***Official*** England in India 2016/17

[indiaholic]

Well played India.

Wonder if we can come back at all. Got to make some changes to the side but the replacements other than Woakes don't inspire any confidence anyway.

Almost certainly will win a game..

 

[Red Wingz]

Cricbuzz commentary

Great bowling by the Indian bowlers. At last, England gets the taste of a typical 5th day Indian wicket. Also will be wondering how Indians chased down 387 at Chennai on a wicket which was doing more than what Vizag is doing.

 

[shankar]

Sure you can. Win the toss, bat and put on 450 before the pitch turns into this ****.

Yeah England getting bowled out for 250 was inevitable

 

[GIMH]

Bah. Not the score I wanted to wake up to.

 

[Daemon]

Nasser's gone on non stop about Kohli's poor captaincy moments. He wants so badly to rip him to shreds but he's always scared to do it and adds a disclaimer. Smart man tbf.

 

[flibbertyjibber]

Nasser's gone on non stop about Kohli's poor captaincy moments. He wants so badly to rip him to shreds but he's always scared to do it and adds a disclaimer. Smart man tbf.

I guess the Kohli captaincy might be a number of things, he remembers what certain players have done against India in the past so goes defensive against them a bit quick, may not have total faith in certain bowlers and also might just be giving the bowlers the field they want anyway. Guess we won't know till the book comes out and he puts his thoughts from each series down in print.

 

[harsh.ag]

What's also pissing off is when criticizing the field placements or bowling changes, Gavaskar and Co. go along the lines of "An attacking captain would have ...."

No, mother****ers! A good captain with a good strategy would have.... does't have anything to do with attacking or not.

 

[wpdavid]

Yuck.
I've only seen cricinfo's descriptions of the wickets, but Duckett's looks horrible again. Have we ever had a worse top order batsman out here? I can't remember one.

I suppose the only consolidation is we have a weird history of coming back well in India after a massive walloping early in the series. But it's hard to see it happening given the weaknesses in this side.

 

[Daemon]

Man watching Duckett walk off was heartbreaking. He knew it was likely his last chance on the tour.

 

[honestbharani]

What an idiot Kohli is, continually keeps dropping catches at that position. Hope Root doesn't inflate his average too much. Unlikely to as he is generally only prolific in England but should never give chances. Stupid Kohli.

Come on mate, there is that but if Root got a score here, it would be scoring in very tough conditions, totally worth whatever his average ends up being. This 28 here is better than some of his 100s I would dare say.

 

[GIMH]

Yuck.
I've only seen cricinfo's descriptions of the wickets, but Duckett's looks horrible again. Have we ever had a worse top order batsman out here? I can't remember one.

I suppose the only consolidation is we have a weird history of coming back well in India after a massive walloping early in the series. But it's hard to see it happening given the weaknesses in this side.

Vince belongs in the argument.

I don't think it's that hard to see it happening. We weren't far off winning the first Test, and that was without Anderson. Bring Woakes in for Ansari (and probably replace Duckett too) and the side looks much stronger.

 

[honestbharani]

Ashwin!!!!!!!

altozzzzz How you been?

 

[Dan_M_Bali]

Cricbuzz commentary

Great bowling by the Indian bowlers. At last, England gets the taste of a typical 5th day Indian wicket. Also will be wondering how Indians chased down 387 at Chennai on a wicket which was doing more than what Vizag is doing.

Some of the worst captaining and bowling to Sehwag I've ever seen. Also, don't think they guys wanted to play for KP

 

[wpdavid]

Vince belongs in the argument.

I don't think it's that hard to see it happening. We weren't far off winning the first Test, and that was without Anderson. Bring Woakes in for Ansari (and probably replace Duckett too) and the side looks much stronger.

True. And it was pretty hard seeing us come back from early losses in 2012, 2006 and 1984/85, so who knows.
Cook needs to win a few tosses though.


As for Vince, he's probably better than Duckett, but by 'out here' I literally meant in India, where Vice hasn't played, of course.

 

[honestbharani]

Fun stat: Root and Stokes have the same number of away centuries(Stokes has one in Aus though!)

Mate, lil advice, no need to post antagonistically here. We understand you dont rate Root, no need to bring it up everytime. I am only telling this here coz I feel you are a better poster than the few trolls who have decided to show up recently. Its ok to have an opinion that is not popular, its a lil tiresome to bring it up everytime. Sure, Root failed but others did too. Hardly a great point in your favor yet.

 

[flibbertyjibber]

As for Vince, he's probably better than Duckett, but by 'out here' I literally meant in India, where Vice hasn't played, of course.

Not that I can remember, Blakey hardly played and Bell did manage some scores among the mediocrity.

 

[Contra]

Ash!

 

[duffer]

Booya

 

[Shri]

Ashwin!

 

[vcs]

Hope we finish this soon so I can get some ****ing work done in the 2nd half