Another 50 partnership.
Third Test. England Vs India
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664 all out. you can add Sreesanth to Panesar's list.
FFS! What can I say!
Even Kumble scored a 100 against England.
I can't stop laughing at the England team.
Even Kumble scored a 100 against England.
I can't stop laughing at the England team.
Strauss gone 12-1
He needs to be put out of his misery. I can't understand his inclusion in the team.
He needs to be put out of his misery. I can't understand his inclusion in the team.
100+ not out as well. Good consistent batting card with each person reaching double figures.
Pretty good but it is a batting pitch and to be fair a pathetic in-experienced bowling attack against a side full of talented and experienced batters.
Even if England manage to get a big score I can only see it being a draw. You may as well concentrate on the under 19 side that are currently playing.
As I type Strauss out, oh dear!
Strauss c Santh b Zaheer 6, Eng 12-1.
Straussy looks to get on top of a Zaheer zinger but succeeds only in top-edging straight down Santh's throat.
Pretty good but it is a batting pitch and to be fair a pathetic in-experienced bowling attack against a side full of talented and experienced batters.
Even if England manage to get a big score I can only see it being a draw. You may as well concentrate on the under 19 side that are currently playing.
As I type Strauss out, oh dear!
Strauss c Santh b Zaheer 6, Eng 12-1.
Straussy looks to get on top of a Zaheer zinger but succeeds only in top-edging straight down Santh's throat.
He's another South African.
feck off Strauss.
feck off Strauss.
This should become a good trivia question in say 10-15 years time. 'India won their first 2-0 victory in England and made 664 in the first innings while doing. There was only centurion. Who was it?'
How shit do you have to be for Kumble to get his maiden century against you at the age of 36.
How shit do you have to be for Kumble to get his maiden century against you at the age of 36.
How shit are the Indian batsmen that Kumble outscored them all 
Strauss can feck off now. This is a perfect pitch, there is no excuse
Strauss can feck off now. This is a perfect pitch, there is no excuse
How shit are the Indian batsmen that Kumble outscored them all
Strauss can feck off now. This is a perfect pitch, there is no excuse
Leather chasers
How shit are the Indian batsmen that Kumble outscored them all
Strauss can feck off now. This is a perfect pitch, there is no excuse
He's a South African.
What else do you expect?
2-0
Kumble
First Test
Strauss
Collingwood
Sidebottom
Second Test
Prior
Tremlett
Anderson
Tremlett
Panesar
Anderson
That's 9 wickets for 260 odd but only two batsmen of any quality. There wasn't all that much for the spinners in the first two tests, and there's been bugger all there for anyone in the first two days of this one.
Panesar bowled reasonably well in trying circumstances against the players of spin in the world... in the first two tests at least. Also, I doubt anyone was really expecting him to set the world on fire in this series.
That said, with this pitch being as dry as it is, it might start to get dusty over the next couple of days so Kumble might come home with a decent haul.
Kumble scored a century 
I can't fecking believe it!He's been among my favourites since I started watching cricket...really happy for him.
That Indian batting card should be saved for posterity...it was almost perfect.
England. Prior
I can't fecking believe it!He's been among my favourites since I started watching cricket...really happy for him.That Indian batting card should be saved for posterity...it was almost perfect.
England.
Prior Some here thought he would. But yes I agree the pitches haven't offered much to the spinners.
Just don't think Panesar is all that he's being made out to be. Another Giles, maybe a little better.
Bloke who can actually spin a ball vs bloke who can't actually spin a ball
I know who wins that particular contest
Panesar is definitely better than Giles. I have had a change of heart about him, think he can go on to be a top spinner.
He was scared of bowling to Kumble. Actually resorted to bowling outside leg after being hit for a couple of boundaries. Like a certain Ashely Giles. He can spin the ball alright but he's nowhere close to being a top spinner.
I agree. I feel he has been slightly over-hyped. This series was a big one for him, and he hasnt performed aswell as i originally thought he would.
Definatly. He is still quite amateur.
He apparently told Ganguly after the latter hit him for a six and I quote, "hamey dheere maaro, hum abhi bacche hain' or something to that effect.
Mild mannered large hand'd twat.
Plus, he's shit.*
*Ok maybe he isn't, but he's got serious problems whenever someone goes on the attack.I remember Kumble after Anwar tore into him in 97...wasn't the same bowler for atleast 5-8 matches after that.
Mild mannered large hand'd twat.
Plus, he's shit.*
*Ok maybe he isn't, but he's got serious problems whenever someone goes on the attack.I remember Kumble after Anwar tore into him in 97...wasn't the same bowler for atleast 5-8 matches after that.
Haven't been following this at all and stumbled upon today's paper and the scoreline had Anil fecking Kumble scoring a century against your lot
FFS!
FFS!
36 year old at the fag end of his career scores a fecking century.
