England V India - Predictions

[NUFAN]

Score: 1-1
Most runs: VVS Laxman
Most wickets: Tremlett
Most catches: Prior
Biggest innings: Laxman 188
Best bowling: Tremlett
MOTS (Eng) Tremlett
MOTS (Ind) Laxman
Axed: Mukund, Broad
Random Prediction - Laxman scores 3 centuries in successive tests.

 

[Cevno]

Surprise pick: Praveen Kumar/Amit Mishra
Random prediction : Mishra and Kumar to do well if picked.
Dravid to find some form back in his favorite overseas country.
Strauss to be Zaheer's bunny.

Predictions made before the West Indies series too.
Now only if the Dhoni/Management, Selectors listen to me and pick Mishra

 

[flibbertyjibber]

Score : 2-1 England
Most runs : Cook
Most wickets : Tremlett
Most catches : Prior
Biggest Innings : Cook
Best bowling : Anderson
MOTS : Eng Cook
MOTS : India Tendulkar
Axed : Broad, PK and Raina
Surprise pick : Yuvraj

How wrong was I?

 

[weeman27bob]

Score: 2-0 to England
Most runs: Ian Bell
Most wickets: Stuart Broad to have the series of his life.
Most catches: Sehwag
Biggest innings: Sehwag, 230 at the Oval
Best bowling: 7-35 in an inspired spell from Broad
MOTS (Eng): Broad
MOTS (Ind): Tendulkar
Axed: Strauss
Surprise pick: Mooen Ali
Random prediction: Series to have less exciting cricket than this one.

*cough*

Pretty damn close on the best bowling too.

 

[GIMH]

Biggest innings: Trott, 326 at Trent Bridge

If this one comes true then it's safe to say it'll be the greatest innings ever

Random prediction: Swann or Broad to hit a ton

This one might work out for me

 

[Jacknife]

If this one comes true then it's safe to say it'll be the greatest innings ever



This one might work out for me

74* as good as, I say.

 

[Daemon]

I've probably made the worst predictions so far. Half the people I predicted to do well are injured or weren't even picked

 

[Spark]

*cough*

Pretty damn close on the best bowling too.

Way he's going right now, still could do it.

 

[GIMH]

Score: 4-0 to England if the weather holds, 2 or 3-0 if it doesn't

Good shout. Hedged my bets a bit I guess, but 4-0 still very much on the cards and if it doesn't happen then the lost sessions due to rain can be blamed so I win anyway

Most runs: Ali Cook

Thought he might sneak this but it looks like he will finish 4th (unless someone plays a mega innings today)

Most wickets: Jimmy *** Machine Anderson

I think Broad is a few ahead, Jimmy second.

Most catches: Strauss

Cbf to look this up at the min but I don't reckon it's right - he's dropped quite a few.

Biggest innings: Trott, 326 at Trent Bridge

Think Trott was about 300 short across both his innings at TB. One of them was a crackhead innings though tbf

Best bowling: Anderson, 8-62 at Trent Bridge

I think the best figures were Broad at TB weren't they?

MOTS (Eng): Anderson

He's probably ranked 4th for said accolade, behind Broad, Pietersen and Bell

MOTS (Ind): Jono

Think Dravid might just pip him

Axed: Zaheer Can't

Meh, the ends justify the means

Surprise pick: Jono, drafted in for the 4th when the rest bottle it

Would have been as useful as RP Singh tbf

Random prediction: Swann or Broad to hit a ton

No ton, but Broad was out there for two of England's most important partnerships of the series. Also denied opportunities to bat due to India's incompetence.

And just for fun, the CW version:

Country with the most infracted poster: India

I guess this was more or less a tie between Furball and Bun, I'll have half a point

Well as usual I am wide of the mark with most things but quite happy that I was on the money with the scoreline. I am sure there are probably some gun tips in this thread but I cbf to find them so if you want a pat on the back then do it yourself

 

[Spark]

You know the world has gone weird when GIMH makes half-decent predictions.

 

[morgieb]

Score: 2-1 England
Most runs: Cook
Most wickets: Zaheer
Most catches: Prior
Biggest innings: Sehwag to hit a double century, probably at The Oval.
Best bowling: Zaheer to take a 7-fer, before getting injured again
MOTS (Eng) Anderson
MOTS (Ind) Zaheer
Axed: Ish*nt, Bored, whoever India pick at #6.
Surprise pick: Praveen Kumar
Random prediction: At least one test to go down to the wire
Country with the most infracted poster: Scotland

No
No
No
Yes
No
No
No
No
None of them got axed.
Yes, although it wasn't a surprise really.
No
I think so?

