India vs England @ Lords - Day 1 Predictions !

[Predator_05]

My predictions If IND bat; 226/7 at stumps If ENG bat; 300/5 at stumps Top scorer; Laxman or Pietersen Top wicket-taker; Kumble or Widebottom Let's hear yours !

[Lurker]

England bat first - 278/7 England wobbles at 43/3 with Sreesanth 2 and Zaheer 1. Then Bell and KP build, score reaches to 200/3 when Kumble takes quick wickets and have England at 210/6. Matt Prior holds the fort and India again fails to dismiss the tailenders. Hoggy falls at the end of the day and India close in with a somewhat satisfactory 278/7. India bat first: 309/6 India start bad, 23/2 then VVS and Dravid build. Both score 50's before VVS gets dismissed at score 176. Sachin carries from where Dravid left and India are in a strong position at 273/2 when as usual we lose 3 quick wickets. India end at 309 with Dravid standing solid at 109*

[jf1gp_1]

Vaughan win toss bats first. Eng 287/7 cook 123* KP 4.

[Cricketics]

if Eng batz then eng score @ end of day 1 - 315-3 and as day ends, ppl would be creating threads "pant coat saala umpire didn't give lbw out etc" if India bats then Indian score @ end of day 1 - 270-5

[jf1gp_1]

"pant coat saala umpire didn't give lbw out etc"

:hysterical::hysterical:

[Predator_05]

LOL, 'tics. How sweet would it be if the Lords wicket for this test is like the one England and Australia played on in the Ashes opener 2 years ago

[Gambit]

Eng 321/4 OR Ind 265 all out; Eng 54/0

[dial_100]

eng 289/4 Ind 274/3

[sgusa]

eng 289/4 Ind 274/3

Ind 360/2, SRT 100+ with SR > 90 (anyone that dares wake me from this dream, I will hunt and kill)

[ali0786]

eng 315-6 or Ind 270 -7

[Gambit]

Ind 360/2, SRT 100+ with SR > 90 (anyone that dares wake me from this dream, I will hunt and kill)

:hysterical:

[observer1]

rain-interrupted day. india 115 for 4 (jaffer a thoroughly unexpected 0, karthik 8, dravid 4, ganguly 21, tendulkar n.o. 30s and laxman not out 30s, the rest in wides if harmison plays) or england 150 for 1 (cook out in 60s, strauss and vaughan not out)

[ludhianvi]

Eng 320/6 INd 310/4

[coffee_rules]

India 270/7 Eng 270/4

[King]

If England bats first : Few early wickets including getting KP out cheaply. I reckon it will be about 100/4 but then by the end of the day England will have 310/5 India bats first : 280/4 Few early wickets but Rahul and Laxman consolidate. Ganguly chips in with some runs.

[fineleg]

Ind bat first - India 178-8 on a rain curtailed day...late middle order and tail doing rescue act after a shabby 93-5 SRT disappoints. (i like SRT, but by now he is a Maharathi) Eng bat first 240-3 (curtailed day)

[Predator_05]

What the hell is a "Maharathi". I hear this word all the time on these forums...does it refer to old people from Maharashtra ?

[fineleg]

What the hell is a "Maharathi". I hear this word all the time on these forums...does it refer to old people from Maharashtra ?

Nothing to do with Maharashtra...this was a term coined by CoverPoint (or rather his sister's father-in-law I think!) - this has to do with Mahabharat - the Maharathis. As of today - many of our "paper tiger" batsmen of the yore have become "Maharathis" and the term has caught on.

[coverpoint]

Yes. the term refers to our supposed 'super stars' the great ones ... the maharathis who unfortunately play like 'pyadas'

[sgusa]

Nothing to do with Maharashtra...this was a term coined by CoverPoint (or rather his sister's father-in-law I think!) - this has to do with Mahabharat - the Maharathis. As of today - many of our "paper tiger" batsmen of the yore have become "Maharathis" and the term has caught on.

Maha - Big Rath - the chariots In the old days, the bigger, more powerful/skillful/higher up the order champions were given the best and biggest raths - hence MahaRathi. All the footsoldiers would run in front and get killed while these guys got drivenn around inthe comfort and protection of their raths. How this applies to cricketers is rather obvious :)