England Cricket Thread 2011

[cheltenhamlion]

The weather is set fair and the pitch is turning. Swann has a busy day ahead of him.

[Dave Cooper please]

A Tendulkar century followed by a clatter of wickets would be perfect for everyone.

[UK Redsox]

Important things that I have learned today.................................

Geoffrey Boycott has never owned a pair of jeans

Geoffrey Boycott has never owned a pair of flip-flops

[UK Redsox]

Sachin out for 91

[UK Redsox]

Giving Sachin out LBW on 91 takes some bottle but DRS shows that the Umpire got it right

[TopDeck113]

But not quite as much bottle as it would have taken were the match being played at the Wankhede Stadium!

[UK Redsox]

Here we go, the collapse is on

[UK Redsox]

Tuffers says that Raina edged it

[PaulWinch again]

Right come on get through them now England.

[UK Redsox]

Blimey, India are collapsing like England in the 1990s

[Brend'Watkins]

Swann's Day for sure.  India are rubbish, well, rubbish here for sure.

[Chris Smith]

Blimey, India are collapsing like England in the 1990s

And the 70s, 80s and 00s.

England have always been the master of the mid order collapse but India are now showing us how it should be done.

[UK Redsox]

Early afternoon this looked odds on a draw. India then lost 7 for 21 in 94 balls

[Brend'Watkins]

A great summer for England, difficult to pick one stand out player as all have played their part. 

If I had to pick one I'd go for Anderson on the basis his bowling has been superb throughout.  The batting has been excellent but to be fair it's been against some insipid bowling.

[PaulWinch again]

Brilliant effort, I never thought we could win 4-0. We have absolutely crushed them, we need to go on now and cement ourselves as number 1 Test side, and improve in one day.