Fifth Test: India v England, 16-20 Dec (Chennai)

[Dr Cricket]

ODI should be competitive/England winning 3-0.
india not got a great ODI team at the moment and they likely to rest a lot of their key players.

Rest them 5 months before the Champions Trophy?

they got 5 test + ipl still to go.
chances are Ashwin, Jadeja, kohli etc need the rest.
don't think india really care about the Champions trophy right now.

[meninblue]

Which is the next series

ODIs start on 15th January

Was looking to know our next test series.

[Dr Cricket]

Next test series is in march against Australia but have a warm up test against ban 10 days before the Australia series.

[rich1uk]

dont often agree with boycott but think he made a good point today

we need to decide to commit to cook for another year or replace him before the home summer

would be a poor situation if cook is captain for the home summer and then we replace him and have a brand new captain going to australia

obviously if he does stay on and we have a really bad home sumer we might have no choice in the matter

[rich1uk]

just seen a really depressing stat

in 140 years of test cricket before this series there have only been two instances of a team scoring 400 or more batting first and going on to lose by an innings

we managed it twice in a fortnight

[hopeforthebest]

dont often agree with boycott but think he made a good point today

we need to decide to commit to cook for another year or replace him before the home summer

would be a poor situation if cook is captain for the home summer and then we replace him and have a brand new captain going to australia

obviously if he does stay on and we have a really bad home sumer we might have no choice in the matter

I think taking over the captaincy for a tour is not so bad an idea. You have your squad of 16 around you for a couple of months and you can stamp your style on them, at home they are spread around and home life plays a role. Anyway if it's Root he's ready, Cook says so. Ideally, Cook should go as well and leave the field completely clear for Root.

[hopeforthebest]

just seen a really depressing stat

in 140 years of test cricket before this series there have only been two instances of a team scoring 400 or more batting first and going on to lose by an innings

we managed it twice in a fortnight

Well Strauss wanted a record breaking team..........

[rich1uk]

dont often agree with boycott but think he made a good point today

we need to decide to commit to cook for another year or replace him before the home summer

would be a poor situation if cook is captain for the home summer and then we replace him and have a brand new captain going to australia

obviously if he does stay on and we have a really bad home sumer we might have no choice in the matter

I think taking over the captaincy for a tour is not so bad an idea. You have your squad of 16 around you for a couple of months and you can stamp your style on them, at home they are spread around and home life plays a role. Anyway if it's Root he's ready, Cook says so. Ideally, Cook should go as well and leave the field completely clear for Root.

i can see that being a good thing, i would just prefer to see root get his feet wet as captain without dealing with all the additional crap that comes with an ashes series

[meninblue]

just seen a really depressing stat

in 140 years of test cricket before this series there have only been two instances of a team scoring 400 or more batting first and going on to lose by an innings

we managed it twice in a fortnight

Well Strauss wanted a record breaking team..........

[hopeforthebest]

Seeing the India team photographed behind a giant sign saying Champions, it made me wonder if that warrants a gold star on their shirts.

[Dr Cricket]

How many stars did it have.
if 3 then it is the 3 ICC world cup wins.
if anything the star could be based on them being World number 1 in test.

[Durhamfootman]

I'd like to say "unfuckingbelievable", but sadly it is all too believble

[budgetmeansbudget]

Next test in July 2017?

Probably a good thing.

Haven't really been following the aftermath, I guess Cook will resign?

[andy]

Never Cook look so shell-shocked...i think he will resign, and focus purely on his batting, probably not the worse move in the world, no gurantee that Root will be a great captain though..

[hopeforthebest]

Never Cook look so shell-shocked...i think he will resign, and focus purely on his batting, probably not the worse move in the world, no gurantee that Root will be a great captain though..

I fear he's got the ECB stamp of approval which may mean that things look rather similar. Though I would expect his on field captaincy to be more imaginative, which won't be difficult.