***Official*** England in India

[Burgey]

Cook carrying on from Strauss in the bounced catches appeal stakes. Tradition continues.

 

[Spark]

Tendulkar must be seriously worried about the lbw he got in the last Test. Staying really legside of the ball.

 

[flibbertyjibber]

Cook carrying on from Strauss in the bounced catches appeal stakes. Tradition continues.

Not like your captain hasn't got previous for that kind of thing though is it?

 

[Burgey]

Deary me, can only think the sunglasses are crap and they missed seeing the ball bounce.

Cheating, obvs.

/conspiracy

 

[Burgey]

Not like your captain hasn't got previous for that kind of thing though is it?

He's a changed man, is Clarkeh. Cook just demonstrating he's carrying right on. Appalling. If that was Ponting there'd be a thread full of ****s lining up to abuse...... Oh.

 

[Contra]

I'm not sure why he's bringing back Anderson, Swann was troubling GG a bit in the previous over.

 

[Contra]

England's session, losing 2 wickets on an Eden Garden's wicket isn't good, need 500+ at least.

 

[flibbertyjibber]

Happy with that, looked very dodgy when the openers looked so at ease but the dodgy run out and poor shot have helped us. Get an early wicket after lunch and put the under pressure out of form players under some intense pressure and see what happens.

 

[weldone]

I'm missing Eden Gardens

 

[silentstriker]

No lunch watchman?

Tendulkar is pretty much a night watchman now.

 

[flibbertyjibber]

Tendulkar is pretty much a night watchman now.

Thought about it but as it is my team playing decided against as you know what will happen if you do.

 

[CricAddict]

Tendulkar is pretty much a night watchman now.

True that. If he prolongs his retirement further without getting into any kind of form, I think SRT fanboys would be halved by the time he retires.
[Lesser controversial threads]

 

[silentstriker]

Tendulkar is interesting. He has now played in four separate decades - I think he's a little different in terms of memory. I'm 28 now and I was five years old when he debuted - people have literally grown up with him, and people who were adults are now pushing middle age so he's been such a huge overarching figure in so many people's sporting life that I don't think that'll be the case. The kids who only grew up in the past ten years, it's of course a different story.

If you didn't watch cricket in 1998, you don't really appreciate what he meant. The only useful thing in 1990s for Indian cricket - where winning away series in Zimbabwe seemed impossible.

 

[benchmark00]

Getting annoyed at Shastri saying 'hundred for two' instead of 'one hundred'

 

[flibbertyjibber]

12-1 off the last 11 overs. Have we really bowled that well?

 

[cnerd123]

Well, Gambhir and Sachin aren't exactly in great form.

Probably scared of getting out as well, given the media uproar over their failures with the bat recently. Determined to not lose to England it seems.

 

[weldone]

Tendulkar isn't trying to hit out of form. He very much knows what reactions he'll get if he gets out for a 10 in 50 deliveries or so. Still he has so much confidence in his defense! What a great fighter!

Someone like Pietersen needs to learn this from players like Tendulkar, Dravid, Kallis, Ponting - having confidence in your defense in the worst of times...

 

[Spark]

Really poor captaincy there, giving him the easy single like that.

 

[flibbertyjibber]

Tendulkar with his top score of the series then. Pressure off.

 

[Spark]

That's just a silly shot.