Well, you're kinda giving him the ---- end of the stick in all this, there's more young Indian players than there are old English Test batsmen.
England in India - Oct to Jan 2012/13
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Well, you're kinda giving him the ---- end of the stick in all this, there's more young Indian players than there are old English Test batsmen.
Sedition
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You mean this England team that has won 3 of their last 11 tests? Make that 12 after this one. This Indian team barely cracked 500 for the whole series on our supposedly flat decks, so you're gonna need a whole lotta luck to even score one victory against us.
StinkyBoHoon
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don't india keep trying to get english players to play domestic cricket but the ECB and everyone else keeps going on about it ruining cricket?
in all seriousness, the IPL wouldn't be a bad idea for england's cricketers, I've often thought their problems arise when they can't attack spin, they're fine when they can play it out but stick a spinner at each end and they choke up under the pressure.
in all seriousness, the IPL wouldn't be a bad idea for england's cricketers, I've often thought their problems arise when they can't attack spin, they're fine when they can play it out but stick a spinner at each end and they choke up under the pressure.
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England Collapsed, no one expected that to happen 
PS: What a way to start my first post in this thread. Let the banter begins!
PS: What a way to start my first post in this thread. Let the banter begins!
Well it's good that you Aussies have regained a bit of your swagger. We want you at your fighting-weight before we crush you again. It's no fun otherwise.
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I thought it looked extremely dead by the end of the day as well. I mean, I'd be tempted to wager that the umpires call the match off because of balls rolling along the pitch instead of bouncing.
They were the last lot to win in India back in 04/05 weren't they so it's hardly like everyone else, including the wassies, are winning in India..............
I like it when the nightwatchman policy flops so spectacularly, not only losing the nightwatchman but the batsman he was supposedly sent in to "protect"
England have made a meal of this, yet another series where they must wish they could start the 1st Test over. Playing one frontline spinner and a plethora of net bowlers, well they might as well be, then collapsing like a cheap tent.
Never mind, maybe 2nd Test the Indians will prepare a seamer friendly wicket.............................
I wonder if England will learn or just continue to make the same mistake until it is too late to make any difference.
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England can still get out of this if a couple of these guys get big hundreds, and if England do manage to save this game I bet they will be very hard to beat in the remaining games. So for India tomorrow is going to be very crucial, we must ensure they are not getting up from this!
Wow, so all of a sudden these dry pitches are the reason for dwindling crowds, are you serious? This is our tradition, blame it on the IPL and T20 and our team's poor performance in Test matches recently.
I am more worried about Patel than any of their front line batsman to be honest.
Do you even like cricket Sai? You seem to turn everything into some kind of them v us debate?!? It's not like I've not made clear in the past that in test cricket I appreciate a pitch with something in it for everyone. I was a fan of the UAE pitches that had help for everyone, and I didn't mind the Sri Lankan pitches that ragged sideways within an over of it starting. No first morning pitch should see a brand new ball fail to clear the stumps. It is killing test cricket, certainly in India, just look at the dwindling numbersLook at your constantly injured fast bowlers and the lack of consistent run scorers overseas recently.
In fact, you're pretty much the reason England v India discussion is normally so tedious. Ah yes, the block button, wonderful
Wow, so all of a sudden these dry pitches are the reason for dwindling crowds, are you serious? This is our tradition, blame it on the IPL and T20 and our team's poor performance in Test matches recently.
I am more worried about Patel than any of their front line batsman to be honest.
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Well it is true. Out of the 11 wickets that have fall in total, spinners have taken 10 wickets. Yes the pitch has nothing in it for seamers but it has everything for spinners. And England should have known even before arriving in India that they will only get a spinner friendly pitch. So instead of taking injured Stuart Broad in the final 11, they could have gone with Monty Panesar who is more then a decent spinner. He could have certainly done better then Stuart Broad.
It's utterly ridiculous that Graeme Swann, who has scored more runs in the last 12 months than most our batsmen will now be coming in at 11.
England seem to think the way to play spin is to pack the side with bowlers who can bat and ignore ones who can't like Monty rather than actually expect the batsmen to score some runs.
England seem to think the way to play spin is to pack the side with bowlers who can bat and ignore ones who can't like Monty rather than actually expect the batsmen to score some runs.
Papa_Smurf
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Looks like England heard the cries of "dead pitch, killing test cricket" etc a little too seriously and are now trying to respond back to those cries by making the pitch look lively and interesting.
Great knock by Pujara! Excellent display of patience and grit. It might be too early to call him the replacement to Rahul Dravid (for the overall career that Dravid had), but he has shown enough signs out there that he is going to be in for a very long haul in test cricket. Time for Ashwin now to go on a rampage!
Great knock by Pujara! Excellent display of patience and grit. It might be too early to call him the replacement to Rahul Dravid (for the overall career that Dravid had), but he has shown enough signs out there that he is going to be in for a very long haul in test cricket. Time for Ashwin now to go on a rampage!
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