India in England Jun-Sept 2014

[MUFC1987]

I thought Woakes looked good in his one over today. Bowled mid 80s mph, which is more than enough if he can get the ball to move around a bit in the air, like he did tonight. Just hope he pushes his lengths up and hopefully he can nab a few wickets.

 

[blockerdave]

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

That involves you thinking Cook is a good captain, with decent tactical awareness.

I can understand disagreeing with the other stuff, but surely nobody can think anything other than he's a terrible captain.

 

[MUFC1987]

Cook's Captaincy is essentially Andrew Strauss' though, just with a less good bowling attack (i.e. no Swann). It won't change if they go to Ian Bell, because the Captains are just being fed by the management. For whatever reason, the ECB have decided that there is no room for a free thinking Captain in the English team. Essentially, it's Captaincy by numbers, driven by statisticians.

 

[blockerdave]

Cook's Captaincy is essentially Andrew Strauss' though, just with a less good bowling attack (i.e. no Swann). It won't change if they go to Ian Bell, because the Captains are just being fed by the management. For whatever reason, the ECB have decided that there is no room for a free thinking Captain in the English team. Essentially, it's Captaincy by numbers, driven by statisticians.

It's negative like Strauss' certainly, but Strauss did have more tactical awareness. He was also clearly a better leader, whereas Cook is just weak, negative, and tactically inept.

 

[cricket_icon]

What an innings by Buttler, I've been asking for this kid to be included instead of Prior, now if Robson doesn't get a good run of scores, time for the Hales experiment

 

[bigred]

Hales for Robson and this team might start turning things around. Would also love to get Finn back involved having seen him bowl fast at Lord's last week.

 

[War]

Nah, Hales is not test standard yet. If Robson is to be dropped, either bring back Compton or promote Root to open & bring in another middle-order bat like Vince or Taylor.

 

[cricket_icon]

Hales for Robson and this team might start turning things around. Would also love to get Finn back involved having seen him bowl fast at Lord's last week.

yep, been calling for a Finn return but what kind of shape is he in after all the crap the ECB have tossed his way???

 

[bigred]

I don't actually think Robson is such a bad player. However I do think England need to get their run rate nearer 3.5 so bringing in a player like Hales gives us a chance of doing that. Replacing Robson with Compton would have absolutely no benefit. And we certainly can't go back to messing Root around in the order.

 

[greymatter776]

India having opening troubles too.Dhawan falling cheaply yet again and if he fails in the second innings also,I cant find a good replacement.Rahane is set in the middle order and putting him as an opener would only make things worse because both him and Vijay has similar technique.Rohit hasn't been experimented so far but he doesn't seems to fit.Gambhir is the next one in list but he is struggling too.So I think we would stay with Dhawan and hope he would turn things around like he did in NZ.

 

[swacker]

Warne on about declaring too late. How fun.

 

[aditya123]

Our only hope in this game was if Pujara stayed in there. England already showing up our crappy selection and why pace on the ball is a necessity. Rohit Sharma is a friggin waste of space in the side. He would come out and scratch around for 30 deleveries and then throw it away. We would do well to score 250 here. I fear an innings defeat here for us just after tea time tomorrow.

I`m afraid we are well on course to a series changing defeat here. From here on, this is going to be the trend for the rest of the series.

 

[Skater]

Our only hope in this game was if Pujara stayed in there. England already showing up our crappy selection and why pace on the ball is a necessity. Rohit Sharma is a friggin waste of space in the side. He would come out and scratch around for 30 deleveries and then throw it away. We would do well to score 250 here. I fear an innings defeat here for us just after tea time tomorrow.

I`m afraid we are well on course to a series changing defeat here. From here on, this is going to be the trend for the rest of the series.

Good lord you really are the most pessimistic set of fans I've ever seen!

 

[swacker]

Rahane was fortunate not to be given out to Ali. Huge appeal led by Buttler catching one that brushed the glove down the leg side.

Hot spot showed a small flick.

 

[Aalay]

Hah Kohli pushing outside the off stump. Let's see what Rohit does now.