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Well played Colly, still about 150 runs short, the rest of Englands batsmen, except Cook,were pathetic!!

India will bat us into submission tomorrow, I doubt we'll get Dravid out more then twice this series. Harmison was particularly useless today, and blackwell

The Python showed promise though

Well, I was right we still haven't got Dravid out, despite what the scorecard says

Still, great performance by Hoggard, the king of the swingers indeed, and the Pythons ball to get out Kaif was unplayable, goodbye Ashley

Got a chance now, and here was me thinking it was gonna be a 3-0 landslide

I must admit, I thought we'd get out very cheaply and India would come in and get 450/500 whenever they came to bat and that would be the way of the series. This test has been a good one so far and is still very much in the balance.

Come on England!

Yes Mozza, I'm sure we'll all applaud a good solid Yorkies six wickets, always the backbone of a good English side

Good performance by Cook, but I was a little annoyed that they didn't push on a bit, come the end

Odds on draw now, but still a very strong engerland performance after the shambles in Pakistan, augurs well

Draw is a better result than I expected going into the match and there is enough there to suggest we can get something out of the series.

Baby joy for England star Flintoff

Press Association Thursday March 9, 2006 9:03 AM

England cricket captain Andrew Flintoff started the second Test against India with the news that his wife Rachael has given birth to their second child, a boy.

Corey Flintoff was born 13 days early, weighing 6lb 14oz.

He is a younger brother for 18-month-old Holly.

Flintoff had made plans to miss the third Test to return home for the baby's arrival, expected to be on March 21.

He opted to remain in India for the whole series after being named captain when Michael Vaughan injured his knee. guardian

good news for Freddie, but Corey?

Well he'll probably have to go through life being nicknamedPebbles or Bammbamm, I know that doesn't quite work, but nicknames aren't rocket-science.

WHY DO ENGLAND BATSMENS INSIST ON GETTING OUT WHEN THEY'RE SET

Very frustrating to see Pietersen out like that when he was looking set for a very useful tonne. Not good so far and we now need a very big partnership between Colly and Freddie.

Hey we won the last test match, did you lot not even watch it

One-day series now, I predict 6-1 to India, coz we're still pish at one-dayers

Please don't pick Prior England, hes useless

Hey,some of us were up giving an over by over commentary of those final wickets which was probably responsible for overloading the server
Sadly you will all be deprived of the sparkling wit and intelligent insight this thread displayed

Kabir Ali took four wickets and was responsible for a run out as England bowled India out for just 203 in the opening one-day match in Delhi.

James Anderson and Liam Plunkett each took two wickets to reward Andrew Flintoff for his decision to bowl.

Harbhajan Singh was India's top-scorer for 37 after Plunkett stopped Rahul Dravid on 34 on a pace-friendly pitch.

Spinner Ian Blackwell bowled straight through for figures of 1-24, his cheapest ever 10-over return.

Only when Gambhir and Dravid were together did India look like their usual dominating selves, the first 50 runs coming at almost a run a ball.

Virender Sehwag had already perished for seven, falling again for England's short-ball plan and top-edging a pull off Anderson.

Ali should have dismissed Dravid in his first over as Owais Shah, playing in his first one-day international for three years, put down a regulation edge at first slip.

The batsman capitalised with four boundaries off the next three overs, leaving Shah to sweat until Plunkett did the job in the 20th over with a delivery that jagged through the gate.

Ali, only playing because Sajid Mahmood suffered a finger injury, also missed a sharp return chance from opener Gambhir, on 13 at the time.

Gambhir, who survived a delivery from Anderson that stuck in his helmet grille, took 10 off the first two balls of Ali's next over, hooking six then driving through the covers.

But the Worcestershire bowler came back fighting, finding an out-swinger to have Gambhir caught pushing away from his body.

Yuvraj was cavalier as he flashed a loose drive to his sixth ball and got an inside edge onto his stumps.

And even though he was then rested from the attack, Ali was again in action as he threw from long on, punishing Kaif's slow response to Dravid's call for a single.

Raina and Pathan looked assured together in a sixth-wicket stand of 58, surprisingly bettering by 27 the sixth-wicket record for this ground, but failed to capitalise.

Raina backed up his billing as a young David Gower with some glorious early cover drives but lost his head just when he appeared well-set.

Bowling over the wicket left-armer Blackwell was stiflingly accurate in line and length, with just a little turn to create doubt in batsmen's minds.

He broke the burgeoning sixth wicket stand through frustration as Raina went down the track and miscued an attempted drive to mid-off.

Even with England on top, Flintoff refused to attack, keeping his field spread and rotating his bowlers often to stop the lower order attacking.

Harbhajan dominated an eight-wicket partnership with a subdued Mahendra Dhoni, including 10 from three balls of Plunkett.

Dhoni followed him with two aggressive boundaries before cutting the Durham man straight to cover.

And Ali completed his haul with the wickets of Harbhajan and last man Sri Sreesanth as they thrashed in desperation.

1 over gone. 4-2. ****

wicket gone. Prior caught out. Just after they got the 50 partnership.



he's still in tho and eye in.

Just to remind you was the cricket commentary crashed this forum last week

74-3

perhaps we should go all test match special.

Anyone got any cake?