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boycott can be an arse cant he. 😉
Natch.
We are the best team the world now. Sounds good eh? 🙂
all over now
*happy dance*
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The largest victory margin for a team behind on first innings EVER!
We are the best team the world now. Sounds good eh?
sounds unbelievable if you think where England were not that long ago.
England 128-8We are a seriously decent side now, seriously decent.
They deserve to be number 1 on this performance and without trott or cook doing much this time as well. Strength in depth and the Flintoff ashes seems so long ago now
Having grown up in the late 80s I had become ritually acustomised to England getting utterly annihilated by West Indies, Australia, South Africa etc. I remember listening to the winter tour in SA before the ashes in 2005 and thinking that a few things had changed and would stay changed. We've steadily improved since then and apart from the insane decision to give flintoff the captaincy ahead of Strauss and the serous lack of prep for the ashes in 2007 I'd say we've been improving ever since.
Now we are handing out the beatings. How nice is that? After slaughtering Australia we've hammered India twice and I dont think it's over yet. Who the **** do you drop for the next test?? Tremlett? Bresnan? Anderson? Swann? Broad? 😀
My 4 year old was watching with me today, he thinks we've always been the best at cricket. 🙂
Are we getting properly good at test cricket just as the rest of the world stops really caring about it? :/
Much as I like his style, (and he played one nice innings in this match) I reckon you could drop Morgan without missing him too much - and have an extra bowler. They can bat pretty far down the order anyway as shown by Bresnan and Broad today (and Broad/Swann in the first innings).
I've also followed cricket since the late 80s - just after we last won the Ashes. Got used to getting beaten a lot. It does seem rather incredible where we are now.
Strength in depth - that's what it's all about, and what we have and India doesn't. Lots of comments from India fans about how it would all be different if they hadn't lost their best bowler and best batsman - seemingly not having noticed that we've lost our best bowler of the summer and now our statistically best batsman. Not to mention that when our "best" batsmen fail there are others ready to step in. Who'd be a selector?!
Also does any longterm England fan remember when we had walking wickets coming in at 8? I mean even the 2005 "greats" had Hoggard at 9. Now that's India's problem, whilst we have the 6th best all-rounder in the world coming in at 10!
Sometime earlier, somebody wrote:
No way will India go as cheaply as that - they have had their one batting failure this tour
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