India in England

[mighty_tiger_79]

zaheer khan is out for the series - ankle injury

[Rik E Boy]

zaheer khan is out for the series - ankle injury

And that's bye bye India I believe. Kumar not up to it over a four match series and you need your seamers over there.

regards,

REB

[brod]

Essex's Ravi Bopara has been recalled to England's squad for the third Test against India at Edgbaston, starting on Wednesday, after Jonathan Trott failed to recover full fitness after landing heavily on his shoulder while fielding during last week's Trent Bridge Test.

[brod]

Rahul Dravid has announced his retirement from international limited-overs cricket following the England series. In his announcement, which came hours after he was handed a shock recall to the one-day side for that tour, he said he wanted to retire from the shorter forms and concentrate on Test cricket.

[brod]

England and India are monitoring the security situation in Birmingham in the wake of the rioting and looting in the city on Monday night but, at the moment, the Edgbaston Test is set to begin as scheduled on Wednesday.

"As far as we're concerned, there's no reason to think the match will not go ahead as planned," an ECB spokesman said.

[Sam_goUUUdogs]

India 75/4 at lunch

[brod]

Not a bad four wickets to get to give you a bit of confidence
- Gahmbhir
- Sehwag
- Dravid
- Tendulkar

[Sam_goUUUdogs]

100/6

[brod]

Laxman's 30 contained 6 fours

[brod]

Mishra out for 4

India 7/111
Dhoni 6*
Broad 3/33
Bresnan 3/40

[Media Park]

India 224 all out
Dhoni 77
Broad and Bresnan 4 wickets

England 0/84
Strauss 52*
Cook 27*

[Sam_goUUUdogs]

England 178/0

Trail by 46 runs

[RustyCage]

England absolutely smashing them.

1-246

Strauss out for 87.
Cook 94*
Bell 34*

[GWW]

At least its not just the Aussies that the Poms smash around the park then

[Media Park]

Cook 182*

[Squids]

Cook is still average...

[Media Park]

Cook is still lifting his average...

edited.

[RustyCage]

Cook is still average...

206* yep, what a spud

[Media Park]

They just had some stat...

Over the last (I'm not sure how long, possibly his career) period, Cook has scored more runs, and faced more deliveries, than any other Test Cricketer.

Add that he's soon going to nudge his average over the fifty-mark (maybe this game at the current rate), he has got a lot going for him.

25 or 26 (that can double for both age and hundreds ), plenty of domination left...

But hang on, he's just a hack...

[dedja]

Don't you have a conflict of interest MP?