As though that will solely explain the huge margin of defeat !
Were the conditions so adverse in the second innings ?
And why so silent about the English batsmen so completely overpowering the hyped to the skies Indian bowlers ?
Oh, cut the crap !
The Indian team is far inferior to the England one, face the reality !
It is another matter that a quarter billion drooling Indian commoners, mostly members of the inferiority complex ridden Indian middle classes, lap up any bit of hyperbole about Indian cricketers that appears in the Indian media and also lap up innumerable monstrously stuxpid advertisements featuring Kohli and others !
Re: Re: What playing conditions ?
by P S SHAH on Aug 14, 2018 09:49 AM
Inzzy, it is you pakis who are suffering from inferior complex and has fobia facing Infdiancricket team all the time to avoid get thrashing. Indians never beg like t=you pakis to play IPL and Test matches with other countries.
I trolled earlier that it will be 5-0 washout, as this team is not a test-class team, not even ODIs. Any how, you have given undue credit to an average England team with no world-class players. Hope Anushka will be included in the next test.
Was an afganistan series necessary than getting acclamatised with english conditions.coming beforehand and playing (what our neighbours -pakistan did and reaped benefits!) would certainly have helped!how many years will there be only one gritty batsmen in alien conditions -it was sachin ,now kohli!indian cricket grow up -rather bcci grow up!for cricket's sake!
Re: how not to play test cricket
by piri on Aug 13, 2018 10:12 AM
Err......it is reported that Pujara spent the entire season preceding this series playing county cricket !
And it is also reorted that Kohli consciously chose tocome early and play for a short county season !
What is the need to keep inventing excuses to cover the ineptitude of the Indian team ?
Re: Re: how not to play test cricket
by renga nathan on Aug 14, 2018 01:12 AM
kohli has done his way putting a gritty 100 ,(leaving pujara) no other have enough experience acclamatising themselves in these playing conditions!playing individually and playing as a team in for a longer conditions do make a difference. that is where i feel we lost the onus!but let us hope the team now bounces back!we can still do it!
The much hyped Indian team surrendered meekly to England in the first two tests. What we require is players like Sachin,Gavaskar,Dravid,Lakshman,Ganguly, etc. who will be able to counter attack and defend. Except for Kohli none of the others are good enough for English conditions. Yes Mr.Kohli we too are ashamed of your teams performance. Please put the past behind and do perform well in the remaining tests.
Once again our team was exposed to the English playing conditions. Vijay, Rahul , Pujara, Rahane and Karthik need to seriously look into the art of plying test cricket. Agreed the condition did not favor us, but merely surrendering without any fight is very worrying. Hope they learn quickly from their mistakes, else we are looking at a clean sweep by England
