England v India

[Kid Dynamite 7034]

Aye, you nailed it like Alex Might not even need a 2nd innings yet

[Guest alex]

Aye, you nailed it like Alex Might not even need a 2nd innings yet

I'm taking the credit for it like. Champagne moment from me right there.

[Tooj 17]

[Billy Castell 0]

Im at the first ODI at CLS next week. Wouldnt complain if I got to see Tendulkar get his 100th 100

 

I did think that was reffering to test matches only, but I checked, and I was wrong.

[Kid Dynamite 7034]

Just been to the gym in the ground, just been down and they are on with putting the temporary seating up. Looking forward to it now. They hope to have the ground finished in time for the Ashes test.

 

20,000 seats and a 150 room hotel.

 

[Dr Gloom 21965]

Canny pathetic by India like.

 

Story of their tour. Though you have to give the English bowlers a lot of credit for nullifying some top class batters. Dravid was the only one to do himself justice. 'Very Very Special' Laxman and Sehwag were piss poor.

[Billy Castell 0]

Dravid, Laxman, Sewag and Tendulkar are all getting on, but is there anyone who can replace any of them? They need proper fast bowlers too, but the pitches are so dry and flat all they produced are steady fast-medium line and length types. And finally the fans are glory supporters, and thus they all want to be Tendulkar. English fans love Freddy, Hoggard, Broad and Anderson, not just KP or Cook. Indians don't seem too fussed about Anil Kumble or Zaheer Khan.

[Tooj 17]

One thing I'm sick of hearing is whenever they mention Tendulkar having to do something that he doesn't particularly enjoy is "Oh you couldn't possibly expect Sachin to do that."

[Guest alex]

Dravid, Laxman, Sewag and Tendulkar are all getting on, but is there anyone who can replace any of them? They need proper fast bowlers too, but the pitches are so dry and flat all they produced are steady fast-medium line and length types. And finally the fans are glory supporters, and thus they all want to be Tendulkar. English fans love Freddy, Hoggard, Broad and Anderson, not just KP or Cook. Indians don't seem too fussed about Anil Kumble or Zaheer Khan.

The pitches are the same in Pakistan though and they've produced loads of good fast bowlers so perhaps it's more to do with the culture of 'the batsman is king'. IPL won't improve that either. They've just won the World Cup though so their one-day side is obviously alright. Still a canny test side at home too (although they always are).

[snakehips 0]

Dravid, Laxman, Sewag and Tendulkar are all getting on, but is there anyone who can replace any of them? They need proper fast bowlers too, but the pitches are so dry and flat all they produced are steady fast-medium line and length types. And finally the fans are glory supporters, and thus they all want to be Tendulkar. English fans love Freddy, Hoggard, Broad and Anderson, not just KP or Cook. Indians don't seem too fussed about Anil Kumble or Zaheer Khan.

The pitches are the same in Pakistan though and they've produced loads of good fast bowlers so perhaps it's more to do with the culture of 'the batsman is king'. IPL won't improve that either. They've just won the World Cup though so their one-day side is obviously alright. Still a canny test side at home too (although they always are).

 

Regarding Tendulkar's replacement, there's a young kid in India who recently beat one of his records for batting. Can't remember his name. He could just be a flash in the pan or playing agains abject bowlers though. We'll see.

 

Listened to an interview last year with a long-standing Indian coach who said the young kids don't want to be slow bowlers anymore as they don't want to be the guy getting smashed out of the ground (that's a direct response to what they see in IPL). Maybe India will start bringing through more fast bowlers as the wealth of the nation improves and, therefore, so does the health and fitness of the young kids being able to bowl fast for prolonged periods? Again, we'll see.

[Tooj 17]

You bowled a few googlies in your time over there like snakey?

[Billy Castell 0]

Dravid, Laxman, Sewag and Tendulkar are all getting on, but is there anyone who can replace any of them? They need proper fast bowlers too, but the pitches are so dry and flat all they produced are steady fast-medium line and length types. And finally the fans are glory supporters, and thus they all want to be Tendulkar. English fans love Freddy, Hoggard, Broad and Anderson, not just KP or Cook. Indians don't seem too fussed about Anil Kumble or Zaheer Khan.

The pitches are the same in Pakistan though and they've produced loads of good fast bowlers so perhaps it's more to do with the culture of 'the batsman is king'. IPL won't improve that either. They've just won the World Cup though so their one-day side is obviously alright. Still a canny test side at home too (although they always are).

 

Regarding Tendulkar's replacement, there's a young kid in India who recently beat one of his records for batting. Can't remember his name. He could just be a flash in the pan or playing agains abject bowlers though. We'll see.

 

Listened to an interview last year with a long-standing Indian coach who said the young kids don't want to be slow bowlers anymore as they don't want to be the guy getting smashed out of the ground (that's a direct response to what they see in IPL). Maybe India will start bringing through more fast bowlers as the wealth of the nation improves and, therefore, so does the health and fitness of the young kids being able to bowl fast for prolonged periods? Again, we'll see.

 

With one day cricket, you just need to be naggingly accurate, and not give easy balls to swat away. It is the batsmen who win the game, whereas the bowlers have to win the test match for you by getting all the wickets as well as keeping runs down and building pressure on batsmen. I'm not sure if you can create less batting friendly pitches in India because of the climate, the soil etc. But if you can, they must ASAP and encourage bowlers. Otherwise, as that coach said, kids won't want to be spinners, and will give up being fast bowlers on flat, one paced pitches that make you sweat your arse off for nothing.

 

I also have a dream about the West Indies going all out and creating the bum-clentchingly fast pitches that bred their great bowlers.

[snakehips 0]

You bowled a few googlies in your time over there like snakey?

 

Let's just say this sword of St George has not been seen in action against the hordes

[Kid Dynamite 7034]

Stokes called up for the ODI and T20 squads despite his poor show yesterday.

[Tooj 17]

Replacing KP isn't he? Can't wait to see how he fares next Saturday now. Hopefully he bats a bit higher up than 6 as well. Especially due to the usual slow pace our batters normally bat at in the 50 over format.