Re: England vs India - Ist Test Match
most probably England will bat.......
Re: England vs India - Ist Test Match
Please add ^ afridi to that list as well :halo: 
Re: England vs India - Ist Test Match
England team:
AJ Strauss, AN Cook, IR Bell, KP Pietersen, PD Collingwood,
*A Flintoff, +GO Jones, ID Blackwell, MJ Hoggard, MS Panesar,
SJ Harmison.
India team:
W Jaffer, V Sehwag, *R Dravid, SR Tendulkar, VVS Laxman,
+MS Dhoni, M Kaif, IK Pathan, A Kumble, Harbhajan Singh,
S Sreesanth.
Re: England vs India - Ist Test Match
England won the toss and elected to bat first
**Day 1 start scheduled for 10am local time (4.30sm GMT) **
England team: AJ Strauss, AN Cook, IR Bell, KP Pietersen, PD Collingwood, *A Flintoff, +GO Jones, ID Blackwell, MJ Hoggard, MS Panesar, SJ Harmison.India team: W Jaffer, V Sehwag, *R Dravid, SR Tendulkar, VVS Laxman, +MS Dhoni, M Kaif, IK Pathan, A Kumble, Harbhajan Singh, S Sreesanth.
Re: England vs India - Ist Test Match
ok, so Panesar gets the match. W. Jaffer gets a match.........
Re: England vs India - Ist Test Match
i saw this chawla in u 19 he looked very impressive!
Re: England vs India - Ist Test Match
sreesanth too.
Re: England vs India - Ist Test Match
england will win, because if freddie, harmison, and hoggard, can get it going after posting a decent score it could be interesting!!
Re: England vs India - Ist Test Match
India should have gone in with another bowler, medium-pace bowler, RP Singh or someone else. but on well they are back to 6-4-1 scheme.
Re: England vs India - Ist Test Match
gambhir was in good form? i guess chappel and dravid are tking this is a practice match!!
Re: England vs India - Ist Test Match
kaif who scored 5 runs in pakistan in 5 matches gets a game!! wow! this is a practice match!
Re: England vs India - Ist Test Match
^ I am glad they gave kaif another chance. He is a great potential.
Re: England vs India - Ist Test Match
kaif can really be neutralized once the singles are blocked off in odi's any time a rr is rising, he falls! so maybe this is what he needs!
Re: England vs India - Ist Test Match
He certainly has talent as a batsman and very valuable as a fielder
Re: England vs India - Ist Test Match
0.3 Pathan to Strauss, no run, wide outside off stump. Left alone again
by strauss. Very little bounce for Pathan. Dhoni collected that at
his ankle.
welcome 2 india!
Re: England vs India - Ist Test Match
well khyber, this guy jaffer has scored quite heavily in the ranji trophy matches and he really deserved a chance....gambhir has not been that impressive lately....kaif has been little shaky lately but in my opinion he has a very good temprament to be a test batsman....lets see..plus lets not forget that england bowling is not that bad..i mean they still have hamirson, flintoff, hoggard and anderson.....if the wicket has some grass, it wont be that easy for indians...and the match starts.......
Re: England vs India - Ist Test Match
well then I should say Jaffer is more like Pakistan Hasan Raza :halo:
Re: England vs India - Ist Test Match
india will have to really rely on kumble and harbhajan because these bowlers will not trouble england att all, if they play normally! they play swing well which pathan gets in 1st over or 2. they have no pace whatso ever which pakistan had!
Re: England vs India - Ist Test Match
i think these anxious fans switched up the dates…currently it looks and sounds like a practice match.