Personal milestones 'out of our system' - Kohli

[sandeep]

2 hours ago, BeautifulGame said:

Not a pull shot .He slog swept Lyon and caught on the boundary

Sorry, it was a pull shot.  Here you go:

 

 

[Dinx - the Jinx]

At a time when these 2 guys (Ash and Karun) are expected to go at 4-5 RPO, they have considerably slowed down nearing landmarks.

So much for Kohli's claim of being immune to milestones

[gattaca]

On December 12, 2016 at 5:41 PM, sandeep said:

Could it also be due to the fact that better coaching and facilities have spread throughout India, with more money in the game?  Agree that Gavasakar, and especially Manjrekar are overly landmark obsessed, but bashing Mumbai cricket as a whole is a bit OTT.

The Criticism seems fair considering gavaskar,Sanju,Ravi shashtri and tendulkar.

[express bowling]

32 minutes ago, Dinx - the Jinx said:

At a time when these 2 guys (Ash and Karun) are expected to go at 4-5 RPO, they have considerably slowed down nearing landmarks.

So much for Kohli's claim of being immune to milestones

Karun Nair has scored  34 runs from 36 balls while moving from 167 to  201.  That is  very good.

 

Ashwin has taken 13 balls to score 11 runs  to move from 40 to 51....quite good.

 

http://www.espncricinfo.com/india-v-england-2016-17/engine/match/1034817.html

 

 

Edited December 19, 2016 by express bowling

[Sidhoni]

Lets see whether they wait for Karun's 300

[Soorma_Bhopali]

16 minutes ago, Sidhoni said:

Lets see whether they wait for Karun's 300

Virat is in flipflops and shorts ..no signs of him changing to the whites so far

[Sachinism]

lol gonna be made to eat his words

No way does he declare now with Nair just 25 short of a triple.

 

Though chances are he'll haul out before then, the way he's going for it

[tweaker]

Nair gets 300 

Edited December 19, 2016 by tweaker

[New guy]

ghanta

[Sidhoni]

His statement didn't even last a match

[New guy]

2 hours ago, gattaca said:

The Criticism seems fair considering gavaskar,Sanju,Ravi shashtri and tendulkar.

yeah because last 2 years is what defines a batsmans career, not when he gets kut multiple times in tge 90s attacking

[express bowling]

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Edited December 19, 2016 by express bowling

[coffee_rules]

Kohli from previous test experience doesn't want to bat on I4 and give a window to Eng. Hence bat first innings as much as possible. Not a bad strategy expecially when we are 3-0 up and wanted to give his fielding team a break. It was not like batting was slowing down , Eng was not even trying to get wickets. So. people pipe it down.

[rkt.india]

1 minute ago, coffee_rules said:

Kohli from previous test experience doesn't want to bat on I4 and give a window to Eng. Hence bat first innings as much as possible. Not a bad strategy expecially when we are 3-0 up and wanted to give his fielding team a break. It was not like batting was slowing down , Eng was not even trying to get wickets. So. people pipe it down.

Yes, why would one want to bat 4th with not enough lead.

[rkt.india]

9 minutes ago, New guy said:

ghanta

Coz there was no need to declare. If England last 90 overs, they will anyway overhaul the lead.

[Sidhoni]

1 minute ago, coffee_rules said:

Kohli from previous test experience doesn't want to bat on I4 and give a window to Eng. Hence bat first innings as much as possible. Not a bad strategy expecially when we are 3-0 up and wanted to give his fielding team a break. It was not like batting was slowing down , Eng was not even trying to get wickets. So. people pipe it down.

Then why did he declare exactly when the milestone was achieved? Could have wanted some more runs or some more overs to bowl today.

[fineleg]

rkt -

It was about having 20 overs at a tired england side to get 2-3 wickets.

Rather than have them "come fresher" on Day 5 with all wickets intact.

Kohli should have declared. Wrong to waste time batting during last hour on day 4

Edited December 19, 2016 by fineleg

[mishra]

[Soorma_Bhopali]

Good to get lead of upto 282 ..if England survive first two sessions also , they won't feel safe especially with what happened in Bangladesh with them going from 100-0 to 164 all out in two hours

[Cricketics]

Some of you are looking at it in a wrong way. Don't forget that we are 282 ahead.

Pitch still pretty good for batting. Had we declared with a 170 run lead, England would have taken their time tomorrow and scored probably 300ish by the first hour of last session and then in last hour, we could not have chased 150+

 

With a lead of 282, England knows whatever they put tomorrow, if they get bowled out by chance, they are surely losing this. Now we know that we are surely not batting tomorrow and England will be looking for batting practice and us for wickets only.