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When is the next Test match? any team
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Damn, I'd rather not watch cricket then watch Pakistan.
England India it is then I guess, and that should be a hell of a series. Hopefully it's at least 3 Tests
England India it is then I guess, and that should be a hell of a series. Hopefully it's at least 3 Tests
I guess its 4 tests for India-England. It will be one hell of a test series. After the Ashes high for England and all the talks of England becoming the No.1 side for long and India not having the resources to stay No.1 for long, sparks are bound to fly. India have historically done well in England in the recent past (we won our last series 1-0 in England under Dravid).
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and how'd they go the last few before that? You can't say they've done historically well just because they won the last series. IF I recall correctly it was the 1st time they won in England in over 30 years. That's not historically well, that doing well the last time.
3 tests vs Sri Lanka first, then 4 vs India. 5 ODI's against both.
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Should be an epic summer.
I said "historically done well in England in the recent past", which means in the past decade or so. India toured England in 2002 and it was a drawn series (the series where Rahul Dravid and Micheal Vaughan played like the biggest legends on earth). The next time, India toured England in 2007 and India won 1-0.
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It was a flawed statement either way, and a draw is only doing well by Indian fan standards.
A draw and a win in two series is not doing well? By the anti-India standards, thats common! In that 2002 series, England thumped India at Lords first test (the Agarkar century test), then India played really well to draw the 2nd one, India thumped England the third one (Ganguly, Tendulkar and Dravid all got hundreds), and the fourth one India batted really well but so did England and it was a draw.
@ Zorax: Last 10 years dont come into the recent past? You want to maybe add another 30-40 years? Why add the word recent to it? Not a fail statement, mate!
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Winning away was practically impossible around 2002. It was a time when India, under Ganguly, was just beginning to take off not only at home but away as well. A series draw was huge for us, that too the win in that Leeds (i think) test where Dravid got 2 tons, Tendulkar got a 190 odd, Ganguly got a century too, and Kumble took a 10fer in the game. One of the best tests i've watched as an India fan!
Historically implies decades. Recent past is as you said about 10 years.
It's self contradictory.
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What you should have said is that India has done well in the recent past. When you say historically, it's more of an overall analysis, or at least spread out over an expansive period of time as Zorax said.
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anyone see the King twat comments by Ganguly?
'Cricketing logic suggests I should have been picked'
Yea because logic dictates that a franchise owner should pick a washed out middle aged has-been over an actual athlete.
'Cricketing logic suggests I should have been picked'
Yea because logic dictates that a franchise owner should pick a washed out middle aged has-been over an actual athlete.
