Story India's Journey To World Cup 2011 [Commonwealth Bank Series 2010]

[AkshayS]

congrats for this story, post 150 and page 10.
oops page 11.

 

[Aditya]

Thanks guys. When i started this story my main aim was/is to complete it and i'm sure i will do that. Cheers for the response so far.

 

[AkshayS]

Waiting for the next match.
Are your exams going on?

 

[TheGreemSim]

Matt Prior just wasn't enough for England then.

 

[Varun]

Matt Prior just wasn't enough for England then.

He is never enough for England.

 

[Aditya]

India In England

India Vs England
Natwest Series 2010
Second Test Match : India Vs England
Live From Lord's

Welcome guys again to for the second Npower test match between India and England. We saw a thrilling of a match few days ago which was first Npower test match between these two sides. We again hope the same thing in this match but England will be having pressure of being 1-0 down in the series but we have often seen in the past England team recovering from big loses but in this case the first test match loss was just bit unlucky. Now its time to head to Jeoffery Boycott for the pitch report and Michael Atherton for the crucial toss.​

Pitch Report With Jeoffery Boycott​

Pitch looks to be a great one. I was here in London for some stuff from past few days and we had heavy showers day before yesterday though today it seems that weather will be a ideal one for cricket. Now lets talk about the pitch. I was expecting bit grass on the surface but there is no grass on the surface which means it will favor batsmen. But there are some expectations of shower on day 3 so maybe from day 3 pitch can favor bowlers. But day 1 and day 2 will have no rain so the team who will bat first will surely have the advantage now its time to head to Michael Atherton for the toss.

Toss with Michael Atherton​

Welcome our viewers for the crucial toss. I have with me the men who matter MS Dhoni captain India and Andrew Strauss captain England.

Strauss has the coin Dhoni to call....and Dhoni calls Heads!

It is heads. So Dhoni winning the toss again i guess now you have a good habit of winning the toss. What will you do bat or bowl?

Yes,I'm quite happy winning the toss. We would bat first on this surface. Looks to me as if its a good surface and score of 400 to 450 would be a good one for our team and we are also leading the series so England will be under pressure.

Yes they will be under pressure and we may see few changes in their side but are their any changes in your side?

Yes we have just one change Kohli has come in place of Yuvraj Singh,Kohli is making his debut and we are sure he will perform well.

Lets see,Best of luck for the match Dhoni.

Now i would like to have few words with England captain, Andrew Strauss. So Strauss loosing the toss again what would have you done if you would have won the toss?

We would have batted first too Michael. Pitch looks to be a good one for batting. Pitch may get worse for batting till India innings end but lets hope it doesn't.

Do you have changes in your side after loosing first match by just 4 runs?

Yes we have two changes in our side Eoin Morgan is coming in place of Jonathan Trott and Lian Plunkett is coming in place of Matthew Hoggard.

Good changes there Andrew,Best of luck for the match.

That's all from the toss and i'm eagerly waiting for the start of 2nd Npower test match.

India winning the toss again and they are batting first again. I guess Dhoni is having some great luck with the toss now lets have look at the weather for today.

As we can see just 12% of rain today so that basically means that very less percent of rain could be there. Outfield will be slow so batsmen have to take singles and doubles mostly and maybe few triples. As mentioned by Jeoffery Boycott pitch is normal and doesn't have grass so it will favor batsmen in the end we have perfect day for cricket. Now lets have a look at team line-ups for today's match.

Team Line-Ups​

England side looks strong. Eoin Morgan is making his debut and as we know that he is very talented player and has played odi's for England and has performed very well in past in odi's. Lian Plunkett on other side has played few test matches for England and he certainly bowls pretty well and doesn't need any introduction. India have just one change which is Kohli in place of Yuvraj and i think that's a good change. Yuvraj batting suits odi's so lets keep him for odi's and have Kohli in the side. Kohli has performed exceptionally well in the odi's for India and he can certainly make runs in test matches.Now its time to see what Sky Sports Commentators think about the match.

Surprisingly England have 3 votes and India have 2 votes and just 1 vote for a draw.

Play N Win​

We are running few contests those are. Man Of The Match for 2nd Npower Test match. Man Of The Series for whole Natwest Test Series. Team to win the 2nd Npower Test match. Each contest contains vcash price of 5,000 vcash hurry up what are you waiting for? You can only participate till the start of India second innings.


It would be very interesting now to see who win's this match now we are heading for a short break after the break we will head away to the live action.

 

[Gaurav_7]

Good presentation as usual. Nice going. I think you have messed up the last image though.

 

[Aussie Team]

Kohli in Test Squad.....

 

[AkshayS]

nice presentation. Hope that India will win this one too.:banana2
Kohli is a better player that Yuvi in Tests.

 

[yashwanth kumar]

Good presentation mate

MY UPDATES : Please used Team logos while previewing the squads

 

[Aditya]

@User2010-Thanks i have corrected the last image.
@Yashwanth-Will keep that in mind.
@All-thanks for comments.

I would like to thank Treva here. As few of you can see some ideas are taken from his story so it's fair to mention him.

 

[BKB1991]

I predict an Indian win, English team looks very weak IMO

 

[Varun]

Nice presentations and nice ideas but the faces look stretched.

 

[Aditya]

I forgot to add Play N Win contest but now it is added to the last update. I hope this time i will get better response then the previous match from the members.

 

[AkshayS]

I bet on India's win.
Bhajji or paji(for Tendulkar) will be MOM.