How should India approach "brave" England in CT Final?

[chewy]

too many of you too cautious, no disrespect to Bangla, it's good team, but this massive pressure game and will come down to experience, and especially the experience in the batting order, India's vast experience will make it easy win over Bangla.

 

Anyways, just show Bangal this....

 

 

 

 

[Temujin Khaghan]

Stokes and Morgan have too much viking blood and it's difficult to defeat a lion in its own den.

All hopes on god rohit sharma

[Cricketics]

How should India approach the finals?

 

We first need to man up and accept that we have to play semi finals and even though Bangladesh has been a traditionally weaker team, it is there in the semi finals against us because they have done well recently and deserve to be acknowledged. They gave us tough time in the last 50 over world cup meeting even though we won in the end easily.

 

Play it safe against Bangla and win comfortably first and then worry about the opposition. It could be either of England or Pakistan as our opponent.

[Zero_Unit]

17 minutes ago, chewy said:

too many of you too cautious, no disrespect to Bangla, it's good team, but this massive pressure game and will come down to experience, and especially the experience in the batting order, India's vast experience will make it easy win over Bangla.

 

Anyways, just show Bangal this....

 

 

 

 

I think what most people are saying is that BD and SL is pretty much neck to neck in terms of ODI (if you ask me, BD is slightly better). Our match against Lanka was pretty much chased down easily. Hence all the worries. 

[Manny_Pacquiao]

england bowling is trash. they won't threaten india's batsmen.

 

whoever chases will probably win. i'm hoping england collapse against india's spinners, but the wicket will probably be too flat for that to happen.

 

 

[velu]

win the toss , bowl first  

[sandeep]

1 hour ago, Manny_Pacquiao said:

england bowling is trash. they won't threaten india's batsmen.

 

whoever chases will probably win. i'm hoping england collapse against india's spinners, but the wicket will probably be too flat for that to happen.

 

 

You can bet that nobody will be able to turn the ball if its India England in the final.  The amount of whining by England players and ex-players about the pitch after the previous CT final was laughable.

[Manny_Pacquiao]

3 minutes ago, sandeep said:

You can bet that nobody will be able to turn the ball if its India England in the final.  The amount of whining by England players and ex-players about the pitch after the previous CT final was laughable.

exactly. england are flat track bullies, they'll want nothing less.

 

problem for them is that india are a batting machine, with a better bowling attack. and they have a template in how to beat them:

 

 

[sandeep]

6 minutes ago, Manny_Pacquiao said:

exactly. england are flat track bullies, they'll want nothing less.

 

problem for them is that india are a batting machine, with a better bowling attack. and they have a template in how to beat them:

 

 

Only chance for England is to win the toss on a road, and get India to bat first ending with a sub-par total.   

 

I like our chances against England - assuming its an India-England final.  

[Manny_Pacquiao]

4 minutes ago, sandeep said:

Only chance for England is to win the toss on a road, and get India to bat first ending with a sub-par total.   

 

I like our chances against England - assuming its an India-England final.  

india won't mind batting first either:

 

 

 

 

[sandeep]

16 minutes ago, Manny_Pacquiao said:

india won't mind batting first either:

 

 

 

 

Difference is that the game is played here.  And our spinners won't be nearly as effective as they were back home.  England will make damn sure of that.  

 

England have played all their games on batting tracks.  Why do you think India played warm-up games on tracks where 200 was par?   Even NZ couldn't put up a decent score against us.  Although NZ brought a real crap batting unit to the CT this year, but still.  

 

None of this will matter as long as India plays up to 80% of its ability.   

[bleaf27]

I think chasing is India's strength and from the looks of this CT with Rain always in play - the goal if we were to win the toss would be to chase. 

Very Unlikely a team batting first against India would set a big total and even if India is chasing 300 we can back ourselves to win it.

However, setting a total in England is always problematic because the pitches behave very differently throughout the game and with rain and stupid D/L , it becomes much harder when overs are cut and a team is chasing 170 in 30 overs batting second due to D/L.