"The Gentleman's game"- Cricket - World Cup 2019 Special

If they do we'll lose

Going to be great banter in India when our tail enders score more runs than our top and middle order.

Yea that's what I mentioned before. India is going to be a disaster with the way England are playing against Bangladesh.

India are absolutely destroying New Zealand with their spinners

74/7 lmao

Jay

What am I seeing


Congrats M99!

Bangla should have the first one also tbh. gonna be legit series against us though

5-0 India at this rate

Kohli alone will probably make more runs than England combined

that's the problem though. only Kohli seems to be the proper batsmen capable of handling elite bowling attacks such as of England, other are more or less like side heroes. this is not the batting order that any bowling attack visiting subcontinent should be weary of.

Prime collapse from England. 100-0 to 164 all out.

Amazing. I woke up and saw Cook and Duckett with a 100 partnership and thought we were finally going to have a good innings but then we kept throwing wickets away.

Good for Bangladesh, all the same. They've got a major talent on their hands in Mehedi.

I'm not too optimistic about India. Anderson will miss the tour so that's a lot of quality out the bowling attack already, and the batting is looking hopeless atm.

Yea Mehedi looks like a great talent. Bangladesh themselves seems to be a lot better overall than they were in the past. Good to have another solid team in Cricket.

I wonder what changes England will make for India. Ballance could be dropped? hasn't really impressed.

Ballance for sure could be dropped. Maybe Hameed will come in and Duckett will drop down to four. Could promote Bairstow to four and include Buttler at six or seven. Hales could be back as well.

Bowling will stay the same. Woakes, Broad, Stokes and Finn as the fast bowlers, then one of Rashid or Ansari as the second spin option.

RealGunner wrote:Yea Mehedi looks like a great talent. Bangladesh themselves seems to be a lot better overall than they were in the past. Good to have another solid team in Cricket.

You haven't been following cricket so you don't know. We have improved a lot. Last year we beat Pakistan, India and South Africa back to back on serieses. We are really strong at home

Damn

By past I was thinking over 8-10 years ago when I was following it properly

Shakib solidified himself as the best all rounder in the world. He is our greatest ever player in my opinion. I just want one major trophy, will never forget about losing Asia Cup 2012 to 2 runs. This generation deserved that trophy.

So 19 year old Haseeb Hameed will make his England debut tomorrow against India. Ben Duckett drops down to no. 4, with Ballance dropped completely.

England's team could be:

Cook, Hameed, Root, Duckett, Stokes, Bairstow, Alli, Woakes, Rashid, Broad, Ansari/Finn (depending on the pitch)

Hamid played solid knock of 31, faced spinners with confidence that is rare to see in English batsmen. Btw it's 36th over and ball has started to reverse still amused at England's decision to drop Anderson.

Anderson's injured.

Root on his way to another 100 and Alli looking surprisingly solid out there. Was expecting to wake up and see us five or six down

Root makes a ton. great innings.

Commentator just said Root is the first foreign batsmen to make a 100 in India since Michael Clarke in 2013

Who will make more runs this series: Root or Kholi?

Kohli is playing in home condition so I would back him, depends on how English bowlers perform though. spinners are the key.

Wasnt it the last time when England toured India, that we prepared turning tracks only to be get wrecked by Moeen Ali.
Throw quality spin at these new crop of Indian flat track bullies and they will shit their pants every time lol.

it wasn't Moen Ali it was Swann and Panesar who wrecked us. And yes the current crop of Indian batsmen do struggle against quality spinners.

I miss Swann

Root out for 124 c&b. Bowler almost screwed it up by celebrating too soon.

Alli on 88, Stokes in and Bairstow still to come. Should definitely be getting 400+ here.

Lucifer wrote:it wasn't Moen Ali it was Swann and Panesar who wrecked us. And yes the current crop of Indian batsmen do struggle against quality spinners.

Right. BTW Panesar!! dat guy was a boss lol. Wonder where is he now.
But then when was Ali's exploits? Was it when India toured England last time ? Lol I remember the Kohli's and Rohit Sharma's repeatedly failing to pick basic offspin every single time. It was after that series I think Ali even got to cement his place as a first teamer hehe.

That might have been when India last came to England. I remember there were doubts about Ali as a full-time spinner but there was one series where he just took tons of wickets.

Panesar was playing reserve team cricket for Essex (my home county) not too long ago. His career basically went down the toilet. Think he's at Sussex now getting his shit together.

yeah it was in 2014 India's tour of England when he picked 19 odd wickets.