***Official*** England in India

[Cevno]

Bresnan not looking good here either.

England need Finn to get some wickets.

 

[Cevno]

Haha Gambhir gets a bad decision now.

 

[Neil Pickup]

What's that noise on the replay? Sounds not-bat, and too early to be bat, but he can suck it, basically.

 

[Cevno]

What's that noise on the replay? Sounds not-bat, and too early to be bat, but he can suck it, basically.

Dunno, there was some slight sound on replay but not a wooden sound.

 

[Cevno]

Rohit Lucky twice now.

 

[Cevno]

Rohit Sharma just created the record of being the slowest man to reach 2000, i think.

 

[Spark]

Rohit Sharma just created the record of being the slowest man to reach 2000, i think.

Most innings for 2000 ODI runs for India: 94 Robin Singh, 92 Kapil Dev, 82 Rohit Sharma, 81 Ravi Shastri, 79 M Kaif

So not quite. Hardly esteemed company for someone with pretensions to being a top order bat, though.

 

[Scaly piscine]

Here come the pies.

 

[Cevno]

Rohit's backfoot game is pretty good and England feeding him with short balls to make runs.

 

[Cevno]

Dernbach gives 9 runs of first over. Phew.

 

[Neil Pickup]

No, Nick, it's not inexplicably poor. It's just what everyone else expected to happen.

Do you think you can work out why?

 

[Spikey]

cricinfo headline

India firm after losing Gambhir

my headline

India firm after Dernbach starts bowling

 

[Scaly piscine]

Can't believe how heavy a favourite India are at this point. England's best option hasn't bowled yet and they are 3-1. Ridiculous odds.

 

[Scaly piscine]

Woo only 6 off Turdbach's over.

 

[Cevno]

Kohli gonksis.

Soft dismissal but Tredwell strikes again.

 

[Neil Pickup]

Can't believe how heavy a favourite India are at this point. England's best option hasn't bowled yet and they are 3-1. Ridiculous odds.

Dernbach. Dernbach, Dernbach, Dernbach.

 

[Scaly piscine]

Dernbach. Dernbach, Dernbach, Dernbach.

Yea but hopefully this is his last non-death over and we had 10 overs of Tredwell to come... so it sort of balances out.

The way England's innings went just purely from the scorecard suggests they should have at least a decent score.

 

[Cevno]

Rohit Sharma follows Misbah strategy. Block or Four.

 

[Scaly piscine]

Oh look a pro-Bopara message made it through onto Cricinfo's commentary. Well I never.

The only surprise is it wasn't credited to George Dobell or one of the other fanboys.

 

[smash84]

Paul: "In ODI's one bad ball an over is often criticised, so why is Dernbach bowling 5 short wide pies an over? "

somebody also called Tredwell the anti-Dernbach