***Official*** India in England 2014

[wpdavid]

Hope the pitch holds up well for Bhuvi.

Maybe that was Cook's plan. He knows his bowlers would probably waste the new ball again, so having India bat well into Day 2 means it would have dried out before he had to bat.

 

[Zinzan]

Finally.

 

[MW1304]

Dear God that was in important wicket.

 

[morgieb]

Finally, England.

 

[Flem274*]

Vijay

 

[Adders]

Thank **** for that.

 

[Zinzan]

Most of us would be astonished if they don't.

SO they just need to survive approximately 8 pitched-up deliveries.

Those pitch maps are making me want to throw things.

Listen to Uncle Zinzan

 

[Neil Pickup]

Vijay manages to make a worse decision than many of Cook's and tries to whip a rare full one through mid wicket. Wonder how difficult we will make early life for Kohli...?

 

[wpdavid]

Gee we needed that one.

 

[Prince EWS]

Did that come off the back of the bat? Cevno to comment.

 

[Flem274*]

don't know what i want. kohli first baller would make jono and india sad, and we could joke he's a FTB. if he gets a ton england will be sad and that's a good thing too but india will be happy.

 

[wpdavid]

Listen to Uncle Zinzan

Any chance of predicting that England will take another couple before the break?

 

[Flem274*]

that's an ominously short batting line up on a pitch like this. if england remember how to bowl...

 

[Zinzan]

Vijay manages to make a worse decision than many of Cook's and tries to whip a rare full one through mid wicket. Wonder how difficult we will make early life for Kohli...?

Yup, I'm fascinated in how Kohli will approach this.


Oh yeah smexi stroke...

 

[wpdavid]

Poor as he was, you could actually make a case for bringing Broad back to bowl at Kohli. iirc he bagged him cheaply in both innings at TB.

 

[Viscount Tom]

that's an ominously short batting line up on a pitch like this. if england remember how to bowl...

We should be so lucky

 

[dermo]

honestly what sort of complete ****** bowls around the wicket in the first session of a test on a pitch like this, and i was halfway through writing how **** i think liam plunkett is, unbelievable.

 

[Adders]

OK, WTF is going on here??

 

[Scaly piscine]

Absolutely dismal.

Don't blame Plunkett for this field and line of attack. Cook is the captain who's sleepwalked through this session before this particular brainstorm.

 

[King Pietersen]

Brilliant. Just got to work, turned the cricket on and Plunkett is bowling bouncers from round the wicket. ****ing genius. On a green pitch, waste time softening the ball up and bowling short. So ********. Pitch the ****ing thing up you morons. They were saying on TMS bout 20 mins ago, that 4 balls would have hit the stumps. England just don't seem to ever learn their lesson.