West Indies vs India.

[Dr Cricket]

Reckon it is more technique than judgement anyway happy to agree to disagree.

[Aidan11]

No surprise that the third day is a complete washout.

[mikesiva]

Bravo out to a stupid hook shot for 29.

Kraig out for 64. Two dismissals that are open to question.

Lunch

West Indies 194-3

Samuels 39*

Blackwood 20*

[Making_Splinters]

West Indies collapsing in a heap yet again.

[mikesiva]

West Indies collapsing in a heap yet again.

All out for 225...Kumar takes 5-33. Collapsed from 193-4....

[Dr Cricket]

Kumar took a good 5fer told you 365 if the condition suit bk is an handful bowler, you don't throw bowlers that can move the ball both ways out of test cricket just like that.
If he get quicker the guy will be an handful.

[backfootpunch]

Just saw the wickets

The bravo decision was clearly a no ball

Terrible from the third umpire

[mikesiva]

Cummins with two important wickets...Rahul and Kohli.

Chase gets rid of Dhawan to make it three down....

[Dr Cricket]

Ten sport show the lead man.
wonder if Kohli will declare overnight and go for the win.

[Red Devil]

Ten sport show the lead man.
wonder if Kohli will declare overnight and go for the win.

I doubt it

268 ahead with only 3 or so overs left - probably won't be enough runs - won't want to risk WI chasing it down in 98 overs - especially given what happened at the end of the last test

The rain is messing things up for us in this and the last test but losing the test would be a disaster. i expect they'll want to bat for about 10 overs in the morning and aim for a lead of 330ish

[Dr Cricket]

Yep red that will probably be the best thing to do.
although they might bat 8 overs and then declare so they could have 10 overs with the new ball.
outfield crap so not sure they could score more than 200 in a day here.
so 300 could be enough here, depends how badly india wants the win.

the way india batted in the 2nd innings suggest team going for the win.

[The Professor]

Coming to the conclusion that none of Rohit Sharma, Shikhar Dhawan or Bhuvneshwar Kumar are of Test standard.

[Dr Cricket]

At the moment baring Anderson not that many people can swing the ball both ways and with control like BK, only really Anderson does it.
remember when I first saw him in 2012 against pakistan I saw an Anderson type bowler in him.
the other indian bowler that got good swing control and swing both way is Sandeep sharma but sadly the case with indian swing bowler they are often slow to be a threat all the time.

Was a beautiful spell today outswinger, inswinger, outswinger, inswinger batsman had no clue what way the ball was moving from BK.
Any swing bowler that can move the ball both ways is so dangerous.

good article on him.
http://www.cricbuzz.com/cricket-news/82 ... ight-notes


Just to be clear not comparing him to Anderson just that he is a similar bowler to him.

[dan08]

What ever happened to Praveen Kumar? Never seen a bowler get as much movement as him.

[Dr Cricket]

What ever happened to Praveen Kumar? Never seen a bowler get as much movement as him.

mentality is everywhere, pace, injuries and the will to bowl probably.

weirdly india got quite a lot of talented swing bowlers, seen loads of quality swing bowlers in domestic cricket but generally a lot are so slow that they really not capable of playing for india.
hoping Sandeep sharma develops well they guy a good bowler as well and generally impress foreign ipl coaches and pundits.
some of the ITV pundits were surprised he didn't tour with india to England in 2014 after an impressive IPL/Ranji season.

I gave him very high praised in the 2012 under 19 cup where I basically compared him to Anderson, he literally destroyed all the under 19 teams with swing, they had no clue with his swing, he made batsman look like tailenders couldn't read him or play the swing.
it is some skill for an 18 yr old to move the ball both way and with such great control and what I seen of him in the IPL he still got the swing and movement and made some top batsman look like mugs in the game.