***Official*** England in India

[SpaceMonkey]

Although still only in the 3rd over, England seem to be able to pick singles at will atm. India need to tighten up a bit.

 

[Pratters]

2025 Ashes series will be named Corey's ashes!

Like 2005 was named Liam Botham's Ashes?

*waits for the next generation fans point out my folly at doing this 20 years from now*

 

[Right arm fast]

what sort of speed is patel bowling at?

 

[SpaceMonkey]

Like 2005 was named Liam Botham's Ashes?

*waits for the next generation fans point out my folly at doing this 20 years from now*

Thats because the turncoat turned to egg chasing!

 

[SpaceMonkey]

what sort of speed is patel bowling at?

77-80mph with a few slightly faster / slower ofcourse.

 

[Barney Rubble]

77-80mph with a few slightly faster / slower ofcourse.

And he's The Fastest Bowler In India (TM)?

 

[adharcric]

77-80mph with a few slightly faster / slower ofcourse.

I already saw a handful at 85. He must be building up.

 

[Sanz]

Wasn't this guy supposed to be our new pace messiah who could consistently bowl @ 145 kmph ?

 

[adharcric]

Wasn't this guy supposed to be our new pace messiah who could consistently bowl @ 145 kmph ?

I've heard he used to be express but cut down to become more accurate. I think he's still pretty fast though, let's wait before we come to conclusions about his speed. Most bowlers build up the pace.

 

[Sanz]

Bhajji on the attack now.

 

[adharcric]

Hopefully he works some magic at his home ground. It would be an injustice to his talent for him to be dropped from the team. Looking forward to seeing Chawla as well.

 

[SpaceMonkey]

And he's The Fastest Bowler In India (TM)?

Have to remember its his first test match. Nerves will be there in handfuls id imagine

He did speed up a bit after a few overs. Nothing express though.

 

[adharcric]

And he's The Fastest Bowler In India (TM)?

No, he's not the fastest. I believe Abid Nabi is the fastest, followed by Vikram Singh. Patel is up there. VR Singh was preferred to Munaf probably because of his additional pace, but Munaf showed what he could do in the warmup match.

 

[SpaceMonkey]

No, he's not the fastest. I believe Abid Nabi is the fastest, followed by Vikram Singh. Patel is up there. VR Singh was preferred to Munaf probably because of his additional pace, but Munaf showed what he could do in the warmup match.

They showed the warm up match wickets he got on Sky while they were waiting for the game to start. The pitch looked very green and most of his wickets were from swinging / seaming the full ball into the batsmen. Unless it was reverse swing, he wont find anywhere near that in this test match.

 

[superkingdave]

looks a decent start, lets hope Strauss doesn't get a mid innings crisis like usual

 

[adharcric]

They showed the warm up match wickets he got on Sky while they were waiting for the game to start. The pitch looked very green and most of his wickets were from swinging / seaming the full ball into the batsmen. Unless it was reverse swing, he wont find anywhere near that in this test match.

yeah cricinfo said he worked some reverse swing in their match reports if i recall correctly. if it was a greentop, why was he the only bowler who picked up a good number of wickets?

 

[superkingdave]

okay ill just shut up

 

[adharcric]

what a beauty dhoni!

 

[SpaceMonkey]

yeah cricinfo said he worked some reverse swing in their match reports if i recall correctly. if it was a greentop, why was he the only bowler who picked up a good number of wickets?

Good question but it looked pretty green to me, certainly more green than we'll ever see in any test match this series.

 

[SpaceMonkey]

Nice catch, but yet again Strauss gives his wicket to a bad ball either edging a wide one of edging onto his stumps