India in England Jun-Sept 2014

[Champagnepapi]

Well, he clearly knows something we don't know, I mean seriously stop with the mind games.

 

[asprin]

I have never seen him taking this kind of stubborn approach towards any kind of issue.

Have to agree with this. This has been going on for days now and it's not clear why he and BCCI are finding it difficult to let go.

 

[IceAgeComing]

The entire thing is just immature bickering and people should just let it go. If the BCCI had this footage that they claimed to have of whatever happened then things would be different, but now its just he-said-she-said nonsense. If this happened on the Ashes tour, then you'd probably have a decent number of both teams getting ICC sanctions...

 

[Cricket_god]

So Dhoni has again criticized ICC and David Boon in the pre match conference regarding Anderson- Jadeja issue. I have followed Dhoni's career as a player and as a captain very closely and I have never seen him taking this kind of stubborn approach towards any kind of issue.

Then u missed a whole lot.Have u seen his behaviour with umpires in middle of test matches pointing fingers at umpires and so on.The mask he wears gets peeled off when somebody abuses him.Be it swann when eng tour india during odi series or this time.Jajdeja and p.k abused english players right till the dressing room in that odi ,he gets affected when his minions are said something.

 

[tonka115]

Let's just hope that all the issue's are put behind and we will finish off with two competitive, enjoyable test matches. Can't see it happening tho.

 

[PokerAce]

Love the starting line up from India ... Shami had to go, and Rohit kinda sealed his fate with that shot. I would have retained Dhawan, but having said, lets back the bloke now. Really like the look of the team. Min 370 in the first innings a must.

 

[aditya123]

Agreed. Its an aggressive selection from us and we must somehow string together a score of 350-odd here. We will be in the game with this bowling attack of ours if we can score decently in the first innings. I would`ve still gone with Shami instead of Pankaj but hope he has better luck this time around. Kohli has to somehow fire here. If we collapse in the first innings, its all over. If we can manage a 260/4 effort tonight, we will be in with a chance in this game.

 

[PokerAce]

Hmm ... Dhawan could have done that !! Always said why bring back Gambhir in the same conditions he failed so miserably last tour, stick with Dhawan. Anyway like I said, still a super team, back it to the hilt.

 

[aditya123]

Hmm ... Dhawan could have done that !! Always said why bring back Gambhir in the same conditions he failed so miserably last tour, stick with Dhawan. Anyway like I said, still a super team, back it to the hilt.

Totally echo your sentiments. We might still collapse with this side but we were doing that anyway. Rather lose trying to win the game than go into a game looking to save it from Day 1. This looks like a wicket with bounce and might not have much help for Bhuvi. Aaron is pacey but more of a skidder than Broad. That leaves us with Pankaj to exploit the bounce. Ashwin and Jadeja in tandem may not be bad either. We have options but need runs to use them.

 

[tonka115]

Cracking decision to bring Gambhir in, gone for 4.

 

[PokerAce]

Boy India are in trouble early, but that Vijay ball was a cracking one.

 

[SpitfiresKent]

Gambeen and gone

 

[tonka115]

Boy India are in trouble early, but that Vijay ball was a cracking one.

England of to a great start this morning. Definitely a bowling wicket!! Proving to be hard to bat on.

 

[PokerAce]

India will be lucky to last till lunch at this rate.

 

[tonka115]

This is absolutely amazing (as an England fan!!) Game could be done in 3 days as I doubt either team will be able to bat on it.