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

Not fantastic, absolutely awful decision to give Harbhajan out. Useless umpiring, I could see from here that it wasn't out. Ah well, India still fairly well set to have a 60-70 run lead
 
manic111 said:
Surely it could be helped by putting DRS into place though? What is your argument against using it? I've seen you say that you don't think it improves things necessarily, but you haven't shown why it's better to not use it than to use it.

Broad :D

I need Sky :(
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I don't have anything against it necessarily, but at the moment I think that the priority should be to make sure the standard of umpiring is up to scratch, as it isn't at the moment.


Also LOL, I've been reliably informed that England's the best fielding team in the world, yet all I see is dropped catches everywhere :D
And Swann is the best spinner in the world and he's been destroyed today?
 
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Alpherah said:
Some truly possessed bowling by Broady at the end there. Not seen him have a spell like that since Lords vs Australia.

Man of the series so far for me, easily..
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I agree, between him and Dravid I'd say, depending on how the rest of the series goes.

Alpherah said:
Yet England have still had more bad umpire decisions about 6-1 so far ;)
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Either way, I think that the standard of umpiring desperately needs to improve.

On another note, I tuned into TMS for the first time this series. I must say, much better than the crap that Sky Sports is churning out, and as good as the Star Sports coverage :)
 
LOAM said:
I think that's quite unfair tbh. I think the sky commentary and indeed the sky team are excellent. Lloyd is a legend of the same stature as Boycott
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I don't think it's unfair at all.

Lloyd is funny at times, but little more than that. Nasser is good, but most other commentators aren't great. Shane Warne loves stating the damned obvious. 'England need a wicket here, preferably Dravid but even Yuvraj will do'

Really?! REALLY?! Was there any point during their bowling that England wouldn't have liked to take a wicket?

Another one, can't remember which commentator, said, as India took the lead:

'England will start to worry now'

Come on, it's only now, that India reach England's score that they start to worry. 'Oh crap guys, India just reached our score, how the hell did that happen, I didn't even notice!"


Also, I generally get a hint of bias from the Sky team. At one point during the Lord's test match they were criticising Dravid's technique for a shot that he plays all the time, that brings him a lot of runs and brought him a fair few boundaries today. I can't understand why they were trying to poke holes in his technique, he's the 2nd highest run scorer of all time, and he's known as 'the wall' because he is so solid.

On the other hand, Henry Blofeld was very fair, he was telling it like it is, and was also very pleasant to listen to.
 
Hmmm, some people accusing Laxman of using vaseline. He's a legend of the game, I can't believe people would bring his integrity into question :(

Monkeymatt said:
He should have reviewed it, ohh wait sorry I forgot the Indian cricket board decided they didn't want it, what a shame...
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The fact that we've had so many bad lbw decisions in this series doesn't suggest to me that DRS is needed, it suggests to me that the standard of umpiring really needs to improve. If the crowd can see that these decisions are wrong, then why can't the umpires?

Now people aren't even sure that Hotspot is accurate...


http://www.espncricinfo.com/england-v-india-2011/content/current/story/525382.html

Why can't they either accept that he wasn't out, or that the tech simply isn't all its cracked up to be?
 
I am getting fed up of the number of pundits saying that these two teams are fighting out for the number 1 spot. Not true. India occupies that spot, England is in the number 3 spot, and actually England's trying to dislodge India. That's actually what's happening.

As I type, Strauss edges to Dhoni off Sreesanth 57/2
 
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Monkeymatt said:
Strauss edges off Strauss? So he bowled it while batting?

Also, the result of the series decides who gets the number 1 spot, so yes, I would describe that as them fighting for number 1.. I think you're just trying to nit pick and create a storm in a teacup here tbh, just calm down and enjoy the cricket.
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Sorry, I meant Strauss edges off Sreesanth :p

But India has occupied the number one spot for nearly two years. If India win this series, they don't get the number 1 spot do they? Because they already have it ;)

This is another series where India is defending their crown, that's the proper way of looking at it. I don't think it's a storm in a teacup. Sure, I agree that it is a small detail, but it's a wrong detail and it's annoying me :o
 
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