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***Official*** 4th Test @ The Oval, London - 2nd-6th September

honestbharani

honestbharani

Whatever it takes!!!
Sunny G and moron Manju speculating that England will play Wood for COverton and Buttler for Ali and those would be the only changes they will make. Saqib Mahmood is injured apparently, btw.
 
honestbharani

honestbharani

Whatever it takes!!!
Time for some well earned gloating, I feel.

honestbharani said:
Have faith in The Lord, you Heathens.
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honestbharani said:
Yes, but the Lord plays for our side. :p Mere mortals can't.
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honestbharani said:
He is gonna get us crucial wickets today to get us the win too.
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honestbharani said:
The last two tests have both had a last day collapse. I think it will happen today too and Lord will win it for us.
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honestbharani said:
England played really well here. So easy to lose concentration after so many overs in the field. Openers who put up a good partnership after 150 overs on the field are really not appreciated enough in cricket, I feel.

Lord to do some magic tomorrow and get us the win.
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As you can see, I did not doubt it for a single second. Not now, not even in 2017...


honestbharani said:
Yeah got lots of time for Shardul. Think he will succeed in international cricket. Would help if he can be decent with the bat and in the field too. Definitely see him playing ODIs before long.
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Suck it @RossTaylorsBox @sledger and @Flem274*
 
Red_Ink_Squid

Red_Ink_Squid

Global Moderator
honestbharani said:
Time for some well earned gloating, I feel.
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Ah, well earned gloating you say? We can get in board with that too.
Most England fans here said:
We are quite bad at cricket and will lose.
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Most England fans here said:
Crikey we are not very good at this, are we.
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Most England fans here said:
I foresee a terrible defeat for our cricket team.
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A single anonymous England fan said:
India are very weak.
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Ok, maybe not the last quote, but otherwise this was a raging success for the English CW contingent.
 
Teja.

Teja.

Global Moderator
Tbf, this Indian team was bundled out for 78 (or was it 87) last week and 191 on a flat track the first innings of this test on a fairly docile wicket. We needed the miracle of nearly all the 11 players in he team contributing to put together a 400+ total for the first time in years abroad. This is not likely to recur with any regularity.

England definitely has a big chance of equalising in the next test, especially because Kohli will likely just play the same XI.
 
honestbharani

honestbharani

Whatever it takes!!!
Uppercut said:
I think the standard was fairly high from both sides in this test tbf. England’s fielding in the second innings was the only rich source of comic relief.
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Yeah, England should not panic tbh. A question about Burns fielding at second slip. Maybe his eyesight issue makes it easier for him to spot the ball from gully. If that is the case, isn't it imperative that one of the other batters puts their hands up for second slip? Why change something that is working? Let him field at gully.
 
Teja.

Teja.

Global Moderator
The thing I was most impressed about in this game is that our pace attack was as good as ever despite replacing the two most experienced bowlers with 2 pacers who are No.5 and No.6 on the list, at best.

Umesh got 6 wickets and the Lord took wickets whenever we really needed them and nobody else could find a wicket, including dismissing Root twice.
 
Manee

Manee

Cricketer Of The Year
This, more than anything else, has convinced me this is a new era of Indian cricket. We've done well in Australia before but the last time we won two Tests in England was, erm...a long time ago. Pujara looked a different man to the one of the last few years and Rohit has matured into the king of the batting line up. Great to see Pant get some runs, Kohli get a few and Thakur prove that he is a legend. And the bowling was great also - Bumrah has re-solidified his reputation after looking out of sorts going into the series, Umesh Yadav looked as good as ever, Siraj was fine and Thakur got three of the most crucial wickets of the game. Jadeja was fine - nothing special but looks like he's finding his feet after time away from sustained Test bowling but he definitely did his job by dismissing Hameed and Moeen.
 
GIMH

GIMH

Norwood's on Fire
Manee said:
This, more than anything else, has convinced me this is a new era of Indian cricket. We've done well in Australia before but the last time we won two Tests in England was, erm...a long time ago. Pujara looked a different man to the one of the last few years and Rohit has matured into the king of the batting line up. Great to see Pant get some runs, Kohli get a few and Thakur prove that he is a legend. And the bowling was great also - Bumrah has re-solidified his reputation after looking out of sorts going into the series, Umesh Yadav looked as good as ever, Siraj was fine and Thakur got three of the most crucial wickets of the game. Jadeja was fine - nothing special but looks like he's finding his feet after time away from sustained Test bowling but he definitely did his job by dismissing Hameed and Moeen.
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You wanted them all permanently dropped a few days ago!
 
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