England V India ***Clash of the Heavyweights*** Test, T20 and ODI Series

[TheCenturion]

Ghandi, Shilpa Shetty, Venky's chicken, My local Indian takeaway

YOU GUYS TOOK ONE HELL OF A BEATING

Nice to see us dominate at sport we invented!

No they didn't. Neither did I. The Indian cricket team did.

 

[One More Solo]

No they didn't. Neither did I. The Indian cricket team did.

Don't worry, I RTM'd the post but as usual nothing has been done.

 

[Weebull]

Why would you RTM it? It's a perfectly good twist on a famous quote.

 

[One More Solo]

Because this thread was generally being conducted in good spirits until he arrived trying to get a rise out of people as usual. I'll leave it at that though.

 

[Alpherah]

Anyone going to watch the Eng v Ireland ODI today? should be ace!
Morgan captain (ohlol) which probably won't go down well with the Irish supporters. Trott and Onions in the provisional squad for fitness reasons so i would imagine would play, and Finn too.

14 man squad below:
JM Bairstow, RS Bopara, SG Borthwick, JW Dernbach, ST Finn, C Kieswetter†, EJG Morgan*, G Onions, SR Patel, BA Stokes, JWA Taylor, IJL Trott, CR Woakes

 

[ringo747]

Definitely a second rate team but i'm sure they will still beat Ireland. Hopefully Ireland win comfortably though. AFAIK it is on TMS on 5LSX.

 

[Alpherah]

And its rain delayed!
Sir Ian presented caps to Stokes and Taylor though so we know they will be playing at least.

 

[Alpherah]

Trott, Kieswetter(wk), Taylor, Morgan (c), Bopara, Stokes, Patel, Woakes, Borthwick, Finn, Dernbach

 

[ringo747]

Why no place for Johnny Bairstow? Is he not meant to be the next best thing in English cricket?

Great to have commentary on TMS for this. Big Ireland fan I am.

Edit: and I don't like those weird shaped helmets that James Taylor has.

 

[Alpherah]

Kieswetter gone for 14, Eng 24-1 after 7.4 overs.

Going to be a looooow scoring game this, the pitch is terrible.

 

[ringo747]

2nd wicket gone - Taylor the wee man out for 1.

 

[Alpherah]

ODI cricket is supposed to be entertaining, now i realise no one wants batting dominated 370+ ODI pitches and the ball needs a chance to be effective, but this pitch is a disgrace.
Slooooow, low, spongey .. terrible.

 

[ringo747]

Who is on the Sky commentary - is it the recently retired Irish offspinner? I can't remember his name. The teacher guy.

Edit: yes it is - Kyle McCallan.

 

[Alpherah]

Rain stops play

 

[ringo747]

What a great c&b from Stirling! Morgan gone.

 

[Stewy]

lolBopara.

Not really paid attention to this and didn't realise Stokes was playing but I've seen him a few times for his county and he was an absolute gun. Is it Northeast the other young batsman who's immense?

 

[ringo747]

Stokes and Borthwick are the two Durham lads I think. First two balls he looked pretty good if thats anything to go by.

 

[Alpherah]

What we've learned from this is the pitch is a bit of a minefield for batting on if you haven't experienced this kind of conditions/pitch before.
Hence why Trott and Morgan were going well, but new guys have struggled completely.

 

[Stewy]

Patel oozes class, shame he's such a fatty

 

[ringo747]

I really am not a big fan of Trott in the ODI setup.