silentstriker
The Wheel is Forever
You don't chase down 250+ on this pitch, let alone 300. Absolutely will not happen.A collapse and a quick start and India could win this by 7 wickets.
There is a long way to go in this game.
You don't chase down 250+ on this pitch, let alone 300. Absolutely will not happen.A collapse and a quick start and India could win this by 7 wickets.
There is a long way to go in this game.
I see.Uhm, no not really. It didn't spin THAT much, and if Dhoni had kept his weight on his right foot he could have reacted to the edge. He wouldn't have caught it with bad keeping. But especially considering he's crocked, criticism of him for missing it isn't really fair. It's something someone that, say, Sangakkara at his peak might have got to.
It's unlikely on any surface, 270-280 is almost always something you're distinct second-favourite if you've been set it. But with Gambhir, Sehwag, Dravid, Tendulkar, and even Yuvraj and a half-fit Dhoni in the batting, and an attack that can quite easily revert at ANY POINT to a Flintoff one-man-show, you're taking one hell of a leap of faith if you take victory(\defeat) for granted.You don't chase down 250+ on this pitch, let alone 300. Absolutely will not happen.
Mate's b'day. Thus, a) not going is not an option and b) it's a round-your-place-for-5:30 job (I'm walking, so it's 3\4-hr's journey) so no highlights for me.Don't go then?
edit, plus there are highlights on at 4.30, SSE
Something has to be obviously catchable to be a "chance" in my book. Has to be something you can say "he should catch that every time and if he ever doesn't he's made a genuine, obvious error".Definitely counts as a drop for the purposes of FCA IMO, but it's not something Dhoni would have taken more times than he'd drop it.
One of the most blatant posts in CW history.I was doing the G/F so I missed most of the play
It obviously was catchable - it's something I'd expect a Test-class keeper to take about 45% of the time TBH.Something has to be obviously catchable to be a "chance" in my book. Has to be something you can say "he should catch that every time and if he ever doesn't he's made a genuine, obvious error".
That's why I hate the term "half-chance". Yes, there's the odd thing that might be caught on a minority of occasions, but something is either obviously catchable or it's not obviously catchable.
I'm gonna scour around SS.C and see if I can find some web 'lights now, this is gonna annoy the hell out of me else.
Likewise but reverse, thank youMetric system is the work of Satan himself. I have to convert everything into inches, feet and miles for it to have any meaning.
I don't know - Dhoni is significantly into the process of going up with the ball turning in towards Strauss when there was a fairly strong outside nick that took it right in the other direction. He does not move his hands between the nick and the ball clipping the outside of the protection at the end of the glove.It obviously was catchable - it's something I'd expect a Test-class keeper to take about 45% of the time TBH.
I'm trying not to because that sounds even more horrible.Imagine the batting if we added Owais Shah in as well!
I was doing the G/F so I missed most of the play but from the bits I caught here and there