Venky Prasad would've gotten a tonne too, and he's can't even bowl properly
81/2, anderson out
England
4 out already on a supposedly flat pitch.
4 out already on a supposedly flat pitch.
Bloody hell......Pieterson double hundred, with help from centuries by Bell, and Collingwood.
Well this is all going to end well for England... will they even avoid the follow on?
1534 - WICKET: Pietersen c Dravid b Tendulkar 41 (Eng 202-5)
I can't believe what I've just seen. Tendulkar is wheeled into the attack before tea. His first ball is a lobbed up hand grenade which Pietersen looks to slap through the covers, but instead edges to Dravid at slip. Tendulkar is held aloft as if he's just won his country a World Cup final and a six-match series against Pakistan. Bell is the new bat and he's off the mark with a squirt to third-man for one. You have to say that's England done for.
Above from BBC Commentary. I'm not even going to say anything...
I can't believe what I've just seen. Tendulkar is wheeled into the attack before tea. His first ball is a lobbed up hand grenade which Pietersen looks to slap through the covers, but instead edges to Dravid at slip. Tendulkar is held aloft as if he's just won his country a World Cup final and a six-match series against Pakistan. Bell is the new bat and he's off the mark with a squirt to third-man for one. You have to say that's England done for.
Above from BBC Commentary. I'm not even going to say anything...
Pietersen isn't really all the great is he.
fecking flat track bully - not even that anymore.
fecking flat track bully - not even that anymore.
Well I never think of him amongst the best batsmen in the world unlike some of the media try to make out he is. Where does he stand at the moment compared to Ponting, Lara, the big three Indian batsmen and Pakistan's big three and many more. He is decent but not near the best, the thing that makes him stand out is that when he is good he can give the bowler a good wack' around the park in a different style to the others mentioned.
That's just my opinion though and I suppose I don't watch him all the time and every ball. Statistically you can prove me wrong easily but I don't think they reveal the whole picture. To be fair though he is better than the other current batsmen in the England side along side Vaughan.
Does anyone know what the follow on score is? I'm guessing around 400?
Another lousy decision giving Colingwood out.
In 5 day games, the side which bats first and leads by at least 200 have the option of returning the other side to follow on.
Nothing like a game of cricket to provide tedious and unrelenting misery day after day...
1743 - WICKET: Bell c Dhoni b Zaheer 63 (Eng 303-7)
That's rubbish from Bell, there is no other way to describe it. The Warwickshire man flails at a wide one and Dhoni snaffles a straight-forward catch behind the timbers. Once more Bell is unable to convert a promising start into a big score and England are disappearing fast.
1743 - WICKET: Sidebottom c and b Zaheer (Eng 305-8)
Ryan Sidebottom, who has come out thinking he's Sir Vivian Richards in his pomp, throws his arms at a bumper without success and then repeats the shot next ball, succeeding only in top-edging it straight up and back at Zaheer. Two in the over for the paceman and England are limping towards a huge first-innings deficit.
That's rubbish from Bell, there is no other way to describe it. The Warwickshire man flails at a wide one and Dhoni snaffles a straight-forward catch behind the timbers. Once more Bell is unable to convert a promising start into a big score and England are disappearing fast.
1743 - WICKET: Sidebottom c and b Zaheer (Eng 305-8)
Ryan Sidebottom, who has come out thinking he's Sir Vivian Richards in his pomp, throws his arms at a bumper without success and then repeats the shot next ball, succeeding only in top-edging it straight up and back at Zaheer. Two in the over for the paceman and England are limping towards a huge first-innings deficit.
1800 - WICKET: Prior c Tendulkar b Santh 0 (Eng 305-9)
Oh deary deary me. Matt Prior flails at a wide one and the Sussex man's nightmare match continues as he edges straight to Sach at slip to go for nought. Oops.
Oh dear, can they get the final wicket before the close of play...
Oh deary deary me. Matt Prior flails at a wide one and the Sussex man's nightmare match continues as he edges straight to Sach at slip to go for nought. Oops.
Oh dear, can they get the final wicket before the close of play...
END OF DAY THREE:
India 664 v England 326-9
Tremlett (18) and Panesar (0) finish on not out.
"Another fine day for India, they have picked up eight wickets and England are facing the prospect of the follow-on as they are still 338 runs behind."
For anyone that's interested they'll be back for another pointless boring day of cricket tomorrow unless the weather can save everyone...
India 664 v England 326-9
Tremlett (18) and Panesar (0) finish on not out.
"Another fine day for India, they have picked up eight wickets and England are facing the prospect of the follow-on as they are still 338 runs behind."
For anyone that's interested they'll be back for another pointless boring day of cricket tomorrow unless the weather can save everyone...
Bell and Pietersons dismissals were the most dissapointing today. They got themselves out. Vaughans was poor aswell.
I supposed your batting lineup is from reserves as well...eh?