***Official*** India in England 2014

[Pothas]

Good start lads.

 

[King Pietersen]

Might as well turn off, we're ****ed. Cook looked ****ing terrible. Why was he trying to cut every ball?

 

[flibbertyjibber]

Forgot there was a game today. May as well not bother anyway.

 

[Edged&Taken]

3 down

 

[King Pietersen]

We're so bad. Spin's not even on yet!

 

[Viscount Tom]

Its extra worrying that Bell was literally only replaced because he was injured not because he's done nowt.

 

[King Pietersen]

Morgan's 3* off 22. What is happening? He better not get out soon. If he's going to start this slowly, he needs to go on and get a score. We're so ****ing bad at One Day cricket.

 

[Contra]

Lol England dropped their best bowler. Idiots.

The same bowler who's been wicketless in the last two games? Anderson's always been an average ODI bowler (a bit like Steyn), with his stats being inflated by playing at home.

 

[King Pietersen]

Erm, he meant Tredwell. Anderson's playing.

Getting a bit better, but we really need to step on it in these middle overs if we're going to post anything close to a competitive total. Need 280 at least against India.

 

[Contra]

Erm, he meant Tredwell. Anderson's playing.

Getting a bit better, but we really need to step on it in these middle overs if we're going to post anything close to a competitive total. Need 280 at least against India.

Ah my bad, the comment on cricinfo said James so I thought he was referring to Anderson and not Tredwell lol.

 

[flibbertyjibber]

Recovery mission accomplished. Now to push on.

 

[Contra]

LOL Morgan

 

[King Pietersen]

Jesus christ. What a ****ing terrible shot that was.

 

[Contra]

lmfao Root, this was so on the cards. Why are you playing a reverse sweep when you don't know how to play it ffs

 

[Spark]

He's got out a few times doing that.

 

[GIMH]

good solid platform

 

[Viscount Tom]

Root stop trying to bat like some sort of Southerner.

Also if Ishant Sharma is a great bowler I'm King Arthur.

 

[King Pietersen]

Why's Moeen not batting 3? Looks like the only guy who knows where the middle of his bat is.

 

[King Pietersen]

Moeen's ****ing awesome.

 

[Scaly piscine]

I'd not have Jordan ahead of him if he was fit but you keep failing to acknowledge that he wasn't fully fit and the side was winning games so keeping them was justified.

As for the idea of leaving players who are deemed to be first choice internationals out of games in order to play for their county in a relatively meaningless game, that's total bull****.

England and Moores particularly don't have a clue who the first choice XI is - or if they do they've got it badly wrong.

Players get rotated in ODIs, Stokes was never going to play all 5 games. Root Shouldn't play all 5 games. Moeen Ali is looking like the one guy who should have played all 5 games and he was left out. As was Finn.

England need to be far more intelligent in the way they pick the ODI side, but they're not.