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Cricket:India's tour of England 2011
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So does most predictions on hindsight.
With Zaheer it looked good.
Well, I'm gone for a hour at the least. If England don't snap 3 wickets by then I will start questioning their bowlers ability.
No it didn't. Zaheer is nothing special.
No he isn't. Our achievements in the past were just a fluke too.
I swear I will delete redcafe somehow if someone replies to Mike's WUM again
You were right. Will probably be 4-0.
had to bite this time. bit pissed off by our performance.
1.01pm England's session again. Especially with the wicket of Rahul Dravid, who has fought and fought this series. He came into the series with just one century in defeats. That number is on its way to three now. That should say how hopelessly alone he has been in resistance.
Cricinfo.
Cricinfo.
The Sachin stuff is a WUM, but Zaheer is genuinely just a decent international bowler, nothing to get too excited about.
Absolutely. We're coasting this.
I don't get the hyperbole of some of the Indian commentators on Sky - Dravid the 'great wall of India' modesty really is lost on some. It's like, anything semi-decent an Indian player does is the greatest thing the commentator has ever seen. It's borderline pathetic.
Zaheer makes a big difference to an otherwise very shocking bowling attack.
Who are the Indian commentators on sky? Other than Manjrekar
You see the same thing with Tendulkar. The way the Indians go on you'd swear he was Donald Bradman or something. The little ginger master showed him how it's done yesterday.
Ah yeah but Scholes is a genius isn't he?
No wickets for the last 35 mins
Laxman gone. That's basically the end of the batting.
There's one now!
Oh dear
Indeed...
I like the look on Laxman's face when he sometimes gets out. Utter bewilderment.
4 day result looking more likely now. Tendulkar's record in England is poor.
All down to tendulkar.
He averages 28 in 4th innings away from home, so not expecting much
He averages 28 in 4th innings away from home, so not expecting much
Someone needs to start taking on these bowlers to just hit them out of their line and length, it's no good blocking everything, someone will edge it to slips anytime - the players that got most succes on this pitch were playing positive cricket.. someone needs to start doing that right now in this test or we might as well give up.
Tbf to them...Dravid does have 34 centuries, and over 12500 runs in test cricket.
While most Indian batsmen dominate on batting friendly pitches at home, and struggle away, Dravid is the opposite.
Averages 50 at home, and 54 away.
Not to mention, time and time again when the vaunted batting lineup collapses, its Dravid that usually stands up, like he has this series.
Also Dravid got the wall name from South Africans.
Warne just rated Sachin the hardest to bowl to, he then named Lara 2nd..
Mukund? Is he going to block all day?
No, he's going to get out!
Mukund is the new Dravid. 3 from 40 balls 
Ah he's gone. I hope we get to 100.
Ah he's gone. I hope we get to 100.
We will bundle out for less than 150.
Dravid is an incredible player. India has never had a problem producing great batsmen but have a very poor record with bowlers. How many genuinely world class bowlers have they had in recent times?
Kumble was excellent of course but I can't think of many others at all.
Kumble was excellent of course but I can't think of many others at all.
Raina won't last long, they will just pepper him with short stuff.
This is disgusting.
India dead batting tracks just produce carthorse bowlers and front foot batsmen. Indian players only thrive in their placid conditions.
They will do the same to Yuvraj.. or Dhoni might come in ahead to save the situation??