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England won the toss and will bat. No freddie due discomfort in left ankle. Luke Wright make his debut.

Cool. Luke Wright is a good player. Hopefully we finish it off today but i can see it going to the last game and us doing the inevitable and losing of course.

the foreigner Shah is playing well, he may even earn his passport :wink:

Luke Wright was a bit handy too, 50 off 39 balls then run out by a good bit of fielding. If he can bowl too he'll be gold.

Sunil Gavarskar was practically grooming him on the Radio.

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Masceranas just tonked them for 5 straight sixes. Awesome!

I was just about to post that.

316-6 should win this now.

Great century from Shah  :D

Five sixes off the last five balls by Mascarenhas too :beers:

Good effort by the lads to reach 316-6,at least makes it a game.

And Brian May talking to Aggers. What a fantastic day in.

As far as know none of Shahs parents are English, Warne is half-German due to his mother

England will win with that score

England should win now....SHOULD  :wink:

That was a superb over right at the end, with Mascarenhas tonking it everywhere. I tuned in just before that over started to check up on the score and saw THAT  :D

They're knocking these runs off pretty dang easily!

Our bowling has been fucking shocking!

A bit harsh, Ganguly and Tendulkar are playing out of their skins.

It could have been a lot worse without the partnerships torwards the end of our innings though! Seems like the Indians are continuing where they left off on sunday,the brilliant bastards.

42 from 24 needed, cannot see India doing it unless Dhoni cuts loose in the next over

27 to win from 18. Bet we blow it.....lets see i suppose.

key man is Dhoni, keep him off strike and England will win

Even I'm watching this  :o

293 -5 so 24 more needed of 14 balls

Dhoni gone, all over now for sure

A sense of relief phew  :D

my god Anderson is getting tonked today, I bet he gets a wicket now I saidd that :wink:

It's getting a bit tense i have to say  :|

307-7 one more over left

agarkar out, 10 needed off the last over. Can England cock it up again :soapy tit wank: I should think not

309 - 8 now

4 from 3

oh dear :Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick:

we have blown it FFS  :-))(   :evil:

And.........

(that was in reply to Dachau's 4 from 3)



I take it England lost.

FUCKING CUNTS! I fucking knew it  :evil:   :evil:   :evil:

Cue us losing the last fucking game FFS  :-))(

Our fielding was pretty poor today, it really was Indian style fielding.

Not quite as bad as Ganguly mind. He chased a four he could easily have caught and just gave up about 2 feet before he caught up with it. Didn't look to chuffed at having to run for Sachin either.

Why we bother i dont know.

Yet again another fantastic match,the tension at the end was almost unbearable.Shame about losing the game but lets face it a year ago we would have been bowled out for under 250 and the Indians would have chased down the target by the 35th over.We actually look like we will win games now and we haven't been able to say that for a while.So chin up everybody,the 20/20 World cup starts on the 11th  :wink:

Utappa Sweep shot of Broad with 8 needed was the cheekiest shot i have ever seen but it was effective and but the nail in the coffin. I thought we won it when Broad got Dhoni out. Saturday at Lords is going to be tense.

I think Jimmy's last 2 expensive overs cost us a little bit when the going got tough...

Yes true but any team who scores 316 should defend it. We didn't. Not a hope in hells chance for that 20/20 thing. Complete waste of time for the team to even bother flying out if i'm honest.

We'll do well in the 20-20

Well it's a different game all together. We have these specialists so we'll just have to see i suppose. I'm not holding my breath though.

crikey. you sound like a right barrell of laughs.

always look on the bright side of life

Normally yes, but at the Oval, they've brought in the boundary, and the outfield is quick, as proved with the two 20-20 games earlier in the year against the Windies.

The 20-20 World Cup is open. Hopefully we'll do OK as we've bough in some 'specialists' like Luke Wright. It'll be interesting to see how India plays in 20-20, as they've never played it before !!

i think, rich, that because cricket is a game that goes on for 8 hours a day it's too much time wasted if you start throwing your toys out of the pram when the result doesn't go the right way

it was an amazing game of cricket. just enjoy it for that. yes we'd all have preferred england to win but you have to take pleasure from innings like tendulkar's because they are simply brilliant to watch

cricket is a game of sitting back and watching it evolve as opposed to the high tempo, high on emotion game of football. you can't treat them both the same. carry on this way and you'll give yourself a heart-attack

Cricket is a game of sitting back and ignoring it and getting drunk instead. That's my experience of it whenever they bung it on in the pub anyway.

And to those that watch it and don't get excited by it - what's the point? It's like that shit poor excuse for porn they used to put on channel 5 after pub kick out time. No point in it whatsoever.

I suppose the storylines were a bit good sometimes though

 :o

All spectator sports are about getting lashed.

Although I do not support England I have spent many a summer watchin g all their matches on bbc1 and c4, just as cricket get popular due to the ashes win the ECB sale the rights to sky so not everybody has access to it, which I think is scandelous

I had no problem with the game itself or Tendulkars innings which was a great knock. It's the fact that Enlgland are shit that pisses me off. I don't care how good the opposition are i just want to see my team win. And when they bat well and blow it away it's even worse. We all get pissed off when Town lose. It's the same with English cricket or any other sport for me.