***Official*** India in England 2014

[Pothas]

This is all a bit depressing.

 

[Jono]

Na they cut the cancer out - KP.

Cook is IBS.

If you cut the cancer out and get worse, I think you're pretty much dead.

 

[Austin3169]

Cook gone now.

 

[flibbertyjibber]

**** OFF Cook

 

[Cevno]

Cook does a Cook.

He completely went in a shell and this was coming.

 

[Pothas]

Oh and it would have to be Sharma.

 

[King Pietersen]

Such a Cook-esque dismissal. What a ****.

 

[Cevno]

Ishant has probably saved his place for the next match now. He'll probably go back to being ****.

C'mon one more.

 

[fredfertang]

**** this - going to watch the golf now

 

[Jono]

Yess. Piss off Cook, who you going to blame that one on?

 

[flibbertyjibber]

What am I watching?

A typical ****e England performance under Cook.

 

[Prince EWS]

Cook does a Cook.

Not before mystically forcing Ballance and Bell to do Cooks first. Would've been better off getting a duck.

 

[flibbertyjibber]

Yess. Piss off Cook, who you going to blame that one on?

Warne probably

 

[Teja.]

Just as an aside, this has been an excellent Test wicket. The sort the venue deserves. It's provided an excellent balance between bat and ball throughout, offering something to everyone at different stages of the match and all without making a toss a big advantage. Having pitch variation is great but if most curators took this wicket as the median position and deviated slightly in all directions from this, I'd be thrilled.

Nah, unless we see the pitch transform tomorrow into Mumbai 2004 or similar in the last two sessions, toss was a massive, massive advantage. England just chose to be gracious hosts and not exploit it.

 

[TT Boy]

Haha it did keep low but Sachin (and now Bell) do it when it keeps sort of low and they exaggerate it. As Gower said, it didn't roll.

I thought VVS was the best Indian exponent of that. He and Kallis use to sell their dismissals well.

Awesome bowling from Ishant. Hasn’t bowled a bad ball all innings. Really impressive bowling from Indian.

 

[Viscount Tom]

Bring back Colly!

 

[King Pietersen]

KP the best at exaggerating a ball keeping slightly low imo.

 

[Cruxdude]

Ishant has been real good today. Come on one more tonight.

 

[Cabinet96]

Ishant has bowled seriously well today.

 

[OverratedSanity]

Just as an aside, this has been an excellent Test wicket. The sort the venue deserves. It's provided an excellent balance between bat and ball throughout, offering something to everyone at different stages of the match and all without making a toss a big advantage. Having pitch variation is great but if most curators took this wicket as the median position and deviated slightly in all directions from this, I'd be thrilled.

But it wasn't a pitch that seamed early then flattened out. It seamed early, flattened a bit and is now offering lots for Jadeja. Batting 4th is looking really hard.

The pitch is really starting to break up now though. I think batting last is going to be roughly as hard as batting first was.

Disagree a great deal with these posts. The toss was a massive plus in favour of England. The fact that the pitch has deteriorated now really shouldn't have been a factor because we should've been bowled out for less than 200 in the first innings. It was just some really poor bowling and Rahane that took us to a good score. If England had bowled well, they'd have been chasing something like 100 which they'd have chased easily regardless of the pitch breaking up. It definitely was a win the toss, win the match pitch for me. England just didn't take advantage of it. I'm pretty damn sure South Africa or Australia would've rolled us for 100-150