*Official* T20 and ODI matches

[Daemon]

Get used to it. Half of them are approaching pensionable age and are in serious decline.

Sachin's the only old one in the ODI team.

 

[Bun]

Sachin's the only old one in the ODI team.

And he's been regarded as of pensionable age for more than 5 years now...

And our best batsman also....

 

[BoyBrumby]

Sachin's the only old one in the ODI team.

Nah. You have Sehwag and Zaheer in a first choice XI, surely?

Neither in the first flush of youth.

 

[OMM!]

41* from 21 balls at the end of a game is a lot better than 107 from 93 in the middle overs.

Especially against an England attack missing Broad, Tremlett, Onions, Shahzad and Briggs!

 

[luckyeddie]

I thought we won a World Cup just 6 months back?

I thought that too.

Must have been a dream.

 

[Furball]

I thought we won a World Cup just 6 months back?

How is that relevant?

 

[ankitj]

I don't think that lineup was capable of scoring many more under those conditions - they probably exceeded most people's expectations and still came up short. A good effort by India towards the end of the ODI series though - their heads never really dropped despite the fact that they must have felt like a squeaky toy that a dog had been shaking about for the last four months.

I wonder how they'll go in the return ODI series. There's a fine line between character-building and shell-shock.

Agree with the assessment of India's batting. They did reasonably well. Going forward, bowling is a serious concern for India in both forms of the game. The rate at which bowlers are falling is concerning. Definitely, they cannot keep playing entire lengths of IPL. Their participation should be limited to 5-6 games each season. Without fitness issues, I think our bowling might be decent enough at least in the LOI version.

 

[Jarquis]

Especially against an England attack missing Broad, Tremlett, Onions, Shahzad and Briggs!

What? Just what?

 

[Thom Yorke]

Dhoni thought this was a T20 game and hence only overs max for Ashwin

 

[Furball]

Can people stop quoting OMM! please.

 

[Daemon]

Nah. You have Sehwag and Zaheer in a first choice XI, surely?

Neither in the first flush of youth.

They're both 32. In any case, saying 'half' our side is ageing and deteriorating rapidly is obviously a misrepresentation.

How is that relevant?

Because someone suggested we should get used to losing, when we were competitive throughout the series, arguably batted better than the English against better bowling (I blame the loss on our bowlers mostly) all while having 80% of our full strength XI missing.

 

[OMM!]

Can you lose an ODI series 3-0 and outbat the opposition?

 

[flibbertyjibber]

Bairstow brilliant on debut. Great stuff.

 

[CricAddict]

Can people stop quoting OMM! please.

How I wish there is a like button in Cricketweb..

 

[shivfan]

Had Bopara picked out someone in the crowd rather than the fielder at Lord's then it would have been hard to look by him.

Yes, Bopara was the top England batsman of the series, with 197 runs at an average of over 65.