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India v England - 3rd Test

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essex boy said:
good performance

however, anyone think the side still has a soft underbelly in these conditions and if you take out KP and Cook, the rest dont inspire much confidence if the other two fail (ie, they arent going to keep posting big scores)
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We have three world class batsmen in Cook, Pietersen and Prior IMO. The rest are just padding and perform well every once in a while.

There is good depth to our bowling attack with Anderson, Finn, Broad, Onions, Swann and Panesar (with others in the background who can do a job) but our batting is light.

Its looking increasingly like a series win in India though and that's not something many envisaged a couple of weeks ago. Credit to the players and coaching staff.
 

essex boy said:
good performance

however, anyone think the side still has a soft underbelly in these conditions and if you take out KP and Cook, the rest dont inspire much confidence if the other two fail (ie, they arent going to keep posting big scores)
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You can say that about any side: Take out their two best bats and they look dodgy.

Trott is still a world class bat. I think it says something when out of your six bats two are novices and one is badly out of touch, yet we're still on the verge of going 2-1 up.
 
Steak Pie said:
You can say that about any side: Take out their two best bats and they look dodgy.

Trott is still a world class bat. I think it says something when out of your six bats two are novices and one is badly out of touch, yet we're still on the verge of going 2-1 up.
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I think South Africa have better batting depth in their line up - which why theyre the best side I suppose.
 
Aberdeen Angus said:
I think South Africa have better batting depth in their line up - which why theyre the best side I suppose.
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best bowling attack as well

Kallis and Smith dont drop hardly anything at slip which helps as well

Also believe they have the best player in world cricket in De Villiers even if his stats dont back this up quite yet
 
essex boy said:
best bowling attack as well

Kallis and Smith dont drop hardly anything at slip which helps as well

Also believe they have the best player in world cricket in De Villiers even if his stats dont back this up quite yet
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I dont think there is much in the bowling attacks. England shade it on the sub-continent for me due to our spinners and South Africa just about shade it on seamer tracks purely because of Steyn.

The only telling difference between the sides is the depth of South Africa's batting.
 
Aberdeen Angus said:
I dont think there is much in the bowling attacks. England shade it on the sub-continent for me due to our spinners and South Africa just about shade it on seamer tracks purely because of Steyn.

The only telling difference between the sides is the depth of South Africa's batting.
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So you appreciate Philander and Morkel have far superior records to any of our seamers as well?
 
essex boy said:
So you appreciate Philander and Morkel have far superior records to any of our seamers as well?
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No not really. Philander's record is excellent but he hasnt played a great deal of Test cricket yet and looking at Morkel's stats you can hardly argue that they are far superior to Broad's (I suppose they are the most comparable bowlers).

Steyn is more dangerous than Anderson purely because he has an extra 7 or 8 mph on him. In terms of control and movement there isnt a lot between them.
 
f***ing hell lads, the SA series was LAST season :lol:

We're trying to beat India here - speaking of which, we're in a cracking position, although I can't help wondering if we've scored too slowly today under the circumstances. I suppose it comes to the old addage of 'big first session in the morning'. We need to get to a minimum 250 lead, ideally over 300 but what we don't want to do is be cleaned up fairly quickly, because whilst our lead is still a good one now, it may just give India a bit of a lift and some momentum going into bat.

I still feel there's more to come from their batting, so I'm worried they'll score big runs in the second innings. It may come down to us needing to win by an innings (or chase something small) because time will be at a premium if they occupy the crease. Put it this way, if we lead by 250, it'll take them until I'd say the morning of Day 5 to get parity and anything over 150 for us to chase in 4th innings is tricky.
 
Shocking start this morning, fortunately we are ahead from yesterdays batting. Could do with the tail sticking another 20/30 or so on, not expecting owt from Anderson or Panesar though.
 
CHEATING INDIANS......

f***ing Gambhir, walk you c*nt. AND THEN, the f***ing third umpire is looking for an edge. DRS isn't happening in this Test :evil: The BCCI make the f***ing rules up as they go on :evil::evil::evil:
 
brandon said:
CHEATING INDIANS......

f***ing Gambhir, walk you c*nt. AND THEN, the f***ing third umpire is looking for an edge. DRS isn't happening in this Test :evil: The BCCI make the f***ing rules up as they go on :evil::evil::evil:
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Shit scared of DRS are the Indians, man. How can they expect to be respected when they don't play by the same rules that every other country does?
 
brandon said:
CHEATING INDIANS......

f***ing Gambhir, walk you c*nt. AND THEN, the f***ing third umpire is looking for an edge. DRS isn't happening in this Test :evil: The BCCI make the f***ing rules up as they go on :evil::evil::evil:
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He never touched it. Why should he walk?
 
hank williams said:
It should be accepted across the board
Those who don't want it bye bye simples
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If India don't want to use it, fine. But let other teams use it against them. Why should the rest have to suffer just because the Indians are being petty?
 
brandon said:
CHEATING INDIANS......

f***ing Gambhir, walk you c*nt. AND THEN, the f***ing third umpire is looking for an edge. DRS isn't happening in this Test The BCCI make the f***ing rules up as they go on :evil::evil::evil:
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Spot on decision. No DRS means the 3rd umpire looks at all angles of the dismissal and the correct decision was made. Why Gambir should walk when he hadnt even hit it :roll:
 
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