India vs England Test Match Series

1st Test starts on Thursday. It can't come quick enough and I'll be up at 4.00am to watch the first ball.

lowdham bluenose wrote:1st Test starts on Thursday. It can't come quick enough and I'll be up at 4.00am to watch the first ball.

One day -- 20/20 cricket i can take and infact enjoy them sometimes, But 5 day games I've never got the point really all that time and chances are you wont even get a result that's not for me.

lowdham bluenose wrote:1st Test starts on Thursday. It can't come quick enough and I'll be up at 4.00am to watch the first ball.

me and you both lowds

Real mans game

One Day cricket may be more easy on the eye hoots but Test Cricket is far more. It's a battle of mental strength and endurance, which can make or break you as a player, as well as the tactical and technical ability we see shine through in the shorter form. It is no coincidence that the top players see it as the ultimate, what defines you as a cricketer and what separates the good from the great

Well fancy not playing two spinners. Graeme Swann by far the best bowler today and has taken all four wickets.

if we can bat for 3 hours we may save this test match
if that happens then the series could be ours
will see at 4 am

COME ON ENGLAND

Anyone keeping up with this? It's been a sensational turn-around since the first test, Cook proving why he's one of, if not the, best batsman in the world at the moment

he's the best English Batsman ever on paper

23 centuries already - holds the record and still only 29

England looking poised to win this one - i wouldn't be surprised if we declare at the fall of the next wicket - if not at lunch (ish) depending on batsman totals at the time.

If we take this test we are 2-1 up with 1 to play

E N G E R L A N D

Not the best Indian side, but still not an easy place to win a test series.
I think Jimmy Anderson is up there with the best of the bowlers around these days, I really do.

Maybe not the hardest of Indian teams to face but the stats speak for themselves. First win there for nearly 30 years, and after the first test a lot of people thought India would just roll over us. Great win; every batsmen got runs, and looks like we've finally found a bowling unit that can take wickets in the subcontinent