*Official* India Tour of England 2018

[Xuhaib]

don't mind if people do not agree with me but is Anderson 16-18 so much better then Anderson 10-12 that he would average 5-6 runs less. For every Salman Butt and Imran Farhat, Anderson 10-12 would also frequently run in to Amla-Kallis. At the moment is there even one batting line up that can score runs collectively consistently home and away?

 

[anaksr]

1)Ashwin
2)Pant
3)Virat
4)Karun Nair
5)
6)Pandya
7
8)
9)Shami
10))Ishant
11)Bumrah

I never imagined at the beginning of this tour that I would struggle to select a playing 11 out of 18 member squad. Seems drastic to open with those two but we might not go much worse than this. Such is our condition that Hardik who should be the first to be out from team has to be now in as he looked fine with bat and bowl at least in last match. Fill in the blanks for remaining spots please. I have no idea.

 

[Starfighter]

Of you watch footage from the 50s through to the 70s, it’s really noticeable how many blokes played a lot of fullish bowling off the back foot. Some of the clips just posted yesterday from the 77 series between Australia and India are good examples, as are a lot of the clips in the same thread.

It was even more prevalent in the twenties and thirties before the change in the LBW rule stopped batsmen from defending back against the stumps.

 

[Furball]

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

There's a case for Lord's actually now being his favourite. 2nd bowler after Murali to take 100 wickets at a single venue (granted, Murali has done it at 3 different grounds) and his last 25 wickets at Lord's have come at an average of 12.

 

[Burgey]

If the batting has been so **** recently why has there only been 2 bowlers (Abbas and Anderson) who've managed to break into the sub 20 average range since the start of 2017?

Because teams bowl as badly away as they bat.

 

[morgieb]

If the batting has been so **** recently why has there only been 2 bowlers (Abbas and Anderson) who've managed to break into the sub 20 average range since the start of 2017?

TBF there's been like 15 in 2018. Batting seems to have fallen off a cliff recently.

 

[SeamUp]

don't mind if people do not agree with me but is Anderson 16-18 so much better then Anderson 10-12 that he would average 5-6 runs less. For every Salman Butt and Imran Farhat, Anderson 10-12 would also frequently run in to Amla-Kallis. At the moment is there even one batting line up that can score runs collectively consistently home and away?

Truth.

But Jimmy can only deal with what is in front of him.

Seriously test batting line-ups world wide need to be shook up. It has been abysmal.

 

[Starfighter]

Adders will be excited to know that Anderson's rating has passed the 900 mark, now standing at 903.

 

[91Jmay]

Man watching the series dismissals so far and I can't remember a middle order batsmen who had as big a gap between bat/pad as Karthik. He has got some great balls early but it's astonishing the size of gap.

Sammy Curran bowled his best stuff apart from first dig Edgbaston yday. Accuracy was there for the most part and got the ball to go across batsmen consistently. Really happy with him thus far - will probably struggle massively away but be gun at home.

 

[Starfighter]

Seriously test batting line-ups world wide need to be shook up. It has been abysmal.

The problem is that I think most boards' solution will be 'less test cricket'. There's no incentive to improve when most countries will be playing contextless two-test series.

 

[Chrish]

What are the chances of India bouncing back now? Will conditions in any remaining grounds favorable to them ?

 

[trundler]

The chances of the severity of the next thrashing decreasing are slim whilst of them winning are negative.

 

[S.Kennedy]

Trent Bridge? Jimmy's favourite ground. Broad's home ground.

 

[vcs]

I will be pleasantly surprised if we avoid 5-0. Will gladly take that at this point.

 

[OverratedSanity]

What are the chances of India bouncing back now? Will conditions in any remaining grounds favorable to them ?

I can't think of many worse situations for an Asian side to have lost by an innings at Lord's with the next test at Trentbridge.

 

[OverratedSanity]

Seriously, if they play at Trentbridge like they did at Lord's they may find a way to lose by 2 innings.

 

[Pup Clarke]

Re. Curran, I think he'll do mostly fine away from home. Maybe not in Aus/SA, but in the subcontinent if he can bowl stump-to-stump and find a bit of tail either way he'll go well

 

[Borges]

He will do better than Moeen Ali in India; that's for sure.

 

[SillyCowCorner1]

Bring back Sachin.

The way WillowTV HD was hyping up Kohli, I thought that he was an inmortal, invincible or something. If only Dawid* had caught him in the 1st test when the opportunity presented itself...

*I thought it was Malan who initiated the drop

 

[SeamUp]

The problem is that I think most boards' solution will be 'less test cricket'. There's no incentive to improve when most countries will be playing contextless two-test series.

I'm still shocked about the new FTP.

How much fun was cricket when every team was competitive and had greats and 3-test series were the minimum. It meant something. Quite easily test series could be over in 6/7 days now with not many lasting the full 5 days at the moment.