Road to Become no.1 in test again

[wobblydoggy]

Simple. Prepare few 'roads' and let our batsmen play on it.

Oh, tamper with the pitches to win:giggle:

[Cricket Tragic]

Simple. Prepare few 'roads' and let our batsmen play on it.

Worst thing ever. All we will get is a few more 1-0 wins at home. What we need is some real turners.

[Sachin=GOD]

Don't worry, we will be back as World no 1 within 8 months.

[Sarkar]

If ECB can prepare swing and seaming pitches India shud prepare spinner tracks well england cant play spin

[Malcolm Merlyn]

I do not think we will 'fluke' a series win in India, I think we will grasp it and throttle it out of you. it might only be a 1-0 one, but we will win or at least draw

DO you know how many test series India have lost at home in last 25 odd years? 2 tests........ Lost to SA in 1999........an attack led by Donald Pollock and company.... Lost to Aus in 2004-5 in a injury infested series......still battled to 2-1......and one test was washed out......with one day to go and India needing 200 odd with 10 wickets.... So your team got to be this good.........which they arent by a long shot..........you fast bowlers will do zilch in India........bookmark it........and no spinner is good enough to trouble India in India.....Warne and Murali couldnt do it......so if you think Swann will........well How your batsmen play spin remains to be seen.........remember the very best have come to India and struggled on turning pitches.....

[SachDan]

Worst thing ever. All we will get is a few more 1-0 wins at home. What we need is some real turners.

I'm talking about Indian roads, our experienced drivers won't have any troubles driving on those while foreigners will definitely struggle :winky:

[Malcolm Merlyn]

Few Moteras should do the trick

[wobblydoggy]

DO you know how many test series India have lost at home in last 25 odd years? 2 tests........ Lost to SA in 1999........an attack led by Donald Pollock and company.... Lost to Aus in 2004-5 in a injury infested series......still battled to 2-1......and one test was washed out......with one day to go and India needing 200 odd with 10 wickets.... So your team got to be this good.........which they arent by a long shot..........you fast bowlers will do zilch in India........bookmark it........and no spinner is good enough to trouble India in India.....Warne and Murali couldnt do it......so if you think Swann will........well How your batsmen play spin remains to be seen.........remember the very best have come to India and struggled on turning pitches.....

Bring it on. I was told your Indian stars were going to thrash us, but it is you who are 3-0 down We will win I am sure I don't care what has gone before Even if you doctor the pitches to win, we will prosper

[wobblydoggy]

I'm talking about Indian roads, our experienced drivers won't have any troubles driving on those while foreigners will definitely struggle :winky:

Who is going to use that better, your sad bowlers or our lions:--D

[Trichromatic]

Worst thing ever. All we will get is a few more 1-0 wins at home. What we need is some real turners.

Yeah, enough delusional arguments that we haven't lost at home in last years. We don't need to just avoid series loss. In last 16 matches we have won 9. It means we didn't win in 7 matches. Of course only 1 resulted in loss and rest were draw. But we need to convert those to 14-15 wins out of 20 from now on. Indian pitches have become too easy and they don't help spinners even on 5th day. Certainly this is not a good pitch even as a home team. Prepare some typical sub-continent type pitches and then see the results. It's the era where teams need to maintain complete dominance at home.

[Malcolm Merlyn]

Bring it on. I was told your Indian stars were going to thrash us, but it is you who are 3-0 down We will win I am sure I don't care what has gone before Even if you doctor the pitches to win, we will prosper

A trailer will be shown to you later this year...... Pitch Doctoring?????Wht do expect in India?Turners or Green grasslands?

[akshayxyz]

Oh' date=' [b']tamper with the pitches to win:giggle:

What about Lords? - which is eternally tampered? When every other cricket pitch in rest of the world is flat (leveled), why is it allowed to have slope? - in the name of home of cricket!!

[urbestfriend]

First thing BCCI should do: Give a million dollar IPL contract to Broad,Anderson,Tremlette and Bresnan and give them heavy workload in the IPL so that they'll get tired. After 2 years, English cricket will go down and India can again come up.

[Cricket Tragic]

[Trichromatic]

Lol, no one came even close to Australia for long time.

[ravsdh]

we dont need to worry SA will help us if they beat Aus and SL at home this winter, they go top

[Pagalpanti]

we dont need to worry SA will help us if they beat Aus and SL at home this winter, they go top

Best thing for us would be, Pak beating England 2-0 in UAE (Kuch paane ke liye kuch kohna padta hai :(() and Aus drubbing SA 2-0. We'd automatically go to top :yay: but yeah unless we mess up against WI in 3 test.

[Zero_Unit]

I think the question should be : how much matches do we need to play to rectify the short ball problem. We also need to groom new players for the futur

[rkt.india]

Our fall is inevitable as and when Big three retires or they do not perform collectively like in this series. Be realistic, Aus tour will be tough for them unless young batsmen do not perform there is no hope we could stop this fall getting out of top four teams. It has to happen and it happened in one of the most awful ways in England. Four of our best test players are on the verge of retirement SRT, RD, VVS, ZAK and without them, we will never be what we were before this England series. Forget about no. 1, it will happen itself as Dhoni said if we do well consistently. First we need to see how to stay competitive after these retirements. By, England home series next year, we may not see them playing and England will almost be the same team which they are now. It is a real probability.

[Rahul Dravid]

If ECB can prepare swing and seaming pitches India shud prepare spinner tracks well england cant play spin

true. but.. in the current england lineup i think... 1) Bell 2) Trott 3) Strauss 4) Prior ( to and extent ) can play spin pretty well.. and its not like we have the best spinners in the world... they have Swann. i dont think we can dominate england in india the way they dominated us in England.. thats just not going to happen.. id be more than happy to get a win, be it 1-0...