***Official*** England in India

[Contra]

Gonna be so pissed if Ahmedabad produces another road.

Should be banned from hosting a international match for a while if they do, imo.

No kidding eh lol. Ahmedabad is such a **** venue for tests, lets hope the new pitch offers more than the previous one.

Also anyone in Canada know if ATN is showing this series live? I'm genuinely surprised they're not showing it.

 

[morgieb]

Get my avatar back on the 21st of December.

It was GIMP who lost his for 4 years.

Oh haha.

Not as bad as TT Boy or Turbinator though.

 

[Jono]

Avatar's available from the 21st (?) December. I'll double check the Pakistan thread at some point.

Same bet I gave ripper in the last Ashes, and biased indian last time the teams played:



Duration stipulation: 6 months initially. Let's say I win the bet. If at the end of the 6 months, England are ranked ahead of India, then I still own your avatar. You don't get your avatar back until either a) India are ranked ahead of England, or b) India regain the Pataudi trophy.

FTR, whilst I didn't include the Pataudi Trophy stipulation in my bet with biased indian, it wasn't until the series actually started that I realised there was a trophy at stake. If India win this series then my bet with him is over.

Righto, let's go.

My avatar is only available from 8 January though. Still happy to play?

 

[Ausage]

Righto, let's go.

My avatar is only available from 8 January though. Still happy to play?

Wait, so that's not your chosen avatar?

Always just assumed you were a massive Federer fan.

 

[Jono]

I was a Federer fan when he had long hair and looked like a girl, tbf.

 

[Turbinator]

Also anyone in Canada know if ATN is showing this series live? I'm genuinely surprised they're not showing it.

No they aren't, checked a few places. They actually haven't been broadcasting any of the India matches for about an year now. And prior to this, they had been showing every India series.

 

[Jono]

Not long til the match starts, GF you still want in?

 

[NUFAN]

Did I just read correctly that Patel is coming in at 8, no Swann but Panesar playing too.

Interesting..

 

[AndyZaltzHair]

India batting first

 

[Cevno]

India batting first. Good toss to win, it seems.

 

[Turbinator]

Good stuff.

 

[flibbertyjibber]

So Cook is a useless tosser then. Time for Anderson and Broad to deliver then.

 

[Spark]

Wow Swann looks like a tool in that mugshot

 

[hazsa19]

Why are Nasser and Botham in the studio?

And why the **** is Atherton stood outside the stadium. PLEASE someone tell me they're not taking the Indian feed!

 

[Cevno]

Btw, coverage of Star has been much better than Neo so far.

 

[NUFAN]

Did I just read correctly that Patel is coming in at 8, no Swann but Panesar playing too.

Interesting..

Obviously not, lol. Was listening to Indian commentary to be fair, but no idea what team they named.

 

[Cevno]

Not sure about Yuvraj coming back for the 548548548th time, but hopefully he does well this time.

 

[Contra]

No they aren't, checked a few places. They actually haven't been broadcasting any of the India matches for about an year now. And prior to this, they had been showing every India series.

Any reason why it's like that? I know they showed the series against Aus earlier in the year so it's rather lame of them to not show this one.

Anyhow good toss to win, the previous Ahmedabad pitch give the fast bowlers a bit of swing early on, dunno what this one will do. Regardless, with two spinners bowling last is always a good idea. Come on Viru you gotta get a big one!

 

[smash84]

England only going in with one specialist spinner.....not a good idea

 

[Turbinator]

Any reason why it's like that? I know they showed the series against Aus earlier in the year so it's rather lame of them to not show this one.

Yeah that was the last India series they showed. No idea why, haven't looked into it. But I'll probably give them a call to see what the deal is.