Can England spoil India's party ?

[New guy]

7 hours ago, ShoonyaSifar said:

Only India (read Kohli) can spoil India's party.

 

All we need is for the captain genius and his gang of yesmen coaches to show a little more confidence in hisbown team's ability to defeat these poms irrespective of the conditions. But somehow genius (and strangely a lot of fans) is/are convinced that on even normal spinning wickets, England has better chances of beating us. That's terribly underselling this team's capability.

 

To overcome this fear, we keep under-cooking the pitches and at some stage it is going to bite us badly.

Yep, thats what I am vary of. We have way better spinners, but we collapsed for 153. The margins are very thin and such pitches can backfire completely. When you have a pitch which makes root equal to Ashwin, you take away the advantage and it becomes a lottery

[Real McCoy]

Sure they can. As @Ravi_Shastri usually mentions, Eng need to score some runs and take wickets. That's all. easy peasy

[Jay]

3 hours ago, New guy said:

Yep, thats what I am vary of. We have way better spinners, but we collapsed for 153. The margins are very thin and such pitches can backfire completely. When you have a pitch which makes root equal to Ashwin, you take away the advantage and it becomes a lottery

Root did f all in the second innings of though. I think they worked him out. It was a fluke. Just like the 36. Besides red ball behaves totally different to pink ball. 

 

I think we will see scores of 200 plus in red ball. England may not score More than 180 max I reckon however. 

 

India should be able to like up 250 plus. 

 

Probably chase around 50 to 100 again in the second innings. 

 

I am saying we will chase because we always lose tosses vs England. Always. 

[Tridibans_16]

On 3/2/2021 at 10:29 PM, neel roy said:

No England toured Nz in 2019 and Nz won 1-0. 

Sorry, I stand corrected.

 

Still my point is that NZ has not done better than India in this WTC cycle, they have not beaten any good team away from home.