India in England Jun-Sept 2014

[lion100lion]

7 drop catches....

 

[asprin]

Why has that been a pleasure if you're an England fan?

Probably a similar reason as to why Indian fans want Dhoni out of the Indian test team.

 

[Aalay]

Oh Lord, Jadeja has been absolutely horrible with the ball. Ashwin has to come in next match, Varun Aaron for Shami and Ishant Sharma for Pankaj Singh in the next test match. They can keep Jadeja in the team if they want but he can't be the lead spinner.

 

[used2bcool]

That missed stumping legitimately made me LOL. That was this innings in a nutshell.

 

[ParkedTheBus]

Feel bad for Pankaj. He has been the best bowler in Ranji for the past couple of years, and experiences the worst possible test debut. Should have got a couple of wickets, at least.

 

[Aalay]

Pankaj bowled really well yesterday but his lines were poor today.

 

[asprin]

Ishant Sharma for Pankaj Singh in the next test match

Really? Ishant Sharma? I'd prefer Pankaj over him. The other two changes seem fine , but not the Ishant one.

 

[SaiSrini]

Dhawan continues to disappoint. He is fast eating up his opportunities without producing output. If India lose this test and Dhawan continues to fail, I am pretty sure it would make a case for Gambhir to be called in.

 

[lion100lion]

Dhawan continues to disappoint. He is fast eating up his opportunities without producing output. If India lose this test and Dhawan continues to fail, I am pretty sure it would make a case for Gambhir to be called in.

Gambhir might be happy. Even I will be happy if Gambhir is included (though I am a Dhawan fan too)

 

[blockerdave]

What? Why has that been a pleasure if you're an England fan?

Because I dislike them both intensely.

 

[Skater]

Because I dislike them both intensely.

And you know my next question. Why?

 

[zimrahil]

And you know my next question. Why?

Because he queued for hours for One Direction tickets and they both nonchalantly went to front of queue and got the final tickets?

 

[SaiSrini]

India have a mammoth task ahead. England will surely bowl better than us (they have quicker bowlers), they know the conditions here, more so after batting on it for such a long time.

Need big hundreds from at least a couple of our batsmen to stay in this.

 

[blockerdave]

And you know my next question. Why?

Cook is a prize a-hole. He's got zero integrity. This idea he's a decent guy is rubbish.

He's in a job he's patently unqualified for, and not got the decency to resign. Look how he hung Gooch out to dry, when he was supposedly his mentor. Compton, KP etc. have their international careers ended because he's so weak he can't handle any strong characters; Anderson and Broad will have their careers cut short because he is such a terrible captain his tactical plan A, B and C is bowl them into the ground - he is sacrificing their careers to his ego.

Bell is more complicated. I always thought he was overrated, mentally weak. Can look great when it's going easy but can't make difficult runs. Then he seemed to move beyond that, and especially last summer seemed to have got right past that.

Then, when it really went tough, he reverts to type and folds. This summer, when they've basically said "you and cook, you're the batting" he has done nothing. No leadership.

In short they're both pricks.

 

[Skater]

Cook is a prize a-hole. He's got zero integrity. This idea he's a decent guy is rubbish.

He's in a job he's patently unqualified for, and not got the decency to resign. Look how he hung Gooch out to dry, when he was supposedly his mentor. Compton, KP etc. have their international careers ended because he's so weak he can't handle any strong characters; Anderson and Broad will have their careers cut short because he is such a terrible captain his tactical plan A, B and C is bowl them into the ground - he is sacrificing their careers to his ego.

Bell is more complicated. I always thought he was overrated, mentally weak. Can look great when it's going easy but can't make difficult runs. Then he seemed to move beyond that, and especially last summer seemed to have got right past that.

Then, when it really went tough, he reverts to type and folds. This summer, when they've basically said "you and cook, you're the batting" he has done nothing. No leadership.

In short they're both pricks.

I take your point. And I completely disagree with every single part of it.