1st Test - India v England

[lazzer]

It's like I said yesterday I don't think England fecked this up, India showed there true potential. It was an inspirational innings from Sachin.

The cricket did bring hapiness but as Sachin rightly said the true hereos are the people in Mumbai who captured the terrorists.

Great victory today. Was a special Test match

IMO at this present moment in time India are the best team in the world, I'm not just saying this, they really are

Ok ffs there is more to life than cricket ,people died last week you know :icon_roll

 

[Tamworth Fox]

Ok ffs there is more to life than cricket ,people died last week you know :icon_roll

People die every second :icon_roll

 

[Willlow]

They are currently a work in progress. We've had two good World Cup's out of the old guard and now the baton is being passed and it will take time to build another team. This fecking lot won the Ashes...:icon_roll and then got whitewashed on the return.

Not only do we have a new captain, but Vaughan, Giles, G. Jones, S. Jones, Trescothick & Hoggard who all played in '05 arent even playing for England anymore (with Vaughan the only one likely to return).

Don't get me wrong we should have done better against India, but this is a new team and one that unfortunately doesnt have the same bowling fire power of 2005.

 

[Tamworth Fox]

Swann bowled extremely well over the test match. Freddy is still among the best in the world IMO and the only pace bowler I fear in Englands side.

 

[lazzer]

People die every second :icon_roll

You posted it you big brummie nonce :icon_roll

 

[Tamworth Fox]

You posted it you big brummie nonce :icon_roll

Yes but someone posted what I posted above in response to my comment. I'm wasted on you..... Don't like being called a, "brummie," I'd like to think I haven't got a brummie accent

 

[fcukcov]

......Don't like being called a, "brummie," I'd like to think I haven't got a brummie accent

But you do like being called an Indian? How strange.

 

[Nottingham Fox]

Yes but someone posted what I posted above in response to my comment. I'm wasted on you..... Don't like being called a, "brummie," I'd like to think I haven't got a brummie accent

You do have a west midlands accent :icon_lol:

 

[Steven]

Ok ffs there is more to life than cricket ,people died last week you know :icon_roll

"Cricket is a lesser thing compared to what has happened but whatever we can contribute, in whatever small manner, we are right with those people who have lost their dear ones."

 

[Brauny Blue]

Bottled it.

From having a 250 lead with 7wkts in hand, and then to lose the game was criminal.
India on their own patch are difficult for any visiting team, but imo England chucked this away.
The bowling at the start of the Indian innings was woeful, and allowed them the impetus to challenge what should have been a winning total.

Is KP the new Both regarding captaincy

 

[highland fox]

We are crap at Cricket

 

[Redditch Fox]

IMO at this present moment in time India are the best team in the world, I'm not just saying this, they really are

.....yes, a very good side in world cricket. and in a different class to England on Indian tracks...but India are possibly only a great side in India itself.

In reality, England have usually found it tough going in India. The result of this test match is not a surprise nor incidentally is the ineffectual bowling of Panasar whose bowling doesn't seem to have much currency in the sub-continent. India batted surprisingly poorly in the first innings but once they got their act together I wasn't that amazed that they got the runs

 

[Brauny Blue]

.....yes, a very good side in world cricket. and in a different class to England on Indian tracks...but India are possibly only a great side in India itself.

In reality, England have usually found it tough going in India. The result of this test match is not a surprise nor incidentally is the ineffectual bowling of Panasar whose bowling doesn't seem to have much currency in the sub-continent. India batted surprisingly poorly in the first innings but once they got their act together I wasn't that amazed that they got the runs

I agree, and you could hardly dispute that they are a very strong side.
That said they would need to win a series in both South Africa and Australia to become the clear no 1 side imo.

 

[Melton Fox]

I blame Panasar. If he's anything like Jessel, then he'll be secretly batting for the other side.

Are you saying Jessel's a bender?

 

[Redditch Fox]

Are you saying Jessel's a bender?

I know nothing about his bowling action.

Incidentally, is it possible for my posts to be formatted in a protected PDF version?

 

[Tamworth Fox]

I will be playing cricket next season, so you never know I'm 19 it's not to late to become a pro I can always dream :icon_razz

 

[Jeff]

I will be playing cricket next season, so you never know I'm 19 it's not to late to become a pro I can always dream :icon_razz

Maybe you could become an international.

India wouldn't pick you because you're not Indian, so you'd have to play for England.

 

[Tamworth Fox]

Maybe you could become an international.

India wouldn't pick you because you're not Indian, so you'd have to play for England.

India don't normally allow people who weren't born in their country to play for them, correct.

I would first of all try and get into India and play for them, if regulations meant I couldn't (which as I said they don't normally allow), then I would play for England just like others have done; it's all about the ££££££ when you are a player, no such think as patrioticism (if there is such a word) :icon_wink

 

[enderby fox]

Maybe you could become an international.

India wouldn't pick you because you're not Indian, so you'd have to play for England.

He's got no chance. i've been playing cricket for years and i'm actually getting shitter as i get older.

 

[Willlow]

India don't normally allow people who weren't born in their country to play for them, correct.

I would first of all try and get into India and play for them, if regulations meant I couldn't (which as I said they don't normally allow), then I would play for England just like others have done; it's all about the ££££££ when you are a player, no such think as patrioticism (if there is such a word) :icon_wink

You would know :icon_wink