WTF??? India!!

[topdon]

After 17 overs ... they are 2/111 chasing England's 255.

I somehow i think India are going to s hit it in. This is how you play one-day cricket!!

 

[London Dave]

Alas no, once again India choke. Ganguly plays a crap shot and the rest crumble. second time in two games he has cost his team a win by chucking his hand away imho. Tendulkar and Sehwag apart, this lot of Indians are a bunch of show ponies with no guts at all. Weak, badly skippered and crap in the field. Half of em wont get their whites dirty.Watched the game after the aussie one finished. Great effort by the poms. After watching a fair amount of their winter tour, I think they have found a test cricket and ODI player in Flintoff. He has shown a heap of ticker, and bowled brilliantly. Batting came together for him in the last two games.

The poms will give the Kiwis a shake I reckon.

 

[Joe Mama]

I'm quite impressed with that Andy Flintoff, that 40 he scored in the death of the innings was great, and he's pretty handy with the ball as well, and gives Darren Gough good support.

I hope that Fleet Street (do they still print the newspapers there Dave ?), don't put a curse on him and say that he'll be the next Ian Botham, becuase I think he'll go places.

 

[Dipper]

Originally posted by Wayde Petersen

I hope that Fleet Street (do they still print the newspapers there Dave ?), don't put a curse on him and say that he'll be the next Ian Botham, becuase I think he'll go places.

lol!Nah they don't still print them there, 'your' bloke Murdoch saw to that.
As for Freddie Flintoff being labelled the new Botham-it's already been done.Just as it was for Pringle, Defreitas,Capel,Lewis,Hollioake & anyone else who can hold a bat & bowl a ball from one end of the pitch to the other.

It's not so bad being labelled the next Botham it's when your labelled the next Chris Lewis that you've got problems.

As for England's performance in this game (& series) it was pretty good, showing a lot of fight & a bit of nouse.We're definitely a better bet in Tests than 1 dayers but we're improving everywhere with the players we've got.If we just had one world class player, or (please god) 1wc batsman & 1 wc bowler then we would really have a chance.As it is we've got a team of honest footsoldiers who are playing as a unit & not giving in, which is admirable but that touch of class is as far away as ever I fear.

 

[London Dave]

Exactamundo Dipper, freddies turn as 'the new Both' was a couple of year ago. having said that, I reckon he will turn out better than the incarnations you mentioned in your post. He got to India a fat bastard, and left a decent test match and ODI cricketer imho. I reckon he is the real deal, and will be a big suprise to the kiwis.

Interesting point you raise, Wayde. I recall a conversation with an English bloke I play cricket with, along the lines of the New Botham curse, and how it was popular belief at the time that English cricket needed a 'new Botham'. I said to him, "what were you guys waiting for before Botham came along?" His answer....


"Botham!"