***Official*** India in England 2014

[Arjun]

Each of the Indian bowlers, particularly the three lead seamers, has bowled an obnoxiously large amount of overs. You do not overbowl your prime pace bowlers like this! Will the Indian team management ever realise? There's no way they'll ever solve their fast bowler problem and breed quality bowlers if they keep rolling down 30 overs an innings!

 

[Adders]

Is Jimmy gonna be able to take the new ball after this effort?

 

[fredfertang]

Ian Botham talking about the "Mighty Iron" - he must be bored

 

[91Jmay]

Root has to start accelerating for me. Not really sure the game grinding to a halt helps anyone at all.

 

[flibbertyjibber]

Brilliant by these two.

Abysmal from India. Not coming up at the end of each over.

 

[fredfertang]

Good to get Agar and Hughes out of the record book

 

[fredfertang]

Root has to start accelerating for me. Not really sure the game grinding to a halt helps anyone at all.

Don't agree - the psychological damage if they have to come out again after the interval will be immense

 

[Adders]

England's plan is clearly to bat once, bat big here.

 

[SOLID MATTIC]

If Cook tries to get Anderson to open the bowling after this I hope Anderson punches him in the face.

 

[Daemon]

Are we actually going to let a number 11 score a hundred?

 

[fredfertang]

If Cook tries to get Anderson to open the bowling after this I hope Anderson punches him in the face.

I suspect Plunkett would beat him to it

 

[fredfertang]

England's plan is clearly to bat once, bat big here.

.......... and back to front

 

[Adders]

If Jimmy does get a ton here, we'll have 10 players in this team with test tons.......gotta be a record surely?

 

[91Jmay]

Two rather ordinary teams these aren't they? Sheesh.

 

[Howe_zat]

What's the most number of matches played before a maiden 50?

 

[91Jmay]

Binny is a poor mans Collingwood with the ball.

 

[Teja.]

What's the most number of matches played before a maiden 50?

McGrath scored his only fifty in his 102nd game.

 

[Arjun]

Binny is a poor mans Collingwood with the ball.

Seriously, Binny has been the most disappointing selection, if not most mediocre bowler, in this XI. He's a batsman who can bowl a bit, but he's been short of runs, and bowled a paltry nine overs, while prime pacers like Shami and (maybe?) Ishant are overworked with more than 30 overs. Surely should make way for a proper bowler, especially with three (Ashwin, Pankaj and Pandey) on the bench.

Taking wickets against a defiant England on a flat deck in Tests is a different ball game from gobbling up an arrogant Bangla unit on a dicey wicket under clouds.

 

[Howe_zat]

Damn, I've just thought what you must be going through with all this, Teja.

...

I'm basking in it

 

[Prince EWS]

What's the most number of matches played before a maiden 50?

Not sure if it's the record but McGrath did it in his 102nd Test.