***Official*** England in India

[wpdavid]

Man that 144.7 km/hr yorker certainly woke Paul "We will beat Pakistan 3-0" Collingwood up

Er, minor detail, but that's not what he said.

 

[simmy]

England's bowlers might be devastating in these conditons. 300 or more is far away right now though, a job to be done.

Completely agreed. If we get Dravid early.. this game will be so damn interesting! Cant wait.

 

[Pedro Delgado]

Completely agreed. If we get Dravid early.. this game will be so damn interesting! Cant wait.

Weather might be the victor though http://weather.yahoo.com/forecast/INXX0185.html no idea how reliable that forcast is.

 

[aussie]

Well if it weren't for all the interuptions this 1st day followed the same pattern from Nagpur. If thats the case another Collingwood+ Tail recovery tommmorow

 

[Scaly piscine]

Anyways, another day another high percentage of bad dismissals.

After seeing them on the news the percentage is 100. All 4 were horrible.

Hopefully a Collingwood + Flintoff recovery tomorrow, without an across the line shot this time.

 

[open365]

The commentators are real dopes.

On Strauss' exit-

"I think he played at a bit of a wide one"

Well done Sherlock.

 

[Tom Halsey]

The commentators are real dopes.

On Strauss' exit-

"I think he played at a bit of a wide one"

Well done Sherlock.

Yes, but the best of them occasionally say things they later wished they hadn't.

Barry Davies is one of my favourite commentators, yet he once famously said "if it had gone in, it would have been a goal."

 

[BoyBrumby]

After seeing them on the news the percentage is 100. All 4 were horrible.

Hopefully a Collingwood + Flintoff recovery tomorrow, without an across the line shot this time.

Think you're maybe being a tad harsh on Cook there, but the other three were clearly running their own "most burkiest dismissal" comp.

Which Bell won for mine. Bowled shouldering arms is never less than hilarious. He's not too flash against the spinners, is he? Thought after he did half-fairly against Kaneria it might've laid a few of his Warne-shaped ghosts of the summer to rest. Clearly not.

Strauss seems physically unable to resist having a half-arsed slash at wide ones nowadays & KP's demise was a crushing anti-climax as he was looking well set.

 

[Scaly piscine]

Cook played across the line to a delivery that hardly did anything and got out, which for a player like him is poor. Opening batsmen especially should not be playing across the line.

 

[adharcric]

"It was suggested that his concentration was broken by an unscheduled toilet stop, another great English tradition maintained today. But, once again Pietersen broke with English stereotype. It was not the prawns that did for him. "Spaghetti bolognaise", he sheepishly admitted." -Cricinfo

That's it guys. All we need to do is feed KP some alluring Punjabi dishes which he just can't resist. He'll never make a 50 against India again.

 

[adharcric]

So Munaf Patel was bowling regularly at 85+ in his final spell, and apparently clocked a yorker at 89.9 mph. I think we've got just a little pace on our hands this time.

 

[scriptkidd]

yeah seems good just hope he does not get slower like other fast bowlers that have entered the squad.
very interesting article.
http://content-usa.cricinfo.com/indveng/content/current/story/240120.html

 

[Sanz]

He may be lethal, fast and <ADD other adjectives> but I will wait at least a year before I jump on the bandwagon.

 

[Jono]

At the same time you should have waited more than one spell to dismiss him though.

 

[Sanz]

KP's statement at the end of the day smacks of arrogance :-

"I don't let spinners bowl to me,I feel a little bit sorry for the little kid who bowled today but that's just how I play spinners."

 

[dontcloseyoureyes]

He's an arrogant bloke. It's part of what makes him so good.

 

[Sanz]

At the same time you should have waited more than one spell to dismiss him though.

Well he has been hyped for close to 3 years and when he finally made his debut he was bowling under 80 mph. And I didn't dismiss him, I was wondering about all the hype about his bowling.

And average speed of 82 mph doesn't make him the next rawalpindi express Sorry Bharoch express, it just makes him mariginally faster than other Indian bowlers but still considerably slower than most fast bowlers in the world.

 

[Sanz]

He's an arrogant bloke. It's part of what makes him so good.

Well I hope he got to look at his performance against Kumble .

 

[Jono]

KP's statement at the end of the day smacks of arrogance :-

"I don't let spinners bowl to me,I feel a little bit sorry for the little kid who bowled today but that's just how I play spinners."

His interview was actually very good if you listened to it live (sometimes words on paper don't always come out right).

He paid a lot of credit to Patel and Chawla, and mentioned how gutsy and confident Patel was to come out first ball after lunch and bowl a wrong-un straight away, his 7th ball in international cricket.

I generally like KP interviews. In regards to the "I don't let spinners bowl to me", he referred that to the fact that Warne got on top of him during the middle of the Ashes so he used a counter-attack strategy at the Oval which paid off.

 

[Jono]

Well he has been hyped for close to 3 years and when he finally made his debut he was bowling under 80 mph. And I didn't dismiss him, I was wondering about all the hype about his bowling.

And average speed of 82 mph doesn't make him the next rawalpindi express Sorry Bharoch express, it just makes him mariginally faster than other Indian bowlers but still considerably slower than most fast bowlers in the world.

I'm not too bothered about how fast he is, I'm more bothered if he's not of pedestrian pace. If he's of decent pace, and can bowl good lines and yorkers like he showed yesterday, that's promising.