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*Official* Third Test at Edgbaston

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tooextracool

International Coach
Spark said:
All this is making the fight shown by SL post-Cardiff all the more impressive tbh.
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Sl were a bit fortunate in that they played in more batter friendly conditions. My understanding is that England have switched to the 2010 Duke balls for this series which have swung considerably more than the ones employed for the SL series.

I suspect that the SL batting lineup in the conditions that India have experienced in this series would have been quite hapless, let alone the fact that the England pace attack has bowled better in this series (especially Broad).
 
Cevno

Cevno

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Manee said:
Ishant to follow too unless he can pull something together. He has only been marginally better than the useless pile of badly behaved, overrated, inaccurate, only rated because of a ****ing seam position which means nothing in the scheme of things, as well as pace which he hasn't had for four ****ing years piece of **** - Sreesanth.
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Nah Ishant is still young and has room and potential to improve. Also is pretty good in Indian condtions too and in other seaming conditions with uneven bounce or extra bounce and just had brilliant tour before this one.

Meanwhile these are supposed to be ideal conditions for Sreesanth and he has done **** all. Infact he has done **** all in his career outside of 2 tours to South Africa and is too expensive at home alongwith FC cricket. I am officialy done with him now.
 
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Neil Pickup

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A question for Aussie fans.

How long does it take before smashing the opposition this hard gets boring?
 
honestbharani

honestbharani

Whatever it takes!!!
smalishah84 said:
:laugh:........this is gold as Rob says
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I am not exactly sure why it is gold to see India struggle... but whatever..


Coming to the game, this is like that scene in Spiderman 3.. Just so so cruel (or awesome, depending on who/what you enjoy) to watch...


That said, India do deserve it.. It is one thing to play IPL and rest up during a Windies series but what I really hated was the fact that Sehwag, Gambhir, Zaheer and perhaps Yuvraj all played through the IPL with injuries/sickness.. If this doesn't show BCCI that their decision to expand IPL and ground their players with workload and travel was ****, nothing will..


Unfortunately, while we may be seeing the disintegration of team India, it could also end up being the beginning of the end of test cricket. Yes, I know it is still the #1 in England and Australia, and with England becoming #1 (and maybe staying there for more than 2 years unlike us) will generate more interest, if India continue to pile up wins in the limited overs formats while stinking the place up in tests, it could be the end. And no one will hate it more than me. For nothing beats test cricket.. NOTHING!! :(
 
GIMH

GIMH

Norwood's on Fire
Who said KP's last two innings of the SL series were so important. Myself and others were mocked when we suggested they were the sign of a return to form and tbf I can understand why you'd be cynical about it. But all the signs of vintage KP were there and they've been bearing fruit so far in this one. All of a sudden he's reminding us why he was our #1 undisputed batsman for years and pushing his average back towards 50.

Alas, I'm about to get a train so he's probably got out or something while I've been writing this post, WAC
 
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Manee

Manee

Cricketer Of The Year
Cevno said:
Nah Ishant is still young and has room and potential to improve. Also is pretty good in Indian condtions too and in other seaming conditions with uneven bounce or extra bounce and just had brilliant tour before this one.
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Since when has any Indian bowler improved after their first run of Test cricket, other than Zaheer Khan?
 
Jacknife

Jacknife

International Captain
tooextracool said:
Sl were a bit fortunate in that they played in more batter friendly conditions. My understanding is that England have switched to the 2010 Duke balls for this series which have swung considerably more than the ones employed for the SL series.

I suspect that the SL batting lineup in the conditions that India have experienced in this series would have been quite hapless, let alone the fact that the England pace attack has bowled better in this series (especially Broad).
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They used them in the SL series too, I remember them talking about it then.
 
Manee

Manee

Cricketer Of The Year
GeraintIsMyHero said:
Who said KP's last two innings of the SL series were so important. Myself and others were mocked when we suggested they were the sign of a return to form and tbf I can understand why you'd be cynical about it. But all the signs of vintage KP were there and they've been bearing fruit so far in this one. All of a sudden he's reminding us why he was our #1 undisputed batsman for years and pushing his average back towards 50.
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Performance against this attack means nothing. KP, even in his darkest hour, could smash a century against this attack without much problem.
 
Jacknife

Jacknife

International Captain
Manee said:
Performance against this attack means nothing. KP, even in his darkest hour, could smash a century against this attack without much problem.
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Oh you'd be surprised, KP can find all kinds of ways, to get out to the biggest pie chuckers in the business.
 
Jacknife

Jacknife

International Captain
KP's monstering these Indian bowlers all over the shop.61 off 57 balls, you what, shouldn't be happening against the new ball.
 
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tooextracool

International Coach
Jacknife said:
They used them in the SL series too, I remember them talking about it then.
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Did they? Ball definitely swung a fair bit more in this series than in the SL series. Though the conditions for this match so far are absolutely perfect for batting. Dead flat at the moment.
 
hazsa19

hazsa19

International Regular
The wins like the one at Trent Bridge will keep us going. We had a few hours of bricking it before it all turned round.

The Adelaide win for Australia in 06 kept them entertained in what was a dire series.
 
weed wizard

weed wizard

School Boy/Girl Cricketer
And still, an englishman named andrew peters taunts some fat indian fans in blue jersey at a store ,saying "YOU COULD'T BEAT US.!" in a star cricket adver-tease-ment.
Classic!
 
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