4th Test, India Vs England at Southampton on 30th August 2018 at 3.30pm IST.

[paddles]

2 hours ago, Lannister said:

That's a strong team. They still managed to rope-in Curran with this combination. I heard Moeen is in a fine form with the bat. 

India need to remove cook as soon as possible koz he has good record here, I think at least one innings England Lost last 6 wickets in 100 runs in 4th test

[paddles]

If I have to pick eng.team, I can selects Vince in place of Rashid.

[rkt.india]

3 hours ago, flat_wicket_bully said:

England going in with 2 spinners. Will we do the same 

they have just included a batsman in Moeen who can bowl spin in place of Pope.  We dont have that extra batsman who can bowl spin. They still have four seamers.  We cant afford to go with just 3 seamers at Ageas Bowl.

[rkt.india]

1 hour ago, Nikhil_cric said:

The best we could hope for I think. England going in with 6 bowlers while compromising their batting strength. I hope Ash and Ishant are fit enough to run through these 7 left handers . As long as we play moeen Ali well, I think we're good. 

Moeen is batsman first.

[express bowling]

2 minutes ago, rkt.india said:

they have just included a batsman in Moeen who can bowl spin in place of Pope.  We dont have that extra batsman who can bowl spin. They still have four seamers.  We cant afford to go with just 3 seamers at Ageas Bowl.

 

Exactly.

[RAZPOR]

25 minutes ago, paddles said:

Jadeja/Ash better but I can not see Vihari debut tomorrow

An on song Kuldeep can run through line ups within a matter of overs.Good legspin is always better ,and he is a left hander ,the rarest of bowlers you can find.

If only one spinner is to play ,it has to be ash no doubt.

[Lannister]

56 minutes ago, RAZPOR said:

We are doing very well at athletics,but honestly we could have done much better in other sports.Want to see India getting into the top 3 consistently withing the next decade.

It's kind of embarrassing that we are still behind the likes of Chinese Taipei, Indonesia, North Korea, Iran. It's clear China, Japan and South Korea will be top three for quite some time, but we are still struggling to get to #4 in the medal tally. 

[shortbread]

Off topic.....the medals haul is good at 54 medals. 2 more golds will see India jump 9th to 6th position.

[Nikhil_cric]

30 minutes ago, rkt.india said:

Moeen is batsman first.

Yes but an ineffective batsman with many weaknesses that can be exploited. I suspect that one of the other bowlers (Stokes/Broad/Jimmy) are not fully fit and that England are going for moeen just for the extra bowling option as well. Just a hunch though. Otherwise there was no need to drop pope. 

[Vilander]

1 hour ago, RAZPOR said:

We are doing very well at athletics,but honestly we could have done much better in other sports.Want to see India getting into the top 3 consistently withing the next decade.

Bahrain and UAE must have stolen atleast 6 gold medals or more from India with Nigerian and Kenyan born and raised athletes representing them.

[rkt.india]

2 minutes ago, Nikhil_cric said:

Yes but an ineffective batsman with many weaknesses that can be exploited. I suspect that one of the other bowlers (Stokes/Broad/Jimmy) are not fully fit and that England are going for moeen just for the extra bowling option as well. Just a hunch though. Otherwise there was no need to drop pope. 

Moeen is in good batting form so they picked him over Pope

[Vilander]

Chubby Virat..

 

[Nikhil_cric]

4 minutes ago, rkt.india said:

Moeen is in good batting form so they picked him over Pope

If we are talking about form in county, then pope had a fantastic year as well from what I've heard. I highly doubt Moeen Ali is any better a batsman than when he played in the Ashes and, barring, a shocker from our bowling attack we should dismiss him cheaply. 

[Sgattick10]

I m sure England picked two spinners to entice India into thinking its a spinning track, so they pick 2 spinners too lol.

[RAZPOR]

8 hours ago, Lannister said:

It's kind of embarrassing that we are still behind the likes of Chinese Taipei, Indonesia, North Korea, Iran. It's clear China, Japan and South Korea will be top three for quite some time, but we are still struggling to get to #4 in the medal tally. 

well indonesia and some others like thailand have no business being in the top 10,they are mostly there due to some random local sports like pancay silat(13 or so golds have been won by indonesia)and a few others.Absurd how this has been allowed,we should include gillidanda and kho kho next time we host the games.

Edited August 30, 2018 by RAZPOR

[vishalvirsingh]

is umesh yadav playing tomorrow, read he was batting and bowling a lot??

 

[asterix]

State of affairs in Britain...

 

“Ali” replacing “Pope”... Can you imagine?

 

:headshake:

 

[Forever Indian]

37 minutes ago, vishalvirsingh said:

is umesh yadav playing tomorrow, read he was batting and bowling a lot??

 

More chances of Donald Trump starting to welcome Muslims in the US.

[WC2011INDIA]

Ali is going to torment Rahane...my suggestion to replace him with Shaw or Vihari.

[express bowling]

Are India thinking of playing both R Ashwin and Ravindra Jadeja at the Ageas Bowl?

 

Some might even suggest that thoughts of playing a second spinner might have crept into India's minds after Joe Root revealed that Moeen Ali would play the fourth Test and share spin duties with Adil Rashid.

Moeen, however, is taking the place of a specialist batsman, Ollie Pope, and England view his offspin as a bonus, given the many and varied bowling options they already possess. 

 

 

http://www.espncricinfo.com/story/_/id/24514030/are-india-thinking-playing-r-ashwin-ravindra-jadeja-ageas-bowl

 

 

 

 

 

I hope we don't play just 2  specialist pacers again.         England want us to fall into this trap by playing Moeen  ( who is actually replacing a batsman )

 

  

Edited August 29, 2018 by express bowling