Cricket: 2014 India tour of England, 9th July-7th September

[bigunit00]

dav123a said:

Safety first , Moores feels comfortable with him , happens the world over in sport. When mangers move football clubs you see them going back to their old clubs to buy players. ATM I have no idea who is our number one spinner.

Is Moores a selector? If so, he shouldn't be. Some independent thinking might save a career here.

[irocfan]

Gargamel said:

hornetrider said:

That's all very nice, but I have it on fairly good authority that the man is a complete .

I can forgive him, his ishness

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=zQiVUM9cYmw

the problem is he is good... I get the impression that we in the UK don't like flair - we don't 'trust' it. Changing sports I honestly can't see David Campese being half the success he was if he was English - or indeed someone like Serge Blanco. Am I wrong?

[Amirhussain]

James Anderson could be facing a test match ban, England are gonna be without one of their main batsmen..

[Amirhussain]

Second test tomorrow.

[Petrol Only]

Jesus. That's green! Can't complain about lack of grass. Should be interesting as it drys out.

[hornetrider]

Aye carumba! Are they sure they've not put the stumps in the outfield?

[Petrol Only]

One down. Moving all over as you'd expect.

[hornetrider]

Get in Jimmy!

[juice]

I'm backing Jimmy to get at least 5 wickets...Him against Dhoni is going to be tasty...

Nice to see Ballance suffering no ill-effects from his piss-up the other night

[TheExcession]

hornetrider said:

Aye carumba! Are they sure they've not put the stumps in the outfield?

Looks like the wicket my old fella cut for Little Ex!

It seems to be working though, 48 for 2.

Did England get lucky with the toss choosing to bowl?

I'm holding my breath for the inevitable England batting collapse tomorrow

[BraveSirRobin]

More from Cook's little book of captaincy:
- Bowl short on a seaming wicket
- One over of spin before lunch (that one could have worked to be fair)

It looks like we've got the pitch we asked for - why aren't we using it properly?

[unrepentant]

Jimmy Anderson didn't get banned?

[Challo]

BraveSirRobin said:

More from Cook's little book of captaincy:
- Bowl short on a seaming wicket
- One over of spin before lunch (that one could have worked to be fair)

It looks like we've got the pitch we asked for - why aren't we using it properly?

Listening to TMS and apart from Jimmy's early spell its been the same old England bowling. What is so hard to bowl full, with a line of off-stump and make the batsman play? The ball has been moving around alot and making them play means your more likely to get a nick.

Prior dropping 2 hasn't helped matters.

[FiF]

Have we wasted this wicket?

Beginning of first day and it's already worthy of a ffs.... ffs!

[hornetrider]

Phew! Another down, 86/3. Nice one Jimmy.

[hornetrider]

Nice death rattle

113/4 - MS Dhoni in... to boos.

[hornetrider]

YES! Dhoni gone! Shame it's not Jimmy, but will settle for Broady.

[hornetrider]

Jadeja GONE! 128/6!

[TheExcession]

FiF said:

Have we wasted this wicket?

Beginning of first day and it's already worthy of a ffs.... ffs!

Oh common, it's not really worthy of a ffs.

123/5 now, I'd say that England aren't doing too badly.

I'm just dreading tomorrow when the Indian bowlers really show the English batsmen how it should be done

Without doubt there's a good bit of swing there, must be that gloobal warmin and heat wave the BBc keep banging on about.

Quite why they've just (50th over) given Ali the ball I'm not sure, maybe to give the seamers a rest?

Whilst writing this... AND ANOTHER ONE!!!!

I take back everything I just said about Ali!

128/6

I guess we could see England bat today!

[Challo]

TheExcession said:

FiF said:

Have we wasted this wicket?

Beginning of first day and it's already worthy of a ffs.... ffs!

Oh common, it's not really worthy of a ffs.

123/5 now, I'd say that England aren't doing too badly.

I'm just dreading tomorrow when the Indian bowlers really show the English batsmen how it should be done

Without doubt there's a good bit of swing there, must be that gloobal warmin and heat wave the BBc keep banging on about.

Quite why they've just (50th over) given Ali the ball I'm not sure, maybe to give the seamers a rest?

Whilst writing this... AND ANOTHER ONE!!!!

I take back everything I just said about Ali!

128/6

I guess we could see England bat today!

At this rate and with England's known collapses we could be wrapped up within 3 days