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Ind Vs Somerset, 15-17 Jul, Taunton

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Ruri said:
Doing well against a county side is no means a statement that you will win. Doing poorly is almost always a bad sign.

If you're talking about slow starters, I can understand it against England. Not a county team who has lost more matches than it's won, missing a few of its top players, who's bowling attack ranks nowhere near the top of the bowling attacks in the county and batting is mediocre, though well led by Tresco.

I'm just saying that your treatment of the issue is utterly mindboggling. How do you come out with statements like, England beware, we're going to win the rest now? After what can only be described as a battering, English fans would criticize the team sorely, acknowledge our faults and then plead, and ask them to take notice and improve. Here every statement I see is now confident of doing well, that it means nothing. That attitude is completely and utterly stupid. I wont say that India will lose because they did badly here, I will say that they need to be kicked up the rear and told to get themselves in order. We do that to England when they get a draw and outperform the opposition marginally. And its not to say English fans are worse than Indian, we follow them to ends of the globe to support them, though we are less in number. We're realistic, and if anything, we don't degrade our opponents unless they prove to be useless as many of you are so quick to do.

And MMHS - In regard to Strauss. I applaud him wholeheartedly. Why should he cater to India and offer them batting practice. Blame the BCCI for organizing one tour match, resting part of their playing XI, and refusing to bowl Zaheer who went wicketless! As a captain, that was the correct move by Strauss, calculating, but why should Strauss do his best to support the Indian contingent? It's their prerogative to look after their own warm ups. And what do you mean South African reject? He went to uni in England and played much of his later teenage+ years here, he grew up here. Sure he's South African by birth, but he learned the majority of his cricket here, would you want him to have left his family as a kid to go back to South Africa?

"Hey Mum, Dad, I know I'm only 16, but I've decided, I'm going to play for my country of birth, even though we're pretty settled here in England and I'll be a citizen here. Yeah, so I'm off to go live in Johannesburg, by myself, and one day get selected to be Graeme Smith's understudy."

This talk of nationalities is stupid. He's not a South African reject.
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Sorry, I should explain you. I was talking about the Somerset bowler Charl Willoughby. He played 2 Tests & 3 ODIs for Saf & then became Kolpack. At almost 37, he had a bowling figure of 20-7-76-6, including Gauti, Mukund, Rahul & Yuvi in opening spell. At almost 35, another SAF Kolpack Alfonso Thomas shared the new ball with him. In that bowling line up, there are 2 teenagers, having in total 5 FC matches between them previously.
 
India always start series slow so they will maybe be glad they have had one warm up game and been bad and should only get better!
 
Not an ideal game for India, they would have liked their batters to get more time in the middle. All roads lead to Lord's now.
 
Non-Indians taking a lot of glory in India doing bad in a tour match.

Guess that's all you've got when we're #1 in Tests and WC champs.

:snack:
 
You haven't seen anything yet. Wait till the "#1 Team of Smurfs in Tests and WC Champs" get demolished by England and everyone realises they're just a bunch of HTBs.
 
Poison said:
You haven't seen anything yet. Wait till the "#1 Team of Smurfs in Tests and WC Champs" get demolished by England and everyone realises they're just a bunch of HTBs.
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Oh god! Another one. Why don't you wait till the series ends. How many more humble pies would you like to eat during the rest of 2011? We have been giving it you since for the past 2 years.

How many more series would it take for your kind to realize that your stupid predictions are just that - STUPID! Go back to your cocoon.
 
Go back to my cocoon? You're an Indian on a Pakistani cricket website, get real you imbecile.
 
Poison said:
You haven't seen anything yet. Wait till the "#1 Team of Smurfs in Tests and WC Champs" get demolished by England and everyone realises they're just a bunch of HTBs.
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:))

Judging by this non-contest against a struggling County side, the England bowling contingent will have a field day (singular, as in, they will get India out twice in one day).

Note how many times Laxman pulled them out of a sticky situation in West Indies.

Then note how Laxman usually performs on seaming wickets :asif

Then note carefully the befuddled look that VVS gives when he looks down at the pitch to blame.

And Zaheer went wicketless while Strauss scored a half-ton? Rest-policy-fail.

Btw - some top posts by Ruri in this thread.
 
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Poison said:
Go back to my cocoon? You're an Indian on a Pakistani cricket website, get real you imbecile.
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:)) tou·ché defined.

Btw he also has Virat Kohli in his avatar.

And his username is ace - as in "that was ace yaar" *headshake*
 
Hope, the Indian team got good wake-up call. It will be a tough challenge but I'm hopeful our batsmen will deliver the goods.
 
I normally don't respond to borderline retarded posts, what humble pie have you been talking about ace? Gonna point to that 87 run win against SA in SA as some sort of super-fantastic result? Or maybe you'll point to those series wins at home against a much weakened Australia and NZ? Hip hip hoorah for you sir.

Maybe I'll point to the 10 wicket thumping you suffered at Galle against Sri Lanka. Or perhaps the innings and 20 run hammering SA delivered in the game before the one you snuck. Or what about the other innings loss SA handed out to you in Nagpur? World #1 teams do not get thumped like that on a regular basis. Most of your good results have either come at home or against your whipping boys Sri Lanka (whose board you bought out).
 
