***Official*** India in England 2014

[Arjun]

Can't actually believe I'm saying this...but India seem to be missing Ishant.

They were supposed to be missing Ashwin as well, but are apparently doing well with the twin-triple centurion at eight.

 

[Scaly piscine]

Stokes bowled well but not well enough to make it an egregious decision to drop him. Plunkett should feel more aggrieved.

He took 5-90 in the match whilst the opening bowlers let India bat 90-100 overs on a damp green pitch.

How the **** does taking 5-90 merit dropping when Broad cost England the match and bowled far more overs (and was perfect to be rotated)? It's utterly absurd.

 

[Spikey]

by not passing 10 in about your last 100 innings

 

[BoyBrumby]

He took 5-90 in the match whilst the opening bowlers let India bat 90-100 overs on a damp green pitch.

How the **** does taking 5-90 merit dropping when Broad cost England the match and bowled far more overs (and was perfect to be rotated)? It's utterly absurd.

Man has a point.

Stokes's feet are supposed to be ruined, but then so are Broad's knees.

I suppose Broad is more likely to produce a magical spell and run through a side, but his retention does rather smack of wishful thinking.

 

[91Jmay]

Because a) 3 of those wickets were tailenders and b) he was batting like Phil Tufnell.

 

[BoyBrumby]

Broad hardly batted like Sobers, tbf

 

[King Pietersen]

Broad's picked as a bowler. Stokes as an all-rounder. An all-rounder who's last 10 innings read: 0, 5, 5, 4, 0, 4, 0, 0, 0, 0.

 

[TT Boy]

Warne is one to talk. He looks like a cat. Freak.

 

[Stapel]

To me, dropping Broad seems an abject absurdity

 

[Spark]

Broad hardly batted like Sobers, tbf

As pointed above, though, Broad's batting isn't why he's getting selected - it's because he's still the second-best/best seamer England have.

I can understanding resting/rotation, but this talk of dropping him seems a bit silly to me.

 

[Stapel]

Oh yeah! Alastair Cook plays a pull-shot. Maybe I get carried away, but he did so with the authority of a man in form! And to confirm he too feels he is back in form, he flashes wildly to the next delivery!

 

[flibbertyjibber]

As pointed above, though, Broad's batting isn't why he's getting selected - it's because he's still the second-best/best seamer England have.

I can understanding resting/rotation, but this talk of dropping him seems a bit silly to me.

I'd have only dropped him if he was unfit. he looked laboured at Lord's as if he has a niggle but obviously they decided that Stokes and Plunkett were more in need of the rest than he was.

 

[Maximas]

You don't drop a guy like Broad unless he's really in the **** IMO

 

[grecian]

I always love contrasting Scaly's posts to someone he likes to someone he doesn't. Every Monty wicket was automatically dismissed if it was a tail-ender, and he constantly went on about his terrible batting even though he was a number 11.

Having said that I think Stokes is pretty unlucky, but I've been saying he's a bowler who bats for ages. That 100 in Oz muddying the waters IMHO. Like Broads ton against Pakistan. Neither are all-rounders.

 

[Spark]

Oh yeah! Alastair Cook plays a pull-shot. Maybe I get carried away, but he did so with the authority of a man in form! And to confirm he too feels he is back in form, he flashes wildly to the next delivery!

So just how much money are you looking at here

 

[Stapel]

So just how much money are you looking at here

I won't have to work for the best part of half an hour.

 

[Maximas]

I won't have to work for the best part of half an hour.

ah well

 

[Spark]

Oh wow that's cruel

 

[Maximas]

I'm pretty pissed off that tactic eventually bought a wicket

 

[91Jmay]

Urgh. Gutted for him, really well fought. Still a big knock given the circumstances, well played.