England 2012 Cricket Thread

[Dave Cooper please]

Could actually win this. 230+ ahead midway through the second session, put them in.
Doubt we will though, and frankly it won't matter, a series win in India is superb.

[Ad@m]

It's not been mentioned on here as far as I can see but I've just seen it on the news - Trotty's 4 off the ridiculous no-ball.

Excellent stuff Trott - and the fact it annoyed the Indians so much makes it all the better!

[Dave Cooper please]

It's not been mentioned on here as far as I can see but I've just seen it on the news - Trotty's 4 off the ridiculous no-ball.

Excellent stuff Trott - and the fact it annoyed the Indians so much makes it all the better!

Yep, that was marvellous, and totally legal. Until the umpire calls dead ball he can hit it.

[PaulWinch again]

We've coasted this, well done Trott and Bell.

[paul_e]

yup, this has been a very professional last day, hope Bell gets his century now though, will be a real shame if he's left stuck in the 90s.

[Villan For Life]

Great performance by Trott and Bell, good to see them both scoring tons.

Excellent series win for England, India don't lose many home series so quite an achievement for our new Captain.

[OzVilla]

Well batted Warwickshire.

[PaulWinch again]

Cracking effort from the second Test onwards from England. Yes it's a very average Indian side, but they still don't tend to lose at home. We now need to kick on, because up to this series this year has been poor. Hopefully we've regained our team spirit and focus. Also the batting back up looks very promising now.

[Dave Cooper please]

Dhoni and the Indian management must be livid at whoever prepared that pitch, they needed a win and they got the most lifeless slab of nothingness ever produced! Okay so England may have out-spun them and won 3-1 but this pitch didn't give them a hope.

[paul_e]

Dhoni and the Indian management must be livid at whoever prepared that pitch, they needed a win and they got the most lifeless slab of nothingness ever produced! Okay so England may have out-spun them and won 3-1 but this pitch didn't give them a hope.

Spot on, it's one of the poorest test match surfaces I've ever seen, if India had been leading and playing for a draw it'd have been a bad pitch but understandable, with them needing the win it was a terrible surface, 23 wickets and less than 1000 runs in the match backs up the thought that it was totally unsuitable as a test pitch.

[Chico Hamilton III]

Actually, this should be in a 2013 thread but has anyone got their Ashes tickets yet?

The only ones we could get were for the Final day ( Sunday) at The Oval. Will either be a dead rubber or a proper nail biter.

Or rained off, it is bank Holiday weekend....

[PaulWinch again]

Our Twenty20 team looks a bit bowler heavy!

[PGW]

I managed to get the Friday of Old Trafford test for my 'Aussie' fix. Couldnt get any where near one for Trent Bridge.
Got to rely on 1 dayer at the Bears.....so if anyone hears of spare Test Match tkts going let me know......anywhere!!!

[PaulWinch again]

Hales did well and Buttler at the end, but think we're short. Depends on the bowlers now. Bresnan continuing his rich batting form!

[PaulWinch again]

Bresnan needs to be sent back to county cricket, he is not 50% of the player he used to be.