cricfan said:The most over-hyped test team in the world.......ever.That No1 ranking was due to "Arranged" SL home matches..another 4-0 coming up...its better if they start eliminating the old brigade one by one.....First VVS....after a few months...the wall......Next...pardon me for blasphemous comment.....Its Bharat Ratna's turn..Just for fun that 18yr old Cummins shud have been fit.
Eh? We had a home series with WI in between. Forgot that?Renegade said:I can't wait for the second innings to begin! What is the record for the consecutive number of times a team gets dismissed for under 300 runs in a test? We are at 11 now.
Now I know how DC was created. :lol:
Eh? We had a home series with WI in between. Forgot that?Renegade said:I can't wait for the second innings to begin! What is the record for the consecutive number of times a team gets dismissed for under 300 runs in a test? We are at 11 now.
Now I know how DC was created. :lol:
Eh? We had a home series with WI in between. Forgot that?Renegade said:I can't wait for the second innings to begin! What is the record for the consecutive number of times a team gets dismissed for under 300 runs in a test? We are at 11 now.
Now I know how DC was created. :lol:
Eh? We had a home series with WI in between. Forgot that?Renegade said:I can't wait for the second innings to begin! What is the record for the consecutive number of times a team gets dismissed for under 300 runs in a test? We are at 11 now.
Now I know how DC was created. :lol:
Eh? We had a home series with WI in between. Forgot that?Renegade said:I can't wait for the second innings to begin! What is the record for the consecutive number of times a team gets dismissed for under 300 runs in a test? We are at 11 now.
Now I know how DC was created. :lol:
Yep lets host all the test matches in India. Anyway I was talking only about away matches. See the following statistic.Freaky said:Eh? We had a home series with WI in between. Forgot that?
India's batting has now gone past 300 only once in their last 17 away Test innings
I was wondering that too. I hear he isn't a meddling coach and that he only whispers pellets of wisdom into players ears. Wonder what he has been eating lately. :lol:sharktale1212 said:I wonder what Fletcher is doing in midst of all this. If we look back this same team did pretty well in South Africa. We came very close to win a series. Things started to go wrong from the WI away series since Fletcher joined our team. --> I am not trying to propogate some blame theory but wanted to know what is he doing. When with England their Test team was good but ODI was awful. This team looks good for ODI (at least until we are bashed by Aus) but Test has taken a super slide. Is he one format only coach?
"It has happened before, and I know, I understand, where you are trying to get at. We lost 4-0 on an overseas tour before this. It really has to come from within. For all you know, people telling it's going to be another 4-0, another 2-0... For starters I don't know how it works with you guys. For us to just hear that repetitively, that itself is the biggest detriment for us. So I don't know. It has to come from someone. Maybe it will come from everyone in the next innings. Probably [Nos] 1 to 11 will get a fifty."
It was a slightly strange admission to make in the middle of a Test match. Ashwin was feistier when asked about the haste in going on to the defensive when in the field. "What else do you do with 190 in the pocket?" he asked back when the question was put forward. "You'll have to save every run possible. Supposing you get two or three wickets later on, and someone is having a good spell, we have those runs to play with later. That has got to be the only idea. It's common sense. Nothing else."
"We haven't - the biggest thing is our catching has been quite good. Whatever has gone we have been picking up the catches so far. This is what the batsmen can contribute when they are standing on the field. Very frankly the wicket has flattened out today, and there was nothing on offer. People were going really hard today and bending their backs.