***Official*** England in India

[Prince EWS]

Back to engaging debate now if possible, guys.

 

[grecian]

Back to engaging debate now if possible, guys.

racist, first kohli_fan now this

 

[flibbertyjibber]

Lets hope if he does return he is spotted by the mods. All that before the series, quite happy he has gone as he'd be even worse when we get gubbed.

 

[Daemon]

 

[vic_orthdox]

He bats in a line up which plays 5 specialist bowlers and arguably only has 4 class batsmen who you would back to make a big score reasonably regularly. He does his role.

Perhaps unnoticed is that his strike rate is higher than both Ian Bell and Ravi Bopara's, yet he gets more stick than either of them for his slow scoring. I think people criticise him because he's not a boundary hitter, and thus gives the impression he isn't scoring quickly, while in actual fact he is.

Because, unlike the other two, he's in long enough for people to notice.

 

[grecian]

More fitness worries

News slightly more encouraging on Finn, but they'd be mad to risk him for the First Test, IMHO.

 

[Daemon]

As far as I can tell only the top 3 Haryana batsmen can bat and two of them scored fifties, one of whom is currently not out. Bresnan says the pitch is the best for batting that he has ever seen though, so there's that. Can't read too much into the game imo, yeah the spinners got 8 wickets for <200 but it seems most of those were when the lower middle order onwards were on a cbf mode with 500+ already on the board.

Most importantly however -

Poor Prior was obliged to make two emergency dashes for the bathroom, but England's initial request to use a substitute wicketkeeper from outside their playing XI was declined by the umpires and match referee. While the convention in English domestic cricket permits a substitution on the grounds that the ECB believes that county cricket could be lessened as a spectacle by the use of a make-shift wicket-keeper, the Laws of the game (Law 2:3 specifically) actually forbid it. Ultimately, however, the BCCI, in an admirably magnanimous gesture, were contacted and made a special dispensation towards England. Jonny Bairstow took the gloves and Prior retired to a dark room.

BCCI doing something good

 

[benchmark00]

Looks like the mild curries are enough.

 

[biased indian]

Looks like the mild curries are enough.

 

[flibbertyjibber]

Well we will probably play **** so having them is no problem to our guys.

 

[grecian]

Is it wrong of me to wish Meaker get's a Test ahead of Onions, just to see Scaly's reaction?

 

[Viscount Tom]

You'd probably see some angry Geordie bloke in the crowd by the first test ranting about it tbh.

 

[Furball]

So who's up for an avatar bet?

 

[Daemon]

Meee.

Yuvraj to outbowl Patel

 

[biased indian]

So who's up for an avatar bet?

i am ready if i can get rid of this if i win

 

[biased indian]

i am ready if i can get rid of this if i win

is it confirmed that sky will be doing the commentary in England itself ?

wonder who will be representing England in star commentary team ..

and just now saw add in star saying warney is part of the commentary team now...is he not part of the channel 9 or sky team ?

 

[Prince EWS]

is it confirmed that sky will be doing the commentary in England itself ?

wonder who will be representing England in star commentary team ..

and just now saw add in star saying warney is part of the commentary team now...is he not part of the channel 9 or sky team ?

Warney's a freelance commentator; just does things game by game. Not actually a permanent part of either team.

 

[nsniks]

is it confirmed that sky will be doing the commentary in England itself ?

wonder who will be representing England in star commentary team ..

and just now saw add in star saying warney is part of the commentary team now...is he not part of the channel 9 or sky team ?

Geoffrey Boycott and Paul Collingwood

 

[biased indian]

Geoffrey Boycott and Paul Collingwood

boycott still do commentary have not heard him for long time doing any

 

[flibbertyjibber]

boycott still do commentary have not heard him for long time doing any

Yeah, he does radio over here. They rotate him, Vic Marks, Tufnell and Vaughan as summarisers.

One bonus, no Vaughan this series as he is dancing.