Oh dear...
India's tour of England
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You all welcome on the Germany bandwagon. Get on it while it's early.
Bloody hell, Sharma's really still only 25? He had a tough paper round! Seems like he's been around forever already too...
Is Cook going to resign as captain yet? Sorry but it's not been good enough for a long while
This is the most non-flamboyant english batting line-up in ages.
In more run scoring friendly conditions Ballance will give the ball a real smack - he hits a huge ball and has a colossal county average by English standards, and at a pretty high S/R too. And Ali, Prior, Broad, Plunkett, Stokes will all play their shots, so I think we'll eventually see that the side has a pretty decent balance to it.
Who are Robson & Ballance anyway?
An Aussie and a Zimbabwean 
Whose idea was it to select this Binny lad? He's a proper old school dobber 
Really good County Cricketers who have made a great start to their Test careers.
Against seriously average bowling, in fairness.
You can only play who you're up against, what else can you do. Obviously there will be more challenging conditions and bowlers in the future but they are showing great potential.
On that note, just how does the India attack manage to be so utterly toothless? I mean, I know that it's a poor pitch but their medium pace dobbers should be more suited to it than the England attack and they grow up on these pitches. How can Stuart fecking Binny be one of the best bowlers in India?
Yep. I just remember Ravi Bopara scoring hundreds against the West Indies for fun and people getting excited. It's good that they're not fazed by test cricket but we shall have to wait a while before we really know if they are ready to be marked in ink on the teamsheet.
True but Robson and Ballance have solid county records behind them and it seems like good temperament. Lets hope they can kick on.
2 - Both of England's 2nd wkt 100+ stands in their 13 Tests in the last yr have been between Robson & Ballance. Duo. pic.twitter.com/ef0bd9j5wu
How many of those tests were against Australia?
OK, this is ridiculous - if India can't play by the rules everybody else agrees to, everybody should tell them where to shove it and refuse to play against them.
You don't see Germany demanding that the goal-line technology is turned off for the World Cup final.
You don't see Germany demanding that the goal-line technology is turned off for the World Cup final.
I reckon Robson was out. Not quite sure where the hotspot mark came from, possibly clipping back pad but the two noises are definitely front then bat pad and there looks to be clear daylight between bat and ball.
Poor cricket from these two to chuck it away after doing the hard work.
Poor cricket from these two to chuck it away after doing the hard work.
What the feck is Bell doing?
I'd have to see it again (watching on my phone at work), but I thought the hotspot was fairly conclusive.
The annoying thing is that being England, it was always going to lead to more wickets. We're incapable of just losing one, that parntership needed to keep going.
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Yeah, it maybe hit both pads and took the inside edge which is where the mark came from.
I tend to agree, though, DRS works, it improves accuracy and errors with it are human errors. India have no legitimate argument against it.
They've plugged away nicely here, India, but I just struggle to imagine them getting through this line up for less than 400, on a pitch like this.
Our number eight is more a batsmen than a bowler and even Broad and Plunkett should be fancying this attack.
Our number eight is more a batsmen than a bowler and even Broad and Plunkett should be fancying this attack.
Yeah, this is India's to lose.
Dharmasena strikes again
Pathetic decision!
I think it hit the pads first.
Might as well quote myself, before anyone else does.
I was laughing at your suggestion that other teams should don't play with India. Rightly or wrongly, that Cricket board won't survive without India.
What a shambles we are at the moment. Cook surely has to be relieved of captaincy after this test he has been utter shite.
Seems that the England bowlers psyched themselves out when they started moaning about the pitch. India's 10th wicket first innings stand will be the difference in this one.
it's not like india need drs to beat us, give us 30 wickets and we'll still lose.
I know. Sad state of affairs.
Mind you, cricket got by with f-all money for years, I struggle to understand why the fact that one country has now turned it into a big-money game and hence become massively powerful in the ICC meands that everybody else couldn't survive as they used to withouth them.
Nah, the pitch is flat. It's misbehaving a tiny bit now but really this is just poor batting.
Would be pretty pissed if DRS took the headlines again. Apart from the Prior wicket, every wicket was a goner. Our bowlers have done very well so far.
Although I'm still not confident we'll win this match. We've let two matches like this out of our graps in our last two away matches.
Although I'm still not confident we'll win this match. We've let two matches like this out of our graps in our last two away matches.
Will the pitch deteriorate sufficiently over the next 2 days to give us a result? I somehow doubt it. Ganguly called the pitch, as it looked start of today, end-of-day1 Indian pitch.
Doubt it will deteriorate. Question is how badly England bat. Assuming there isn't rain on the way.
Agree. It was also strange how they picked a coach again who had previously failed.