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India vs England | 3rd Test | Kolkota| 09/12/12 | Day 5

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What are you laughing at? Your team is about to go 2-1 down in a home test series against a side that has a very bad reputation in the subcontinent.

We thought we are going to lose yesterday only. Effect is less today :))

Just enjoying the show.

Regarding your point about a side which has very bad reputation in SC,we lost a series with them in SC 28 years back,but some other team lost bit recently :))
 
these 3 wickets are just to give Indian fans some hope and happiness before England tighten the screws .. all good fun
 
Why is everyone taking me so seriously? :O

Just trying to have some fun with our Indian bros. :))
 
Aswhins had a fantastic match.
Shame he is surrounded by hacks all around
 
England have very intelligently targeted Zaheer Khan in the field. He looks sad.
 
Game over!
Good stuff by India for making the chase a bit exciting and suspense filled for a little while.
 
Manjrekar is an absolute wasteman, clutching at anything
 
Ganguly isn't much better. Reciting England's failures with the bat from a 100 years ago to make his point that they could lose this match. :))
 
I feel that if India had somehow inched their lead over 100, England would have had an almighty collapse and lost it like they did against us in UAE
 
150 could have been a winning total for India, good job we weren't chasing more than 41 after this shambles lol
 
Good strategy by bell. Just hit it out. runs are so few that even if they get out theres others
 
Bell's playing beautifully! Back in form for Nagpur
 
Good thing is that Bell is not overthinking things here. He's just playing proper cricketing shots.
 
Match is done and dusted.

Let us concentrate on next test.Time to forget this as a bad dream.
 
They will definitely prepare a dustbowl for the next match. Problem is England's spinners are better than India's :))
 
What a performance by Eng. Comprehensive victory. Eng 2-1 up now. The series is not over yet though. One more to go.
 
Quotes from Presentation

"We need to give bowlers a few more runs," says MS Dhoni. "We haven't scored consistently over 300. On this wicket we should have scored 450 or above. The batsmen who got starts didn't make it matter. In the second innings, it was like a landslide we couldn't stop. We have everything to play for in Nagpur. Everybody needs to pull up their socks. Of course the better team won. They bowled in the right areas they fielded well .... They played well but we need to retaliate"

"Everyone performed," says Alastair Cook. "To keep India to 300 on that wicket was a great effort. Credit to all the hard work we have out in. It was a tough morning session yesterday. Credit to the way Sehwag and Gambhir played. We knew we needed to strike early, that's what Graeme Swann did. Nice to contribute to the team success. To score runs out here you need to bat for a long period. I needed some luck. We have to recover well, this win has taken a lot out of us. A big thank you to the Barmy Army, it means a lot for us. This is a long way from home, we need all the support. We will try to win the series in Nagpur, we can't be complacent"

Cook is also the Man of the Match
 
Quotes from Presentation

"We need to give bowlers a few more runs," says MS Dhoni. "We haven't scored consistently over 300. On this wicket we should have scored 450 or above. The batsmen who got starts didn't make it matter. In the second innings, it was like a landslide we couldn't stop. We have everything to play for in Nagpur. Everybody needs to pull up their socks. Of course the better team won. They bowled in the right areas they fielded well .... They played well but we need to retaliate"

"Everyone performed," says Alastair Cook. "To keep India to 300 on that wicket was a great effort. Credit to all the hard work we have out in. It was a tough morning session yesterday. Credit to the way Sehwag and Gambhir played. We knew we needed to strike early, that's what Graeme Swann did. Nice to contribute to the team success. To score runs out here you need to bat for a long period. I needed some luck. We have to recover well, this win has taken a lot out of us. A big thank you to the Barmy Army, it means a lot for us. This is a long way from home, we need all the support. We will try to win the series in Nagpur, we can't be complacent"

Cook is also the Man of the Match


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match may be won by england, but india had the moral victory..taking cook and KP out cheaply and Ashwin toying with their bowlers is bound to leave england mentally scarred... cant wait for the fourth test!
 
Yes, I'm sure England are mentally scarred and probably crying in the dressing room from how badly they were scarred.
 
match may be won by england, but india had the moral victory..taking cook and KP out cheaply and Ashwin toying with their bowlers is bound to leave england mentally scarred... cant wait for the fourth test!

That's the spirit GM. :19:
 
match may be won by england, but india had the moral victory..taking cook and KP out cheaply and Ashwin toying with their bowlers is bound to leave england mentally scarred... cant wait for the fourth test!

If anything it is good for England that the top batsmen have got their failures out of the way in that little innings, and that Ashwin has got his defiant innings for the series.
 
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