4th Test: India v England at Nagpur Dec 13-17, 2012

[Hallatia]

lalala

India might actually have some momentum from the end of the third match. England should take the series 3-1 though, but an India win would draw the series which is a lot better than India deserve

 

[Xfactor1979]

The funny thing is, had the Indian top order batted by putting a price on their wickets in the first and second innings, they probably would have led by 150 and that would have been enough to win

 

[TheParraboy]

Are they playing for a particular trophy?

eg we have the border-gavaskar trophy

a 2-2 result here and england retain it

 

[unbreaK]

Interesting news:

India have dropped Zaheer Khan, Yuvraj Singh and Harbajhan Singh and added Parvinder Awana, Ravindra Jadeja and Piyush Chawla.

End of an era for Zaheer / Harbajhan, they won't get another test ever again, Yuvraj is on shaky ground as well.

Source: http://www.espncricinfo.com/india-v-england-2012/content/current/story/596328.html

 

[Red&BlackBear]

Why don't some non performing batsmen get the arse? Always seems like their bowlers are being chopped and changed while their batsmen as held as sacred...

 

[AlwaysGreen]

Why the f**k don't they drop Beaker 'Indian Mitch' Sharma?

 

[Earl]

Gautam Gahmbir hasn't scored a hundred for something like 15+ Test matches, and Virat Kholi could hardly hit the ball off the square in this series.

Yuvraj was made the scapegoat though. He's holding the indians back :lol:

 

[Hallatia]

I was just reminded of this little bit of trivia about this ground

Jason Krejza, the Australia offspinner, made his memorable (for right and wrong reasons) debut on this ground in 2008 ending with match figures of 12 for 358. Two years later, Dale Steyn took 7 for 51 after finding considerable reverse swing.

I reckon that 12/358 seems a lot worse than it is. 12 for 358 is an average of just under 30 which is decent, if he got those figures across two matches it wouldn't really bother anyone. And Dale Steyn's just a freak, he has a better strike rate than anyone who has played 30 or more test matches ever. Waqar Younis comes close, but that is only because Steyn was below his best in Australia. He will fix that right up against New Zealand

 

[TheParraboy]

Joe Root to make his debut for the poms

Screw em hard mate

 

[Earl]

England win the toss and bat on what is described as

"The pitch looks flat, dry, whtish. The little bit of grass there is there to keep it together for the first two days or so. Lots of cracks on the surface. "Bottom of a dried river bed," Paul Collingwood calls it. These cracks are going to open up at some time. Collingwood also calls it a day-three pitch"

Tim Bresnan in for Steve Finn
Joe Root to debut in place of Samit Patel

Piyush Chawla in for Zaheer Khan
Ravindra Jadeja to debut in place of Yuvraj Singh

 

[TheParraboy]

England won toss and are batting

India with 3 spinners and Ishant

Hope the poms pile on 600 next two days

 

[Earl]

I want England to pile on 700+ and play India completly out of it by day 3

 

[TheParraboy]

I want England to pile on 700+ and play India completly out of it by day 3

what the hell, poms to declare 5/1000 after tea day 3

 

[Earl]

Compton's gone already :lol:

 

[TheParraboy]

Cookys there

oh no, its Trott, India to win if he cant get a s/r of over 55 per 100 balls

 

[Earl]

I think Trott was pretty lucky to keep his place in the team. His strike rate last game was not up to T20 standards.

Apprantly the ball is harldy bouncing, Dhoni is taking them on the first and second bounce and there is absolutely no pace in the wicket what so ever

 

[Earl]

Now Cook has be sawn off

Sharma to Cook,OUT, Sharma has got one. That never looked out. Poor umpiring. Length ball, angling away after pitching on off, hitting him outside the line too. Atrocious call from umpire Dharamsena. Not one ball has swung this morning, and you can't give this out when the ball is not swinging or seaming. There have been quite a few umpiring shockers this series, and this is close to the most shocking one

 

[jargan83]

Cook goes lbw for 1

Absolute howler according to the Cricinfo commentary

Edit: Earl beat me to it

 

[Earl]

:lol: at least you got the right thread. Hutty just posted the same thing in the Aus v Lanka thread

 

[Hutty1986]

:lol: at least you got the right thread. Hutty just posted the same thing in the Aus v Lanka thread

:lol: My outrage is international Earl!!