Cricket Thread

[Dennis Bendtner]

Lloyd is right about Kohli. Actually Kohli wasn't in the squad for the Tests in England so not sure he'd know about the practice games. But one thing the pitches weren't in England or Australia were green tops. India just turned up with a bad batting lineup. I guess you can excuse him slightly because he actually scored runs in Australia, and is generally a bit of a gangster. But there you go. It fits with this clamour in India to produce square turners and destroy England in some sort of Lagaan revenge shit.

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True enough.

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India A 369-9 against England. Tiwary scores 93....and, he is very, very shit.

Finn injured, too.

[Cripps_orig]

Yuvraj got 59 off 80 balls

7 fours and 4 sixes so he got 52 of the 59 runs in 11 balls meaning he got 7 runs off the other 69

Not sure if thats a shocking or a good innings

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England going ok in reply at 239 odd for 4. Fatty ad Cook steady.

KP out on his return for 20 odd. Caught and bowled to left arm spin.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Cook got a century.

[Dennis Bendtner]

So did Fatel. Match drawn. Yuvraj fifer. That should be the Indian team for the first Test confirmed. Think Fatty in at #6 for England too. Finn is an injury doubt.

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India need to play Yuvraj for his pie-chucking ability. How he takes 5, I do not know. Ohja, Ashwin and Yuvraj for spin. Zaheer (I'd pick I Sharma) and Yadav. That has to be the worst bowling line-up out of the top 8 countries.

[Dennis Bendtner]

Yadav will be a non-factor other than probably one pie an over. Zaheer is old and fat. Yeah, they're basically relying on England crumbling to the spinners.

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Bairstow hit a century for England XI vs Mumbai XI. Patel chipped in with another half-century.

Only noteworthy innings from Mumbai is Pujara who scored 87 and should definitely have cemented his position as the no.3 for the first Test.