India vs England test series

[MelVilander]

guys i ment in a positive frame of mind, its so exiting now there are almost four teams that look capable of beating Aus it was never like this before although SL is a supect in neutral conditions, but none the less it would be awesome if there was to be a grand test round robin with 5 teams

 

[damochandler]

england will be shattered after the loss in the first test. india really should just go for jugular in the second test

 

[Alpha1]

Would it be logical to have a test championship? Australia, SA, India, England top 4 teams head to head at home and away?. Or is that too much logistically etc?

 

[anti.]

a test championship or world cup type thing would be awesome. would put a lot more interest in the games as well i reckon.

it'd be hard to organise though.

 

[MelVilander]

if it has to be home and away with all four then it has to be clubed with the present tours program, cause there simply is no window for such a mammoth event. But it perhaps could be done as a round robin with 2 meetings but would be a incredibally long and almost herculean on the competitors and only these four with their bench strengths would ever be able to compete in it, cause there would be injuries galore,guess it would never happen we might aswell stop wasting our time. But if it does happen it would be plane glorious.

 

[Alpha1]

Yeah it would be glorious the top 4 teams going at each other, it would have to be 2 or three matches at home and 2 or 3 away. Would be almost impossible to organize something like that.

 

[DeadlyAkkuret]

Would it be logical to have a test championship? Australia, SA, India, England top 4 teams head to head at home and away?. Or is that too much logistically etc?

Wow, didn't even see this before my three-way series thread. Didn't include England

 

[Alpha1]

Wow, didn't even see this before my three-way series thread. Didn't include England

lol sorry Deadly didn't see your 4 way thread, but England are a decent team don't you think?

 

[DeadlyAkkuret]

lol sorry Deadly didn't see your 4 way thread, but England are a decent team don't you think?

They're a decent side and have shown that they can challenge one of the strongest Indian line-ups, but not a top three team.

 

[Grimwood]

Word on the street is that England may or may not be making major changes, depending on which side of the bed KP falls out of, whether the first smartie he gets out of the tube is blue or... well... you get the idea.

Strauss, Cook, Shah, Pietersen, Collingwood, Prior, Flintoff, Broad, Swann, Harmison, Khan.

Maybe.

It'll be a draw unless one of the teams falls apart. The mist means we'll lose overs every day.

 

[Mr P@H]

Khan eh? Will be interesting to see what he's got, looking at that team it is fairly young with some players hitting their prime in the next year, it's a bit of a learning curve, all have shown theirn talent.

 

[Blue Dimension]

Bell and Anderson now on the chopping block in both forms?

It's been too long for decisions like these to be made.

KP swinging the changes and I like the way he's going about it.

 

[DoubleO7]

Broad with the first wicket.

 

[DoubleO7]

Anderson everywhere as usual.

 

[DoubleO7]

Ground is empty as a Melbourne F.C home game.

 

[DoubleO7]

Broad getting the ball to seam all over the place.

 

[damochandler]

i give you the tip. dravid nearly needs to score a tripple century to keep his spots after this test match

 

[ubolt]

only 21 overs bowled in the first session of the match

aye aye aye


not good

 

[Alpha1]

Good game I must admit sometimes it good to watch the batsmen struggle and they have to graft runs. That is what test cricket is all about.

 

[LIONS then DAYLIGHT]

only 21 overs bowled in the first session of the match

aye aye aye


not good

It was a shortened session by a half hour or so.

 

[DoubleO7]

Gambhir has picked up the pace.

 

[LIONS then DAYLIGHT]

Dravid starting to find a hint of form here, ever so slowly but it looks like a bell has rung.

 

[DoubleO7]

OMG! Dravid scored a boundary.

 

[Alpha1]

You can't write off a great, Dravid looks like he's starting to find his form. Dravid is a key to the Indian batting line up, as most of the batsmen are stroke players. Hope he goes on and gets a 100.

 

[Grimwood]

England haven't bowled that badly, but I think they dithered a bit after lunch. Feeding Gambhir some wide balls in an effort to get him to cut loosely wasn't the way to go. England did tighten things up, but it may have been too late.

Would help if Daryll Harper hadn't forgotten the LBW law as well.

Long term prognosis can't be good for England with the ball gripping and finding a little bit of bite on day one.