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

[asterix]

:hysterical::hysterical:

Yeah.. :hysterical::hysterical::hysterical:

[Number]

Yeah.. :hysterical::hysterical::hysterical:

:haha::haha::haha: isse jyada to income tax me cut jaata hai.

[BERGKAMP]

Tim Bresnan fined for snatching cap off umpire He only did it because it was a local umpire, He wouldn't dare have done it to Bowden or Taufel etc Anyway :finger: to Bresnan http://www.sportinglife.com/cricket/news/story_get.cgi?STORY_NAME=cricket/11/10/21/CRICKET_England_Bresnan.html&utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter

England's Tim Bresnan has been fined 7.5% of his match fee for showing dissent towards an umpire during Thursday's one-day international against India in Mohali, the International Cricket Council have announced. The Level 1 breach of the ICC Code of Conduct related to an incident at the end of the 18th over when the fast bowler snatched his cap from umpire Sudhir Asnani after finishing his fifth over. Bresnan pleaded not guilty to the charge, which led to a hearing at the end of the match attended by the player, the umpires, England coach Andy Flower and England team manager Phil Neale. Roshan Mahanama of the Emirates Elite Panel of ICC Match Referees said in a statement: "The umpires deserve the utmost respect not only because they do a difficult job in the middle but also because millions of budding and aspiring cricketers watch every move of the players. "This makes all the international cricketers more responsible and accountable for their actions, particularly in their dealings with the umpires in various match situations." England lost the match by five wickets, leaving India holding an unassailable 3-0 lead in the five-match series.

[JeffThommo_fan]

Kalol ho gayi Bresnan ke sath.....:giggle::giggle:

[Sidhoni]

Kieswetter also deliberately uprooted the stumps even after batsman was well in, just to show anger

[express bowling]

Bresnen thoroughly deserved this punishment.

[Sundar88]

So much for the "Spirit of Cricket" England have always been preaching.

[saneindian]

He was abusing everyone including his own fielders. Deserved a bigger fine.

[Trichromatic]

Chanda kaat rahe hain kya? :dontknow:

[achilles]

7.5%? Ridiculous. However, the nationality of the umpire was from whom the cap was snatched must be noted. :D

[achilles]

Another thing was that he pleaded "not guility". Yet the fine was simply 7.5%. Interesting!

[Yoda-esque]

Us Topi mein tou vaise bhi voh Circus ka Retired Bandar lagta hai

[Sidhoni]

7.5% :hehe:

[asterix]

Andy Flower to BBC on Bresnan fine "I disagree with the verdict . . He wasn't showing dissent he was showing disappointment" http://twitter.com/#!/tmsproducer

England teams' :finger: @ Gora Cocksuker Chewtiya Mahanama

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Rahane to keep Mumbai's flag flying high at Wankhede More... Rahane to keep Mumbai's flag flying high at Wankhede PTI | Oct 21, 2011 MUMBAI: It is always difficult to visualise an Indian squad without a single representative from 39-time Ranji Trophy champions Mumbai in a one-dayer at the Wankhede Stadium, scene of the country's momentous triumph in the World Cup just over six months ago. That could have virtually amounted to sacrilege which has been prevented by the presence of performing young Mumbai batsman Ajinkya Rahane in the India ODI squad to take on the visiting England cricketers in the fourth and penultimate tie of the rubber on Sunday. With his exploits for the country during his fledgling career at the international level, including grabbing his maiden man of the match award last night for his fine innings of 91 in Mohali in the third ODI of the series, the youngster has kept Mumbai's flag flying high. The injury-forced absence of Sachin Tendulkar and Zaheer Khan from the team, and the fading away from the scene of Ajit Agarkar and Wasim Jaffer, has left 23-year-old Rahane as the lone torch-bearer for Mumbai in the series. Rahane was reluctant to speak on his forthcoming maiden international appearance in his home environs citing instructions from the authorities not to speak to the media during a series. However, his former Mumbai coach Praveen Amre was effusive in his praise of the youngster who has taken on the challenge of opening the innings with another West Zone player - Parthiv Patel - both in England and at home. " It was important for him to have got his maiden man of the match award yesterday especially after he did not do as well as expected in the first two games. But I feel he should have got his 100, " Amre said on Friday. " It's important for him to convert 90s into 100s in this particular phase of his career, " said the former Test batsman. Amre felt it would be an emotional moment when Rahane, the 68th cricketer from Mumbai, plays for India either in a Test or ODI. " It's important to play in front of a home crowd and he will really enjoy it, " said the 43-year-old ex-Mumbai coach. Amre also recalled Rahane's contributions towards Mumbai's triumphant run in the National Championships three years ago. " He has scored over 4000 runs in four seasons. Three years ago when Mumbai won the Ranji Trophy he made very good contribution towards the victory, " he added. Rahane had scored over 1000 runs in that, his second first class season to help the oft-crowned champions to their 38th national title. In his first class debut in September 2007 he slammed 143 opening the innings with Sahil Kukreja, who too got a hundred, for Mumbai against Karachi Urban in the Mohd Nissar Trophy match in Karachi's National Stadium. He made a mark later in the season in the Duleep Trophy too with an innings of 172 for West Zone against England Lions' bowling attack of Graham Onions, Monty Panesar and Liam Plunkett at the Moti Baug ground in Vadodara.

