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England tour of India - Oct 14 - Oct 29, 2011

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Crookbond Newbie

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You expect insight from CNN-IBN. News channels are pathetic in terms of sport coverage. There is more show-off rather than substance even in their sports TV shows. They don't see anything above Dhoni, Tendulkar, Sehwag and other few stars we have. Rarely reports about any domestic matches or domestic players. They rarely try to find out any new performers from those domestic players. That is the sad part of their coverage, too much importance to already good to great players. No emphasis on search and research. Some one was even writing Brett Lee was going lead Australian attack in Test series against SA, does even know Brett Lee has retired from test cricket.
RKT, I can't agree with you more. There's one website which does provide good information. However, ICF'ers think that's crap too.
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rkt.india Grand Master

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Some people call it CrapInfo. I think it's a decent website. Much better than the TOI's' date=' NDTVs, CNN IBNs etc. from which articles are referred. More importantly it sticks to cricket.[/quote'] ya still better, but they too mess in terms of our domestic cricketers many a times.
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Crookbond Newbie

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ya still better' date=' but they too mess in terms of our domestic cricketers many a times.[/quote'] True rkt but you can't judge a book by the cover. It's much more authentic than tonnes of other websites out there. You can't take it by the word but you can't just call it crap too, IMHO.
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rkt.india Grand Master

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True rkt but you can't judge a book by the cover. It's much more authentic than tonnes of other websites out there. You can't take it by the word but you can't just call it crap too' date=' IMHO.[/quote'] No...cricinfo is good in many ways...I dont call it crap..if I was then it was just sarcastic.
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bairstow looks very similar to Ireland's Kevin O'Brian ... both in looks and batting style so he is definitely someone to watch out for. Somehow I feel that our pathetic bowling attack will make some more average english batters look like world beaters. Kieswetter is a robin uthappa type of player... totally hit or miss.... but once again I would not rate him high unless he played a quality bowling attack. In this series, I believe that cook and pietersen will be the big guns for england. If we can somehow keep these 2 guyz quiet then we have a very good chance of winning this series.

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Preview of India vs England ODI series in India, 2011 : New-look India gear up for the big test At various stages, one had to consciously remind oneself that this was indeed the Indian national team that was at practice. No Tendulkar, no Sehwag, no Yuvraj, no Zaheer, no Munaf and no Rohit all out injured. No Harbhajan, dropped from one-day international cricket for the first time since 2007. And no Gambhir either though he will turn up at practice on Thursday, ahead of the first one-day international against England, after his brief stint at the Challenger Series. The marquee names might have been missing, but there was no shortage of intensity as the young guns interacted in their first training session ahead of the five-match one-day series. Whereas their opponents had the day off following their commanding victory in the practice game against a Hyderabad XI the previous night, a new-look Indian squad hit the Rajiv Gandhi International stadium on Wednesday afternoon. Umesh Yadav and Varun Aaron cranked up the pace, S Arvind went the other way as he practised his back-of-the-hand slower ball, Parthiv Patel worked furiously on the pull and Virat Kohli on his patented inside-out cover-drive. It wasnÃÕ quite watching a meticulous Dravid, a fussy Laxman or a single-minded Tendulkar, but then again, that is an unfair comparison, isnÃÕ it? After a customary game of football before the start of nets, Dhoni strode up to the centre of the square, having a few words with curator YL Chandrasekhar and wondering if the dew non-existent would put in an appearance. The Indian captain has seldom fussed about pitches and Chandrasekhar himself has produced some excellent strips in the past, though his concerns this time will centre as much around a sporting surface as the end of a winless Indian streak at this venue. India have lost all three 50-over games and drawn the only Test last November against New Zealand at a venue that has been singularly unkind to home teams. Hyderabad, South Zone and the Deccan Chargers have all found victory hard to come by here; Chandrasekhar and the several thousands who are expected to brace the Telangana stand-off and turn up for the game must be hoping that uninvited slice of ill-luck goes away this time around. http://www.deccanherald.com/content/197466/look-india-gear-up-big.html

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At various stages, one had to consciously remind oneself that this was indeed the Indian national team that was at practice. No Tendulkar, no Sehwag, no Yuvraj, no Zaheer, no Munaf and no Rohit all out injured. No Harbhajan, dropped from one-day international cricket for the first time since 2007. And no Gambhir either though he will turn up at practice on Thursday, ahead of the first one-day international against England, after his brief stint at the Challenger Series. The marquee names might have been missing, but there was no shortage of intensity as the young guns interacted in their first training session ahead of the five-match one-day series. Whereas their opponents had the day off following their commanding victory in the practice game against a Hyderabad XI the previous night, a new-look Indian squad hit the Rajiv Gandhi International stadium on Wednesday afternoon. Umesh Yadav and Varun Aaron cranked up the pace, S Arvind went the other way as he practised his back-of-the-hand slower ball, Parthiv Patel worked furiously on the pull and Virat Kohli on his patented inside-out cover-drive. It wasnÃÕ quite watching a meticulous Dravid, a fussy Laxman or a single-minded Tendulkar, but then again, that is an unfair comparison, isnÃÕ it? After a customary game of football before the start of nets, Dhoni strode up to the centre of the square, having a few words with curator YL Chandrasekhar and wondering if the dew non-existent would put in an appearance. The Indian captain has seldom fussed about pitches and Chandrasekhar himself has produced some excellent strips in the past, though his concerns this time will centre as much around a sporting surface as the end of a winless Indian streak at this venue. India have lost all three 50-over games and drawn the only Test last November against New Zealand at a venue that has been singularly unkind to home teams. Hyderabad, South Zone and the Deccan Chargers have all found victory hard to come by here; Chandrasekhar and the several thousands who are expected to brace the Telangana stand-off and turn up for the game must be hoping that uninvited slice of ill-luck goes away this time around. http://www.deccanherald.com/content/197466/look-india-gear-up-big.html
:hysterical::hysterical::hysterical:
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