 

[GIMH]

Tbf Lord's went into the evening session on day five and today could go all the way too.

 

[fredfertang]

Score: 4-0 England
Most runs: Bell
Most wickets:Tremlett
Most catches:Strauss
Biggest innings: 550
Best bowling: 6-34
MOTS (Eng) Tremlett
MOTS (Ind) wont be awarded through embarassment
Axed: KP
Surprise pick: Gary Keedy
Random prediction Hat trick for an England bowler

And just for fun, the CW version:

Country with the most infracted poster: To celebrate the return of the prodigal Dickinson, France

So GIMH and I are the only ones to correctly predict the scoreline and I'm also hugely impressed with my random prediction - as for the rest of my predictions they are typical of the man who failed to get a single question right throughout LMS - but who cares? I got the all important one spot on

 

[GIMH]

So GIMH and I are the only ones to correctly predict the scoreline and I'm also hugely impressed with my random prediction - as for the rest of my predictions they are typical of the man who failed to get a single question right throughout LMS - but who cares? I got the all important one spot on

The India MOTS tip wasn't far off - not to take away from Dravid but you might as well retitle the award to 'who had the better series Dravid or Praveen?'

 

[Howe_zat]

Score: 2-1 England
Most runs: Ian Bell
Most wickets: Jimmy Anderson
Most catches: Graeme Swann
Biggest innings: Jonathan Trott, 188* at Lord's
Best bowling: Zaheer Khan, 6-80
MOTS (Eng) Ian Bell
MOTS (Ind) VVS Laxman
Axed: Ishant Sharma
Surprise pick: Amit Mishra
Random prediction: Tim Bresnan to come in when an England bowler gets injured. The Lord's Test will be drawn with VVS Laxman clinging on for India.

And just for fun, the CW version:

Country with the most infracted poster: Scotland.

Mostly poor, though Ding-a-ling did have a great series. Mishap got picked, but it was forced by injury, and the Timbo prediction was rather tame. Only prediction I'm proud of is the last.

 

[zaremba]

Score: England 2 India 1 half mark
Most runs: Cook fail
Most wickets: Zaheer fail
Most catches: wk: Prior; outfielder: Strauss CBF to check
Biggest innings: team: India 645-6 fail; individual: Cook 190 half mark
Best bowling: Tremlett 9-43 fail
MOTS (Eng): Prior fail
MOTS (Ind): Gambhir fail
Axed: B-Road fail
Surprise pick: Chris Nash fail
Random prediction: match-fixing controversy will engulf one or possibly both teams fail

And just for fun, the CW version:

Country with the most infracted poster: India! CBF to check

Which equals a whole lot of FAIL. As per usual.

 

[flibbertyjibber]

Score : 2-1 England
Most runs : Cook
Most wickets : Tremlett
Most catches : Prior
Biggest Innings : Cook
Best bowling : Anderson
MOTS : Eng Cook
MOTS : India Tendulkar
Axed : Broad, PK and Raina
Surprise pick : Yuvraj

Way out

 

[superkingdave]

Score: 2-0 India
Most runs: Ghambir
Most wickets: Harbhajan
Most catches: Prior
Biggest innings: 207 Gambhir
Best bowling: 6/72 Harbhajan
MOTS (Eng) : Bell
MOTS (Ind): Ghambir
Axed: Sreesanth
Surprise pick: Dernbach - at the oval, will go 0-100 off 20 overs
Random prediction: Tremlett to miss a test after banging his head on a doorframe

Yeah, pretty accurate. Nobody knows for sure that Tremlett didn't miss because of an aggressive doorframe.

 

[Jacknife]

Score: 2-1
Most runs: Trott
Most wickets: Anderson
Most catches: Prior
Biggest innings: KP Oval 187
Best bowling: Anderson 6/76
MOTS (Eng) Anderson
MOTS (Ind) Tendulkar
Axed: Ishant
Surprise pick: Adrian Shankar
Random prediction: Sehwag to have a poor series average less than 35.

Could have sworn blind I picked KP for most runs, thought he would have a excellent series, went for Trott, he would have had the most if he had played, so that's fair enough.
No
No
No
Yes
No (But very close as far as KP got 175 at the Oval, only 13 out)
No
No
No
No
Yes
Just the Prior one and the Sehwag one.

 

[MW1304]

Every single one of my predictions was horrendously out. Although a 2-0 England victory was halfway there.