Cricket - FOREVER

^I blame Kaaling's fav. D(k) and his positive cricket, w/o him TN could have batted 2.5 days scored 600 , wish Akashwani mentors this side next season on the art of winning Ranjis

enna sir nadakkuthu cricket'la. Yes we heard Naraine, Shivnaraine, Rampaul and now latest is, Veerasamy Permaul. Half of the WI team from Indian origin. Nalla irukku.
http://www.espncricinfo.com/westindies/content/player/274921.html

V_S par for the course

any series prediction guys

going by our first test record I fully expect India to phail spectacularly @ Ahmedabad. draw @ Mumbai/ win @ Kolkata or Nagpur.

Ojha to be the highest wicket taker. KP to flop/Cook to do a Haydos.

Kohli/pujara - high scorers. I will also throw KP in the mix.

Wkts - Ashwin

Scoreline - 2-0

yam very skeptical about India's chances, Eng have always put up a better fight than OZ in their last 2 tours against a strong Indian test side.
Eng have got all their bases covered, Monty/Swann can do as much as damage as their Indian counterparts on a square turner and their quickies
are light years ahead of us which makes it even more distressing

P.S punting on Ashwin to top the batting charts for India

Amen to that

Wizzy wrote:yam very skeptical about India's chances, Eng have always put up a better fight than OZ in their last 2 tours against a strong Indian test side.
Eng have got all their bases covered, Monty/Swann can do as much as damage as their Indian counterparts on a square turner and their quickies
are light years ahead of us which makes it even more distressing

. Ashwin may score more than Gambhir/Dhoni.

Wizzy wrote:
P.S punting on Ashwin to top the batting charts for India

Wizzy wrote:^I blame Kaaling's fav. D(k) and his positive cricket, w/o him TN could have batted 2.5 days scored 600 , wish Akashwani mentors this side next season on the art of winning Ranjis

Blame the spinners who couldn't utilize the scoreboard pressure and 3rd/4th day pitch to bowl the opposition out. With Dhoni likely to be removed from T20 team, DK's form makes him the first choice for Indian T20 team. apdiye nool pudichu vara vendiyadhudhaan.

India 2 - 0.

India
Best bowler - Ojha.
The 50+ averaging opening duo would get a big hundred each. Sehwag might even make a big daddy.
Che's compulsive hooking might get him in trouble against England attack.

England
Only cameos from KP with Cook getting sumaal daddy tons.

Kaaling - romba dhaan aasai. D(K) is now about 5th or 6th choice behind Dhoni, Saha, Parthiv, Naman, Smit Patel etc.
As for the TN match, fundamentally, TN need to learn from the likes of Maharashtra, Rajasthan etc the safety first approach. Look at Maharashtra - everyone mocked at them for declaring only at 764/6. But, in the end, RAina's friends managed to almost chase it down. If they had declared earlier?

TN needs to understand that. Ofcourse, 538 gave you a chance of 3 points but extending it would have guaranteed that Karnataka wont get 3 points and the sheer boredom and helplessness might have helped to get them out and a chance of 3 points anyway.

Problem is in such situation TN takes a veyr bookish, British, gendilman approach. The dressing room needs a overhaul, a nAdhari presence. modhalla TiruvallikENi thayir saadham makeup of the team needs to be changed

Predictions:
Top Scorer - between Cook/KP/Trott/Bell/Compton/Prior/Bairstow/Morgan/Yuvraj/ATG Gambhir/Kohli/Dhoni
Top Wickets - Anderson/Swann/Broad/Bressilad/Finn/Meaker/Patel/Monty/Onions/Harbhajan
Series Scoreline England 1-0 or 2-0 or 3-0 or 4-0 or 3-1 or 2-1 or 1-1 or 2-2

Kaaling, scorecard pressure-a , TN's top 6 getting to 50+ only points to pattaness of the track where 500 is bare minimum.
D(k) should have batted time and closed any chance of Karnataka overhauling the score within the stipulated time
more so with the inexperienced attack TN had fielded for the game with as many as 4 bowlers playing only <10 matches in total.
I put the blame squarely on batsmen for batting defensively in the beginning(read Badri) and then rushing the declaration when they had no reason to do so. They didn't learn anything from last year's Ranji finals where Rajasthan provided a masterclass on batting time/boring the opp. to submission.

we need to talk about Badri/his worthiness in the side, yam already seein his negative influence(read dabs to 3rd man) creeping into Baba Jnr's game

Plum, talk about covering all the jinx bases

I got only 12 correct out of 25
http://www.espncricinfo.com/magazine/content/story/magazine/quiz.html?edition=2

How many did you get?

^23..most the qs are run of the mill, like univ exams cricinfo question bank is very limited, play it next time India tours Eng you will crack it

all in readiness..bring it on

I got 19/25, with 2 questions missed due to poor hand-eye coordination, selecting the wrong option by a physical menu selection mistake even though I knew the correct answer. I got 8/25 in the SA-Aus quiz.

India 84/0 after 18. Sewagan 50. England look demoralized already.

ELumichampazham Vaiththi: idhellAm enna Attam. MoganavOda amma andha kAlathula oru Attam pOduvA pArunga...

andha mAdhiri

idhellAM enna Attam. KP/Bell/Cook/Compt/Prior/Trott/Brez/Broad/Swann/Jimmy indha pitchla namma zombie bowlers kitta oru Attam pOduvAnga pArunga appo theriyum ungaLukku LOL

Eng quickies didn't come hard @ out of form Indian openers thus far they have bowled well within themselves clocking around Kumars speed territory. Eng scribes have already mourning about the pitch, were they expecting a bullring in India

and ATG is India's best player of spin

Ayyoo tendulkar batting

shewag/pujara

Checking out cricket after ages. *Just* logged into cricinfo and Sachin is gone.
Note to self: Nee ellaam cricket follow pannalainnu evan azhudhaan

சேவாக், கவுதம், கோளி ஒழிக, நாசமா போஹ!

Sach wkt seals the session for Eng, good news is Swann turning it a mile on Day 1, bad news is last recognized batting pair in

Rob Steen has really upped the ante, BCCI ought to be one bad mf

http://www.espncricinfo.com/magazine/content/story/591247.html


with photo agencies boycotting the coverage of 1st test, telegraph gets innovative



more http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/cricket/picturegalleries/9680093/India-v-England-first-Test-in-the-only-pictures-available.html?frame=2399389

Swann's bowling is a delight to watch. Trott's appeal .

Pujara played well. He never lost concentration or look like throwing it away after the start. At times was unable to rotate the strike against spinners. And Dravid was quick to point out in commentary that Pujara doesn't have sweep shot which restricts his scoring opportunities against spinners.

We have to work hard to take 20 English wickets. They are not Bangladesh.

Sehwag trolling Bangbros .

Yuvi cash in tommorrow along with Dhoni cashing in. orE the enjoy dhAn pOnga. Dhoni will probably win these tours, get a few more advt contracts and retire from tests just before the next foreign tour

ATG will taunt us with this 100 runs opening stand for the next 5 yrs

Dravid's TMS debut

Che looked lot more comfortable against Swann than he did against Jeets Patel, wasn't really tested on short pitch stuff.
expect Eng to test him with the second new ball.

expect this article to be plugged all over twitter if and when he gets his 100

http://www.indianexpress.com/news/father-son-and-a-game/1006462/0