*Official* India Tour of England 2018

[flibbertyjibber]

Cook English record for most catches in a series, apparently.

Probably got record for drops too as he has shelled loads.

 

[OverratedSanity]

Yeah but when Root was top scoring all the time with a 60/70 he was getting pelters for not going on. Kohli has 4 scores this series between 45-60.

I don't see your point? It's pretty ****ing obvious what the differnce is. Kohli's getting tons. No one's going to convert all their starts.

Kohli literally is in the top 3-4 conversion rates of all time from 50 to 100. Seems a stupid thing to criticize him for.

 

[OverratedSanity]

Vihari's using up a career's worth of luck here.

 

[flibbertyjibber]

I don't see your point? It's pretty ****ing obvious what the differnce is. Kohli's getting tons. No one's going to convert all their starts.

Kohli literally is in the top 3-4 conversion rates of all time from 50 to 100. Seems a stupid thing to criticize him for.

Point is he has thrown his wicket away on numerous occasions when set in this series.

 

[trundler]

Eh, Vihari has been poor but geez, this must be a huge step up from Indian quicks in Ranji. Hardly unexpected.

 

[flibbertyjibber]

Vihari's using up a career's worth of luck here.

He doesn't look great but he is battling it out to be fair. Looks to be fighting more than a lot of the Indians have in the series.

Might have it up top which is important.

 

[Burner]

Not a Nair fan but imagine how he must feel with Vihari waltzing in ahead of him.

You have been serving drinks to shits to shits like Rahul all series and just when a spot opens up, your team imports a fisherman from India. Must not feel good.

 

[OverratedSanity]

He doesn't look great but he is battling it out to be fair. Looks to be fighting more than a lot of the Indians have in the series.

Might have it up top which is important.

He's played a bunch of terrible ill-advised pull shots which have somehow landed safe. I really dont think this is the sort of "fight" that is admirable.

Tbf to him he's played ok since that over.

 

[OverratedSanity]

Hope the commentators stop wanking themselves off to Pant now finally. Dodgy keeping, and doesnt look a red ball batsman's arsehole on the evidence of this series. But the comms have still waxed lyrical about him because he hit a six and always smiles and does kip-ups.

HE'S JUST HAVING FUN OUT THERE MAGGLE

 

[vcs]

Yeah but when Root was top scoring all the time with a 60/70 he was getting pelters for not going on. Kohli has 4 scores this series between 45-60.

Two of them in tough 4th innings situations where even surviving was difficult and 50 was a pretty good score.

But yeah, he's thrown it away the other two times. Hard to blame him considering the state of the rest.

 

[trundler]

Throughly England's day today.

Looking back, some hilarious suggestions were made here and some people got it oh so wrong. My personal favourite was the suggestion to open with Ashwin.

 

[flibbertyjibber]

Hope the commentators stop wanking themselves off to Pant now finally. Dodgy keeping, and doesnt look a red ball batsman's arsehole on the evidence of this series. But the comms have still waxed lyrical about him because he hit a six and always smiles and does kip-ups.

HE'S JUST HAVING FUN OUT THERE MAGGLE

Looks ideal for shorter versions of the game but Saha will surely return once he is fit.

 

[karan316]

Hope the commentators stop wanking themselves off to Pant now finally. Dodgy keeping, and doesnt look a red ball batsman's arsehole on the evidence of this series. But the comms have still waxed lyrical about him because he hit a six and always smiles and does kip-ups.

HE'S JUST HAVING FUN OUT THERE MAGGLE

MAGGLE

 

[andmark]

Hope the commentators stop wanking themselves off to Pant now finally. Dodgy keeping, and doesnt look a red ball batsman's arsehole on the evidence of this series. But the comms have still waxed lyrical about him because he hit a six and always smiles and does kip-ups.

HE'S JUST HAVING FUN OUT THERE MAGGLE

I'm trying to think of cricket's commentary equivalent to JBL. Knowledgeable, annoying and a bit of a ****. Shane Warne?

 

[marc71178]

So when can we start commenting on Kohli throwing it away when set? Not the first time he has a score then gets out lazily caught.

By cunningly doing it on 49 he hasn't affected his conversion rate though...

 

[ImpatientLime]

Yeah but when Root was top scoring all the time with a 60/70 he was getting pelters for not going on. Kohli has 4 scores this series between 45-60.

kohli has 23 test centuries ffs. root only has 13 and his last one was over a year ago.

 

[SeamUp]

kohli has 23 test centuries ffs. root only has 13 and his last one was over a year ago.

Was that where we gave Root two lives early on, on a pitch doing loads but only going to get tougher to bat on with spin from from day 1 session 1 ?

If it is. Geez Root's hundredless run is worse than I realised.

 

[ImpatientLime]

Was that where we gave Root two lives early on, on a pitch doing loads but only going to get tougher to bat on with spin from from day 1 session 1 ?

If it is. Geez Root's hundredless run is worse than I realised.

close but not quite.

140 odd at edgbaston on a wicket as flat as a pancake, under lights v the west indies.

 

[TestMatch]

"This is India's best traveling team! This will be like home conditions! We are prepared!" - Ravi Shastri after ever oversees loss.

 

[S.Kennedy]

This will be a 4-1 pasting. That is what the history books will record it as.