India vs England

Sehwag gone first ball after lunch. Must have been too much calcutta biriani at lunch.

Zing jinxed 'it' big time!
 
Surely, that's out. Third umpire can't rule whether the batsman has touched it or not. He can only rule if it's a clear catch or not.

Unbelievable decision. A bit hilarious watching Trott though
 
Went bed utterly disgusted by England's morning session since it was half 5 in the morning wasn't staying up for anymore of it. Since had difficulty sleeping & checked score on phone and can not believe the difference.
 
Widnes said:
Went bed utterly disgusted by England's morning session since it was half 5 in the morning wasn't staying up for anymore of it. Since had difficulty sleeping & checked score on phone and can not believe the difference.
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That's the beauty of test cricket. You can have a real bad first session and come back into the match with another great session. The team which does consistently always wins matches and that's why Test cricket will always be the best format for the game, at least for me.

England, are brilliant at this nowadays. They don't let their heads drop and always fight to win the upcoming sessions. I thoroughly enjoy watching England play and I'm an Indian.
 
Anderson bowling inspired - Dhoni gone. 122-6

Not sure if India will make it to the cups of masala chai!
 
I'd give MOTM to Jimmy if England go ahead and wrap this up. His bowling in the first innings really set up the game. And he's bowling absolutely lethally at the moment.
 
Cooks batting stats so far this series:


• 547 runs in five innings, the highest aggregate by an England captain in a series in India, surpassing Ted Dexter's previous record of 409 runs in 1961

• Scored 41 and 176 in first Test, 122 and 18 in second and 190 in third

• Series average: 136.75

• Batted for total of 26 hours and one minute

• Faced 1,160 balls and hit 65 fours and one six

• Became leading Test century-maker for England with 23

• Youngest batsman to reach 7,000 Test runs at age of 27 years, 347 days

• Cook, who passed 7,000 runs in his 151st innings, is the third-fastest England batsman to reach the mark after Hammond (131 innings) and Pietersen (150 innings)

• He is one of only five overseas batsmen to score three or more centuries in a series in India - the others are Everton Weekes, Garry Sobers, Ken Barrington and Hashim Amla
 
Gambhir needs to dropped for these run-out debacles alone. He is an outrageously bad runner.
 
samabachan said:
Tbf when he said that, the pitch was looking flat and England were bowling poorly. And even the most optimistic England fan was at least thinking 'surely they can't, can they?'
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If we were 200-1/2 then yeah maybe that comment would have had some merit. As it is, it was a hopeless punt. Pathetic batting. This team needs an overhaul but it is not going to happen. Status quo suits way too many people.
 
I don't remember last time we lost a test so badly in India. Even against the great Aussie side we looked better, this is infuriating.
 
I maybe wrong, but it almost seems as if we are not trying too hard. A complacent feeling has set in, and it seems the players are playing for their own. England on the other hand, want it more and hunt as a team and it shows.

Tendulkar has earnt the right to call it quits when he wants, like our Giggsy, but the change needs to start there I think. Basically sends out a message to the team. Hopefully, there are suitable candidates to replace him.
 
Okay I got a little optimistic as I always tend to do when India do moderately well. We've all been there.
 
If Sachin had Ponting's attitude, he'd have retired after this test.

Well, he should have probably retired awhile ago, but surely this can't go on?
 
Cool. My office is in Navalur.

Finn is going to be awesome.
 
Interesting article on India's problems on cricinfo:

http://www.espncricinfo.com/india-v-england-2012/content/current/story/596086.html

We have seen in the last three Tests matches and even in England, there was a lot of grass and that helped their seamers. Once these people come to India we should not be hesitant in making turners, and that's where we would get to know whether they are mentally strong, and [what happens to] the kind of chit chat do they do when we go overseas and they talk about our techniques."
- Gautam Gambhir, January 22, 2012, Perth

Two days after India had lost by an innings inside three days at the WACA ground.

"We also won 2-0 in India."
- Virender Sehwag, January 28, 2012, Adelaide

Third day of the Adelaide Test, when a second whitewash in two away series was imminent.

"Why not [turning pitches]? We were given flattest of tracks during practice matches in England and Australia, and then suddenly presented with a green-top during the Tests. During practice matches, we would face those 120kmph bowlers …If they wanted to be fair to us, they could have provided us with same kind of tracks for practice matches, like what were used in Tests. Especially, when they knew that visiting teams get very less time to practice. Now they would be playing on turning tracks and definitely would know where they stand."
- Virat Kohli, October 27, 2012

Justifying the tactic of not letting England face any spin in the tour games before the start of the Test series, in the process imagining "green tops" in Australia and England

"We also need to consider that immediately after that series when England came to India, we beat them 5-0, which cannot be forgotten."
- Sachin Tendulkar, November 8, 2012

Before the start of this Test series, drawing comfort from an ODI series win last year

"One has to recognise the advantage of home conditions, and this applies across the board. So I don't think we should run down our players by saying we did not do well abroad. Other teams don't do well when they come to India. In England, except Rahul, the batting did not click. But in both England and Australia, we had super-fast pitches."
- N Srinivasan, December 4, 2012

Asking people to not say "we did not do well abroad"

"So what if we have lost a home Test? Not as if we have never won at home… It's not that we have lost the series."
- Gautam Gambhir, November 29, 2012

After the defeat in Mumbai when everything - pitch, toss, first-innings runs - was in their favour

"If you look at the records at this ground, India have played really well. The way the wicket is playing, I am confident our guys will do really well."
- Pragyan Ojha, today, Eden Gardens

After India have conceded a 193-run lead by end of day three with four wickets still in England's hand

Also today, Joe Dawes, India's bowling coach, told - well, who else - the BCCI in an interview that Zaheer Khan is one of the best six bowlers in the world, that Indian bowling is headed in the right direction, that he has begun the process of achieving the aim of developing a group of seven to eight fast bowlers who can be called upon any time. You can accuse the BCCI of many things, but it doesn't lack humour, as is evident through the timing of this piece.

One of these days, India will admit they have become an ordinary side. That currently they are arguably the worst bowling unit in the world, bar Bangladesh. That they are the worst fielding side in the world without any argument, which they kept on proving on the third day as Ishant Sharma dropped his third simple return catch in the fourth match he is playing this year. That the whitewashes in England and Australia didn't happen on doctored green tops. That a proud home record alone doesn't ensure future Test wins. That the ideal response to overseas batting failures is to work on techniques, and not to seek comfort in statistics at home. That no side won an away series with that kind of attitude.

When India admit that, they will start improving as a Test side. Until then, they can hope for a miracle to the tune of Kolkata 2000-01.
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I read it yesterday, however I think it's small time. The writer has taken snippets out of the interviews given by players and lined them up as excuses. He doesn't really expect them to say 'Yes, we were crap' all the time?

I thought overall, Indian players knew they were shit when they lost the series to England and Australia. There are problems, but it's up to the side and the management to deal with it, and not to give grovelling apologies to the press.
 
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