England versus India

[Ian J]

We managed to show the world how little we learned in Pakistan and how unadaptable we are in different conditions by ending the day on 246-7 on a flat wicket that is probably good for 400 plus runs.

Strauss, Pietersen and Blackwall all perished to dreadful cross batted shots proving that they learned nothing from Pakistan with only debutant Cook plus Collingwood having the application to try and grind out an innings without any of the fancy stuff.

It will take some fairly stoic batting from Collingwood & the tail to get us up to 300 tomorrow but with the new ball available straight away I can't see the liklihood of that happening.

[Monty Burns]

Sad but true, .... so very, very, very true ....

[KevD]

I still think we are in the game if we can crawl over 300, if I remember correctly the tail spared us a few times in Pakistan. Not the ideal start and agreed some of the shots were silly particularly Strauss bearing in mind the solid start thay had made. He should have taken responsibility playing alongside Cook who was Very impressive

[DJT75]

I definitely chose the wrong 90mins to watch this morning before work, the 90mins after lunch in which Pietersen & Cook grounded out about 20 runs for their 2 wickets... From what I saw, Cook didn't look out of place & was handling the pressure pretty well......

[KevD]

Originally Posted by KevD

I still think we are in the game if we can crawl over 300, if I remember correctly the tail spared us a few times in Pakistan. Not the ideal start and agreed some of the shots were silly particularly Strauss bearing in mind the solid start thay had made. He should have taken responsibility playing alongside Cook who was Very impressive

Did I say 300?? I meant £400 !!
Thank You Mr Collingwood
Let me at 'em, Let me at 'em

[DJT75]

393 all out, can't grumble with that after yesterday - just a shame Sky kept losing the feed.......

[Monty Burns]

blimey! Thats pretty good going indeed!

[Opticon]

Yes, at least the England tail-enders remember how to bat! A very good innnings from Panesar by all accounts, and exactly the kind of batting you expect of Steve Harmison!

[DJT75]

Why have we given them 20 extras in 36 overs? That's 20% of their score, we only got 27 extras in 127.5 overs from them....

[Opticon]

Yes, unfortunately while Harmison had a good innings with the bat, he doens't seem to be doing his actual job of bowling very well at the moment!

[Ian J]

India are 190-6 at lunch with Hoggy taking three superb wickets in 11 balls and Monty Panasar claiming the scalp of Tendulkar as his maiden Test wicket.

What a morning and I missed it all as I overslept and didn't get up until 6:30

[JohnG]

Same here. I thought we were going to struggle to get vital wickets without Jones to be honest.

[Ian J]

Originally Posted by JohnG

I thought we were going to struggle to get vital wickets without Jones.

There is no doubt that we have a superb bunch of bowlers when they are on song and all it takes is a purple patch from one of them to turn a game on it's head. It happened in the Ashes series but not in Pakistan where we bowled tidily but not spectacularly.

[JohnG]

190-7 now

[KevD]

Originally Posted by Ian J

India are 190-6 at lunch with Hoggy taking three superb wickets in 11 balls and Monty Panasar claiming the scalp of Tendulkar as his maiden Test wicket.

What a morning and I missed it all as I overslept and didn't get up until 6:30

Same here, Guted about it. I hadnt missed any of the first 2 days