England In India - October 2011/12

Ashwin on now. This could be the defining spell of the match.
 
Oh dear Cookie. Yet again Cook gets out trying to force it when batting with Trott. He's scoring at a run a ball, why is he playing that shot?

God bless illegal streams and I don't in any way feel guilty since I bleedin' paid for the service that's supposed to allow me to watch it :/

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I don't want to blame Cook, but as captain, when you've seen it through to the middle overs you have to keep rotating. You can't just throw your wicket away and put all the pressure on the middle order to get in while rotating and being behind the run-rate.

Still, good position for the young lad to come in and see what he can do. But, this is pretty much game over now.
 
Oh oh oh oh!!!! Jadeja has stunned England here. Have India finally found the allrounder they so badly were aiming for, in ODI's? Jadeja did well in England too, and now here back in India, he looks very threatening. Outstanding stuff after England seemed to have started well.

Great batting from MSD!!! Can't blame him for scoring once he returned to India because this is his fourth consecutive 50 and his last three ODI innings in England were 69, 78* and 50*.
 
This is setting up for quite a nice chase. I think we need to be about 120 after 25 overs. Ideally these two will get us up to about 200 before others come in to finish the innings, don't really want them out before 150 is up.

he...he...:D You are doing some nice calculations over here...and over there.....6 down...before 150 is up....:p
 
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Great batting from MSD!!! Can't blame him for scoring once he returned to India because this is his fourth consecutive 50 and his last three ODI innings in England were 69, 78* and 50*.
Still, people say he scores slowly, he is inconsistent and all that shite.
 
Haha where are the home lions now? This is the true England team. Lions at home and crap away. This is not even the full Indian side playing. This is only 30% of the actual side and killing England. Now England should realize it as soon as possible that they suck and come out of their day dreaming. They need to accept that the rank one they hold right now is just their luck as they have been playing home matches. If it had been the opposite then they wouldn't even be 5th in rankings. Good luck in India because you really need it!!
 
Haha where are the home lions now? This is the true England team. Lions at home and crap away. This is not even the full Indian side playing. This is only 30% of the actual side and killing England. Now England should realize it as soon as possible that they suck and come out of their day dreaming. They need to accept that the rank one they hold right now is just their luck as they have been playing home matches. If it had been the opposite then they wouldn't even be 5th in rankings. Good luck in India because you really need it!!

You are back it seems. Welcome.

We are too good away, aren't we?

Taking nothing away from India, they have been brilliant today!
 
Ah Sobi, hilarious. So the one form of cricket England still say they have to improve on because they haven't figured it out yet against a team who are world champions. An England side missing Broad and trying out some young lads. Well done *slow hand clap*

I still back England to win one game in this series, which would be one more than India managed in the entire however god damn long they were here with their professional and dedicated team members.

Never understood the criticism of Dhoni, he was one of the only people to have any fight or character in England, and actually scored runs towards the end. Hardly his fault, most of this senior players with the exception of Dravid failed so miserably.

Home lions? Are you sure you're not referring to Raina?
 
Still, people say he scores slowly, he is inconsistent and all that shite.

He is a bloody good ODI batsman. Its his captaincy that irritates me more these days. WHY THE HECK DOES HE GO WITH GUYS LIKE VINAY KUMAR?????? He did this even in England. For variety, he has Sreenath Aravind, and for more pace, he has Aaron. He already has Praveen in the squad who bowls military medium pace, and also Virat Kohli bowls decent medium pace and is becoming pretty tight with his economy as he gains more intl and IPL bowling experience. He could have gone in with Aaron today along with Yadav.

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Haha where are the home lions now? This is the true England team. Lions at home and crap away. This is not even the full Indian side playing. This is only 30% of the actual side and killing England. Now England should realize it as soon as possible that they suck and come out of their day dreaming. They need to accept that the rank one they hold right now is just their luck as they have been playing home matches. If it had been the opposite then they wouldn't even be 5th in rankings. Good luck in India because you really need it!!

Dude, chill up. Just one game is done. Don't want to blow the trumpet too soon.
 
Yadav getting some wickets to boost his confidence and get more games in this series. Its only good for India. This is going to be an outstanding win, 100+ in an ODI is crushing. Well played India! I think Jadeja should be MOM.
 
Never understood the criticism of Dhoni, he was one of the only people to have any fight or character in England, and actually scored runs towards the end. Hardly his fault, most of this senior players with the exception of Dravid failed so miserably.
Yeah. They even want to strip him off captaincy. I don't understand what a captain can do when he's got all those injuries and the shittest of the bowling attacks. He even tried to bowl himself, you know.
 
Home lions? Are you sure you're not referring to Raina?

I think you are forgetting that he is one of the best player in shorter formats of game, not only in India but worldwide. It's the test that he is struggling with.
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Yes, now remove or blame Dhoni, you haters. :D
 
I really dislike Raina. He represents everything that's bad about cricket. He is the epitome of smash it and see. Absolutely no character, and no bottle when the chips are down. Just another slow-track bully who slogs. Give me a De Villiers or Amla, or Dravid every day of the week.
 

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