England vs India Test & ODI Series *SPOILERS*

[platty]

What a fight back, 210/7. Broad and Bopara with a great partnership. Broad a cert for man of the match now surely when you consider his 4 wickets too.

Edit: What a win!!!! Great effort by the lower order there!!

 

[weringo]

Can't believe we won that! Broad and Bopara should some real bottle.

 

[ringo747]

what a finish - great work by the young lads. Cant believe they won the match!

 

[One More Solo]

Cracking performances from Bopara and especially Broad, with the ability he has shown so far in ODI and his first class games there is every chance he'd make a good all-rounder for England yet.

 

[JohnnyG]

Excellent finish, when Freddie went cheaply I was sure we'd lose.
Nice to see a couple of youngsters stand up and be counted under the pressure and in front of a very hostile crowd

 

[Fothsn]

Excellent finish by Broad & Bopara, word class batting. Broad is defiantly looking the part and what he’s only 20

Was in Leeds city center today and say KP with his girlfriend shopping in victoria quarter needless to say he didn’t look happy I wonder why

How may runs has he scored this ODI series?

 

[JohnnyG]

About 100 max I'd guess, at the moment he's giving his wicket away far too easily which he's been criticised for in the past.

 

[Fothsn]

About 100 max I'd guess, at the moment he's giving his wicket away far too easily which he's been criticised for in the past.

Oh! more than I first realised I just couldn’t recall him getting a decent start, imo test matches have quietened his batting style he seems to not come down the wicket as much & I feel is losing his ODI/20/20 specialists stats.
No doubt he just needs to find some form and he should come back all firing for the world cup in september, he hopes

 

[lemonkettaz]

Good to see the young lads putting the beef in the performances.. instead of relying on the regulars.

Flintoff with the bat, still hideous.. when will he put a score up?

 

[JohnnyG]

Freddie's batting is more of a worry, I know he's been out for a while but I can't remember the last decent innings he had.

Edi: Bah, beaten by kettaz

 

[Fothsn]

Good to see the young lads putting the beef in the performances.. instead of relying on the regulars.

Flintoff with the bat, still hideous.. when will he put a score up?

Lack of being on the wicket tbh, he can’t say enough of how good he does in the nets which I know from experience means nothing you need to perform in the middle, he needs to spend some time batting for Lancashire and take a break from England.

 

[lemonkettaz]

Yeh he hasnt had a good score for ... i dunno..?

People say he needs time in the middle, well when he is in the middle he doesnt have time to fart...

I have no idea when he had a good score for england last, or really help out with the bat with a cameo role

 

[Alibaba99]

Yeh he hasnt had a good score for ... i dunno..?

People say he needs time in the middle, well when he is in the middle he doesnt have time to fart...

I have no idea when he had a good score for england last, or really help out with the bat with a cameo role

Freddie needs to spend some real time playing and that means for his county. Just look at Sidebottom, though his 6 years out of the international arena may be considered a touch excessive.

Most of the players on central contracts play very little out of the international scene these days which makes it rather hard to get lost form back.

 

[lemonkettaz]

Well yeh

 

[JohnnyG]

Getting a fair spanking at the moment 189-2 off 34, they should get 300+ easy

 

[lemonkettaz]

266-4...

blimey...

going to be a tough one

 

[lemonkettaz]

bah, rain!

India should get 300 here... 286 in the 47th over

 

[Fothsn]

Not looking good so far Good batting performance by the Indians but again let down big time by there shocking fielding performance, what’s that 3/4 dropped catches! and seeing Powar diving over the ball had me in stitches

One possible outlook is that it’s starting to get very very dark clouded here and I just live 5mins from the ground, it looks as though its going to belt it down, let’s hope so

Edit/ Ignore that we are way behind on the Duckworth Lewis so the rain won’t affect the game, they have just come off now I would personally say that’s it its coming down quicker now.

 

[JohnnyG]

And D/L saw us off in the end, which is probably how the result would've went anyway really.

 

[JohnnyG]

Cook's gone 2nd ball

Edit: Prior's joined him with a skocking lbw decision, 20-2...