***Official*** India in England 2014

[harsh.ag]

ANy team news knocking about?

Jadeja to open.

 

[King Pietersen]

ANy team news knocking about?

Cook, Robson, Ballance, Bell, Root, Ali, Prior, Stokes, Broad, Plunkett, Anderson #EngvInd

No Kegga

 

[Adders]

England win toss and bowl?? WTF......better roll these ****s in a hurry, if India are batting tomorrow lunch our bowlers will be dead.

 

[King Pietersen]

Makes sense to bowl. It's going to be friendly to the bowlers for the first hour to two hours, so might as well get in at them early, and try and nip a couple out before the sun gets on it, and it flattens out.

 

[GIMH]

England's playing India mate.

prick. absolute prick.

 

[Swingpanzee]

Makes sense to bowl. It's going to be friendly to the bowlers for the first hour to two hours, so might as well get in at them early, and try and nip a couple out before the sun gets on it, and it flattens out.

And kill the bowlers?

 

[MW1304]

Both teams unchanged mate

 

[harsh.ag]

I feel sad for Pankaj Singh. Totally his kind of pitch. Let's see Binny bowl some solid overs on this one.

 

[Adders]

Makes sense to bowl. It's going to be friendly to the bowlers for the first hour to two hours, so might as well get in at them early, and try and nip a couple out before the sun gets on it, and it flattens out.

Yeah I get that, and the wicket certainly looks bowl first......just worried about only 3 days off from the overs they bowled in the last test. An extra day and a bit would have been welcome I'd have thought.

Anyway, if we bowl them out by tea it will certainly be a good call.

 

[Teja.]

I mean you can't judge until the first hour of play but surely when you have an incredibly pace reliant attack, an angry James Anderson opening the bowling and everyone in the Indian batting lineup barring their 3-5 decidedly dodgy against movement, it isn't an atrocious decision to send India in on the first day?

Sad to see Bhuvi not get first shot on this pitch though.

 

[harsh.ag]

Yeah I get that, and the wicket certainly looks bowl first......just worried about only 3 days off from the overs they bowled in the last test. An extra day and a bit would have been welcome I'd have thought.

Anyway, if we bowl them out by tea it will certainly be a good call.

In your dreams !

 

[Adders]

 

[harsh.ag]

The "brilliant" Jon Hotten just gave wholeheartedness as the reason to keep Ishant in the team.

 

[MW1304]

This pitch looks insane.

 

[wpdavid]

I mean you can't judge until the first hour of play but surely when you have an incredibly pace reliant attack, an angry James Anderson opening the bowling and everyone in the Indian batting lineup barring their 3-5 decidedly dodgy against movement, it isn't an atrocious decision to send India in on the first day?

Always a brave call though, not least relying on England's bowlers to pitch it up & actually make the batsmen play, and our fielders to catch the edges. If it goes wrong, Cook's position will look even worse than it already does.

 

[Teja.]

Nasser thinks that the juiciest pitch he's ever seen at Lord's.

 

[harsh.ag]

Anderson looking beautiful on the swing.

 

[kingkallis]

It will be a fantastic contest. Bring it on!!

 

[MW1304]

Get your line right, Stuart.

 

[Maximas]

WTF? That's probably the greenest international pitch I've ever seen