[vvvslaxman]

Trott Or Not? http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/samsheringham/2011/10/trott_or_not.html Trott or Not? To his supporters, he’s the team’s rock, their most dependable and consistent batsman, a player who does the dirty work while others steal the glory. To his detractors and judging by the anti-Trott emails that come into our inbox during live text commentaries there are plenty of them - he represents everything that is wrong with EnglandÃÔ approach to one-day cricket. To them, his one-paced, risk-averse approach to batting is holding the team back and putting too much pressure on those around him to throw caution to wind. Jonathan Trott scored 98 runs off 116 balls during England's defeat against India in Mohali. PHOTO Getty Thursday's third one-day international in Mohali offered plenty of ammunition to those on both sides of the divide. Although Trott top-scored with 98 not out off 116 balls, England lost the match by five wickets as India chased down a target of 299 to take an unassailable 3-0 lead in their five-match one-day series. To the naysayers, Trott’s inability to accelerate in the latter part of his innings – he didn’t score a single boundary in the last five overs – meant England weren’t able to pose a truly imposing total on a pitch where even Geoffrey Boycott’s mother and her well-worn stick of rhubarb would undoubtedly have thrived. But the flipside of the argument is to ask yourself where England would be without Trott? Despite missing out on a century, Trott was England’s top-scorer in Mohali, just as he has been in 14 of his 37 one-day international innings. His steady accumulation allowed first Kevin Pietersen, and then Samit Patel, to give it some humpty safe in the knowledge that there was someone at the other end that would be sticking around for the duration. Trott’s batting average of 53, with three hundreds and 15 fifties, is 13 runs better than any other England player to play more than 30 one-dayers, and places him fourth on the all-time list. “But what about his strike rate?” I hear you cry. “It is not the quantity of runs, it is the snail-like speed at which he scores them.” Trott averages 78.58 runs per 100 balls, placing him well off the pace of seasoned one-day destroyers like Virender Sehwag (104) and Shahid Afridi (113). But compared with his rivals for a place in the England side, Trott’s numbers stack up rather nicely. Alastair Cook has a similar strike rate of 78.59, but his average is only 37. Ravi Bopara, an infinitely more gifted strokeplayer than Trott, clocks in at 75, while Ian Bell - the player most likely to replace Trott in the England side - comes in at 73.37. Of England’s regular top five, only Kevin Pietersen and Craig Kieswetter score more quickly than Trott, but while the former has not scored a one-day century in his last 33 innings, the latter has just one ton in his 26 ODI knocks. Trott is never going to please the purists, his style of play will always have the capacity to frustrate, but he gives the England one-day side a dependability they have never really had, and in his ability to bat through an innings should be held up as an example to his under-performing team-mates. He is a genuine run machine in all forms of the game and could finish his career with a better Test and one-day average than any other England player in history. Perhaps, it’s Trott’s lot that he will not be fully appreciated until after he retires. As Joni Mitchell once sang, “you don’t know what you’ve got til it’s gone.”

[desi.boy]

if it was a sub-continent player in place of the bastard fat-boy, the punishment would have been harsher.

[rkt.india]

Trott is needed like we needed Dravid.

[vvvslaxman]

Ravi Bopara, an infinitely more gifted strokeplayer than Trott :hysterical:

[rajmarie]

if it was a sub-continent player in place of the bastard fat-boy' date=' the punishment would have been harsher.[/quote'] Agreed.....for a sub-continent player...it was definitely atleast 20% or more......