England in India - Oct to Jan 2012/13
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I'd like to know what the resolution required for BBC to cover Tests. Should be some ICC rule that means at least one radio station from any country can cover each tour, especially if it involves that country, and at a preset rate NOT decided by the home team's board. TV rights they can knock themselves out with, journos will be there to cover it anyway
Tough decisions to be made for the series opener. Did Patel impress enough with ball to go with his ton? Bell, Pietersen and Compton made a whopping 28 runs between them, 23 of them to Pietersen - isn't Yuvraj a SLA and KP his bunny?
Bresnan : 33no, 3/59 & 1/37
Anderson : 19, 2/65 & 2/20
Finn : 0, 0/22 and out injured anyway?
Patel : 104, 1/95 & 1/40
Swann : 6, 3/90 & 0/19
Pietersen : 23, 0/7 and 0/8
Yuvraj took 5/94 in one innings, England's spin trio took 5/259 in one and a half innings. England may worry about Finn, but I'm more worried that they took five pace bowlers and only 2.5 frontline spinners of whom one didn't feature and probably should have been the one to play.
With Patel in the side they could have afforded to have played both Monty and Swann, I'm guessing they have every intention of playing only one of those two alongside Swann and probably three seamers and have shown their hand already.
England will struggle enough as it is without playing three seamers and having a long tail. Sure Broad and Bresnan can bat, under normal conditions, but is India "normal conditions" ? I can see England battling away to 170/3 and then the spinners roll over a long tail. Two seamers should be enough, I'd suggest two from Anderson, Broad and Bresnan with two spinners and Patel.
Pietersen might buy a wicket or three, but if he's bowling for any great number of overs then we're certainly not going to be winning the Test. He isn't a "plan B", he's a desperation measure when plans A, B, C etc aren't working and often they might buy back a bit towards parity, but if he were capable of turning a match then I think we'd know it by now.
So nothing surprising but Sachin gets his hundred on his return to ranji trophy.
http://www.espncricinfo.com/ranji-trophy-2012/content/story/589441.html?CMP=outlook_news
Even though his hundred came against Railways but still good to see him in runs.
http://www.espncricinfo.com/ranji-trophy-2012/content/story/589441.html?CMP=outlook_news
Even though his hundred came against Railways but still good to see him in runs.
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Well, domestic performances should be taken with a grain of salt(especially the batting performances in India), but it's something, some runs is better than none eh.
Btw, is it just me or is India actually trying to show to the world that they actually give a kerpluck about Test cricket? I say this because I seriously don't remember the last time we had all our players go back and play for their respective domestic teams, yeah we've had the odd player returning from injury, but it's always ended at that. This kind of thing is more ENG/AUS/SA like really.
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UP 40/1 (13.0 ov, M Dagar 18*, M Kaif 3*, Vikas Mishra 0/3) - Stumps | Live Scorecard | ESPN Cricinfo
Delhi bowled out for 235, Sehwag and Gambhir making some runs, but it's really nothing if you look at what our other two(Rahane and Mukund) openers have been doing.
VIDAR 78/2 (37.0 ov, SS Das 20*, SU Shrivastava 1*, A Mishra 0/0) - Stumps | Live Scorecard | ESPN Cricinfo
5-fa for Yadav against last years semi-finalists, could've just been woeful batting, but I would always take bowling performances for what they are(especially from the fast men in India), a great effort.
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Numbers Game : Numbers Game: The home-away contrast for Gambhir-Sehwag | Cricinfo Magazine | ESPN Cricinfo
Pretty ---- if you ask me.
Harsha Bhogle : Harsha Bhogle: India must not play England with revenge on their minds | Cricinfo Magazine | ESPN Cricinfo
I agree, but I still want to see us make a turner for some kind of viewing pleasure, 8 years is a long ass time in my rather short span of existence ya' know.
Btw, is it just me or is India actually trying to show to the world that they actually give a kerpluck about Test cricket? I say this because I seriously don't remember the last time we had all our players go back and play for their respective domestic teams, yeah we've had the odd player returning from injury, but it's always ended at that. This kind of thing is more ENG/AUS/SA like really.
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UP 40/1 (13.0 ov, M Dagar 18*, M Kaif 3*, Vikas Mishra 0/3) - Stumps | Live Scorecard | ESPN Cricinfo
Delhi bowled out for 235, Sehwag and Gambhir making some runs, but it's really nothing if you look at what our other two(Rahane and Mukund) openers have been doing.
VIDAR 78/2 (37.0 ov, SS Das 20*, SU Shrivastava 1*, A Mishra 0/0) - Stumps | Live Scorecard | ESPN Cricinfo
5-fa for Yadav against last years semi-finalists, could've just been woeful batting, but I would always take bowling performances for what they are(especially from the fast men in India), a great effort.
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Numbers Game : Numbers Game: The home-away contrast for Gambhir-Sehwag | Cricinfo Magazine | ESPN Cricinfo
Pretty ---- if you ask me.
Harsha Bhogle : Harsha Bhogle: India must not play England with revenge on their minds | Cricinfo Magazine | ESPN Cricinfo
I agree, but I still want to see us make a turner for some kind of viewing pleasure, 8 years is a long ass time in my rather short span of existence ya' know.
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I am not particularly worried about Sachin's form. He has looked in very good touch, but that big innings always eluded him. Being under heavy scrutiny for decades now, people will find all kinds of patterns and calculations in his game.
Rahane's ton doesn't change anything for me. Mukund should still be the third opener in the team. He scored against England in that warm-up match.
Rahane's ton doesn't change anything for me. Mukund should still be the third opener in the team. He scored against England in that warm-up match.
If that was an attempt at sarcasm, that's a pretty lame one. Mukund played only two tests in England when we toured England last year. And one of his innings was a 49.
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It actually wasn't, he played some nice shots at Lord's and was unlucky to get out to Broad.
This guy will find some way or the other to get injured. Worst thing is, we depend very heavily on him as far as bowling is concerned.
In fact, I am happy hearing the news of Zaheer getting injured now. I know our bowling depends on him, but I would rather have us go through a period of trash bowling and find a way to live without him.
We have seen that on the England tour last year.
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Would he really play a factor in the series, so far from the articles and posts here it is indicating that the spinners Ojha and Ahswin will take it to the English!
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