India defeat England by 246 runs and go up 1-0 in 5 match series

[sensible-indian-fan]

Shiva is by far the worst out of all of them, a bigger bag of platitudes than even Shastri and that's saying something. I'm not even mentioning his annoying nasal harmonics. Manjrekar has some insightful things to say and is good at analysing the game but has no sense of occasion and should never be an anchor of any kind. No comments on Shastri and Laxman both of whom suck, Ganguly commentates the same way he captained- straight to the point and doesn't fill the air with words. Gavaskar has almost always been good when he has commentated for a foreign network like in the Nzl series in 2014 and generally knows a lot which is apparent when he decides to drop some pearls but at other times it's quite hard to listen to him. His west indian accent needs to be banned.

All in all I don't rate any of the South Asian commies that highly though Indian ones are by far the best mostly because of how abject the others are.

I see.....never paid much attention to Siva.

Maju has some good points to make but as you rightly put it, no sense of occasion.

Fully agree with your post.

 

[sensible-indian-fan]

Played India.

I think England can male a couple of changes. At present we are using Bairstow as a keeper, which is sacrificing a strength to plug a weakness. So drop Duckett, bring in Buttler behind the poles and push Bairstow up to #4. That will increase his run-making power and also break up the parade of lefties.

As [MENTION=1842]James[/MENTION] says I would also bring back the combative Woakes for Ansari.

Ducket out. Buttler in.
Ansari out. Woakes in.

Damn...you guys are gonna be strong for the Mohali test.

 

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Check the record of FC matches played there in last 3-4 years. Totally flat wickets.

Flat wickets are possible. But Mumbai always has some pace and carry.

 

[sensible-indian-fan]

Check the record of FC matches played there in last 3-4 years. Totally flat wickets.

Is there some talk going on (from the inside) about pitches?

I think Kohli should start demanding better pitches. Make it sporting but not these kind of tracks.

Or will we just keep on giving them such tracks?

 

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With Butler and Woakes in for Duckett and Ansari, the English side will become considerably stronger.