***Official*** India in England 2014

[Teja.]

Ishant running down the pitch is such bull. Makes the pitch worse and the only penalty that can happen is he gets kicked out of the attack, which doesn't help England either.

Gotta respect him trying to finally do something useful in his 58 tests.

 

[GIMH]

They were consecutive series, both of which we won pretty easily, both of which were in 2010. ffs.

Go and have some chips and gravy then talk to me ****

 

[Teja.]

Hahaha, Jadeja.

 

[Uppercut]

Looked outside the line to me.

 

[Maximas]

surprised that was given

 

[Prince EWS]

Wouldn't Rohit make it a stupidly long batting lineup? I know that's no bad thing really, but I feel they'd probably be better off squeezing another bowler in there.

The thing about India's batting lineup is that Dhoni is straight up not good enough to bat six in most conditions. This can arguably be offset somewhat by having decent batsmen at 7, 8 and 9 as well, but sometimes I'm not sure I really buy into that. If someone is bowling a really good spell that a proper batsman could see out but someone of Dhoni-away standard or worse couldn't, then it's not just a matter of adding up the averages and saying you've got it covered -- the chance of a massive collapse is greatly increased. I'm a big fan of having a proper batsman at six regardless of how strong the tail is.

 

[Spikey]

cant believe that was given

 

[91Jmay]

That is surely outside of the line?

 

[flibbertyjibber]

So it begins.

 

[GIMH]

None apart from Robson, Ballance, Root, Ali and even Stokes and Plunkett have done ok. It the senior men who are letting the side down this summer.

You just named over half the team

Anderson hasn't been that bad, just not as good as he was

 

[91Jmay]

Its not a howler but it is also a bit of a sketchy decision when both bits are amber. Can't moan though if you don't play with your bat. Colour me unconvinced by Robson.

 

[Teja.]

The thing about India's batting lineup is that Dhoni is straight up not good enough to bat six in most conditions. This can arguably be offset somewhat by having decent batsmen at 7, 8 and 9 as well, but sometimes I'm not sure I really buy into that. If someone is bowling a really good spell that a proper batsman could see out but someone of Dhoni-away standard or worse couldn't, then it's not just a matter of adding up the averages and saying you've got it covered -- the chance of a massive collapse is greatly increased. I'm a big fan of having a proper batsman at six regardless of how strong the tail is.

Yeah, precisely my thoughts. There's something which annoys me to an incredible extent about Dhoni batting six.

 

[ankitj]

And better bowler too. Ashwin should've doubtless played if we were going go with a 3+1 attack.

Jadeja making me eat my words though :|

 

[Cabinet96]

If Cook gets out to Jadeja I'll end it all.

 

[GIMH]

Right, these two will see us home

 

[Cabinet96]

The thing about India's batting lineup is that Dhoni is straight up not good enough to bat six in most conditions. This can arguably be offset somewhat by having decent batsmen at 7, 8 and 9 as well, but sometimes I'm not sure I really buy into that. If someone is bowling a really good spell that a proper batsman could see out but someone of Dhoni-away standard or worse couldn't, then it's not just a matter of adding up the averages and saying you've got it covered -- the chance of a massive collapse is greatly increased. I'm a big fan of having a proper batsman at six regardless of how strong the tail is.

Meh, he'll be playing mostly on roads with a cooked Broad and Anderson with no quality spinner. It's an entirely different animal to the one Dhoni failed so badly in 2011 and the subsequent Australia series.

 

[flibbertyjibber]

You just named over half the team

Anderson hasn't been that bad, just not as good as he was

The new boys aren't doing badly. Centuries for all the new bats, no runs for Cook and Bell. Broad has bowled crap all summer but the hat trick masks that. Jimmy has bowled ok but is being worked into the ground by a poor captain and Prior has been terrible apart from one knock v SL. Also in the big moments like when the new ball was taken today the big performers are doing nothing. Broad's spell was abysmal.

 

[Cabinet96]

Guys

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Ravi Bopara has been vital for @EssexCricket this season and he's at it again today. He's 47 off 32. ESS 140-4 (16). Big total looming...

Should we be worried?

 

[flibbertyjibber]

Guys

Retweeted by England Cricket
NatWest T20 Blast ‏@NatWestT20Blast 2m
Ravi Bopara has been vital for @EssexCricket this season and he's at it again today. He's 47 off 32. ESS 140-4 (16). Big total looming...

Should we be worried?

Captain for 3rd test.

 

[Uppercut]

Ishant is such a waste of oxygen.