England In India - October 2011/12

[Themer]

BBC have stated, Yuvraj should play for Harbhajan and should be Indias main spinner

Come on be serious

Hardly a silly proposition. Trent Bridge isn't a spinners wicket. There's a statistic floating around, which I haven't verified myself as I'm lazy, that only 2 wickets in the last 2 tests at Trent Bridge have come off spinners.

You need swing bowlers. Yuvraj and Raini could easy do the job that Singh's done in the first test as well. 200 odd for one wicket is something I'd back them to better to be honest.

 

[SachBro]

BBC have stated, Yuvraj should play for Harbhajan and should be Indias main spinner

Come on be serious

BBC = Bingo Bullshit Channel

Expect them to suggest opening with Parveen if Sehwag not available, hey; they are reasonable, both have the same bat speed, only thing missing is the connection.

 

[Themer]

Bingo Bullshit Channel

What has Bingo got to do with anything?

 

[0601731]

Hardly a silly proposition. Trent Bridge isn't a spinners wicket. There's a statistic floating around, which I haven't verified myself as I'm lazy, that only 2 wickets in the last 2 tests at Trent Bridge have come off spinners.

You need swing bowlers. Yuvraj and Raini could easy do the job that Singh's done in the first test as well. 200 odd for one wicket is something I'd back them to better to be honest.

Agreed,i dont think yovraj would have done any worse.Atleast the fielding and batting would have been useful.

 

[lewissaffin]

Hardly a silly proposition. Trent Bridge isn't a spinners wicket. There's a statistic floating around, which I haven't verified myself as I'm lazy, that only 2 wickets in the last 2 tests at Trent Bridge have come off spinners.

You need swing bowlers. Yuvraj and Raini could easy do the job that Singh's done in the first test as well. 200 odd for one wicket is something I'd back them to better to be honest.

Which is odd because Graeme Swann has played for Nottinghamshire (i.e. at Trent Bridge) for the last 6 years..

 

[SaiSrini]

As much as Kumble is not a big turner, he was damn superb and useful even in conditions where the spin purchase was not high. Its better to have a bowler who is patient and who can pick himself up quickly even if he is being attacked or he is being maneuvered pretty easily. Ganguly himself admits that Harbhajan is a highly rhythm bowler (Ganguly brought us Harbhajan) and that he needs a wicket at the start (a good wicket will be even better) to be highly effective. Kumble was different, he kept persistent and kept variating even though batsmen played him and eventually he would find wickets.

Harbhajan can never equal the exploits and respect earned by Kumble who has been India's best spinner.

 

[Themer]

Just looked it up myself. Spinners took 3 wickets of the 20 wickets last year at Trent Bridge when England played Pakistan and there was only one the time before when New Zealand played.

http://stats.espncricinfo.com/ci/engine/stats/index.html?class=1;ground=34;spanmin1=15+Mar+2008;spanval1=span;template=results;type=bowling

As I said, you need swing bowlers. Jimmy has 20 wickets at 8 in the last two matches at Trent Bridge. WAG.

 

[6ry4nj]

You only ever bring your keeper on to bowl when the result has already been determined. But India picked Zaheer knowing he would break down early on, and the laughable tactic of using Dhoni as a backup was premeditated. I hope the anti-corruption people give it a long hard going over.

 

[barmyarmy]

And for God sake, dont say Lord was a flat track. A place where ball swings all day, and you are never really in(admitted by Wasim Akram during commentary) cannot be called a flat track. Its gonna be one hell of a series.

It wasn't a flat track in England's first innings. To be honest India got the best of the conditions. Lord's swings when it's overcast and is flat when the sun is out.

 

[ferg512]

I don't know why India didn't include RP Singh in there squad despite his form lately, I would much rather have him than Munaf and he could arguably do a better job than Sreesanth. He actually bowled really well last time in England and it would make sense to replace a left armer with another left armer.

 

[Cricketman]

You only ever bring your keeper on to bowl when the result has already been determined. But India picked Zaheer knowing he would break down early on, and the laughable tactic of using Dhoni as a backup was premeditated. I hope the anti-corruption people give it a long hard going over.

I don't think we knew Zaheer was going to break down. He has been resting for an entire WI series ffs

 

[SaiSrini]

Will they pick Sreesanth or Munaf for Trent Bridge? I would say go with Sreesanth (although some might argue he is highly temperamental and we wont know which side of the bed will he get up from). If he hits it right, he can be a match winner. If he doesn't hit it right, we always have him to at least bowl his overs off and not make Dhoni and the likes take up bowling. Ishant and Praveen can handle the responsibility of being the premier bowlers (both had a good game at Lord's). Also pray that Harbhajan hits some rhythm. Sadly he is a superstar and it will take consistently worser performances (and some real good performances from our domestic spinners) to dislodge Harbhajan from his place.

 

[teamindia]

Need to up the game. With Zaheer likely out batsman need to use their brain.

 

[Aalay]

You only ever bring your keeper on to bowl when the result has already been determined. But India picked Zaheer knowing he would break down early on, and the laughable tactic of using Dhoni as a backup was premeditated. I hope the anti-corruption people give it a long hard going over.

How on earth are we gonna know that which player is gong to get injured? Dhoni does not have a hobby to bowl. We did not had any medium fast or fast bowler like Jonathan Trot in English lineup. He had to bring himself in otherwise our other two fast bowler would have also gone injured by bowling around 40 overs each. There's nothing to laugh about that. It was unfortunate for us that Zaheer got unfit even though he rested throughout whole WI series. This was a stupid thing to point out. If Zaheer did not get injured on the first day of that test, England wouldn't have won it.

 

[StinkyBoHoon]

india should just pick munaf and sreesanth, they have no idea who is going to be rubbish, they have enough back up spinners (though sehwag being fit would be handy as at his best he's almost an all rounder)

harbhajan is doing little more than getting through overs recently, munaf is well capable of doing the same.





cue 5 wicket haul for singh.