Loving the mind games from the Indians to kick off this series.
Ashwin reckons hes got a new “mystery" ball saying he’s going to use it against the English batsmen. Didn’t Ajmal say that last year too? He had naff all….. England assistant coach has given a quality response – “Mushy would have a 'mystery ball' every week. He'd show it to the opposition in the nets and, as we would wander off he would say 'that's just my leg-break'" .
In addition to that Sunil Gavaskar has written in a recent article that the English are full of excuses. Said they always moan and complain about Asian food, and that if they had anything about them, they’d go to the many Indian restaurants in England before touring India just to get used to the food and spices .
Mind games?
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Before he accuses me of being a racist again, which I am not, I will put it to him that I have infact bought a turban and am sat here wearing it
This is going to be a cracking series. England going with a new opener. Do we pick Patel ? Who is going to bowl?
Whatever happens we have to go with Bresnan. For whatever reason he makes things happen for our team.
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Agree should be a cracking series. Just a pity with Finn being injuried was looking forward to seeing how the Indians would deal with his pace. Massive series for Bell, KP and Trott- have these 3 learnt anything from last year?
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Yeah neon still drinks apparently. It's some indian drink with a weird name to it.... Kash supplies him on a weekly basis
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Are we sure that Finn is out of the first test match? Like you I was looking forward to seeing some of his chin music, bowling at knee height at Tendulkars head
This is going to be a cracker. England struggling, and not even sure who to play against India who have been pants for years now.
Hard to call.
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Agree should be a goody but England prep to the tour is slightly worrying
KP affair
Team morale
New captain
New openers
Finn out
Broad injured
No spin practice
Swann not played all practice matches
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If we take these 1 at a time then apparently the KP affair is dead and buried and everybody is happy. He is afterall a great player.
By all accounts team morale is superb.
The new captain has been doing some captaining for a while now and will be fine.
1 of our openers is great, not sure about the other, agreed.
Is Finn definitely out? That said we have 5 other quicks with more experience than him.
Broad is apparently on the mend.
We didn't get any spin practice but I thank the indian teams for making sure that Bell and our new opener, who were desperately out of form are no totally in form.
Swann is a great cricketer and a couple of net sessions will be enough for him.
I am not worried at all because the opposition are attrocious.
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That's the spirit the England team should have. Finn is definately out
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Finn is exciting but he is not the be all and end all of the England test match cricket team.
I wonder if Raina, Sehwag, Tendulkar and Muklund will get more than 0 between them this time?
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Afridi, after the second warm up game, did you hear their pillock of a spin bowler in that game saying that England were terrified of the spin bowling and were panicking that much that KP and one or 2 others were going down the wicket and hitting him straight into the crowd for SIX?
You gotta love 'em