Tour Matches

[OMM!]

Denly falls after a majestic 100.

Kent need 8 from the last over.

 

[Cevno]

Kohli among the runs again.ITSTL

 

[Scaly piscine]

You need someone to hit a few at the end... so you bring in a public school high elbow player?

Way to throw the game away. Abysmal.

 

[Cevno]

And a Brilliant last over by Munaf apparently. Just 2 runs given?

 

[Jarquis]

Nah, more like Northeast did what Northeast does.

 

[Jono]

Play Kohli and you win.

 

[nsniks]

Good to see Kohli among runs. Would like to see dhoni promote himself up in the next tour match

 

[benchmark00]

Anyone else assume Geraint Jones had accidentally asphyxiated himself whilst violently flogging to video highlights of the 2005 Ashes series?

Who knew he was still playing?

 

[MW1304]

I've heard he's tried to reenact that catch off Michael Kasprowicz ever since but, after at least 500 attempts, is yet to catch the ball.

 

[centurymaker]

well i'll just post it here.

Indian Cricket team in Airplane -2 - YouTube

tough life

dravid, sachin, and a few others look pissed.

 

[Daemon]

yeah must suck rolling in the millions every year and playing a game you love for a living

 

[TT Boy]

India doing it the hard way today, playing with just the 9 men and Patel appears to batting on his lonesome. Wonder what state most of the Leicestershire boys are in, probably been on the piss for the past 24 hours.

Ind 42/0 (4.3 ov, PA Patel 29*, AM Rahane 13*, MJ Hoggard 0/23) | Live Scorecard | ESPN Cricinfo

 

[TT Boy]

Cricinfo shows Patel has got a partner now and India has an 11. Rahul Dravid's first 20/20 game for India.

 

[Howe_zat]

Not a bad match set up. Dravid 29 from 31... hmm.

Varun Aaron's first over on tour goes for 13.

 

[MW1304]

Yucky innings by Taylor. Kinda wish he'd just give up on T20 tbh, its not really his game - focus on the other two formats boy.

 

[Contra]

Well that makes it 3/3 then for India, not that it means much but still.

Rahane / Patel
Tendulkar
Dravid
Kohli
Sharma
Dhoni / Raina
Dhoni / Raina
Ashwin
Praveen
Munaf / RP / Vinay
Aaron

That'd be my line up for the ODI's.

 

[nsniks]

Nice win, cant believe we have 3 warm ups for ODI and T20's and had just one warmup for test match before the series.

Most probably this would be the team for first ODI -
Sachin
Patel
Dravid
Kohli
Sharma
Raina
Dhoni
Ashwin
Praveen
Vinay
Munaf

Only debatable spot would be that of spinner, Mishra bowled well today but I would still go with Ashwin

 

[CricAddict]

Well that makes it 3/3 then for India, not that it means much but still.

Rahane / Patel
Tendulkar
Dravid
Kohli
Sharma
Dhoni / Raina
Dhoni / Raina
Ashwin
Praveen
Munaf / RP / Vinay
Aaron

That'd be my line up for the ODI's.

Shouldn't a prediction lineup be a team of 11 and not everyone from the squad except one?

 

[Contra]

Shouldn't a prediction lineup be a team of 11 and not everyone from the squad except one?

Well the slashes just mean that it doesn't matter who plays among the slashed players. The rest are indisputable imo. That's all.

I guess if you want a more exact line up then I'd tip Rahane instead of Patel. Patel hasn't done anything to be dropped, in fact he's been the one fill in player who's actually performed almost every time when the chance came (although he throws it away after getting a 50 lol). But somehow I just feel he's not a long term prospect. With Gamby / Viru so injury prone and Sach maybe lasting another 1-2 years we need new specialist ODI openers, Murli Vijay is trash, so Rahane I hear is the next on the list, so yeah. But again, I won't have any problems if Patel is picked either.

Same goes for the pacers, I really don't care which one gets picked, they're all the same to me.

 

[Howe_zat]

Yucky innings by Taylor. Kinda wish he'd just give up on T20 tbh, its not really his game - focus on the other two formats boy.

Sounds a poor attitude to me. He's 20 and should just give up?