***Official*** England in India

[Jono]

Ganguly telling Harsha where to go. Stop thinking about the series and avoiding the draw. They are still behind, just need to get runs and bat well.

Stop thinking too far ahead about runs per over and **** like that.

 

[flibbertyjibber]

scoreboard pressure.

If India gets a 70-80 run lead and then Cook goes early you guys will start ****ting bricks.

Against that attack?

If we lose this we will have to bat very badly.

 

[Howe_zat]

Best inning's I've seen from Dhoni in a Test, itbt.

Bookies have an England win right out to 5.30, which is longer than India were last night - raher unfair given that India are still over 100 behind with not all that much batting to come

 

[Jono]

Majrekar and Ganguly >>>>>>> Harsha.

Talking a lot of sense here, and I have never been a fan of Manjrekar.

 

[centurymaker]

Mate you lost the plot earlier with your posts. Of course they were going to consolidate in the morning and open up in the afternoon.

If they went about it your way we'd be all out for 180 with Ashwin 30*

i tbh didn't see it coming. i thought they would eventually get out and then leave india in an even worse position as not only would india have less time to get a result but also the scoreboard wouldn't have moved much by then.

 

[Jono]

If India were going to eventually get out whatever happens, then they were never winning the test so why complain? England win would have been inevitable if India were going to collapso, whether they got another 150.

 

[Jono]

Shot Dhoni.

 

[flibbertyjibber]

Is 200 the mark for Dhoni to start upping it and trying to get in a good position? Been a great partnership so far.

 

[centurymaker]

If India were going to eventually get out whatever happens, then they were never winning the test so why complain? England win would have been inevitable if India were going to collapso, whether they got another 150.

approx 250 all out by tea was what was on my mind.
80 behind with still 7 sessions to go would not have ruled out an indian win entirely.

a six incredible.


a 2 rpo all day would have been worse than the scenario in my mind.

 

[AndyZaltzHair]

wow who votes these polls

 

[GIMH]

This is not helping my hangover

The rum and coke I'll be opening in an hour or so will do mind

 

[centurymaker]

contrasting sessions so far.

 

[centurymaker]

21 overs, 66 runs.

rpo 3.15

almost twice as much as that in the 1st session.

 

[Cevno]

Ravi Shastri going crazy and overboard with his Dhoni praising here.

 

[centurymaker]

shastri having a go at dhoni critics


"they were writing all sorts of things about him before this game"
"were questioning his ability to get into the playing XI of the indian team, WHAT A JOKE"
" I wonder what they were SMOKING"



PEWS tasting, in particular.

 

[DriveClub]

Bresnan bowls like a county trundler

 

[DriveClub]

shastri having a go at dhoni critics


"they were writing all sorts of things about him before this game"
"were questioning his ability to get into the playing XI of the indian team, WHAT A JOKE"
" I wonder what they were SMOKING"



PEWS tasting, in particular.

What a joke this Shastri guy is, a legit BCCI paid propaganda machine, utterly shameless

 

[Prince EWS]

Dhoni has played an excellent innings here, no doubt.

I still don't think he's good enough for Test cricket though. It's a pretty **** time for me to have a point that out, but if you blokes are going to keep taste baiting me then I've got no choice.

 

[Cevno]

Swann has been poor too.

Has been hit out of the attack twice this innings on this track.

 

[cnerd123]

So glad to see Kohli scoring now.

And if Dhoni tons up here, I may have to take back everything (well, almost everything) bad I've said of him. Been a real captain's knock this. Extreme pressure situation, he comes up at 5, and has delivered to goods so far. Very impressive.

India still a long way away form winning this, and could still lose, but the fight shown so far is pleasing.