First Test: England v India at Edgbaston, 1-5 August 2018.

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Re: First Test: England v India at Edgbaston, 1-5 August 201

Postby Dr Cricket » Wed Aug 01, 2018 8:05 am

Although pringle probably wrote the worse article of the lot.
https://www.thecricketpaper.com/featured/5010/

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Re: First Test: England v India at Edgbaston, 1-5 August 201

Postby Dr Cricket » Wed Aug 01, 2018 10:00 am

60 sec to go before coverage starts.
nervous now.
need a good start to shut people up.

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Re: First Test: England v India at Edgbaston, 1-5 August 201

Postby sussexpob » Wed Aug 01, 2018 10:05 am

All bets are off with this series, I think. India are capable of folding in English conditions as much as England are reliably terrible in all conditions. Be nice to get a few close tests, but I have a feeling it will be one of those series of 5 crushing wins being spread between the teams.

Its a big series for India really. These have to be confident they can beat England at the moment. Be nice to see Kohli smash a huge score and shut people up. Be nice for the series actually, I can imagine if Virat gets into the first test and looks good, you might find all those unsold seats at other venues fill with a few Indians.
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Re: First Test: England v India at Edgbaston, 1-5 August 201

Postby Dr Cricket » Wed Aug 01, 2018 10:08 am

yeah would be disappointed if any team won 5-0 or 4-0 here.
suspect we gonna get a variety of conditions so it should be good 5 match series.

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Re: First Test: England v India at Edgbaston, 1-5 August 201

Postby sussexpob » Wed Aug 01, 2018 10:08 am

Cricinfo suggesting that the pitch is on the dry side, decent for batting, might give something first up to the seamers. Dobell suggesting a two spinner option might be the way to go
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Re: First Test: England v India at Edgbaston, 1-5 August 201

Postby Dr Cricket » Wed Aug 01, 2018 10:11 am

England haven't picked 2 spinners though.
Shanky and his mates are gonna have a melt down if the decks is dry and starts to turn.
Baffling how they thought it would be green decks and massively helping seam bowlers with the weather england having lately.

As if England was gonna doctor the wicket like SA did in Cape town.

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Re: First Test: England v India at Edgbaston, 1-5 August 201

Postby Dr Cricket » Wed Aug 01, 2018 10:15 am

Can't see England doctoring the wickets this year, think they just want to win first and try to win in any conditions and they probably thinking more long term with away wins rather than thrashing india 5-0 or 4-0 on helpful surfaces.

the most doctoring you gonna see was in Edgebaston and all they did was add *modded* loads of water to make the outfield flush and the wicket not too dry and looks like a normal english wickets.

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Re: First Test: England v India at Edgbaston, 1-5 August 201

Postby Dr Cricket » Wed Aug 01, 2018 10:19 am

looking at it both teams are probably desperate to win here.
if kohli and India fail here they last 4 yrs results go to a waste and they can't really do much again till another 2-3 yrs time.

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Re: First Test: England v India at Edgbaston, 1-5 August 201

Postby Dr Cricket » Wed Aug 01, 2018 10:20 am

looks like pujara will be dropped.
at least rahul playing.
could be a in and out in the side between pujara and dhawan in this series.
At least Rahul and Vijay playing though.

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Re: First Test: England v India at Edgbaston, 1-5 August 201

Postby Dr Cricket » Wed Aug 01, 2018 10:31 am

Yes Toss wents india way.
Don't really want india to win too many toss in england.
bloody hell the toss is the worse thing about the test in england you really don't know what to do Bat first or bowl first.

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Re: First Test: England v India at Edgbaston, 1-5 August 201

Postby Dr Cricket » Wed Aug 01, 2018 10:35 am

Shami will be the interesting one since he very unfit lately and his probably lucky to even be in the squad here.
hopefully he does well here, got a habit of starting slow and bowling lots of hit me ball in the start of the match.

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Re: First Test: England v India at Edgbaston, 1-5 August 201

Postby Dr Cricket » Wed Aug 01, 2018 11:05 am

Danger man ishant coming on.
he releasing the ball really well lately, think he gonna have a brilliant series here.

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Re: First Test: England v India at Edgbaston, 1-5 August 201

Postby sussexpob » Wed Aug 01, 2018 11:07 am

Dr Cricket wrote:Danger man ishant coming on.
he releasing the ball really well lately, think he gonna have a brilliant series here.


Gilly at Sussex was saying the same about him. Good ball first up, and again.
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Re: First Test: England v India at Edgbaston, 1-5 August 201

Postby sussexpob » Wed Aug 01, 2018 11:08 am

Cook getting a working over here....
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Re: First Test: England v India at Edgbaston, 1-5 August 201

Postby Dr Cricket » Wed Aug 01, 2018 11:10 am

sussexpob wrote:
Dr Cricket wrote:Danger man ishant coming on.
he releasing the ball really well lately, think he gonna have a brilliant series here.


Gilly at Sussex was saying the same about him. Good ball first up, and again.

he been really good in the last 18 months.
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