England pose a serious threat to India and should not be taken lightly

[Bewal Express]

I expect India to win easily- the England batting lacks any real quality.

 

[Swashbuckler]

Everyone knows 5 T20s in a series is an overkill, always! Don't justify this madness by citing preparation for T20 WC.

Also considering we lost out on playing tests last year due to Covid, could've done with playing an extra test.

PS: If having a T20 WC this year is the criteria to play more T20s this year, there is a WTC final to be held later this year, why not play an extra test instead?

You and I know this was a purely commercial decision to play extra T20s.

With inept clowns like Jay Shah and Rajiv Shukla running BCCI what good can we expect? These people don't care about the national side, our team's legacy, fans, future etc. They are crooks who will never do anything good for Indian cricket. This is what happens when we elect/select random nobodies to positions of authority. Everything wrong with Indian cricket can be summed up in one picture.

 

[Swashbuckler]

Thanks for letting me know that. So there you go. It was greed of our board which cut 1 test from the itinerary.

Bania mentality. Not entirely bad, pays dividends like in case of the successful IPL, but too much of it and we have decisions like cancelling a blockbuster home test for an extra ODI and T20I.

 

[Pakhs]

Not really I saw enough in Srilanka to know England will be smashed easily. SL had one bowler of any quality and he took plenty of wickets.

 

[MP2011]

With inept clowns like Jay Shah and Rajiv Shukla running BCCI what good can we expect? These people don't care about the national side, our team's legacy, fans, future etc. They are crooks who will never do anything good for Indian cricket. This is what happens when we elect/select random nobodies to positions of authority. Everything wrong with Indian cricket can be summed up in one picture.
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Did you see how submissive Ganguly was in that pic in front of Lord Shah?

As for Shukla I wonder what this guy is doing in Indian cricket for so many years now?

 

[MP2011]

And lol, Indian fans are offering all kinds of excuses to justify these extra T20s, like practice for T20 WC, our coffers being empty due to Covid, matlab kuch bhi just to defend BCCI!

I mean why does a fan need to defend his cricket board even for his unjust deeds. BCCI has done a great job with our A cricket, appointing likes of Dravid as NCA director, improvement in our pitches is for everyone to see, providing steady source of income for our ex cricketers, providing good match fee for our domestic cricketers.

But when it needs to be criticized, criticize it by all means like in this case of its pure greed.

 

[MP2011]

Bania mentality. Not entirely bad, pays dividends like in case of the successful IPL, but too much of it and we have decisions like cancelling a blockbuster home test for an extra ODI and T20I.

Agree with this. Would have been wonderful to play an extra test in this series.

 

[Varun]

What did I tell you?

England 1 - India 0.

 

[CricketCartoons]

What did I tell you?

England 1 - India 0.

sad that indian team didn't heed your warning, otherwise they would have have won.

 

[pillionrider]

1-3 wouldn't be a bad tour of India by England

 

[pillionrider]

1-3 wouldn't be a bad tour of India by England

Scratch that. At lunch, let's go for gold and make it:
0-3 isn't a bad tour for England in a 4 match series

 

[MP2011]

Gotta get our selection sorted. We are carrying at least 3 passengers in team, Rohit, Rahane & Nadeem.

While the first 2 are not going anywhere despite their continued horror show, Nadeem needs to make way for Kuldeep for the next test.

 

[hitthestump]

I think we're seeing a very early reality check for India who have gotten themselves carried away.

It was an impressive win and it can't be taken away from India, but this really highlights how bad Australia were in that series.

You can't honestly say that a good Aussie team can lose to India C whilst India's best team gets beaten at home in the very next test match.

The fact is that India beat an Aussie team in complete disarray then have been brought back down to earth in their own conditions vs an England side who have no right in beating them in their own conditions.

 

[CricketCartoons]

I think we're seeing a very early reality check for India who have gotten themselves carried away.

It was an impressive win and it can't be taken away from India, but this really highlights how bad Australia were in that series.

You can't honestly say that a good Aussie team can lose to India C whilst India's best team gets beaten at home in the very next test match.

The fact is that India beat an Aussie team in complete disarray then have been brought back down to earth in their own conditions vs an England side who have no right in beating them in their own conditions.

agreed. That win against australia should have an asterisk that the aussies were in disarray.

 

[Babar_Azam_fan]

India will come back hard now and destroy England in the remaining three tests, moreover end few careers along the way

 

[Bewal Express]

India are a good team and will come back but they were awful here. No fight or heart

 

[Bhaag Viru Bhaag]

England's 6th consecutive away win.

 

[Ab Fan]

Good win for England. Their bowling attack is top quality and Root is batting like Bradman mode.

Losing Jadeja and Buttler is a sign of concern for India.

 

[Varun]

The fact is that India beat an Aussie team in complete disarray then have been brought back down to earth in their own conditions vs an England side who have no right in beating them in their own conditions.

Come off it. If they were in complete disarray, what were we?

 

[sam_ahm]

I think we're seeing a very early reality check for India who have gotten themselves carried away.

It was an impressive win and it can't be taken away from India, but this really highlights how bad Australia were in that series.

You can't honestly say that a good Aussie team can lose to India C whilst India's best team gets beaten at home in the very next test match.

The fact is that India beat an Aussie team in complete disarray then have been brought back down to earth in their own conditions vs an England side who have no right in beating them in their own conditions.

True, I've said this too that Aussies batting was literally nothing and bowlers didn't quite lived up to the expectations. Also a reason why Lyon will never be considered a great bowler, he will always remain a support bowler.

