again he's young and I doubt he's yet done enough to warrant a selection, even in the absence of aforementioned players. Chopra, really? A injury or 2 will open up some really interesting selection decisions.
Cevno
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Gym's have become real popular in the urban areas in the last 4/5 years. Pretty sure most domestic teams these days have some sort of expert too. The ipl teams probably have more than 1 and on par with the Indian team.
Don't troll or bait please.
Neil Pickup
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Please.
(a) Trescothick will never play international cricket again.
(b) Compton hasn't even played England Lions yet.
(c) Compton is South African anyway.
Spark
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Yeah um if you want to be a mod, apply when the time comes around.
EDIT: And that goes more generally, too.
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G.I.Joe
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Don't make his argument for him
Anku31
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(a) Trescothick will never play international cricket again. - In case Pietersen/Morgan/Strauss weren't there.
(b) Compton hasn't even played England Lions yet. - Let us see.
(c) Compton is South African anyway. - Better chances in real life then.
Howe_zat
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Not to mention last season, or the season before. Not a fan in England that wouldn't gladly have him back, but it's not happening.
Wow @ ignorance. Gym culture in the cities has taken off massively among the youth, last time I was there I was amazed at how many people had access to and used gyms, not just the upper middle class either, people of much more modest means. These days they all want to look like this dude:
The diet problems are nowhere near as bad as you make out, in India people generally only eat sweets on special occasions for a start. Also the Indian food in India is pretty much completely different from the Indian food you get in the UK or the USA, nowhere near as oily, tastes better, generally a lot more vegetarian food, especially in the south. The Indian food you get in the west is usually bastardised Punjabi food. Im not saying the Indian diet is amazing, but it is improving, and we certainly don't have the obesity problems of the US lol.
Anku31
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Absolutely.I am from a small town in Haryana.Most of the young players do have access to gyms.The facilities in my state & New Delhi are good enough.I don't know much about other states.
Anku31
U19 Vice-Captain
I am a big fan of him & would love to see him back,if not sounding a bit optimistic.
wpdavid
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I'm not sure who Tres would displace in the test XI. Apart from the captain, maybe.
Obv the one-day side is another matter.
Cevno
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AWTA. SS is talking about 7 to 10 years back ,it seems.Wow @ ignorance. Gym culture in the cities has taken off massively among the youth, last time I was there I was amazed at how many people had access to and used gyms, not just the upper middle class either, people of much more modest means. These days they all want to look like this dude:
The diet problems are nowhere near as bad as you make out, in India people generally only eat sweets on special occasions for a start. Also the Indian food in India is pretty much completely different from the Indian food you get in the UK or the USA, nowhere near as oily, tastes better, generally a lot more vegetarian food, especially in the south. The Indian food you get in the west is usually bastardised Punjabi food. Im not saying the Indian diet is amazing, but it is improving, and we certainly don't have the obesity problems of the US lol.
Howe_zat
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Morgan would make way, KP would drop down the order, Trott to 4 and Cook/Strauss would go at 3.
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G.I.Joe
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Haha, bingo. Reason why I don't work out tbh
There are more people packing the gyms nowadays, but the focus seems to be on appearance and build rather than on performance.
Also, Indians don't have to be visibly obese to develop the problems that are generally associated with it.
flibbertyjibber
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Can't wait till we get Dockrell, people will go mad all over the world.
Cevno
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Son Of Coco
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Just saw a couple of blokes who obviously go to the gym strutting through the Brisbane CBD the other day. They were tall and pretty well built, but had chicken legs. Looked like a couple of complete knobs actually, but given I have chicken legs and have kept the upper body physique to match I wasn't about to tell them.