England in India - Oct to Jan 2012/13

[barmyarmy]

Apparently Swann wasn't well and was struggling in the field.

 

[spooony]

I agree with Geoffrey Boycott there about the low and slow pitch. Prabir Mukherjee (the curator; old and unscrewed head guy) got into this tiff with Dhoni over the pitch and has prepared a low and slow pitch where batting will be very easy and where bowlers have to toil for wickets. One of today's wickets was a gift from Sehwag-Gambhir. If that didnt happen, India would have gone into lunch on no loss..... Dhoni wanted a turning pitch where the toss doesn't play a major role and where both teams have an equal chance. Mumbai offered that, England won despite losing the toss. And Dhoni inspite of losing that match asked again for a similar pitch.

In this issue, all respects to Dhoni for sticking to his stance of wanting a turning pitch. Prabir Mukherjee should just shove it up his a--. It seems he does this with Ganguly too when Ganguly was captain. BCCI should just throw this guy out... Here, actually Srinivasan should show his love for Dhoni's words and should get this Prabir guy chucked out.

Since when do batsman like it low and slow? They like it coming onto the bat and with nice and even bounce.

 

[Fenil]

Since when do batsman like it low and slow? They like it coming onto the bat and with nice and even bounce.

Indian batsmen have grown playing on slow, low wickets here; thats the type of wickets prepared here in the domestic FC games. No wonder the Indian batters would prefer batting on these tracks and those having some bounce on it.

 

[spooony]

Indian batsmen have grown playing on slow, low wickets here; thats the type of wickets prepared here in the domestic FC games. No wonder the Indian batters would prefer batting on these tracks and those having some bounce on it.

That has to do with spin bowling. ICC has said a good test wicket starts with a little bit in it for the bowlers dry out becomes for batting on day 2 and 3 and start to crack and break up and bringing the turners into the match for day 4 and 5. They should start fining countries for starting on the day 4 of that criteria.

 

[Fenil]

That has to do with spin bowling. ICC has said a good test wicket starts with a little bit in it for the bowlers dry out becomes for batting on day 2 and 3 and start to crack and break up and bringing the turners into the match for day 4 and 5. They should start fining countries for starting on the day 4 of that criteria.

I wish Mahendra Dhoni would read that.

 

[spooony]

England batting consist of 2 batsman. If Pietersen and Cook fails England fails. 300 is going to look mammoth if Cook do not get a score

 

[AbhishekS]

Gambhir, I hate you you for running Sehwag out on such a wicket. Sehwag looked in good touch, and with the kind of pitch it was, I expected Sehwag to get a big one.

 

[SaiSrini]

Considering that its Dhoni batting out there right now, I can't say that we will cross 300 here. I dont see the logic behind sending Zaheer Khan ahead of Ishant Sharma. Ishant is a much better bat than Zaheer (in his current form). Ishant has helped India win a test match with his bat once before (that Mohali test in 2008 where Laxman and Ishant took India to an unlikely victory). Zaheer these days just takes wild swipes at the ball.

If India can reach 350+, it would be decent. 400 and above would be good. But I expect them to be rolled out for 290 odd.

 

[Satan666]

Considering that its Dhoni batting out there right now, I can't say that we will cross 300 here. I dont see the logic behind sending Zaheer Khan ahead of Ishant Sharma. Ishant is a much better bat than Zaheer (in his current form). Ishant has helped India win a test match with his bat once before (that Mohali test in 2008 where Laxman and Ishant took India to an unlikely victory). Zaheer these days just takes wild swipes at the ball.

If India can reach 350+, it would be decent. 400 and above would be good. But I expect them to be rolled out for 290 odd.

The Indian tale has been another weak factor in the team, if they reach 400 and over we might have a match on our hands anything less they would be in with a huge 1st inns deficit.

 

[War]

Again its foolish scheduling by the BCCI to start a test match in the middle of the week. Had it been on a Friday, Saturday or Sunday, you would have had that vintage Eden Gardens crowd. Unfortunately, this being a working day I don`t expect any more than 20k fans at the stadium.

Ye i see your point. Well hopefully by weekend, regardless of the state of the match we see that vintage Eden Gardens crowd.

 

[Epic]

The scheduling is done the way it's done for the sole purpose of making big bucks on the last few days really, which if my math serves me right will fall on the weekend.

 

[SaiSrini]

The Indian tale has been another weak factor in the team, if they reach 400 and over we might have a match on our hands anything less they would be in with a huge 1st inns deficit.

Our bowling this time can be expected to deliver after a poor effort at Mumbai. Indian spinners will at some point or the other find success against the English batsmen. And with Anderson getting that excellent reverse swing yesterday, Zaheer and Ishant can generate probably even better reverse swing than that (they know the SG ball better than England's bowlers). Seeing the way Anderson rattled India in that final session, Zaheer is always known for bringing India back into games by getting handful of wickets in the final sessions when the ball reverses.

Right now, I would say the game is 55-45 in England's favor.

 

[angryangy]

Yeah you can't overrate runs on the board. A Test team can bowl at 200 without needing to make history. Until the other team gets a crack, it's often reasonable to assess the game as even.

 

[SaiSrini]

Hope atleast Dhoni doesn't do the same thing that Gambhir did in the 2nd innings of the Mumbai test, and farms the strike as much as possible while scoring off every presented opportunity. Zaheer will get out anytime, and its upto Dhoni to keep the strike to himself and score as much as possible. Possibly with Ishant, Dhoni can farm less strike, but with Zaheer and Ojha, he has to farm as much strike as possible. Dhoni can score on this wicket if he applies himself in.

 

[SaiSrini]

I expected Ishant to last longer than that... Zaheer was expected to fall quickly though. Hope Dhoni can add as much as he can here. 303 is not a good total at all on this pitch.