 

[WhenSultansBowled]

With inept clowns like Jay Shah and Rajiv Shukla running BCCI what good can we expect? These people don't care about the national side, our team's legacy, fans, future etc. They are crooks who will never do anything good for Indian cricket. This is what happens when we elect/select random nobodies to positions of authority. Everything wrong with Indian cricket can be summed up in one picture.
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Multiply this feeling by a 100 and that's how I have felt for PCB for many many years

Sports administrations should never allow politicians, businessmen and criminals in their ranks.

 

[James]

Rapid turnaround. 2nd Test starts on Saturday. India may well recover in the series, but they will have to do it quickly.

 

[JaDed]

Yeah our style of play without Jadeja kills it for us in India.
Rohit , Rahane have been huge let downs.

Irrespective credit to England top performance.

 

[MP2011]

True, I've said this too that Aussies batting was literally nothing

And ours was great, lol?

Its easy for everyone to have a go at us just because we've lost to a very good English side in the test just gone by. But for heaven's sake, don't undermine our win in Australia! That was as big a test of character for our rookie team as it could be and I don't need to repeat that we came out of it with flying colors against all odds.

 

[MP2011]

Also the same Aussie bats were killing other teams visiting their shores. They were great then?

 

[Markhor]

I predicted 3-0 to India, but there was a sneaky feeling England could catch a hungover India after their Australia heroics.

That's the beauty of cricket, you can be top of the world one match and brought down to earth the next.

Should be a much better series than 2016, hopefully a classic.

 

[RamLakhan]

Come off it. If they were in complete disarray, what were we?

India cannot win anything on merit! They win against teams in disarray! Now they can't even do home track bullying which they were (only) good at!

 

[WhenSultansBowled]

I predicted 3-0 to India, but there was a sneaky feeling England could catch a hungover India after their Australia heroics.

That's the beauty of cricket, you can be top of the world one match and brought down to earth the next.

Should be a much better series than 2016, hopefully a classic.

The possible WTC finals scenarios and India being 1 down makes the rest of tests even more interesting. Hopefully none of protagonists will get injured.

What a test series. Almost all of India (and England's) test series are competitive, entertaining and downright epic, be it at home or away. Credit where it's due

 

[WhenSultansBowled]

Yeah our style of play without Jadeja kills it for us in India.
Rohit , Rahane have been huge let downs.

Irrespective credit to England top performance.

Especially Rohit. It's incredible how good an ODI batsman and how bad a test batsman he is, at the same time

Rahane is like Asad Shafiq. Both have their delusional fans and both very rarely perform

 

[Pakhs]

Yeah our style of play without Jadeja kills it for us in India.
Rohit , Rahane have been huge let downs.

Irrespective credit to England top performance.

Ofcourse India needs two good spinners to win in India. In recent time sit has been Ashwin and Jadeja combo... All this talk of their fast bowlers winning them matches were just rubbish like I pointed out few times... They were just taking very easy wickets that anybody could have taken.

Once you have Ashwin and Jadeja bowling well others can pick up easy wicket not an issue... I called it on day one when I saw Jadeja was not laying that they will miss him.

 

[Pakhs]

agreed. That win against australia should have an asterisk that the aussies were in disarray.

They were not in disarray, they have just been a bad team in recent times with Smith papering over most of the cracks in the batting line up.

 

[BalluBalleBaaz]

England played beautifully. Another good series to watch.

 

[Cpt. Rishwat]

You seem to be stuck with views about the Indian team of the 90s where we had no fast bowling pack of attack, no aggressive intent in chasing large 4th innings totals, won handsomely at home and lost equally handsomely away with a fight, played on rank turners at home and lastly had only Sachin as a reliable batsman (until dravid n ganguly arrived in mid-90s). You need to update yourself unless you don't want to be taken seriously. In the past decade or so Indian pitches have been sporting with help to both fast bowlers and spinners hence Umesh yadav, ishant sharma etc have been quite successful even at home.

Well this post didn't age so well. Looks like my ignorant views were actually more on the money than yours despite me not watching cricket in India.

 

[Robert]

Hope Shastri and the team aren't punch drunk after the Aussie tour. This England side with Root and Anderson in red hot form are absolutely DEMOLISHING Sri Lanka in Sri Lanka and are going to hit the ground running in Chennai on February 5.

We need to be on our guard and make sure half the team doesn't capsize to injuries again. As we've seen before in 2012, it isn't impossible for a couple of handy spinners and a class batsman or two to beat us even in home conditions.

Got to admit that you predicted this [MENTION=132715]Varun[/MENTION] and I didn't believe you then.

 

[Manunited18]

I actually predicted England to come out on top also, early days yet but a excellent start from England .

 

[Manunited18]

I really do think bar kohli the Indian top order is flaky against quality bowling, more than likely broad will come in to contention and he will be chomping at the bit to expose talented but very flaky top order.

 

[Chrish]

It’s not really a surprise. England had plenty of practice in SL tour. Their beat batsman had regained form. They have world’s leading all-rounder and two pacers with highest wickets. With Archer, their pace attack is shaping up. They did their homework in bowling which lines to bowl and which field to set. Commentator Nick Knight pointed out on how they were imitating Cummins and Hazlewood when bowling against Pujara, Gill, Rohit.

I still back India to win this series but England wining a game shouldn’t come out as a surprise. They have simply played better.

Toss will be crucial in a next game.