*Official* India Tour of England 2018

[SillyCowCorner1]

I hope an Englishman makes a triple ton just to make Karun Nair's inconsequential

 

[CasMcG24]

Vijay somewhat higher than I expected actually.

btw how doubtful is Kohli for Trent Bridge?

Now, I'm no expert but even I know that's not great... Losing Kohli is a bad blow.

 

[CasMcG24]

I hope an Englishman makes a triple ton just to make Karun Nair's inconsequential

Think the sigts should be set lower... Around two hundred lower.

 

[weldone]

Kohli said he'll play. He won't field regularly, but will be 100% while batting. He still has 3 days time - so I guess it'll be alright.

I hope India pads up their batting for Trent Bridge. My batting order will be this:
1. Dhawan
2. Vijay
3. Pujara
4. Rahul
5. Kohli
6. Rahane
7. Ashwin
8. Karthik
9. Umesh
10. Ishant
11. Shami

 

[marc71178]

Surely he can’t expect to be able to pop on and off with an injury he’s brought into the game?

 

[CasMcG24]

Surely he can’t expect to be able to pop on and off with an injury he’s brought into the game?

Whichever, India needs him to play.

 

[Prince EWS]

Surely he can’t expect to be able to pop on and off with an injury he’s brought into the game?

I think weldone means "normally" rather than "regularly" -- ie. he'll be on the field but not fielding to his usual standard.

 

[TheJediBrah]

Kohli said he'll play. He won't field regularly, but will be 100% while batting.

Are you allowed to do that?

Though it is in England, where sub-fielder-related cheating was perfected in 2005 (not to mention other forms of cheating as well).

 

[TheJediBrah]

Kohli said he'll play. He won't field regularly, but will be 100% while batting.

Are you allowed to do that?

Though it is in England, where sub-fielder-related cheating was perfected in 2005 (not to mention other forms of cheating as well).

 

[Adders]

England may have perfected it but Steve Waugh started it mate.

 

[Burgey]

Gordon Greenidge barely spent an entire test match on the field after about 1981. FMD he used to have hammie/ calf/ back problems all the time, then come out and make a double ton opening the batting.

 

[Burgey]

I think weldone means "normally" rather than "regularly" -- ie. he'll be on the field but not fielding to his usual standard.

You mean his slip catching could actually get worse?

 

[Prince EWS]

You mean his slip catching could actually get worse?

Might even get bad enough to the point where someone else in the eleven fields there instead.

 

[Burgey]

Former India cricketer and chief selector Sandeep Patil has lashed out at current skipper Virat Kohli and coach Ravi Shastri for the team's spineless performance so far in the ongoing five-match Test series against England.

The visitors lost the first Test by a whisker in Edgbaston but the abject performance of the batsmen once again came to the fore at Lord's where India succumbed to a humiliating innings defeat in the second Test.

Patil, in his column for the Quint, took special note of Kohli's 'coffee' comment, which the Indian skipper had made before leaving for England. During the press-conference on the eve of India's flight to England, Kohli had said: "People have forgotten the Champions Trophy was also played in England. I was asked what I would do when I landed there, and I said I wanted to walk around the streets with a cup of coffee. My thinking is very different."

"We all clearly remember captain Virat Kohli and coach Ravi Shastri’s joint press conference before leaving for the tour of England earlier this summer. One bold statement stood out, 'We have enough days to acclimatise in England and we are going to enjoy coffee'," wrote Patil.

"Seeing the performance of the Indian team in the first two Tests so far, the team really seems to have taken their skipper’s statement seriously – they are truly only enjoying the coffee in English conditions," he added.

Patil was also critical of the fact that the Indian team opted for a break before the Test series and played just one warm-up match, which too was changed from being a four-day game to just a three-day match.

"It is puzzling that when the BCCI provided the team the opportunity to play practice games, as was requested, coach Ravi Shastri and captain Kohli instead felt that rest was the best option for the team and played just a truncated three-day practice game in the 14 days between the ODI and Test series," wrote Patil.

"Great Indian cricketing idols Sunil Gavaskar, Sachin Tendulkar, Sourav Ganguly all voiced their concerns, but the current Indian team never felt like taking their advice."

Patil felt that the Indian cricketers have been playing in fear and their performances in England seem like that of a player who has just made his maiden senior bow at the international level.

"We are 2-0 down in the series with three more matches to go and I do feel especially bad because all these players who have extraordinary talent got themselves selected during my tenure as chief selector," wrote Patil.

"It amazes me that these extremely-talented cricketers, in the two Tests so far, have been looking like they are playing in fear, as if they are playing their debut match! As I said earlier, cricket is a cruel game. A game of glorious uncertainties. Yesterday’s heroes have become today’s zeroes. Seventy percent of this England tour is already over and we are still sipping coffee."

https://www.news18.com/cricketnext/...p-patil-tears-into-kohli-shastri-1845161.html

So Kohli's first mistake of the tour was expecting to get a drinkable cup of coffee in the UK.

 

[TheJediBrah]

England may have perfected it but Steve Waugh started it mate.

Is he that bloke that got his fast bowlers to bowl bouncers at the opposition's best batsmen's bodies back in the '30s because they couldn't get them out conventionally? I always wondered who that was

 

[jimmy101]

Is he that bloke that got his fast bowlers to bowl bouncers at the opposition's best batsmen's bodies back in the '30s because they couldn't get them out conventionally? I always wondered who that was

Nah, that was Ian Chappell ;-)

 

[Borges]

Is he that bloke that got his fast bowlers to bowl bouncers at the opposition's best batsmen's bodies

A bouncer that is not directed at the batsman's body is a bad bouncer; the fast bowler is just wasting his energy.
A bouncer as a fast bowling weapon is most effective, when it is used sparingly, with a surprise element; good batsmen are not disconcerted if every other ball is expected to be a bouncer. Good attacking fast bowlers have always bowled deliberately dangerous bouncers. Bouncers of great fast bowlers, like Andy Roberts, are the stuff of legends.

 

[TheJediBrah]

A bouncer that is not directed at the batsman's body is a bad bouncer; the fast bowler is just wasting his energy.
A bouncer as a fast bowling weapon is most effective, when it is used sparingly, with a surprise element; good batsmen are not disconcerted if every other ball is expected to be a bouncer. Good attacking fast bowlers have always bowled deliberately dangerous bouncers. Bouncers of great fast bowlers, like Andy Roberts, are the stuff of legends.

it was a joke

 

[Burgey]

Borges, aren't you based in India?

Will all due respect, commenting on bouncers from that neck of the woods is akin to someone from Australia passing critical judgment on a doosra.

 

[CricAddict]

Borges, aren't you based in India?

Will all due respect, commenting on bouncers from that neck of the woods is akin to someone from Australia passing critical judgment on a doosra.

which are both not wrong.