Here comes India’s first competitive match of the tournament, and it’s against a team that was saying a lot of things before they got whipped by Australia. England still doesn’t know what its strongest side is, and what their order should be, and maybe that’s preventing them from being as good as they’re capable of being. The Castrol Index doesn’t rate England&#...
England’s side of the ratings, which were a lot easier to do. If only I could rate them by the quality of their tweets.
9.5 - Stuart Broad (182 runs @60.66 and 25 wickets @13.84): Close to being dropped. Fuller lengths. Vital lower-order runs. Near-perfect series. Next Botham. Yawn, you know the whole story because everyone’s already harped about it. It’s a fairy tale all right...
2000th match in history of test cricket100th test match between India and England1st test in a new series between the No.1 and No.3 in ICC RankingsSachin Tendulkar on 99 in the number of centuries (tests + ODIs)Sachin with a sub-40 highest score at LordsIt does not get any bigger than this as a build-up to the test series that starts this Thursday. The return of Sachin, Gambhir, Zaheer Khan, Srees...
In the ongoing test series between India and England, the rub of the green often went against the Indians - few instances noted below:Zaheer Khan was ruled out of the first test at Lords due to injury - this reduced to the Indian bowling attack to three bowlers (one of them being an out-of-form 400+ wicket-taking spinner) and occasional captain-bowler. This was felt sorely when the English team (s...
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