*Official* England in India

[Outswinger@Pace]

Gotta admire the versatility. He can bowl long hops at all speeds and on both sides of the wicket.

 

[Scaly piscine]

And you can **** off as well Dernbach. Why the **** did this useless sack of **** get an incremental contract? Are we going to pick a guy who can play 20 different shots and is ****ing ****e at 15 of them?

 

[Howe_zat]

Dernbach ends up giving it to them in extras.

There's nothing I haven't said already.

 

[Furball]

Sick of seeing Kieswetter's keeping. I'm just sick of it.

It's a shame that Prior's such a useless ODI batsman, the difference in keeping is night and day.

 

[Cabinet96]

I can't recall the las ball bowled at full pace. I thought a slower ball was ment to be a surprise. Need a wicket first ball of the final over.

 

[Outswinger@Pace]

I don't understand why more teams don't put a slip in at the death.

Difficult call, mate. Fielders are at a premium at that stage so where would you take one out from?

And besides, it is quite likely that if you have one slip the ball would fly wide off him. It's not a percentage option, IMHO.

Best option at the death is the Wasim-Waqar strategy. Reversing in and aimed at the base of the middle or leg stump. Must take an awful lot of practice in the nets though to bowl it accurately and consistently.

 

[Cabinet96]

All over!

 

[Contra]

MS doing it in style

 

[MW1304]

I've only seen the end of the game btw, how was the batting? From scorecard alone it looks like Ravi and Trott should have gotten a move on.

 

[Outswinger@Pace]

Trust MS to finish things in style. No wonder the guy is rated as one of the true champions in this format of the game. Man doesn't know the meaning of the word pressure.

 

[Contra]

5-0

 

[Daemon]

What a way to end it. Dhoni is a ****ing mad**** at ODIs tbf.

 

[Cabinet96]

When will the seamers learn to bowl at the death. And in India in general.

 

[Scaly piscine]

Let us know when you're playing proper cricket India.

 

[Cabinet96]

I've only seen the end of the game btw, how was the batting? From scorecard alone it looks like Ravi and Trott should have gotten a move on.

Can't blame them. Bresnan and Dernbach bowled terribly.

 

[Howe_zat]

I've only seen the end of the game btw, how was the batting? From scorecard alone it looks like Ravi and Trott should have gotten a move on.

Trott batted really well, most of his innings was handing over the strike to KP and then to Patel when they were striking it well. Only the partnership with Bopara seemed lacking for runs, and that was the annoyingly typical Ravi playing himself in and getting out.

We've lost this thanks to a shocking fielding effort (mostly Kieswetter), a poor day from Bresnan and the fact that Dernbach is terrible.

 

[Howe_zat]

Well played to India. Their middle order's been excellent this series.

 

[MW1304]

Bresnan has too many off days for mine. If you were to look at his ODI record in isolation, ignoring his improvement over the last year or so, you'd wonder how he gets in the team. He needs to perform much more consistently, its only the lack of other options that makes his place so secure for the moment.

 

[Xuhaib]

Dernbach, who is he blowing in the English setup?

 

[MW1304]

And yeah, we are playing India in India in ODIs. Never expected us to do particularly well.