Cricket Thread

[Lovebitesandeveryfing]

Well fuck me sideways!

 

[discopop]

This is why Test Match cricket is easily the best form of the sport.

Quite magnificent chase that well done lads.

 

[Citizen of Legoland]

All those criticising when India were flowing in the first innings. Test format cricket can’t be beat, it’s just brilliant at times.

Another famous Headingley win.

 

[Gabriel]

Good Test. Hope the weather holds for the remaining matches, but want to see better bowling and catching.

 

[jimharri]

This is why Test Match cricket is easily the best form of the sport.

Quite magnificent chase that well done lads.

No white ball game offers as much as this test provided.

 

[Winchester]

What a great win !!

 

[waspish]

Just look at our run chases we are
England are changing test match cricket for chase running and what is capable!

 

[dadnlad]

never in doubt

 

[Winchester]

All those criticising when India were flowing in the first innings. Test format cricket can’t be beat, it’s just brilliant at times.

Another famous Headingley win.

You betcha!!

 

[Lovebitesandeveryfing]

That's a fantastic win. I remember some gobshite on here questioning why India batted as long as they did yesterday evening, as England were never going to chase down 350+.

To be fair, you get a fair amount of gobshites on here. Lucky there's the mods to keep them in order…

 

[KS55]

You have to say this England side has got some balls. India probably felt in pole position for four days but England just fought like tigers.
This India side is really good so the win is way up there with England’s best triumphs.
A great match and a fantastic win.

 

[Ric]

You simply cannot beat test cricket. What a test match.

 

[balotellishaircut]

That's a fantastic win. I remember some gobshite on here questioning why India batted as long as they did yesterday evening, as England were never going to chase down 350+.

I’m sure that was yourself, anyway I didn’t think England would chase down 371, don’t think many on here did.

 

[EastMidlandsBlue]

Looks like we'll be bowling first for the foreseeable

 

[Lovebitesandeveryfing]

Actually, choosing not to be facetious for once — it was a perfectly fair calculation based on the weather forecast. If a big chunk of the day had been lost to rain, 320 to 350 would have looked a daunting task. Certainly the Indians would have been forgiven for thinking it would probably ensure the draw. Which is not a bad result, when you're on foreign soil and at the start of a five-match series. And allow them possibly to go for the win, knowing that England will always try to chase anything, these days (and throw away wickets while doing so — although not today!)

 

[KS55]

Mahatma Gandhi, Rabindranath Tagore, Jawaharlal Nehru, Vallabhbhai Patel, B.R. Ambedkar, Homi Bhabha,C.V. Raman, Satyajit Ray, A.R. Rahman, Sachin Tendulkar, Ravi Shankar, Dev from coronation street, TATA steel, Hero Motorbikes, Bollywood, The IPL, that **** at Delhi train station that tried to steal my bags, Chicken Tikka, Nasser Hussain, yours boys took one hell of a beating! one hell of a beating!

You missed out Srinivasaraghavan Venkataraghavan.

 

[jimharri]

You have to say this England side has got some balls. India probably felt in pole position for four days but England just fought like tigers.
This India side is really good so the win is way up there with England’s best triumphs.
A great match and a fantastic win.

When you're 430/3 in your first innings, you really shouldn't be losing the game. To only get 471 in that innings was hugely short; they must have been looking at 600. That allowed England back in the game.

 

[jimharri]

I’m sure that was yourself, anyway I didn’t think England would chase down 371, don’t think many on here did.

Whoosh!

 

[stan bowles]

All those criticising when India were flowing in the first innings. Test format cricket can’t be beat, it’s just brilliant at times.

Another famous Headingley win.

Michael Vaughan for one.

 

[dadnlad]

anyone checked on NASSER