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***Official*** India in England 2014

hendrix

Hall of Fame Member
I like how Dhoni's handled it tbh. He obviously thinks Binny is rubbish, and I don't know if he was pushed into selection but he just probably wants Binny to be relegated forever from the test team. He did something similar with Binny in that odi he played recently. Bowled 1 over IIRC.
I don't like that way of handling it. It's immature. Don't cut off your nose to spite your face.
 

hendrix

Hall of Fame Member
**** pitch, **** batting, **** keeping, **** umpiring...

mostly decent bowling but gee it's not a great test.
 

Furball

Evil Scotsman
Now admittedly I haven't paid much attention to County Cricket in the last few years but surely there's no ****ing way that Liam Plunkett is the best seamer in England not called James Anderson or Stuart Broad?
 

91Jmay

International Coach
now admittedly i haven't paid much attention to county cricket in the last few years but surely there's no ****ing way that liam plunkett is the best seamer in england not called james anderson or stuart broad?
why do you hate yorkshire.
 

grecian

Cricket Web: All-Time Legend
I kind of saw why Plunkett was picked again, he's quicker than he once was, and he has aggression about him. Yet his inaccuracy is still ridiculously poor.

Finn better in every way really, the guys doing okay in County Cricket time to end his exile I reckon.
 

Pothas

Cricket Web: All-Time Legend
Yeah we really need Finn to be the bowler he was supposed to be, or in the current circumstances even the bowler that he was.
 

YorksLanka

International Debutant
only just seen the highlights after playing today and must say really well done to Root and Anderson on a fantastic rearguard action..excellent stuff..
 

Raffski

School Boy/Girl Captain
Problem is that there's no clear cut answer to that question- In my opinion it's one of Sidebottom (retired from internationals), Finn (Understandably being given time to learn how to bowl again) or Woakes (doesn't seem to be trusted by the english management)

With an air of much of a muchness about the rest of the contenders, I can understand why Plunkett has been selected, given that he does offer a different kind of threat to the current attack, and I don't think he's done too badly so fair on some very unhelpful pitches.
 

Swingpanzee

International Regular
If one assumes these first 4 days to be the way this entire series is played, I think this might just be the ****tiest series of all time.
 

Blocky

Banned
Two ultra defensive captains who have no clue how to create something in trying circumstances, neither side has an amazing spin bowler to make something out of a pitch that does nothing and neither side has the type of dynamism in it to chase a victory by setting a quick aggressive target.
 

Swingpanzee

International Regular
Two ultra defensive captains who have no clue how to create something in trying circumstances, neither side has an amazing spin bowler to make something out of a pitch that does nothing and neither side has the type of dynamism in it to chase a victory by setting a quick aggressive target.
You almost get the feeling that both teams are competing for the title of "worst test side"
 

hendrix

Hall of Fame Member
You almost get the feeling that both teams are competing for the title of "worst test side"
If there's a winner of this match they get there on the back of a 10th wicket partnership that outscored most of the specialist batsmen.

I'm amazed that there's a crowd, tbh.
 

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