Smiddy
21-08-2007, 09:19 PM
Go away from the thread if you don't wanna know :)
I haven't actually watched the Indian innings at all (Curses to my mother watching Emmerdale/Big Brother)
England managed to amass 288 in their innings thanks to a huge partnership between cook & bell of around 180ish; and both batsmen reaching 3 figures; this was for the second wicket after Prior again failed with the bat despite showing 1 good shot (hit a very nice 6, it has to be said) and was out for 19 after slicing a shot of zaheer kahn.
So Cook & Bell both got their maiden ODI centuries. Cook reaching 102 off 120ish shots; Bell finished on 126* off 118 balls, with Pietersen still there at the end with 33 off 25 balls - Meaning the returning Flintoff did not get a chance to bat.
Then by the looks of it, in India's inning (just about to be completed) they got a poor start, and didn't recover despite 40+ contributions from captain Dravid and Karthik. Anderson atm has just got his 4th wicket and Flintoff bowled 7 overs, for 12 runs and 1 wicket (of Dhoni). Mascarenhas bowled out 10 overs for 28 runs and 1 wicket (of Dravid) - only problem being Panesar and Collingwood prooved to be a bit too expensive. Still, they've kept them under 200 runs, so job well done England, perhaps a 100 run victory about to be done!
I haven't actually watched the Indian innings at all (Curses to my mother watching Emmerdale/Big Brother)
England managed to amass 288 in their innings thanks to a huge partnership between cook & bell of around 180ish; and both batsmen reaching 3 figures; this was for the second wicket after Prior again failed with the bat despite showing 1 good shot (hit a very nice 6, it has to be said) and was out for 19 after slicing a shot of zaheer kahn.
So Cook & Bell both got their maiden ODI centuries. Cook reaching 102 off 120ish shots; Bell finished on 126* off 118 balls, with Pietersen still there at the end with 33 off 25 balls - Meaning the returning Flintoff did not get a chance to bat.
Then by the looks of it, in India's inning (just about to be completed) they got a poor start, and didn't recover despite 40+ contributions from captain Dravid and Karthik. Anderson atm has just got his 4th wicket and Flintoff bowled 7 overs, for 12 runs and 1 wicket (of Dhoni). Mascarenhas bowled out 10 overs for 28 runs and 1 wicket (of Dravid) - only problem being Panesar and Collingwood prooved to be a bit too expensive. Still, they've kept them under 200 runs, so job well done England, perhaps a 100 run victory about to be done!