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Hmmm..  not a lot of activity around here I see. 

 Anyways, Mishra bowled a few peaches out there the other day.I've always enjoyed watching him bowl. Those loopy deliveries, good drift and turn , and has got a beauty of a googly in that  arsenal.  Think he's way better than Ojha and needs to be in the Test team ahead of him. Sad that Dhoni doesn't see it that way (One of the few things that I'm critical of his ,otherwise almost untainted, captaincy) . Ojha's a decent bowl, Keeps it relentlessly tight and try to buy the batsman's wicket, Mishra has the ability to go out there and grab em by force. He'll give the batsmen more boundary balls ,but you get that from most attacking bowlers.

 He needs to be a little bit more quicker through the air though. 

Edited by vote4peace - 10 June 2011 at 6:49am

A lot of Australian cricketers have performed much better at test level than at domestic level. Point is, Raina's probably not that good anyway .

India can finish it off tomorrow in what could be an astonishing result for such a depleted team. WI have further helped their cause by resting Rampaul and Dwayne Bravo and still not picking Gayle.

Fidel Edwards took a pounding in a local game in barbados a few days ago.  He is to blame for his injury, I can't blame the WICB for what they are doing with Taylor and Edwards.  Gayle is another story though....

Just wondering, what is the highest score ever by a No.9 in a One day international? Is Russel's the highest ever?

Congratulations to team India on winning the series, I'm quite late in wishing them but then better late than never. Just a word on the last game I thought India did amazingly well to come back from 92/6 to pull that one off and a very good innings by Rohit Sharma, the best thing about that innings was that he finished the job and was there till the end. It should do his confidence a world of good.

Edited by sam_ahmed - 13 June 2011 at 5:37pm

West Indies got let off the hook by the Indian bowlers in the last 2 games when they were really struggling to comeback and post decent totals.  At least good to see a West Indies keeper post 2 decent back to back scores.  I can't honestly remember when was the last time that happened.  Maybe in Ridley Jacobs days....

I must say I was impressed by Darren Bravo's knock yesterday and Sarwan may not be as fluent as he was earlier but is still very effective. So WI repeat what they did against Pakistan.

I hope so zuhair, he is still just 31 and is at the peak of his career!

Who cares if Gayle is back - Gayle is money hungry and there is no hiding from that.  As much as I think that both parties are at fault, Gayle is driven by the money.  I'm sure that in either the first or second IPL, he wanted the board to compensate him for the money he missed from his IPL contract to play for the West Indies during that time.  Then he's talking that he still wants to play for West Indies blah blah blah.

Not at all impressed by Mukund whose struggle at the crease ended pretty early, not the easiest of tracks that but then for a youngster I thought he was way too cautious.

   as I had said, Bhajji to the rescue AGAIN!!! At this rate Harbhajan will become the best player ever in pressure situation for India, in fact I think he already is!!!

A poor performance for India and goes to show that even if your young batsmen average 50 or 60 in domestic cricket, doesn't mean they'll do well against fast bowling.

This is the match that West Indies must win, because this track has pace. Good to see Edwards back, but I'd much rather see Roach ahead of Sammy (and yes I know he is the captain...).

That's sadly true Kiran.

Just to tell you all what sheer bad luck is, I predict 68-83 runs will be scored in the first session on the ICC test predictor game, they score 79 until the last ball before lunch is to be bowled, for some strange strange reason Baugh comes down the track and smashes a SIX off the last ball before lunch and they end up scoring 85!!!