England in India - cricket

mkkreuk · Admin:Moderator + ATP qualifying

RE: England in India - cricket

mkkreuk · Admin:Moderator + ATP qualifying

Oh an i forgot to say, England are 158-1 at tea

mkkreuk · Admin:Moderator + ATP qualifying

England have continued well and despite Owais Shah not returning after tea (retd hurt - cramp in wrist, shouldn't be too serious), England are 212-1

Strauss 123*
Bell 18 (caught by Harbajan Sing, bowler by Sreenath)
Owais Shah 50* (retd hurt)
Pieterson 15*

Strauss has been dropped twice today (Dhoni and dravid i think). He's taking his chances though

-- Edited by mkkreuk at 10:34, 2006-03-18

mkkreuk · Admin:Moderator + ATP qualifying

England are in danger of letting this great start go to waste. they are now 247-3 - still a strong position but 1 or 2 more wickets and that would all change...

Owais shah has still not returned to the middle and there are two new batsemn at the crease, Collingwood (1*) and Flintoff (4*). Strauss was out good knock of 128 and Pieterson out for a very laboured and fortuitous 39.

mkkreuk · Admin:Moderator + ATP qualifying

SuperFred just hit smacked a 6 and england are 269-3

mkkreuk · Admin:Moderator + ATP qualifying

England finish Day 1 on the third test on top. 272-3
Flintoff and Collingwood still in the middle and Owais shah could still resume his innings from 50*

mkkreuk · Admin:Moderator + ATP qualifying

England were in a very strong position but have kinda let India back in it with a mid to low order collapse. They went from 326-3 to 356-8!!!

Now they are 367-8 with Owais Shah on 76*

Collingwood and flintoff were the only ones who made meaningful contributions of 31 and 50 respectedly.

Sree Sreenath took 4-65
M Patel took 2 wickets in 2 balls for figures of 2-77

mkkreuk · Admin:Moderator + ATP qualifying

England are all out for 400. A decent score but could have and should have been 550+

Shah got 88 in the end, out to a stunning catch off the bowling of Singh

mkkreuk · Admin:Moderator + ATP qualifying

England's bowlers have made a good start! India are 27-2, Hoggard doing the damage taking the wickets of both openers

mkkreuk · Admin:Moderator + ATP qualifying

England are an a roll!!!!

Anderson has got the dream wicket on his return taking Tendulkar for 1!

India are 36-3

mkkreuk · Admin:Moderator + ATP qualifying

Since the last update England bowled out India for 279!!!

that gave them a lead of 121 and England are now 100-5 (one of the wickets include Udal, the nightwatchman so it is not as bad as it sounds).

So with a lead of 221 and 5 sessions left they are still in a very strong position. If they can get 150 runs with an hour of play left today then they would set a tough target of 370+ and India's openers would have a tough session to close out! Flintoff is at the crease so he could score quickly

Drew · Mar 21, 2006

Alas no...Freddie took 140 odd balls to get to 50 and got out....twice out on 50 in the same match !

India need 313 to win on the last day...........no chance England will win by tea !!!

mkkreuk · Admin:Moderator + ATP qualifying

England need another seven wickets in 2 sessions ...gonna be touch and go

India are 75-3 at lunch but arguably the toughest type of batsmen to bowl out in this situation are at the crease - Tendulkar and Dravid

mkkreuk · Admin:Moderator + ATP qualifying

BBC Update:

0713: WICKET India 75-4 (Dravid 9) A dream start for England after the interval as Flintoff's third delivery, a terrific ball, finds the Indian captain's edge. Jones does the rest and Flintoff's wild celebrations reflect that it's game on now - India's remaining batsmen are attacking players.

mkkreuk · Admin:Moderator + ATP qualifying

I will be very surprised if england do not win this now and level the series!

BBC update:

0720: WICKET
India 76-5 (Tendulkar 34) The big one. Tendulkar gets an inside edge off the pad and the ball is snaffled up by Bell at short-leg to give Udal his finest moment in the game. India are in disarray now and the game is there for England's taking.