England Versus India - 1st Test (9 Nov - 13 Nov)

[Dr Cricket]

Sky sport wrong Mishra plays and he no mug with the bat either.
be interesting to see how the pitch plays, people in india thinks the ball will turn a bit from day 1 and play like Kanpur did and England media think it is very flat for the first 2-3 days.

[meninblue]

Cook won the toss. Can England make use of this toss advantage.

On leave today, hopefully there will be lot of wickets

[Dr Cricket]

lol india 1.72 to win the game.
jump from 1.50 after the toss lol.

Makes no sense what so ever.
india to win the series 1.10
massive fav to win 4-0 or 5-0 but 1.72 to win a game.

[meninblue]

Cook Dropped

[Dr Cricket]

Cook dropped already in the gully, crikey loads of pace and bounce for an indian wicket, ashwin must be licking his lips already.
uneven bounce as well now.

[Dr Cricket]

Cook edges again, not sure I will count that as a drop though very tough chance.

[meninblue]

Cook dropped on 0 and now on 1 as well

[meninblue]

There is better bounce at our club ground than this wicket has

This is going to be a turner, low and uneven bounce. Glad we have 3 specialist spinners as per the wicket condition.Bad toss to lose and bat on day 4 and 5 on this wicket. Hopefully our batters will play the long innings they are capable of.

[Dr Cricket]

There is better bounce at our club ground than this wicket has

This is going to be a turner, low and uneven bounce. Glad we have 3 specialist spinners as per the wicket condition.Bad toss to lose and bat on day 4 and 5 on this wicket. Hopefully our batters will play the long innings they are capable of.

yep not much bounce after the first ball, could have made it count with Cook in two mind because of the first ball.
although not sure the game will last much on day 4 or 5.
think game will be finish early day 4.

[hopeforthebest]

Cook looks terrible, poking at balls outside off no foot movement.

[meninblue]

There is better bounce at our club ground than this wicket has

This is going to be a turner, low and uneven bounce. Glad we have 3 specialist spinners as per the wicket condition.Bad toss to lose and bat on day 4 and 5 on this wicket. Hopefully our batters will play the long innings they are capable of.

yep not much bounce after the first ball, could have made it count with Cook in two mind because of the first ball.
although not sure the game will last much on day 4 or 5.
think game will be finish early day 4.

The threat is England have 3 spinners as well who will bowl on day 4 and Day 5. If they win toss with such bowling combo then it is going to be tough for us.

[Dr Cricket]

There is better bounce at our club ground than this wicket has

This is going to be a turner, low and uneven bounce. Glad we have 3 specialist spinners as per the wicket condition.Bad toss to lose and bat on day 4 and 5 on this wicket. Hopefully our batters will play the long innings they are capable of.

yep not much bounce after the first ball, could have made it count with Cook in two mind because of the first ball.
although not sure the game will last much on day 4 or 5.
think game will be finish early day 4.

The threat is England have 3 spinners as well who will bowl on day 4 and Day 5. If they win toss with such bowling combo then it is going to be tough for us.

might have spinner but not much spinner, they essentially 2 part times and half a part timer.
nothing to be worried about rashid, Ansari and Ali.
Especially on day 1-2-3 and even on day 4 and 5 they will concede lots of easy runs before taking wickets.

[Dr Cricket]

Dropped again.
india sloppy in the field again.
Nasser is 20 wicket really hard to take in india considering only 1 test in the last 5 yrs excluding rain actually ended in a draw.

[meninblue]

Haseeb dropped now by Vijay. 3 catches dropped in first half hour.

Virat should not be fielding in slips at all. He has been a very bad fielder in slip considering the ratio of catches he has dropped since he has started fielding in slips at least. Issues is we do not have any slip fielder better than AJinkya in this team.

[Dr Cricket]

Thought Ashwin was ok before, unless they want to protect his fingers.