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England v India - 1st Test, Lords

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they mentioned Swann was number 2 in the world so thought would have a look at the rest of the rankings

top 20 only

ID Rat. Name Nat. Career Best Rating
1 899 D.W. Steyn SA 899 v India, 02/01/2011
2 797 G.P. Swann ENG 858 v Pakistan, 26/08/2010
3 781 J.M. Anderson ENG 789 v Sri Lanka, 26/05/2011
4 751 M. Morkel SA 775 v India, 16/12/2010
5 727 M.G. Johnson AUS 825 v England, 08/07/2009
6 726 Zaheer Khan IND 752 v South Africa, 26/12/2010
7 677 Harbhajan Singh IND 765 v New Zealand, 12/12/2002
8 671 I. Sharma IND 671 v West Indies, 06/07/2011
9 648 Shakib Al Hasan BAN 650 v India, 17/01/2010
10 623 D.L. Vettori NZ 681 v Australia, 11/03/2000
11 611 C.T. Tremlett ENG 611 v Sri Lanka, 16/06/2011
12 597 D.E. Bollinger AUS 666 v India, 01/10/2010
13 596 P.M. Siddle AUS 635 v England, 26/12/2010
14 589 C.S. Martin NZ 643 v England, 24/05/2004
15 579 S.C.J. Broad ENG 697 v South Africa, 30/12/2009
16 573 F.H. Edwards WI 590 v England, 06/05/2009
16 573 P.L. Harris SA 705 v England, 16/12/2009
18 569 S.T. Finn ENG 575 v Sri Lanka, 03/06/2011
19 550 Umar Gul PAK 627 v West Indies, 27/11/2006
20 535 J.E. Taylor WI 717 v England, 04/02/2009

and top 20 batting

ID Rat. Name Nat. Career Best Rating
1 883 J.H. Kallis SA 935 v New Zealand, 18/11/2007
2 857 S.R. Tendulkar IND 898 v Zimbabwe, 21/02/2002
3 838 K.C. Sangakkara SL 938 v England, 01/12/2007
4 833 I.J.L. Trott ENG 856 v Sri Lanka, 26/05/2011
5 821 A.N. Cook ENG 826 v Sri Lanka, 03/06/2011
6 781 V.V.S. Laxman IND 781 v West Indies, 06/07/2011
7 775 S. Chanderpaul WI 901 v New Zealand, 19/12/2008
8 767 V. Sehwag IND 866 v Sri Lanka, 18/07/2010
9 766 T.T. Samaraweera SL 766 v England, 16/06/2011
10 760 A.B. de Villiers SA 810 v India, 16/12/2010
11 744 H.M. Amla SA 842 v India, 14/02/2010
12 742 M.E.K. Hussey AUS 921 v West Indies, 23/05/2008
13 740 I.R. Bell ENG 740 v Sri Lanka, 16/06/2011
14 724 S.R. Watson AUS 729 v England, 16/12/2010
15 723 G.C. Smith SA 843 v England, 14/01/2010
16 711 Younus Khan PAK 880 v Sri Lanka, 21/02/2009
17 707 Tamim Iqbal BAN 707 v England, 04/06/2010
17 707 D.P.M.D. Jayawardena SL 883 v India, 16/11/2009
19 702 G. Gambhir IND 886 v Sri Lanka, 24/11/2009
20 691 R.L. Taylor NZ 775 v Pakistan, 03/12/2009

some shite in the bowling at the moment isnt there?
 
looks like a lot of work for swanny if we are to get a result.

jimmy looked poor again tbh so hopefully broady and tremlett continue to cause a few problems.
 
dangermows said:
used to be my favourite..... bad news if he is in for any length of time.

you reckon we can win it?

i have a niggling feeling we will fall short.
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I agree.

Laxman and Dravid start well tomorrow I think its very hard to comeback from with Tendulkar in the shed.

But i'm always optimistic :)
 
dangermows said:
used to be my favourite..... bad news if he is in for any length of time.

you reckon we can win it?

i have a niggling feeling we will fall short.
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only ourselves to blame. The Aussies in their pomp wouldnt have faffed around for an hour this evening letting Prior get 100.

360 keeps India interested and put that in context of Tendulkar having a bug, Ghambir injured and sehwag not playing that should be enough. If we didnt win then it says more about our bowling attack than any perceived generous declaration.

Sometimes in cricket you need to be prepared to lose to win
 
essex boy said:
only ourselves to blame. The Aussies in their pomp wouldnt have faffed around for an hour this evening letting Prior get 100.

360 keeps India interested and put that in context of Tendulkar having a bug, Ghambir injured and sehwag not playing that should be enough. If we didnt win then it says more about our bowling attack than any perceived generous declaration.

Sometimes in cricket you need to be prepared to lose to win
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kind of agree, although i wouldnt have declared before 400 lead..... are we completely ruling out the india win?

i think our bowling attack will have to work extremely hard to knock them over (you'll love this) cos jimmy seems to be struggling. a lot comes down to swanny imo.
 
dangermows said:
kind of agree, although i wouldnt have declared before 400 lead..... are we completely ruling out the india win?

i think our bowling attack will have to work extremely hard to knock them over (you'll love this) cos jimmy seems to be struggling. a lot comes down to swanny imo.
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This is the type of game where you find out about players.

Strongest batting line up in world cricket on a good test wicket where you have to earn your wickets but there is something in it for everyone
 
essex boy said:
This is the type of game where you find out about players.

Strongest batting line up in world cricket on a good test wicket where you have to earn your wickets but there is something in it for everyone
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sharma got it to do a bit so hopefully our bowlers can. saying that, i dont expect the indians to be doing things like walking down the wicket to seamers early doors.
 
essex boy said:
only ourselves to blame. The Aussies in their pomp wouldnt have faffed around for an hour this evening letting Prior get 100.

360 keeps India interested and put that in context of Tendulkar having a bug, Ghambir injured and sehwag not playing that should be enough. If we didnt win then it says more about our bowling attack than any perceived generous declaration.

Sometimes in cricket you need to be prepared to lose to win
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KP set them 387 we lost the game because of it, lost the series because of it and not a single person anywhere defended his decision.
 
rentaghost said:
KP set them 387 we lost the game because of it, lost the series because of it and not a single person anywhere defended his decision.
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I bet on the equivalent to this thread on Day 4 of that game no one was slating him. It was a fair gamble IMO.

Even so this is a Sehwag-less India with two (possibly three) injured/ ill batters who bottled chasing 85 off 20 overs in the West Indies last month.
 
dangermows said:
tbf that was in india, on a flat bed with sehwag chancing his arm from ball 1.
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Its easy being an armchair fan saying 'give them a carrott etc' but in reality its still a decent pitch and the first test of a series you take defeat out of the equation. The declaration was fair enough.
 
NorthCountryBoy said:
I bet on the equivalent to this thread on Day 4 of that game no one was slating him. It was a fair gamble IMO.

Even so this is a Sehwag-less India with two (possibly three) injured/ ill batters who bottled chasing 85 off 20 overs in the West Indies last month.
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I bet there was. No need to gamble and no need to let them in, then or now, and if we had declared at 370 ahead we'd be looking at defeat now.

If you can't bowl a side out in 130 overs to win a match, then you don't deserve to win.
 
Put a daft £1 on India at 25/1 this morning, think they will only really go for the win in the last session if they aren't too far behind and have wickets in hand or it will be a bat the day out kinda game :roll:
 
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