***Official*** England in India

[Cabinet96]

Ck

 

[BoyBrumby]

FFS.

First Morgan tries to reverse sweep a half-tracker and then Kieswetter misses a straight one. Hooooge gate for it to go through.

Buttler then, yeah?

 

[flibbertyjibber]

Looks like we have lost this one then. Ooops

 

[Spikey]

why is bedwetter still in the team over davies

 

[BoyBrumby]

Oh, Sammy.

Talking of straight ones...

 

[Cevno]

It's not even turning and they are missing straight ones. WTF ?

Now Patel....

 

[flibbertyjibber]

why is bedwetter still in the team over davies

Davies lost form totally last year after Maynard died. No problem with him being dropped for now. Should return when he finds form again, that or use Bairstow or Buttler as keeper. Anyone but Bedwetter.

 

[Cevno]

Jyoti: "Ishant (and my friends commenting here) reminds me of a classmate who, after failing in Math for the 'n'th time, defended himself by saying "Failure is the pillar of success". Our teacher asked "How many pillars do you need?""

From Cricinfo.

Can maybe apply this to a few of the England players as well.

 

[Cabinet96]

How can you be so bad.

 

[Spark]

This is a 350 par pitch, right?

 

[BoyBrumby]

why is bedwetter still in the team over davies

Buttler then, yeah?

Jos's List A record is insanely good; far better than his T20 stats, in fact.

& yet he's in the T20i side but not the ODI side.

From memory Davies had a pretty ordinary 2012 for Surrey. May even have been dropped at one stage.

 

[Cabinet96]

How England play spin is so dependent on how they start. Slow start and losing their top three, it was never going to go well.

 

[Cevno]

This is a 350 par pitch, right?

Don't think it is a 350 pitch, but there's nothing much happening of it either except being 2 paced maybe.

England are missing straight ones or playing stupid shots.

 

[Spikey]

i just assumed they don't want to pick jos or jon as keepers yet. but i'm pretty sure a greiving davies who hates life is still better than bedwetter

 

[Cabinet96]

If they're unwilling to pick Jos as a keeper this series, i'd stick Kiesy at the top for the last two games, and just tell him to go ballistic.

No point him batting at 6 when he comes into positions like he did today.

 

[Cevno]

Btw, so **** from India calling up Pujara and not playing him.

Had hit a double and then a triple century back to back and Saurashtra had to play the Ranji Semi final. Will put him out of form probably if he doesn't play whole series.

 

[Stapel]

Why don't England consider Matt Prior for ODI's? He is supposed to be a poor rotator of the strike, but even if that is so, he would be useful enough!

 

[Jono]

Btw, so **** from India calling up Pujara and not playing him.

Had hit a double and then a triple century back to back and Saurashtra had to play the Ranji Semi final. Will put him out of form probably if he doesn't play whole series.

awta

 

[Cabinet96]

Why don't England consider Matt Prior for ODI's? He is supposed to be a poor rotator of the strike, but even if that is so, he would be useful enough!

He's had plenty of chances and failed, tbf. I'd rather go with Buttler before going back to Prior.

 

[BoyBrumby]

Was a ripper of a ball from Ashwin to get Bresnan. Tossed it up above the batter's eyeline and it spun back a mile.

No blame attached to him or KP, but some of the other dismissals have been a little yucky.