2nd Test , India vs England @ Mohali

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Thursday 9th March to Tuesday 14th March

whoever wins this match cant lose the series.
Who will be your team for the most important test of the Series?

England

Matt Prior
Owais Shah
Paul Collingwood
Ian Bell
Kevin Pieterson
Andrew Flintoff
Geriant Jones
James Anderson
Matthew Hoggard
Monty
Harmisson

who would be your indian team?

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Matt Prior ???
Owais Shah ?? what are you smoking...

English will probably keep same team except that they will bring in Lim Plunket in place of Blackwell..

I guess Indian will be faced with 2 chalenges..

1) How to accommodate Yuvraj in team. I think Laxman should make way for Yuvi but I have a feeling that Team management will drop Kaif to bring in Yubraj.

2) Other option India will look for is to go with three seamer or 2 seamer. If 3rd seamer is played then who will sit out.Hrabhajan or Kumble. Who would play Munaf or RP Singh. If I were the selector then I will drop Harbhajan and Bring it Munaf.One can only have on Sardar in a cricket match. Now that place has been taken by Monty. But knowing Indian team management I will doubt that they will go with 3 seamers.So both Kumble and Harbhajan will play...

My Ideal Indian team:



Sehwag
Jafer
Dravid
Sachin
Yuvraj
Kaif
Dhoni
Pathan
Kumble
Sreesanth
Munaf

My Ideal English team:



Strauss
Cook
Bell
Peterson
Collingwood
Flintoff
G Jones
Hoggard
Harmisson
Plunkett
Panesar
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Cheetah bhai,
Where did you leave Cook and Strauss? Wapis England sent kar dia? Lolz.
No, I think England would make one change and the change would be to bring in "Liam Plunkett" and axe Blackwell. I don't see how Eng can affrod to bring Matt Prior and Owais Shah admist the good fortune of Cook. Strauss is a well settled opener so it would be a recipe to disaster if they change the batting line up than the one used in Nagpur.
Also, India would probably kick Laxman out and bring the Punjabi Yuvi in. I am really dubious that Kaif would be the water guy. Maybe, also, thinking that Mohali wicket supports the medium pacers the first day, India might bring in the youngster Patel and here begins the debate. For India, you can't axe out Sreesanth & Pathan. That's for sure. Most probably, if they bring in Patel, Bhajji would be sitting in the hut. Apart from that, I think India should utilize the same team as in the Nagpur match.
Fair_balance bhai, I agree with your teams 100%....
Umer

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Congrats. It took us 3-4 years to reach there. :D

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good team selection F&B…
and ALL DA BESHT to India ! :k:

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It should be made a rule, if anyone opens a thread for a match and does not enter dates and times should be banned for atleast 3 days :p

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Where should this source come from?

:stuck_out_tongue:

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:hehe:

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I think there is a chance of rain.. Could favour the english, if they win the toss once again.:(

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**Mohali wicket set to favour seam **](BBC SPORT | Cricket | England | Mohali wicket set to favour seam)

The groundsman preparing the wicket for Thursday’s second Test between India and England in Mohali has predicted a result pitch favouring the seamers.
After a slow surface at Nagpur resulted in a drawn first Test, attention turns to Mohali, furthest point north in the series, which has seen recent rain.
“Moisture and humidity have risen. It will help seamers on days one and two,” Stadium curator Daljit Singh said.
England captain Andrew Flintoff said: “We have a decent chance of winning.”
Flintoff is keen for his young side to build on the success of the opening Test, in which debutant Alastair Cook scored a fifty and a century and Monty Panesar, also playing his first Test, impressed with accurate left-arm spin.
“The one thing we can’t do now is get complacent because we have competed with India and probably outplayed them for the bulk of the Test match,” he said.

“We can’t now think we are better than we are and get above our station, we have to do the same things we did last week.”
Two pitches have been worked on for the Test, one notably greener than the other, but Singh insisted: “Both have been prepared to produce a result.”
Heavy rain in the Chandigarh area meant that the decision over which one to use will not now be made until the day before the match.
There is also likely to be some assistance for the slower bowlers, with Singh adding: “If you have good spinners, you can extract turn even on the second day here.”
Some slight cracks have been detected on the wickets but Singh played down their importance.
Four of the six Tests played at the Mohali ground have been drawn, with England defeated on their last tour in 2001.
On that occasion it was India spinners Harbhajan Singh and Anil Kumble, both still involved in the current series, that wreaked havoc.
Harbhajan captured five wickets in the first innings and Kumble claimed 6-81 in the second as India won by 10 wickets.
However, with swing likely to play a more prominent part, it may be that Munaf Patel, who took 10 wickets in the match when the President’s XI beat England earlier in the tour, replaces Harbhajan.
The spinner failed to take a wicket in two Tests in Pakistan earlier this year and had modest figures of 2-93 and 0-79 in Nagpur.
“That performance against England was a turning point for me,” said Munaf. “If I get the chance I am confident of doing well again.” The most recent Test at the ground, between India and Pakistan in March 2005, produced a feast of runs, with Virender Sehwag and Kamran Akmal both scoring centuries and eight others adding fifties.

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I have a question.. is the punjab coach an ex-pakistan captain.. i read somewhere it is so.. i forgot the name.. or is it the other side of the border that i am confused with.:confused:

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^ It was Intikhab Alam the ex Pakistani captain. I am not sure if he is still their coach.

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Thank you ehsan bhai.. I couldnt believe that was true.
Wonder why then the problem that Pakistanies cant coach the Indians.

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^ are you talking about the potentially Wasim coaching Indian team? Probably because Wasim accomplished much more than Intikhab Alam. If you were to ask for Arshad Khan as your coach, all of us guppies will be more than willing to put him on next flight ;)

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^ :D

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that quote from me is going to go down in history of being most stupid
:smack2:

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if i told u that u will have 2 be shot

i choose them because againest pakistan prior was in very good form
and i choose owais because he is family and he deserves a chance

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CricInfo has confirmed that both VVS Laxman and Mohammad Kaif will be dropped from the squad for the second test, paving way for Yuvraj Singh and an extra bowler between either Piyush Chawla or RP Singh. Munaf Patel is also set to start.

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One batsman short when Your bastmen are not firing? :smiley: Doesnt sound like a great idea. I hope they play both Piyush and Munaf.

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Not sure if it is a wise decision to play an extra bowler at the expense of a bastman on what could be a lively pitch (by Indian standards).
Also, Sehwag is a crappy batsman...who is mostly unreliable...so I will say ..India is going into this match 2 batsmen short...and that is way too risky.
Lagta hai, Indian team mgmt did not want to hurt the emotions of either Laxman or Kaif...so dropped both.