***Official England in India***

[TT Boy]

Fred has to take the new ball out here. Broad has no potency.

 

[Richard]

Good morning Richard.

Well there have been worse things.

This'll be the first time I've watched the sun rise for a while.

 

[Precambrian]

Freddo showing his class already. why he didn't open the bowling.

 

[TT Boy]

Poor fielding from Ravi, he should have stopped that.

 

[IndGunner]

Flintoff rarely opens, hes like a back up kinda of thing. As in England know hes great so they rather the other bowlers get lucky b4 bringin him on.

 

[Richard]

Fred has to take the new ball out here. Broad has no potency.

He rarely does, but he's still gotten a crapload of wickets over the last year.

Last 21 games he averages 21.44, and his economy-rate while not good at all at 4.53-an-over isn't anywhere near as poor as it was previously and has tended to be in the longer game.

 

[Precambrian]

Haha, Gambhir doesnt want to take his chances with big Fred, running to sqaure leg almost.

 

[Richard]

Freddo showing his class already. why he didn't open the bowling.

Hardly ever does, he's not I don't think an opening bowler by preference.

Anderson and Broad have opened the bowling in just about every ODI they've played together.

 

[Richard]

Gambhir playing-and-missing at Harmison already.

 

[Precambrian]

Excellent bounce. I like the look of this pitch.

 

[Richard]

Bopara batting eight is utterly ridiculous.

You want a waste of a place, waste it on a waste of space like Luke Wright, not on a potential top-order batsman whose credentials can only be damaged by playing such an insignificant role.

Indian 50 up.

 

[TT Boy]

Start by Harmy.

 

[Richard]

Hoho, so this game is the start of this batting-side-taking-Powerplay lark. ITSTL, will be funny to see how this goes.

 

[sirdj]

If I remember correctly Rajkot used to be a 300par pitch till they re-laid it. Nowadays 250-260 is a good score. India is 20% there already

 

[Richard]

Who chooses which Powerplay is the two-man one and which is the three-man one, does anyone know?

Or is it a case of whoever gets there first?

 

[Precambrian]

Hoho, so this game is the start of this batting-side-taking-Powerplay lark. ITSTL, will be funny to see how this goes.

Started already with WI vs Pak matches.

 

[Precambrian]

Who chooses which Powerplay is the two-man one and which is the three-man one, does anyone know?

Or is it a case of whoever gets there first?

Powerplay 2 is for bowlers, PP3 is for batting side.

 

[Richard]

Sehwag playing the hook stroke, very unusual.

 

[Precambrian]

Powerplay 2 is for bowlers, PP3 is for batting side.

Delicious cover drive.

 

[Precambrian]

What I like in Gambhir these days, that in ODIs, he is always positive. Trying to rotate strike, getting boundaries off the bad ones, never a negative body language.