Don't read too much on India's tour game show: Willoughby
TAUNTON: Somerset paceman Charl Willoughby on Sunday warned England not to read too much into India's annihilation by him in the warm-up game which ended in a draw on Sunday.
"They are going to bounce back. I don't think they would bat the way they batted here. They would be far more competitive. I don't think they would play like that again," said Willoughby who took 6/76 against the Indians and practically all their top order batsmen, barring Sachin Tendulkar.
All this talk of England's bowling, especially tall Chris Tremlett running through the Indian line-up, was considered fanciful by the left-arm seamer.
"Yes, he (Tremlett) has bounce but Indians can handle that kind of stuff. Men like Rahul, Gambhir, Sachin, Dhoni and Laxman they are at the top of their game. England bowlers may bowl a bit better in these conditions but I am not sure their batting (could outdo the Indians)," he said.
"They have been playing very good cricket, there's a reason why they are number one side of the world," he added.
Tremlett, England's six-foot-seven-inch tall bowler, has declared Indians would be uncomfortable facing him and even former cricketing great Geoff Boycott feels he would be a big challenge for the visitors.
Willoughby's perception about the Indians stems from the fact that he was very lucky to get the wickets of India's great batsmen.
"I was lucky there's no doubt about it. They played some shots they would not normally play in Test cricket. For example, you would not see Rahul (Dravid) play that kind of shot. The way (Amit) Mishra got out was plain luck. May be we were more up for the game, against a county side, may be they were not."
Willoughby considers it a privilege he could bowl against his "ultimate batsman", Sachin Tendulkar.
"I was nervous bowling to him. His bat appears wider than anyone elsein the world. He is such a calm man at the crease. He wanted to spend some time in the middle but was unfortunate to get out. It was a privilege bowling to him.
"Tendulkar is the ultimate batsman to have walked on this earth. People say about Sir Don Bradman but he has had a very long successful career as a modern day batsman. Tendulkar is the ultimate batsman, everyone admires him. I remember beating him once," Willoughby said.
India's bowlers too appeared ordinary in the practice match but Willoughby did not read too much into it.
"Zaheer has played a lot of county cricket. He knows these conditions, he will be prepared for it."
Having said so, Willoughby said England would be pleased Somersetcould keep Indians down in the match.
"England will be happy their guys did not get much time to bat and bowlers spent more time on the field."
 
Ambi said:
Don't read too much on India's tour game show: Willoughby
TAUNTON: Somerset paceman Charl Willoughby on Sunday warned England not to read too much into India's annihilation by him in the warm-up game which ended in a draw on Sunday.
"They are going to bounce back. I don't think they would bat the way they batted here. They would be far more competitive. I don't think they would play like that again," said Willoughby who took 6/76 against the Indians and practically all their top order batsmen, barring Sachin Tendulkar.
All this talk of England's bowling, especially tall Chris Tremlett running through the Indian line-up, was considered fanciful by the left-arm seamer.
"Yes, he (Tremlett) has bounce but Indians can handle that kind of stuff. Men like Rahul, Gambhir, Sachin, Dhoni and Laxman they are at the top of their game. England bowlers may bowl a bit better in these conditions but I am not sure their batting (could outdo the Indians)," he said.
"They have been playing very good cricket, there's a reason why they are number one side of the world," he added.
Tremlett, England's six-foot-seven-inch tall bowler, has declared Indians would be uncomfortable facing him and even former cricketing great Geoff Boycott feels he would be a big challenge for the visitors.
Willoughby's perception about the Indians stems from the fact that he was very lucky to get the wickets of India's great batsmen.
"I was lucky there's no doubt about it. They played some shots they would not normally play in Test cricket. For example, you would not see Rahul (Dravid) play that kind of shot. The way (Amit) Mishra got out was plain luck. May be we were more up for the game, against a county side, may be they were not."
Willoughby considers it a privilege he could bowl against his "ultimate batsman", Sachin Tendulkar.
"I was nervous bowling to him. His bat appears wider than anyone elsein the world. He is such a calm man at the crease. He wanted to spend some time in the middle but was unfortunate to get out. It was a privilege bowling to him.
"Tendulkar is the ultimate batsman to have walked on this earth. People say about Sir Don Bradman but he has had a very long successful career as a modern day batsman. Tendulkar is the ultimate batsman, everyone admires him. I remember beating him once," Willoughby said.
India's bowlers too appeared ordinary in the practice match but Willoughby did not read too much into it.
"Zaheer has played a lot of county cricket. He knows these conditions, he will be prepared for it."
Having said so, Willoughby said England would be pleased Somersetcould keep Indians down in the match.
"England will be happy their guys did not get much time to bat and bowlers spent more time on the field."
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Willoughby clearly trying to earn himself an Indian payday. Sorry fella, you're too rubbish, even for the IPL.
 
Forgettable outing for us except for Raina's ton.

I can only hope we've now got our customary poor start to any tour out of window. Smart tactic by Eng to start the series at Lord's, historically a nightmare of a venue for us.
 
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