Is a whitewash when you lose every single game, or don't manage to win any?
Pretty sure a whitewash is when you are beaten in every game, otherwise England's 90/91 Ashes tour was a whitewash and others where the result has been 0-1 (for and against)
Duckworth Lewis, what a sh1t system and how sh1tly applied. Firstly the game was ruined LONG before rain produced a farce result. Why? Because they issue the media and players with it and show what is needed for "par" on a scoreboard. The media won't STFU about it from the second there might be rain, "England need to be X off Y overs if they don't lose another wicket to win, if rain comes" and the players consequently play to that rather than the total. If the figures weren't widely known they might have got on with it instead of whoever was, or thought they were, winning might not have wasted time deliberately
And secondly it has produced farce results. Taking 17 runs off the target for SEVEN overs AND three powerplay overs in the last ODI was daft enough, this match D/L reckons a side with two wickets left can score 10 runs off seven balls and therefore tie. They might, Anderson is capable of scoring boundaries, but you'd back the bowling side to get at least one out and a few dot balls in to tailenders.
As for the cricket that preceded it, Bell and Bopara were highlighted by me as poor per
formers before they were batting, they tried to "prove me wrong" and Bopara did to some degree. England threw wickets away too cheaply, Bell and Bopara rescued England then threw their wickets away as well. Bresnan lived up to his recent stats with another 20+ but not 30, and Swann came in and backed up my claim he should bat at eight.
Both captains appeared to want to give the game away, why Dhoni took Kumar off with one over left I don't know, why he gave the ball to Raina was another odd one - as odd as Bopara's brace of overs - and generally both captains were not too clever. England conceded was it 108 runs off the last 10 overs? Anderson could have come back and bowled out before the death instead of being a sacrificial lamb, and maybe Broad could have put his hand up earlier and said he was hurt rather than causing further damage - not entirely the captain's fault but he should have noticed and been more alert to his bowlers.
So this series really suckworth lewis'd, rain playing a big hand and helping England look good. TMS think the pantomime that became D/L "added to the excitement", frankly it left me trying to listen to the radio with the sound off because it was doing my head in. You even had the muppet Michael Yawn repeatedly asking if England should chase D/L or the total, sums up the detrimental effect D/L has on the game. If the players didn't know the "D/L par score" then they could try to get ahead of par but wouldn't know if they were or not which to me is the way it should be. I'm going to write to the ICC, ECB or MCC about this, it isn't the first time D/L has had people playing to it's sheets and not playing cricket. The scenes at the end were a joke when India thought they'd won, then the scoreboard rolled back one run to tie, allegedly because 271 was the "end of over par score"
. If any, I'm buoyed by the performance of Parthiv, Rahane and Raina. England would be lucky to win a game or two when they come here and Sachin,Sehwag,Gambhir,Yuvraj,Zaheer, Bhajji are fit.
