India Tour of England, June-Sept 2014

[undisputed chap]

750/3. England may as well continue batting since this test will end in a dull draw anyway.

[skindia]

485 all out....bell would make 150+

[Straight Drive]

I have watched the third sessions of both days and imo this one is definitely a flat track. There is nothing at all for the bowlers except for the very low bounce at times which might work to the advantage of India's bowlers as England batters are not used to lack of bounce. Even Jaddu might be helped by low bounce as he pitches a lot on the stumps.

[maniac]

Na.. i think Srini mama ordered to transport the current bowling talent of Pakistan to English bowlers. The results are clearly there to see.. :cantstop:

I hope that doesn't happen on highways the nails,Vaseline,teeth,bottle caps etc

[Sandeep99]

Should have played Ashwin, really!!! Binny is the most useless guy on this pitch you could ask for. I feel England will bat till lunch/tea tomorrow and score around 550 gaining a good 100 lead. They have Stokes at 8 and Broad at 9. Just think about it

[CoverDrive]

420

[Stuge]

We know what we need to do on this wicket

Indian right-arm seamer Bhuvneshwar Kumar, who scored his maiden Test half-century to put India in a comfortable position on the 2nd day, called the Trent Bridge pitch for the ongoing first Test as “more Indian”. The swing bower added that the Indians have a better knowledge of the pitch, owing to their experience of having played first class cricket on these kind of tracks. "We cannot do much about the pitch except be patient. We need to keep bowling wicket to wicket as it is more like an Indian pitch. We have enough experience of playing at home so we know what we need to do," Bhuvneshwar said during the post match conference at the end of the second day's play. The Uttar Pradesh seamer along with Mohammed Shami added a determined 111 to help the visitors reach 457, before coming on to bowl 4 overs with the new ball later in the day. "The pitch might not change too much but it might take some turn later on. We are confident of bowling England out and because we have to do that in order to win this match," said the 23-year-old seamer who is playing in his 7th Test match. The bowler who revealed that he sees himself as an all-rounder after the day’s play, came in defence of his English counterparts who were criticized for allowing the last pair to settle in and stitch the second highest partnership of the match. "I don't think England bowled badly. They put enough pressure on us, tried different things and set up different fielding positions. It is the pitch, you need to do different things when it behaves like this. "If last wicket yields a 100-run partnership then the bowlers will get tired and frustrated. So they were doing their bit and we were doing ours," mentioned Bhuvneshwar, who averages nearly 30 runs with the bat in first class cricket including a century and 11 half centuries.

http://www.sportskeeda.com/cricket/bhuvaneshwar-kumar-england-1st-test-pitch-india-day-3/

[putrevus]

My grudge after fighting out so much seam friendly tracks in NZ' date=' they lost the chance to dominate England after a great start. They could easily have dominated this test if they had shown half of the application they did at Wanderers.[/quote'] They lost both in nz and sa for one reason failure of lower order batting, if they had batted better. India would not have lost the match. Until that last wicket pair the same thing was happening, you cannot ask you top order to score all the runs all time, tail needs to contribute. Your tail cannot start from no 6.

[putrevus]

Disgraceful pitch. Gyles Clark must have custom ordered it to maximize profits and to appease Srini Mama.

You must be moron of first order, if the pitch is flat or what ever how is. Bcci responsible, you morons live in some lala land. If srini mama was so powerful why would india be losing 0-8 and all those odis there in nz and sa. you morons have weird logic when india loses they stink but when they do well it is due bcci and srini mama.

[coffee_rules]

There should be ESPN3 even in Canada. I am thankful for my cable co/ISP for getting ESPN3.

[cricketfan28]

less than 400

[Sid_SuhaiL]

390

[sourab10forever]

Source

To have and not to use is a sin

-Dante

[Detonator]

Disgraceful pitch. Gyles Clark must have custom ordered it to maximize profits and to appease Srini Mama.

Well, I just gave them a hand wave.

[sourab10forever]

B->myself

[vijay50]

England will make 600+ in first innings With this pathetic bunch of losers ( Bhuvi, Pissant, Binny, Jadeja and Shami) , we will be battling for survival on day 5 with England ahead by 200 runs. BCCI should stop this 5 test series nonsense and reduce it to 3 tests in future against Aus, Eng and SA.

[velu]

playing tests in england itself is a joke .. pathetic pitches

[skindia]

485 all out ...stokes 112*

[sourab10forever]

What did you all say????????????????????:finger::finger::finger::finger::finger::finger::finger:

[gattaca]

Specialists for Indian Bowling All good fast bowling countries like AUS,SA and England have specialists for bowling heck even india have in for bats why dont we follow same rule and select bowlers that way. Looks like our bowlers have difficulty in switching formats. Ishant sharma played well in tests after being dropped in ODIS. Also this mean less injuries you will have to differently in ODIs vs tests and workload division is great as well. What are your thoughts ?