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

Gambhir out injured, not good news but at least Ishant is striking early in the absence of Zaheer.

I'd hope for a draw this match, but this pitch will probably give a result so I can only hope that India wins with this alien batting lineup.
 
Cook's dismissal was a joke.
Another bad decision goes against england because of the DRS farce..
Hasn't effected India once yet, but i can count 4 LBW's not given, and one wrongly given LBW against us in this series so far now.
 
Boundaries coming for England with ease now. Not good signs. Maybe some spin from Yuvraj or Harbhajan in the next few overs?

And Alpherah - I've come up with a good theory about DRS, I'll post it here to be critiqued, it's not perfect but if you follow it properly then it'll make sense.
 
Well with DRS they'd have probably had a wicket there.

What I can't understand is why an international team can opt not to use DRS, when it's been ratified at an international level.
 
platypus said:
Well with DRS they'd have probably had a wicket there.

What I can't understand is why an international team can opt not to use DRS, when it's been ratified at an international level.
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Umpire gave not out, even ignoring the 2.5m rule it was only clipping, which means it stays with the umpires decision.

So no .. with DRS they wouldn't of had a wicket.
 
TheCenturion said:
Boundaries coming for England with ease now. Not good signs. Maybe some spin from Yuvraj or Harbhajan in the next few overs?

And Alpherah - I've come up with a good theory about DRS, I'll post it here to be critiqued, it's not perfect but if you follow it properly then it'll make sense.
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Go for it :)


TheCenturion said:
Was more than half the ball hitting the stumps? If not, it would have been given not out :)
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Less then half, hence the orange light on the 'impact' indicator, which means stays with umpire decision
 
I'm starting to get irritated, here's a status my friend posted on facebook about cook's dismissal:

no way...it was going over!!! India have to cheat in order to get the slightest of chance to beat England
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I then get irritated for several reasons.

If India won, he and other friends will use this as the reason. However I then use the comparison and say that in this case, India was cheating just as much as Prior intentionally injured Gambhir. Because it hit the pad, the players appealed, and the umpire gave it out. As far as I can see, India's not broken any rules of cricket there. Much the same way that Prior accidentally hit Gambhir.
Then, they start getting into this whole debate about how Gambhir shouldn't be injured anyway and he should just wear the injury and play. Seriously wtf, and now they're coming out with a load of crap. These people really annoy me :mad:
 
They might be idiots, but that was a shocking decision ;) its just easier to accept that the decision was given due to corruption, rather then a 'top tier' umpire being that useless.
 
TheCenturion said:
I'm starting to get irritated, here's a status my friend posted on facebook about cook's dismissal:



I then get irritated for several reasons.

If India won, he and other friends will use this as the reason. However I then use the comparison and say that in this case, India was cheating just as much as Prior intentionally injured Gambhir. Because it hit the pad, the players appealed, and the umpire gave it out. As far as I can see, India's not broken any rules of cricket there. Much the same way that Prior accidentally hit Gambhir.
Then, they start getting into this whole debate about how Gambhir shouldn't be injured anyway and he should just wear the injury and play. Seriously wtf, and now they're coming out with a load of crap. These people really annoy me :mad:
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Well tbh it has been said before that Gambhir was never going to take a catch there with Prior batting. He isn't the type of batsmen who is going to edge it on to his pad, he is far too attacking for that. So really Gambhir's injury was the fault of Dhoni, Fletcher and Gambhir himself. I can completly understand why he isn't playing, it looked ******* painful, but the point is he should have never been stood there for Prior.

Well since DRS has come in the amount of poor decisions from Umpires at the top level seems to have increased, so to take it away means we now have much poorer umpires and no way to correct their poor decisions. I think it is just childish of the Indian Cricket board to refuse to use dRS even though they had agreed to it.
 
Monkeymatt said:
Well tbh it has been said before that Gambhir was never going to take a catch there with Prior batting. He isn't the type of batsmen who is going to edge it on to his pad, he is far too attacking for that. So really Gambhir's injury was the fault of Dhoni, Fletcher and Gambhir himself. I can completly understand why he isn't playing, it looked ******* painful, but the point is he should have never been stood there for Prior.
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I agree with you that he shouldn't have been fielding there. But that's not the point they were debating. They're just trying to say that he should wear the injury. We were there at the ground, and that looked excruciatingly painful.
 
TheCenturion said:
However I then use the comparison and say that in this case, India was cheating just as much as Prior intentionally injured Gambhir.
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How can you even compare the two?

A dubious decision, pitched clearly outside the line (Tuffnel, Aggers: Test Match Special) which certainly the bowler and wicket keeper would have known from their positioning (and yet they appealed for) compared to an off-side sweep which unfortunately hit the fielder (who was stupidly positioned) at silly point?

Obviously they would appeal, and whilst a few of them would have known it was outside the line, I still wouldn't call it cheating. But to compare the two incidents? And to even write Prior may have done it on purpose? Please.
 
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