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England vs India | 2nd Test | Lord's | Aug 9-13, 2018 | Day 1 & 2 Thread

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Curran has been great addition so far as a left armer to England bowling attack.
 
If they are just getting out every over then atleast slog few runs and get out now...
 
Brummie power too strong, if Moeen was playing India would have forfeited the game already
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India seriously needs to have different players for test. Im sure they have good domestic test players.
 
Arham_PakFan said:
Not batting any more :misbah
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Haha yeah, he lived up to my expectations. Pandya is fooling India only since the last year or so, DK had been doing it for last 15 years. This test series expose will do few good things for Indian cricket - DK for sure and hopefully Pandya as well will be thrown out of ODI team.
 
If this goes on (against swing), ENG might drop Adil and play 5 seemers with Stokes at Trentbridge.
 
These are ridiculous conditions for test cricket. Every bolwer looks like Steyn here.
 
Man, India could be wrapped up under 100.And we were bossing the game, last two times in Lords...Who is getting humiliated
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I am sure with just 2 pacers we will keep dropping their catches and loose this match.
 
Sam99 said:
I am sure with just 2 pacers we will keep dropping their catches and loose this match.
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Big blunder by Shashtri and Kohli to go with 2 pacers in these conditions
 
Syed1 said:
Big blunder by Shashtri and Kohli to go with 2 pacers in these conditions
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What makes it worse is they had the whole rain delay to change their mind but refused. Definition of stubborn.
 
mak36 said:
What makes it worse is they had the whole rain delay to change their mind but refused. Definition of stubborn.
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Virat Kohli wanted to bowl first as well. Then says, the pitch is dry and Kuldeep is in the playing XI too as the second spinner.
 
mak36 said:
What makes it worse is they had the whole rain delay to change their mind but refused. Definition of stubborn.
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+infinity. They know that it is going to rain throught the test match and already 1 day got wated. still went with 2 spinners.
 
happydavy said:
Haha yeah, he lived up to my expectations. Pandya is fooling India only since the last year or so, DK had been doing it for last 15 years. This test series expose will do few good things for Indian cricket - DK for sure and hopefully Pandya as well will be thrown out of ODI team.
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Wasn't Dhoni holding back DK in ODIS?

Both are equally as bad with the bat now. :))
 
Rahane hasn't been beaten for ages now, compare it to Kohli getting beaten by Woakes 9 balls out of 10
 
Adijazz1706 said:
Rahane hasn't been beaten for ages now, compare it to Kohli getting beaten by Woakes 9 balls out of 10
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Rahane when in form and when has confidence is probably best player of difficult conditions in this xi.
 
2nd and 3rd best batsmen in the team batting at the moment.
 
If they cant block then one of them should go the Shadab way (play your shots).

Still think it isnt that difficult for batting as some batsmen made it out. Look at Rahane playing late and hardly any play and misses in last 20, 30 balls.
 
Imagine if Woakes were Pakistani.People would have created conspiracies about all the missed chances.
 
No left hander in Indian team bar Kuldeep. Never seen an Indian team without a left hander..
 
Sam99 said:
Rahane when in form and when has confidence is probably best player of difficult conditions in this xi.
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Good eyes ..Kohli was impatient to score after facing Anderson successfully
 
Looking at the thread it looks like it's pak vs eng not india vs eng. :ishant
 
Hundreds from Ashwin and Rahane should seal the deal for India IMO.
 
SarfiBabarHaris said:
Kohli playing Woakes as an easy bowler. Should respect him like Andy as he is bowling with the slope and getting more movement. Lovely battle.

Batting should get easy from here on as bowl is old and nothing in pitch.
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Spot on, bhai. Nasser made a similar point.

Kohli was in control only 33% of the time against Woakes, as compared to 73% against the rest.

No wonder he got him out twice in two balls.
 
The standard of fielding in this series has been extremely poor so far. I do not remember England dropping these many catches in any series. Almost, half of the catches have been dropped.
 
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"England have been absolutely ruthless to Kohli today. Kohli has been constantly been drawn in outside off and he's taken the bait again and again. That "weakness" is showing up again. Mind you, it had surfaced during his century in the first Test too. He just can't help having a poke, and even on the flick, he's reaching far out."
 
mak36 said:
Spot on, bhai. Nasser made a similar point.

Kohli was in control only 33% of the time against Woakes, as compared to 73% against the rest.

No wonder he got him out twice in two balls.
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good to see u back bro and your quality posts recently :)
 
Aray yaar yeh kya hogaya :sree



Bharati team pe kaalay badal chaye howa hain leken [MENTION=146612]BlackShadow[/MENTION] kahin nazar ahraha :uakmal
 
Ashwin is a better allrounder than Pandya. We are now 1 fast bowler short. Ishant, Shami or Umesh can also score these 10-12 runs which Pandya does.
 
Sam99 said:
Rahane when in form and when has confidence is probably best player of difficult conditions in this xi.
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He's been dropped at least once. Gone now though.

But technically he has probably been India's best batsman today.
 
Shows that loss in SA was not due to toss. It is all Kohli or none at the moment when it comes to test batting.
 
Says a lot when India’s best batsmen have been dropped once or twice, and yet managed to score absolutely nothing. No.1 teams in the world don’t **** their pants like this when they go abroad
 
Won't be a bad move if Indian batsman just try to slog now. If they succeed, they will get some useful runs. If they fail, England will have to bat and India can sneak in a couple of wickets.
 
Woakes and Stokes got murdered in IPL by these same batsmen. Now they can’t play them at all.

BK will be missed in these conditions.
 
Players like Pandya and Ashwin should have just hit out like Curran, better to get quick runs than poking around.
 
The_Odd_One said:
The standard of fielding in this series has been extremely poor so far. I do not remember England dropping these many catches in any series. Almost, half of the catches have been dropped.
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Yea noticed this too. All 3 of Buttler, Malan, Cook have dropped catches.
 
Not trying to open a can of worms and turn this into India vs Pakistan, but I can risk it since most Indians have left due to their team's performance, but I think this why Shadab-Faheem partnership was absolute gold dust, Pakistan was also in a spot of bother in similar batting conditions but those two took the attack to the English and took us to good score.
 
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