England vs India, 5th Test, 7th-11th Sept - The Oval

[Temujin Khaghan]

Just now, Lannister said:

If we can restrict them for below 200 in the second innings, we have a chance of winning this. 

Impossible.

[putrevus]

why is Ali causing so many issues to right handers unlike Ashwin who posed no threat to them.

[Tibarn]

Jadeja needs to farm the strike vs the spinners. Ishant can block the pacers but struggles vs spin

[prasen82]

To win. We need beast mode from someone other than kohli..dont see that happening..

[SK_IH]

1 minute ago, Lannister said:

If we can restrict them for below 200 in the second innings, we have a chance of winning this. 

[prasen82]

Just now, putrevus said:

why is Ali causing so many issues to right handers unlike Ashwin who posed no threat to them.

Lbw option comes to play. So you have to play. As far as ashwin he took out lbw completely. Every ball was outside leg stump..

[goose]

god imagine Jadeja instead of Pandya 

[mishra]

2 minutes ago, putrevus said:

why is Ali causing so many issues to right handers unlike Ashwin who posed no threat to them.

Thats why i have all respect for him.

and detest Pandya

[Temujin Khaghan]

Heck

 

We should have finished this session. 66/0...

 

:/

[putrevus]

Just now, prasen82 said:

Lbw option comes to play. So you have to play. As far as ashwin he took out lbw completely. Every ball was outside leg stump..

Ali is bowling out side offstump and getting all three modes of dismissals into play, I have not see the revs meter from sky but who was giving ball more revs?

[gattaca]

Was Vihari out ? Reading cbuzz doesn’t look conclusive ?

[putrevus]

1 minute ago, mishra said:

Thats why i have all respect for him.

and detest Pandya

One more difference I feel is Ali knows his limitations very well and stays within himself.Ashwin on other hand thinks too much and in name of variety he has forgotten his stock delivery.

[Sgattick10]

Well played Vihari on debut, showed character last evening and got rewarded this morning though bit unfortunate to get out just before lunch. Jadeja playing well... this will be another close match  where we'll lose by 30-40 runs and Shastri-Kohli will boast about the fact that the match/series could have gone either way. Story of English summer.

[Temujin Khaghan]

Why does gavaskar dress up like senator padmé amidala's personal assistant?

[SK_IH]

3 minutes ago, goose said:

god imagine Jadeja instead of Pandya 

Lol I am not so sure,Jadeja is still a hack, however Jaddu ahead of Ashwin could have been an option

Surprisingly he has shown proclivity for staying on the wkt here

[Temujin Khaghan]

2 minutes ago, gattaca said:

Was Vihari out ? Reading cbuzz doesn’t look conclusive ?

They pushed him off...

[putrevus]

2 minutes ago, Sgattick10 said:

Well played Vihari on debut, showed character last evening and got rewarded this morning though bit unfortunate to get out just before lunch. Jadeja playing well... this will be another close match  where we'll lose by 30-40 runs and Shastri-Kohli will boast about the fact that the match/series could have gone either way. Story of English summer.

What do you expect a captain and coach to do, when your openers can't last long and your middle order  batting is nonexistant except one guy, they still have competed in all matches except one.

 

There is no coach or captain who can win with this type of batting.

[Sgattick10]

Does Gavaskar get his clothes sponsored by a brand? Who makes such atrocious waist coats.

[coffee_rules]

There was no clear evidence to rule him not out, the ball on screen was crossing the bat and bat was touching the pad as well. Hastily concluded. unlucky , but he was lucky to survive yesterday. If he had stayed for 50 more runs, inki g*nd phat jaati.

[Sgattick10]

2 minutes ago, putrevus said:

What do you expect a captain and coach to do, when your openers can't last long and your middle order  batting is nonexistant except one guy, they still have competed in all matches except one.

 

There is no coach or captain who can win with this type of batting.

Captain looked clueless on most ocassion, dropped catches in slip still hung around there to drop few more, had no planning how to finish off the tail inspite of them doing really well in all matches. Didn't rotate bowlers well, bad selection.

Coach' job is to work with players in the tour, make them better, arrange practice matches, work on their weaknesses, make tactical decisions etc.

All these above looked missing in the entire series. Hence we are where we are.