He just can't play the pull/hook shot very well, and to go with that he's a compulsive hooker. England would be crazy to give him anything in his half. He tries to bring the bat from under the ball instead of over it. At times he likes to play an overhead tennis type smash through mid wicket, but he can only do that when he's set at the crease.
England were well below their best as well and had to contend with Bowden deciding that lbw wasn't a legitimate form of dismissal in the 2nd innings. If you think that's the best England can do you're in for a shock.Well, how could the main bowler out of 4 getting injured in the first session of a match make any difference to a match between 2 very closely matched teams? Centurymaker clearly does not know what he is talking about,imo.
Er, no, Anderson would be the biggest loss. And we lost him in the middle of the 1st innings in Cardiff, and still won by an innings.
When did it happen before Cardiff? Memory failing me, I'm afraid.
No doubt Irfan Pathan will come back into the reckoning later in the year. He is the sort of player Fletcher has wet dreams about.
nope swann. without swann the pacers won't be able to sustain their high bowling standard as they'll have to bowl alot more overs.
While it wasn't as bad as losing him on the first morning, we were in a race against the weather and had 3 bowlers, which wasn't ideal.
Anderson is by far England's most important bowler, that shouldn't even be getting debated.
Hm. Once you got Clarke out though it was pretty obvious the rest would fall quickly. I guess not having Broad hurt in that respect though as he was the one who gave him the most obvious difficulties at the time.
I still don't get the Swann hype. Decent bowler but, really?
Well played England.. Did what they had to do.. Obviously, questions would have been asked if they could not beat a 10 man team and that too when 2 more were injured going into the last inning.. Well, one injured and one sick.. Broad looked a much better bowler than he has ever done in my time of watching him (which is not a lot, admittedly)... KP showed why he is so crucial for England and their plans to be world #1.. And Anderson stuck back in the last dig even though I am not really fully convinced about him yet..
But again in a funny way, I kinda feel good about us ****ing up the first test of a series. It means we are staying true to form and that generally augurs well for the rest of the tests coming up. And I have not read the posts on this thread, but judging by the jingoism of some of the facebook posts of our members here, it is gonna be an interesting time around the end of the series.
Well.. here we go..As an England fan I sympathise greatly with India losing a bowler during the match. Happened to us recently after all.
Anyone remember how we coped?
Oh and I suggest people who wanna casually use words like jingoism invest in a dictionary
Sounds reasonable to me given the fb messages I am referring to. Maybe some people just need invest in understanding what they are talking about..dictionary.com said:
Tbh when the second best spinner in the world is this guy
Possibly, Swann wasn't tearing up county batting line-ups at the time. But it may have been his attitude from England tours rather than ability and form that kept him out at this time.
Well.. for one, it is the fb messages of posters from here. And secondly, I am assuming (and not without justification, IMO) that their posts here would have been of a similar kind..
Hard to say unless you were watching Swann play for Notts. Panesar deserved his place in the side for a couple of years or so imo, but there's no denying that Swann is now a superior performer. It's odd that Fletcher never forgave him for his indiscretions in 1999/2000 as you'd think that a spinner who can bat was high up his list of priorities.
Ah, I was too oblique. What I was trying to say is "don't bring Facebook conversations onto CW".
