*Official* India Tour of England 2018

[slippy888]

None of them can bat in these conditions though, that’s why they are going with Pandya

Shikkar Dhawan is a match winner on his day his record is proven

 

[smash84]

Loldia

 

[flibbertyjibber]

So it is 2-0 Anderson has India on toast and his favourite ground is up next. Ooops.

 

[fredfertang]

So it is 2-0 Anderson has India on toast and his favourite ground is up next. Ooops.

And if Kohli and Ashwin play they won't be fit - if the weather is OK it might be over in two days

 

[Jack1]

And if Kohli and Ashwin play they won't be fit - if the weather is OK it might be over in two days

Ashwin has the mindset to potentially be a good number 3 in these conditions (considering how bad India are batting in these conditions. Test cricket teams are embarrassingly inflexible with their batting line up however)

 

[marc71178]

I wonder how much Adil Rashid gets paid for this game

Could argue it’s been his best game for England except for that woefully bad fielding on Friday.

 

[Jay London]

Could argue it’s been his best game for England except for that woefully bad fielding on Friday.

After all the fuss, it appears his lack of first class cricket hasn't been a problem at all!

 

[BSM]

It is almost bittersweet seeing us beat India like this. Obviously as an England fan any victory is good, but the current pattern of test cricket makes it almost meaningless. Because though we may smash India 5-0 here, it will surely happen to us when we tour India.

Problem is, I'm desperate to see a few teams make successful five match test tours to break the mould, but at the same time you really don't want your international team to be the ones subjected to such a rare occurance as a home defeat. It's been made brilliant to win away, but rather humiliating to lose at home.

 

[Moonsorrow999]

India batting awful, but my god I think the toss won this game!

 

[Stefan9]

Disappointing from India. Expected better from them this tour.

 

[Adders]

Given the next test is at Lords I wouldn't be at all concerned as an Indian.

Ok Indian fans......you should probably start being concerned now.

 

[Jack1]

Ok Indian fans......you should probably start being concerned now.

GOAT English conditions all-rounder Woakes and GOAT seamer 2018 Anderson in the mix. Something you maybe forgot about. Lol.

 

[GIMH]

The magnitude of this victory makes me wish this forum was like 2011 so we could all go swinging our dicks and get infractions everywhere

Lovely stuff though. Big test for India, always hard in these long series to bounce back from an absolute mauling.

 

[a massive zebra]

This trend of the leading Test nations being nearly invincible at home and absolutely abysmal away is extremely tedious.

To increase competitiveness, I think they should return to the tried and tested but now unfashionable method of playing proper tours with multiple warm up matches against local state/county/province sides to get familiar with the conditions before taking on the full might of a top Test nation in their own conditions. Not gonna happen because money rules these days, but I strongly believe this would lead to more interesting matches in which the balance of power is far more likely to fluctuate over the course of the 5 days.

 

[Burgey]

Nightmare scoreline for India supporters. Yikes.

 

[Burgey]

I presume Rashid was MOTM? Did nothing wrong.

 

[social]

Those stats for Indian batting away from home (bar Kohli) makes Australia look like a team of Bradmans

 

[Starfighter]

India - worse than I could have imagined.

 

[GotSpin]

deary me

 

[OverratedSanity]

Well that was not very good.