England In India - October 2011/12

[Owzat]

England need to keep playing as they are, don't get ahead of themselves, take the 'session by session' approach. Excellent hundred by Bell, but he needs to stay there and see the job done which at (effectively) 123/2 it has not been.

Bit worried the TMS team are talking about aiming 200 or low 200s, from here England should be aiming much higher as the signs are you can make runs even if wickets can fall in collapses.

Partnerships

150* Bell/Pietersen (2nd Inns)
128 Dravid/Yuvraj Singh (1st Inns)
93 Dravid/Laxman (1st Inns)
73 Broad/Swann (1st Inns)
51 Strauss/Bell (2nd Inns)
50 Strauss/Pietersen (1st Inns)

Three partnerships of 90+, another three of 50+, you wouldn't want to be defending 200-250 with the prospect of a hundred partnership around. Even in England's 221 there was a partnership of 73. There is 'enough in the pitch to keep the bowlers interested' but I wouldn't go banking on taking wickets regularly enough in a controlled fashion.

207/2, England need to keep going, and going, and going. If this were the aussies in their pomp they would not give the bowlers a sniff.

If Bell needs motivation someone should mention he has never scored a Test double - 201 would be treble his previous HS against India.

 

[Adarsh]

This is where India are missing the likes of Sehwag and Zaheer. These guys have given up, including Dhoni himself.

 

[ZoraxDoom]

The body language is pathetic. India give up as soon as a big partnership forms. MSD goes defensive way too quickly. If bowlers stop bowling with venom. I hate this. How the fearsome tweak are they a championship side if one partnership deflates them so quickly.

 

[Ollie_H]

It is called a pair of eyes which let you see if the ball has actually been nicked.

I knew Strauss was out by the noise, didn't see anything major.

 

[Owzat]

Awful from India. Just awful. Have thrown the game away to England, who are gonna get some 350odd lead and bowl India out. Pah. This is a game where we should've owned England, and gave it away twice.

Broad took it away from you's twice, not sure you "gave it away". Now ding dong is doing likewise, in fact this could be the third advantage India have had and lost :

England 1st Innings : 114/8 >>> 221
India 1st Innings : 267/4 >>> 288
England 2nd Innings : 57/2 >>> 207/2

This is about England's best position in the match, arguably when India were 139/4 they were in the game but they dropped Yuvraj. There's the motivation for Pietersen, make up for a donkey drop

 

[0601731]

Its England's match to lose now.Just pathetic from the Indians.

 

[teamindia]

Atlast wicket !!

 

[WubbaLubbaDubDub]

Timely breakthrough. India need 2 more wickets, Morgan and Prior would be awesome now

 

[ZoraxDoom]

YEAAAA!!!

Fingers crossed for a collapse.

 

[Ollie_H]

I knew Strauss was out by the noise, didn't see anything major.

Again, didn't see much of an edge just heard the noise. Maybe it was bat on pad?

 

[teamindia]

Again, didn't see much of an edge just heard the noise. Maybe it was bat on pad?

What about hotspot?

 

[SaiSrini]

Thank the boos from the crowd. Those guys think a lot about themselves. Good that Sree has made them quiet.

Harbhajan out due to injury? Really?? YAAAYYYYY!!!!

 

[Owzat]

Big doubt about Trott and indeed Swann.

Morgan is not in great nick, two ducks and 19 this series. Still 25 overs until the new ball, England will want 60-75 runs more before that is due and could really do with this pair at the crease, or Bell/Morgan and Prior.

Bell is averaging 95.56 since the end of last summer (Ashes 10-11/Sri Lanka 2011/India 2011) Obviously that will drop if Bell gets out, but even if he got out now it would be 86.00.

 

[SaiSrini]

Why did Dhoni just remove Sreesanth? That guy got a wicket for god's sake. One over with that wicket, and he is out of the attack?

 

[Haarithan]

England v India: Hot Spot to undergo testing | Cricket News | England v India 2011 | ESPN Cricinfo

"I would imagine that Vaseline would restrict the friction of the ball hitting the bat so if you reduce the friction you are going to reduce the Hot Spot," Brennan told ESPNcricinfo. "That is pure and simple physics. From what I can remember, quite often the outside of the bat has a layer of some sort of coating.

"Now if you put extra layers on the bat that might do the same thing. As long as it is a harder type of surface then you will get the Hot Spot. But if it is a soft, absorbant type of material then that will probably reduce the friction. It might take us a week or even longer to test all possibilities."

The other theory is that bat stickers on the edge of a blade can also help reduce the chances of a Hot Spot showing up - by showing one, long heat signature down the side of the bat - but Brennan said it is likely to work the opposite way and actually increase the visibility of individual marks.

"What I noticed last week when I was at Lord's was these stickers down the side of certain players' bats," he said. "When I looked at it through the cameras it actually looked like a Hot Spot, four or five little white spots. That was quite unusual so it must have be some sort of logo or the sticker. Through the infra-red I could see those spots.

"I just don't know why a manufacturer would put it on the side of the bat that would make it look like a Hot Spot. I had this conversation with the ICC less than a month ago and told them that we are noticing some of these stickers tend to reflect heat a bit like a mirror. The ICC said if that is the case they might have to look changing the regulations so that the side of the bat does not have any advertising, no stickers and no logos. But that is still a work in progress."