England vs India @ The Oval

[CHAPPERS]

England
M E Trescothick, V S Solanki, M P Vaughan, (capt), A J Strauss, A Flintoff, P D Collingwood, G O Jones, (wkt), A F Giles, A G Wharf, D Gough, S J Harmison,

India
V Sehwag, S C Ganguly, (capt), V V S Laxman, R Dravid, (wkt), Yuvraj Singh, M Kaif, R S Gavaskar, I K Pathan, A B Agarkar, L Balaji, Harbhajan Singh,


India won the toss and have put England in.

14/0 off 3 overs

Tresco 1*
Solanki 3*

Wides 8*

 

[Marc]

Marvelous on the 'net radio now!

Come On England

18/0

 

[CHAPPERS]

Racing along..

71/0

Tresco 26*
Solanki 25*

11 overs bowled.

 

[Marc]

background noise from the fans is amazing, loads of horns, singing...and its only 11:30am, they must be well pissed up already

 

[CHAPPERS]

The innings is due to finish at about 2 innit? I might go and watch some down the pub at lunchtime..

 

[The Great Cornholio]

background noise from the fans is amazing, loads of horns, singing...and its only 11:30am, they must be well pissed up already

Not pissed - just mostly Indian. It's more like an away game.

 

[Titanic]

Trescothick out ... c Balaji b Harbhajan Singh 27

71/1 - great atmosphere... come on England

 

[CHAPPERS]

The Oval is well good. You gotta go, Crabbers!

As I type Harbajan takes the wicket of Trescothick.

71/1

Time for Vaughan to score some blimey runs.

 

[Marc]

Not pissed - just mostly Indian. It's more like an away game.

yeah figured that when they got the wicket incredible noise though, would love to be in the middle of that atmosphere

 

[Titanic]

Vaughan gone too

15.1 Harbhajan Singh to Vaughan, OUT: shuffles down the pitch, ball turns sharply, has a little paddle, off the bat, Dravid takes, has the bails off, stumped or caught, standing umpire says caught.


England 93/2, Partnership of 22
MP Vaughan c Dravid b Harbhajan Singh 4 (12b 1x4 0x6)
VS Solanki 40* (39b 8x4) Harbhajan Singh 2.1-1-1-2

 

[Titanic]

Oooh dear... 98/3

Strauss ct off Sehwag.

Come on Freddie !!!

 

[Titanic]

This will be very interesting... Harbhajan Singh and Sehwag bowling to Flintoff, with England under some pressure.

Freddie... HERO or ZERO ??

 

[Titanic]

Wickets still tumbling... 105/4

Solanki ct behind off Sehwag 48.

 

[CHAPPERS]

f***ing Shewag?

How is he taking so many wickets?

Jesus.

 

[Marc]

Vaughan has been really shit in one-day's, can you Drop the Captain?

 

[Titanic]

Vaughan has been really shit in one-day's, can you Drop the Captain?

Yes, yes you can - just ask Nasser !!

Although I don't think I would do that quite yet - Vaughan is a very capable one day performer... and leads the team well.

Only if we are really struggling for batting form as a team should his place be brought into question.

 

[CHAPPERS]

Freddy and Collingwood putting a nice partnership together.If these two can hang about until the last few we good put on a decent total....

171/4 off 36 overs

Freddy 37*
Collingwood 26*

 

[CHAPPERS]

The other good news is that the two wicket takers, Harbajan and Sehwag are nearly bowled out. Only Sehwag has 2 overs left.

Harbajan bowled 10 overs taking 2/14.

Smashy smashy time.

 

[Titanic]

Freddie's just put Sehwag into the stands!!

191/4 - 12 overs to go... looking good !!

 

[CHAPPERS]

I wonder what odds you could get on a freddy century here....

The how out betting is crazy. 11/8 on anything other than caught. Could see Freddy getting bowled.