The Winter Cricket Thread

[Nemo]

79/4, this is all going excellently.

[Paolo69]

I cant help but look back at page 28 where that spastic NMH was advocating dropping KP and Jimmy

What a fucktard

Fortunately Andy Flower has higher level qualifications.

[nevillew]

I was thinking we'd be heading for...... St. Louis down to Missouri
Oklahoma City, looks oh so pretty
You'll see Amarillo and Gallup, New Mexico
Flagstaff, Arizona don't forget Winona
Kingman, Barstow, San Bernadino

Barstow's not playing Reg, do pay attention.

[fittons_coaching_badge]

Are Kohli and Dhoni going to do a Dravid/Laxman in 2001 or Cook/Trott in 2010 and bat out the day.  Lead is now 80 odd.  The pressure innings will be the third (England's second).

But it so flat and slow it is easy to stay in if not so easy to score quickly.

[Nemo]

Yeah, this pitch is just horrible for Cricket, a few sound judges have said it's easy enough to stay in but hard to score. We shouldn't lose from here, not going to win either most likely but as long as we don't panic the draw should be pretty achievable. India need to win so we could see a bit of a blitz in the morning and we want to restrict their lead to under 100.

[Nemo]

Dhoni runs himself out on 99, oh dear!

Chawla gone too, clatter of wickets after some patient bowling and they're probably not even going to get a lead. Magic.

Jimmy A is a bit good innit? His career average is still over 30 which is mystifying, I'd like to see the stats since he replaced Hoggard as the new ball bowler in New Zealand a few years back.

[slinky]

Great comeback there in the last session.  Good to see their heads didn't drop and were rewarded.

[fittons_coaching_badge]

This time wasting by England is a bit unnessesary, very bizarre and sends a really negative message. Someone do something for fuck sake!

5 men on the boundary for the number 10 .... Really?!?!?!?

[Nemo]

1 off 46 balls from Cook, brilliant trolling. I can understand why they're playing for the draw, we need to remember how historic a series win would be in India and how much we looked useless against virtually the same team in the first test just a few months ago. Would like him to score a bit quicker as every run we put on is one they have to knock off, but there's no need to push for the win: hopefully Compton can get a score to round the tour off nicely.

[Nemo]

Cook been given out caught for a ball he was nowhere near. It's been said several time but bears repeating that the standard of umpiring has been shocking in this series, and notably so as it's usually exceptional.

[Paolo69]

Agreed Nemo, it's getting to the stage where I've no faith in them getting the right decision. It's almost as if standards have gone downhill since DRS was introduced. The problem is they don't have it to get them out of trouble in this series. Cookie's had 2 shockers in this game. Just given Compton Lbw when he hit the thing now. Ok he may have been caught but its the umpires job to get these things right.

[leefer]

Swings and roundabouts for me,the Indians had some dodgy decisions in there innings.

We need someone to get on with scoring some runs.

Blocking for ever could be our downfall here.

[Paolo69]

It maybe swings and roundabouts but that's not really the point Leef. Doesn't make for great viewing.

We need runs yes we'd be the first to slate them for getting out playing shots. What we actually need is to bat time. India know this which is why the declared.

[leefer]

It is the point though.

I would slate them more for blocking to short man caught......or maybe leaving a straight one

[Nomoreheroes]

Agreed Nemo, it's getting to the stage where I've no faith in them getting the right decision. It's almost as if standards have gone downhill since DRS was introduced. The problem is they don't have it to get them out of trouble in this series. Cookie's had 2 shockers in this game. Just given Compton Lbw when he hit the thing now. Ok he may have been caught but its the umpires job to get these things right.

There have always been shockers in games. We just notice them more now that we have got used to DRS being used in games involving all the other nations. DRS is a major part of the game now and should be used at all times.