2nd test: India Vs England at: 3.30 pm IST on 9 August at Lords

[Lannister]

14 minutes ago, Austin 3:!6 said:

Honeymoon??

Kohli avgs 50+ in all overseas countries except Eng and now doing well in Eng too. But as a Rahul fan, yoh should not worry about Kohli. He neither have skill or temperament to be like Kohli. Hope he atleast can be as good as Akash Chopra

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Remember Kohli's first overseas tour to England, but he was still better than your idol Dhoni at that point of time who was touring England for the third time and you were busy defending him. 

[Switchblade]

34 minutes ago, Lannister said:

Chill. Not even Kohli can score on this wicket against Anderson. He even claimed none of English batsmen would survive. 

I understand that he is from Bangalore so you are getting emotional, even I like KL but he is better of for the shorter formats.

[LordPrabhzy]

4 minutes ago, prasen82 said:

If these were indian pitches, the batsmen on current team dhawan,vijay would be stockpiling runs like the other A team batters. But unfortunately we have no means of figuring out who does well in SENS barring pujara who truly ducked this year. 

 

How do we identify the next semi laxman/Dravid. 

 

Maybe nobody takes test cricket seriously even amongst the current generation.  In the end money talks and that is IPL where show ponies rule.

 

Bowlers are cannon fodder and sharmas and hardiks rule..

Indian Test results will go like this in the next few years...

 

At home- will whitewash everyone by preparing rank turners or flat pitches where shitty indian batsmen can pile up runs to cement their positions for away tours.

 

At away tours- Will win the series in Bang,SL and WI. Will get thrashed all the time in Eng, NZ, Aus and SA.

 

No one gives proper test technique any importance now in the current playboy/fashionista type youngsters... this is my prediction.

 

 

[Sgattick10]

Ganguly having a go at Vijay. 'he didnt look like scoring anything the way he came out to bat..no fire in eyes or grit.

[Switchblade]

32 minutes ago, beetle said:

I hope we see Prithvi, Pant and  M.Agarwal  playing 4th and 5th tests.

Better to play them in India in October not here in a negative environment.

[Wall2018]

5 minutes ago, Switchblade said:

I understand that he is from Bangalore so you are getting emotional, even I like KL but he is better of for the shorter formats.

Kohli is from Delhi... And stop ur childish Comments of Regionalism...

[Lannister]

3 minutes ago, Switchblade said:

I understand that he is from Bangalore so you are getting emotional, even I like KL but he is better of for the shorter formats.

It's too soon to judge that. Vijay, Pujara, Rahane are also looking like tailenders. The problem is we lost this because of our bowlers, and there inability to maintain descipline line and lengths for longer periods. This is no way a 200+ wicket. 

[Switchblade]

19 minutes ago, Wall2018 said:

Kohli is from Delhi... And stop ur childish Comments of Regionalism...

I am not doing regionalism and I know Kohli is from Delhi.Lannister was talking about Rahul and he wanted him and Kumble to be captain and coach and neither I am saying he is biased towards them just replying to him.

[Switchblade]

20 minutes ago, Lannister said:

It's too soon to judge that. Vijay, Pujara, Rahane are also looking like tailenders. The problem is we lost this because of our bowlers, and there inability to maintain descipline line and lengths for longer periods. This is no way a 200+ wicket. 

Even if they lead by 50 we were still losing this.

[Gollum]

15 minutes ago, Lannister said:

It's too soon to judge that. Vijay, Pujara, Rahane are also looking like tailenders. The problem is we lost this because of our bowlers, and there inability to maintain descipline line and lengths for longer periods. This is no way a 200+ wicket. 

Again blaming bowlers. Give me examples of teams coming back after getting shot down for 100 in 1st innings. Bowlers aren't some celestial beings that will drag us out of the mess every single time. Moreover they had to contend with sunny conditions, poor team selection (2 spinners ) and absence of Bumrah/BK. Chalo maana they are culprits here, had they restricted England to 200 odd can you confidently state that our top order would have done better than this, facing 100 runs deficit? If you have seen their batting in SA and Eng this year no way can you shift the blame for their shortcomings anywhere else. 

[SK_IH]

Both losers Vijay and Rahul couldn't survive for an hour,we could have none out with this day washed out 

[putrevus]

What is the excuse these openers have, they are horrible and I don’t mind both these guys kicked out. Vijay is done and Rahul is useless.


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[goose]

most if not all of the cautious optimism around this tour hinged on performances from Bhuvi and Bumrah. they're not even playing. 

[Lannister]

6 minutes ago, Switchblade said:

Even if they lead by 50 we were still losing this.

There's a lot of difference between a lead of 50 and 300, and the batsmen will have a different approach for both of the situations. 

[tweaker]

Kohli batting

[tweaker]

Just now, tweaker said:

Kohli batting

 

[Lannister]

8 minutes ago, Gollum said:

Again blaming bowlers. Give me examples of teams coming back after getting shot down for 100 in 1st innings. Bowlers aren't some celestial beings that will drag us out of the mess every single time. Moreover they had to contend with sunny conditions, poor team selection (2 spinners ) and absence of Bumrah/BK. Chalo maana they are culprits here, had they restricted England to 200 odd can you confidently state that our top order would have done better than this, facing 100 runs deficit? If you have seen their batting in SA and Eng this year no way can you shift the blame for their shortcomings anywhere else. 

If the opposition bowlers can restrict us for 100, then why can't these celestial beings. This is England batting we are talking about, they are just as sh!t as ours and have shown previously just how prone they are to a collapse. 

[Switchblade]

4 minutes ago, Lannister said:

There's a lot of difference between a lead of 50 and 300, and the batsmen will have a different approach for both of the situations. 

Look at the mindset of our batsman they are looking to survive all the time.They should look to score as well they don't have it in them Lani the batting is a collection of individuals rather than a team.

[asterix]

Each Indian batsmen should now just play for 30 mins and even if not out just make way for another batsman...

Let the beer guzzling English crowd full pleasure and just give the match to them and finish it off...

[Gollum]

3 minutes ago, Lannister said:

If the opposition bowlers can restrict us for 100, then why can't these celestial beings. This is England batting we are talking about, they are just as sh!t as ours and have shown previously just how prone they are to a collapse. 

They can't do that every time and definitely not in sunny conditions with wrong bowling combination and 2 mainstays missing. They did hand over the 1st test to us but Dhawan with his catching chewtiyapa and then batsmen screwed us over. There is no defence for these batsmen and Rahul needs to face the music just like Vijay, Dhawan, Che, Rahane and Karthik.