***Official*** India in England 2014

[smash84]

The tail batting for so long again. The tail end batting is beginning to annoy me a lot now. How many times it has led to draws now?

 

[harsh.ag]

Like that Dhoni turned his nose up at Binny. If this boy gets a second test, he will probably send him in at number 9.

 

[hendrix]

What I loathe (aside from shyteness) is that one can't really see what the end game with this team is supposed to be.

If we are rebuilding and the phrase is supposed to be anything but a euphemism for "more that faintly turd", why are we playing three specialist seamers, a batting all-rounder at eight, no specialist spinner and a thirty-two year old keeper who's out of form and increasingly injury and bollock prone?
God love the beard, but he's not a test spinner's arsehole and Cook clearly doesn't trust him. With some justification.

I hate to indulge in the facile "if one removes a player's best performance they look rubbish" fallacy, but as good as his undefeated ton was, all of his actual test dismissals look a little ordinary too.

Nah, you guys a playing 3 specialist bowlers, 1 genuine allrounder (who is easily a test quality 4th seamer), a batsman who bowls better than part-time offspin, and a handy part-timer in Root.
If you're not bowling sides out, blame the 3 specialist bowlers. Or in this case, blame the pitch.

You can't just play a specialist spinner if that means dropping a seamer for Kerrigan (or whoever else isn't up to standard).
Agree about Prior though.

 

[Adders]

The tail batting for so long again. The tail end batting is beginning to annoy me a lot now. How many times it has led to draws now?

I guess if you take 100+ off India's score and nearly 40 overs from their innings and then 60 odd from England's score we'd be looking at a result for sure.

I know tail end batting has improved out of site in recent years but I do think the art of bowling to the tail has been lost a little as well.........England being the worst.

 

[GIMH]

It's partly because there aren't many quality spinners about, IMO

 

[Daemon]

Does the whole tactic of offering the single to the batsmen to get the tailender on strike ever come off? Seems to fail more often than not.

 

[Jarquis]

Batting not the problem with this team apparently.

We've got half a new lineup since then ffs

 

[smash84]

I guess if you take 100+ off India's score and nearly 40 overs from their innings and then 60 odd from England's score we'd be looking at a result for sure.

I know tail end batting has improved out of site in recent years but I do think the art of bowling to the tail has been lost a little as well.........England being the worst.

I agree with both points that tail end batting has improved and bowling to tailenders has gone down as an art. However I don't think England are the worst at it. I have seen pretty much every team suffer significantly from it. Maybe Aus with an in form Johnson didn't or perhaps SA a little less but other than that every team has suffered

 

[karan316]

Like that Dhoni turned his nose up at Binny. If this boy gets a second test, he will probably send him in at number 9.

Nup, he is making his main bowlers work like dogs, getting carried away, he must remember its a 5 test series, he'll need atleast 2 out of the 3 pace bowlers in good shape till the last game. On this flat pitch, even Ishant and Shami are going at 4 an over, he should have let Binny bowl a few more, or if he wants to be ultra defensive like he usually is, he should have given Jadeja a lot more overs.

 

[Cevno]

Nup, he is making his main bowlers work like dogs, getting carried away, he must remember its a 5 test series, he'll need atleast 2 out of the 3 pace bowlers in good shape till the last game. On this flat pitch, even Ishant and Shami are going at 4 an over, he should have let Binny bowl a few more, or if he wants to be ultra defensive like he usually is, he should have given Jadeja a lot more overs.

Backup seamers are on about the same level as these lot though. So doesn't really have to play the same all matches necessarily.

 

[harsh.ag]

Give Shami the ball jackass..

 

[karan316]

Backup seamers are on about the same level as these lot though. So doesn't really have to play the same all matches necessarily.

From the backup seamers, Pankaj is surely there, but we'll have to wait and see if Ishwar Pandey can do the job. But we do need Bhuvi and Shami to play atleast 3-4 tests, assuming that they'll be rested when required.

 

[flibbertyjibber]

So unless we have an Indian lollapse today this looks a nailed on bore/snore draw.

Root looks a good player this summer. Must help having a place in the batting order for a change.

 

[Cevno]

****ing hell, this is irritating.

 

[flibbertyjibber]

****ing hell, this is irritating.

It is great more like.

 

[Stapel]

I think Root should turst Anderson a bit more.......

 

[GIMH]

****ing hell, this is irritating.

Haha, what goes around comes around

Not a great advert for the sport this match, on the face of it

 

[Spark]

That's a top knock

 

[Teja.]

I'm switching off my ****ing tv. Will check the score in 30 minutes.

 

[flibbertyjibber]

Great knock, and a brilliant effort by Jimmy.

Career best for him.