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« Reply #585 on: Friday, December 14, 2012, 10:43:51 » |
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79/4, this is all going excellently.
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« Reply #586 on: Friday, December 14, 2012, 11:20:29 » |
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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.
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« Reply #587 on: Friday, December 14, 2012, 15:32:18 » |
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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.
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Paolo Di Canio, it's Paolo Di Canio
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« Reply #588 on: Saturday, December 15, 2012, 09:33:36 » |
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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.
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« Reply #589 on: Saturday, December 15, 2012, 09:38:21 » |
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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.
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« Reply #590 on: Saturday, December 15, 2012, 11:04:50 » |
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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.
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« Reply #591 on: Saturday, December 15, 2012, 11:13:10 » |
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Great comeback there in the last session. Good to see their heads didn't drop and were rewarded.
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« Reply #592 on: Sunday, December 16, 2012, 04:18:22 » |
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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?!?!?!?
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« Reply #593 on: Sunday, December 16, 2012, 06:18:57 » |
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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.
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« Reply #594 on: Sunday, December 16, 2012, 07:38:30 » |
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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.
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« Reply #595 on: Sunday, December 16, 2012, 08:46:47 » |
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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.
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« Reply #596 on: Sunday, December 16, 2012, 08:51:30 » |
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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.
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« Reply #597 on: Sunday, December 16, 2012, 08:57:36 » |
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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.
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« Reply #598 on: Sunday, December 16, 2012, 09:26:18 » |
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It is the point though. I would slate them more for blocking to short man caught......or maybe leaving a straight one
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« Reply #599 on: Sunday, December 16, 2012, 09:26:25 » |
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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.
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