*Official* First Test at Lord's

[Themer]

there is absolutely no way that not declaring could've gone wrong.

Come Monday if we had them 8 or 9 down it would have gone wrong not declaring. I'm personally neither here nor there on the declaration see the advantages of both so would go along with either.

 

[keeper]

Celebrating injuries to players you don't like is dire. Gonna stick with my decision to stay away from this place for the rest of this series.

Don't do that mate, just ignore the drivel.

 

[BoyBrumby]

Celebrating injuries to players you don't like is dire. Gonna stick with my decision to stay away from this place for the rest of this series.

Speaking personally I was joking. In my first post after Gambhir wore it I said something like "no one likes to see that".

 

[John Blaze]

With the team crumbling to injury, Tendulkar arrives just in time to share with his few few fit team mates his viral infection.

 

[Howe_zat]

Has it been mentioned yet - Prior now has more runs than Les Ames, from the same number of matches and at a better average.

 

[vcs]

Speaking personally I was joking. In my first post after Gambhir wore it I said something like "no one likes to see that".

Wasn't referring to you at all.

 

[Themer]

Oh dear...

Poor, really poor.

 

[flibbertyjibber]

Prior averages 54 at Lord's and has 2 of his 5 tons there. Time for another here against a tired attack too.

 

[CricAddict]

The three players who missed the Test tour of the Caribbean are all injured or ill....Zaheer, Sachin, Gambhir.

So, there is a God after all....

The picture in page 46 need to be put again here

 

[Prince EWS]

Come Monday if we had them 8 or 9 down it would have gone wrong not declaring.

Again - no - because you'd just declare earlier in the second innings. Declaring didn't actually give England any more time to win the game at all. They hadn't scored enough runs for India to draw the game without passing their score anyway. It accomplished one thing and one thing only - it made England slightly more vulnerable in the event of a second innings collapse. If it takes England so long to take twenty Indian wickets that India were going to be batting for the entire time from declaration until the end of Day 5 then India would have well and truly passed England's score anyway making it irrelevant.

 

[Howe_zat]

Can bat for an hour and still leave 125 overs in the match. Would go for that or 420 lead, whatever's soonest.

 

[John Blaze]

The picture in page 46 need to be put again here

How many posts do you get per page?

 

[Furball]

I'm assuming Gambhir is off the field - can he open the batting.for India?

 

[Prince EWS]

I'm assuming Gambhir is off the field - can he open the batting.for India?

Yeah because it was an external injury.

Anyway Harbhajan - refer it.

 

[pskov]

Has it been mentioned yet - Prior now has more runs than Les Ames, from the same number of matches and at a better average.

No, because he hasn't.

Needs to make 86 in this innings to pass Ames in test runs. He's also played three matches fewer than Ames.

 

[chanbara]

With the team crumbling to injury, Tendulkar arrives just in time to share with his few fit team mates his viral infection.

hahaha, Tendulkar loves spreading the wholesome goodness, eh?
How'd he get infected?

 

[flibbertyjibber]

Knew the first DRS would be an Indian one.

 

[keeper]

Only good thing for Gambhir is that it wasn't his leading arm. Scant consolation though.

 

[hazsa19]

Does Tendulker need to be on the pitch for the same length of time as he was off it, for him to be able to bat at 4?

 

[keeper]

Does Tendulker need to be on the pitch for the same length of time as he was off it, for him to be able to bat at 4?

Yes, if not he can bat at 7. I think.