Captain's Log: Trent Bridge - Day 1
Dhoni should be standing up to Praveen Kumar. I won't say it again. Promise. I'll try. I really will. (That LBW call against Pietersen shows why)
Ian Chappell quoth : "a bowl-first decision is vindicated by 4 wickets at lunch and an all out on the first day (given the fact that you give up the fourth-innings advantage)". Dunno where he said it, but I remember it, and it sounds right.
0848AM EDT: Pietersen gone after lunch. Nice fast bowler's dismissal - Sree again. When this kid can hold his noggin' together, he can be a handful.
0945AM EDT: I missed logging the Kumar dismissals but this Sree ball to get rid of Prior has finally woken me up. Jeez, what a beauty.
Ian Chappell quoth : "a bowl-first decision is vindicated by 4 wickets at lunch and an all out on the first day (given the fact that you give up the fourth-innings advantage)". Dunno where he said it, but I remember it, and it sounds right.
0848AM EDT: Pietersen gone after lunch. Nice fast bowler's dismissal - Sree again. When this kid can hold his noggin' together, he can be a handful.
0945AM EDT: I missed logging the Kumar dismissals but this Sree ball to get rid of Prior has finally woken me up. Jeez, what a beauty.
Labels: Ian Chappell, India England 2011, Praveen Kumar, trent bridge
posted by Samir Chopra at 6:51 AM
5 Comments:
Seems that India have finally managed to work out how to play in English conditions.
I would think pitching up in England wouldn't be such a hard lesson to internalize but clearly its taken a test to get that sorted out!
Well well.. 124/8 at tea and I guess am gonna be staying up tonight. Now that our under-rated bowlers have delivered, the (over-rated) batsmen have to follow it up with a decent score.
Lets hope this test turns out the way it turned out 4 years back.
Satish: Well, we had our chances but two potentially matchwinning situations have been taken away by Ian Both..sorry, Stuart Broad.
Vaibhav: One can only hope - but India were way more in command of that test than they ever have been in this one.
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