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Post by Balladeer on Oct 26, 2016 10:11:11 GMT
England's Bangladesh squad has been named unchanged as the India squad.
Hope Rahane and Pujara are ready for the ONSLAUGHT of long-hops from Rashid! The BARRAGE of moon balls from Moe! The APOCALYPSE of non-turning non-dangerous deliveries from Batty!
They don't stand a chance. 5-0 to England, calling it now.
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Post by Humair on Oct 26, 2016 12:03:31 GMT
New Zealand finish on a disappointing 260-7 after being 170-2. Hopefully New Zealand can push India with the pitch slightly spinning.
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Post by Humair on Oct 26, 2016 16:12:13 GMT
Very good bowling performance from New Zealand to win by 19 runs, sets up the final match nicely.
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Post by Srihari on Oct 26, 2016 20:54:01 GMT
Indian ODI team are crap barring Virat Kohli who is awesome and world class
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Post by pierredelafranchesca on Oct 27, 2016 8:54:41 GMT
Waiting for the odds to be released on Betfair, but when they are i'm sticking a wedge on England to lose 5-0 in India.....though I also did that last time.....but having seen what has been prepared for SA and Aus test series, India are (rightly so) just now going whole hog for turners which play 100% to their advantage. I wonder whether the change in approach from India to pitches, from slow spin favourable pitches which can be a batsman paradise to out and out 100% spinners pitches is down to a desire to win at all costs, or if it's influenced in part by the retirement of some batting legends, Tendulkar in particular whom administrators wanted to see bat for as long as possible.
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Post by Balladeer on Oct 27, 2016 8:56:13 GMT
I think we'll see a bit of both, but expect EXTREME TRIAL BY SPIN. Indian ODI team are crap barring Virat Kohli who is awesome and world class Whoa, bit much! Jinx? Rohit "264" Sharma? Bumrah? And has Dhoni really descended that far?
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Post by Srihari on Oct 28, 2016 19:04:47 GMT
Jinx shouldn't be in the ODI side and probably won't be if either KL Rahul or Shikhar Dhawan are fit and since he can't really accelerate properly it's open or out with him.
Nohit is a flat track bully, the moment there's even a bit of pressure he folds.
Bumrah is very good but not starc level yet but he is a massive boost and I.largely meant batsmen.
Dhoni isn't the player he was before and while he is still good at no.4 might be time to groom a new middle order altogether
This team reminds me of the one from the 90s that had one world class player in Sachin (see kohli) and not a great deal else.
While I do think kohli might go on to break most of Sachin s records and is actually a better chaser, he can't do it all himself. our ODI team needs a complete overhaul in the batting but don't see that happening anytime soon.
It says something that despite resting arguably the three best bowlers (Shami Ashwin and Jadeja) or maybe three of the top four if u include bumrah, the bowling has done a lot better than the batting on true surfaces that have offered largely nothing
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Post by Srihari on Oct 28, 2016 19:09:51 GMT
Waiting for the odds to be released on Betfair, but when they are i'm sticking a wedge on England to lose 5-0 in India.....though I also did that last time.....but having seen what has been prepared for SA and Aus test series, India are (rightly so) just now going whole hog for turners which play 100% to their advantage. I wonder whether the change in approach from India to pitches, from slow spin favourable pitches which can be a batsman paradise to out and out 100% spinners pitches is down to a desire to win at all costs, or if it's influenced in part by the retirement of some batting legends, Tendulkar in particular whom administrators wanted to see bat for as long as possible. This is more down to kohli and his desire for 20 wickets. Also I think no side in the world can match India s spin attack and our batting is nowhere near as good as it was. In tests our match winners are Ashwin, rahane and Jadeja. Especially at home and it makes sense to play to that strength knowing that you have batsmen who can tackle spin much better than the opponents and have spinners vastly superior Having said that for the nz series none of the three tracks were raging turners in fact the pitch for the second test at Kolkata was a green seamer and we still beat nz comfortably on that. I guess it boils down to who your match winners are and since Ashwin and Jadeja are deadly with a bit of turn, it makes sense to trust them rather than a batting which is good but nowhere near that of the one we had a decade ago.
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Post by Humair on Oct 29, 2016 14:00:18 GMT
Amazing collapse from New Zealand, five wickets for Mishra and New Zealand bowled out for 79.
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Post by Srihari on Oct 29, 2016 16:40:25 GMT
That escalated quickly
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Post by nemouk on Oct 31, 2016 13:04:11 GMT
So is this the official India wiping the floor with England thread or shall we make another?
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Post by Balladeer on Oct 31, 2016 14:38:22 GMT
The former was certainly Sri's intention. Me, I personally disagree. While I understand that in Sri's eyes all four series are the same, I'm sure he appreciates that in an Anglocentric forum, the one coming up is going to be by a large margin the most important (and upsetting) for most of us here.
Frankly I just feel that every Test series, short of one where Zimbabwe's played before moving on to South Africa (because Zimbabwe), should get its own thread. Bangladesh vs. England definitely deserved one, where some might have put "England vs. India and warm-ups" or similar.
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Post by Srihari on Nov 1, 2016 14:49:34 GMT
Fair enough songster No qualms here
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