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[MW1304]

Yeah only 42.4 overs from doing so.

 

[four_or_six]

Still basking in sunshine here. Clearly shouldn't be allowed to play international cricket north of Watford.

 

[Daemon]

Yeah only 42.4 overs from doing so.

More in reference to the revised target of 164 tbh.

 

[MW1304]

More in reference to the revised target of 164 tbh.

Nah I know. Those always feel like hollow wins tbh, obviously nothing you can do about the rain though.

 

[marc71178]

You think that's bad?

No sympathy for SA in that game after the gamesmanship that deprived England of their last 5 overs when batting (and with set batsman IIRC)

 

[Bun]

Me, Quite literally

 

[ankitj]

India still to win a proper match on tour.

You're taking the wrong perspective. India has finally manage to not lose a match. India's tour has well and truly started.

 

[honestbharani]

You're taking the wrong perspective. India has finally manage to not lose a match. India's tour has well and truly started.

It is poetic justice that we don win a game all tour.. Our selectors, our cricketers and our admins deserve this.

 

[centurymaker]

Injured 10 (need a 11th player)

tendulkar, sehwag, gambhir, yuvraj, pujara, rohit, harbhajan, zaheer, ishant, nehra.... and 1 more

 

[Contra]

Geez.. everything is going England's way this series I swear lol. Had this game in the bag really.

 

[OMM!]

England's Non-Playing XI:

Trescothick
Davies(wk)
Strauss
Pietersen
Taylor
Bopara
Buttler
Woakes
Swann
Finn
Onions

Just as many missing for England.

 

[Jacknife]

Geez.. everything is going England's way this series I swear lol. Had this game in the bag really.

Bit of a stretch to sat the least to say you had in the bag, even with the openers gone I'd have fancied England to chase 270 odd down, given the 50 overs and that the pitch was flat.

 

[MW1304]

England's Non-Playing XI:

Trescothick
Davies(wk)
Strauss
Pietersen
Taylor
Bopara
Buttler
Woakes
Swann
Finn
Onions

Just as many missing for England.

Only Swann and Pietersen would/could get in the team. Even then KP's been 'rested'.

 

[Contra]

Bit of a stretch to sat the least to say you had in the bag, even with the openers gone I'd have fancied England to chase 270 odd down, given the 50 overs.

I don't, by "in the bag" I mean the end result would have been an Indian win from that position. I'd back India 8/10 times to win from there. Not to mention any rain intervention (barring the complete washout which eventually happened) would have benefited India.

 

[Jacknife]

I don't, by "in the bag" I mean the end result would have been an Indian win from that position. I'd back India 8/10 times to win from there. Not to mention any rain intervention (barring the complete washout which eventually happened) would have benefited India.

One of those things, as a Indian supporter you'd back your team and I'd back my team to chase down a par score. If the game had continued after the rain, it would have defo favored the Indian side mind.

 

[Jono]

Haha I don't think most Indian supporters would be backing our team to win from any position tbh. Had a rotten tour, and half the World Cup winning team isn't playing.

I'm sure we'd have found a way to lose that match.

 

[Jacknife]

Haha I don't think most Indian supporters would be backing our team to win from any position tbh. Had a rotten tour, and half the World Cup winning team isn't playing.

I'm sure we'd have found a way to lose that match.

That's what I was going to say but I was being kind.

 

[Contra]

Haha I don't think most Indian supporters would be backing our team to win from any position tbh. Had a rotten tour, and half the World Cup winning team isn't playing.

I'm sure we'd have found a way to lose that match.

Yeah but most Indian supporters also start bashing/loving a player after one bad/good match too. We have a habit of going to extremes and jumping the gun a lot of the time. And the World Cup team thing is getting a tiny bit irritating to me, I mean I understand that the WC players are overall better, but by saying we're missing WC players is sort of discrediting a lot of the work the likes of PK, Munaf, Parthiv Patel and co have done in the past. Truth is these guys have played more ODI's in the lead up to the WC then Zak, Bhajji and all those guys and have performed well overall. Really the only one WC player who I'd genuinely be "missing" right now is Yuvi. As far as I'm concerned he's an ATG ODI player, and his bowling would have been handy as well. As for the rest, would I loved to have em playing? For sure.. but I'm not really annoyed that they're missing, since our ODI line up (unlike our test team) has had a really good rotation policy since almost 2008 I'd say. And if Sachin and Rohit hadn't gotten injured today, then I'd would have tipped India to win this 4-1 (or 3-1). With them 2 out now it's looking more like 2-2.

 

[Jono]

My post was slightly in jest at the idea that the English would have thought they'd have won and the Indians would have thought they'd have won before the rain came. Just saying that's not necessarily true.

 

[nsniks]

India in England 2011: Manoj Tiwary replaces Rohit Sharma in ODI squad | Cricket News | England v India 2011 | ESPN Cricinfo

Manoj Tiwary replacing Rohit Sharma in the ODI squad, I would say a good replacement as he has some match experience by playing in Emerging Players Tournament and have some runs under the belt too.

Although I fully expect Jadeja to play in next ODI