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whitelightwhiteheat

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Jul 21, 2006
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710!!! What a blinding effort from the boys. Alistair Cook, take a bow son! Awesome!

An innings defeat in store for India here I'd say.
 

whitelightwhiteheat

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Jul 21, 2006
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It'll be over very soon. Get Dhoni out (the only India player to come out of this series with any credit, probably) and it's job done!
 

Ionman34

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4 match series isn't it?

When was the last time anyone beat the number one test side in the World, well former, with a whitewash?

What an awesome test side we have.

Get our 50 over act together and England could dominate World Cricket in the same way the Aussies did.
 

Ionman34

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Hung, drawn and quartered.


Fantastic display from the undisputed best in the World.

An innings and 200+ runs, phenomenal.
 

rich75

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It'll be over very soon. Get Dhoni out (the only India player to come out of this series with any credit, probably) and it's job done!

Bit harsh on kumar , at least he tried , his bowling figures on this test are the only acceptable ones for India
 

alfie103

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Jun 4, 2005
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Lets not get out of hand. We have the best test side in the world but we now have to go to the subcontinent and do well and we then have South Africa coming up next summer. We now need to work harder than ever to keep our number one status.
 

Spurs_Bear

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Jan 7, 2009
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This 4th test has so far been an embarrassment. Dhoni is a disgrace to Indian cricket with his lazy performance, he has hands like feet. How many regulation balls has he dropped behind the stumps.

It's quite shocking and makes a mockery of the ranking system (which is heavily flawed) that this team were so highly regarded in Test cricket.
 

PT

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May 21, 2004
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Blame India's test performances this season on the IPL. Their players have had no time to bond on this tour, not play vital warm up matches vs County sides.

The Indians have essentially relegated test matches down below their IPL series and the shorter forms such as International 20/20 and 50 over one day matches.
 

GDG

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The coup de grace is delivered, Swann with 6 wickets for the innings and another annihilation, thoroughly enjoyable series. This is a very good England team but that was a complete series-long capitulation from a gutless Indian squad.
 

Stoof

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Jun 5, 2004
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That was some collapse. Almost English-like.

Tremendous stuff from the bowlers. They've all had their days in the series. A tremendous bowling attack and a strong batting line-up that pretty much includes all of them - even Jimmy!

Rightly the world's best test team, in my not-at-all biased opinion.
 

Rocksuperstar

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Jun 6, 2005
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Before this series started i really was worried for the England squads chances. Granted, we've not looked bad at all for a while, but against India i really thought we'd be fighting hard to get a result, but it turns out we had the necessary to nail the former world number one side to the wall, four times.

Whilst on paper this will go down as a more than satisfying whitewash, i can't help but think that the result will look rather unfairly like India just rolled over and took it in the arse, but in reality they had some quite exceptional stands with the bat considering the pressure they were under, and even their bowlers didn't do bad against what can only be described as really determined batsmen and a wicket flatter than Kiera Knightlys chest.

Either way, superb display by England, Strauss must be over the moon for the lads. Few more convincing decimations like this and i'd have to wonder if it's now our turn to have a team that matches the quality of formerly world-dominating Aussie and Windies teams.
 

Spurs_Bear

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Congratulations to England, this is a fantastic team that we have.

That was shameful India, a complete embarrassment.
 

Brandan

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Great work done by all England side,.
I love the way they plan in the whole test series,.They crashed India one sided,.
 
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