India vs West Indies, 2nd Test, SHOWTIME

[BallOil]

12.1 Sammy to Sehwag, OUT, 122.0 kph, the drinks break works a charm for West Indies, Sehwag is gone first ball after that, it wasn't a great delivery or anything, a length ball that Sehwag wanted to murder, he can only club it as far as a straight-ish short midwicket, West Indies are ecstatic, and why not.

V Sehwag c Barath b Sammy 38 (33b 8x4 0x6) SR: 115.15

[BallOil]

72/1 after 13 overs

WI leaking too much runs... looks like Indian making a big total here

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100 up in the 21st over... India going at 5 an over

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Lunch - Day 1
India 132/1 (28.0 ov)

[mikesiva]

Been a crap start to be honest, Sammy was taking the piss trying to use the new ball and go rightly punished!! , and once again Fidel has given away boundries for fun, Kemar has bowled better today but India look very relaxed right now, i can see them getting near 500 if we're not careful.

I agree...I'm glad I didn't miss any sleep for this hammering in this session.

[AFRO]

It's the kind of game that will kill the long version of the game, india have produced an absolute road, specially designed for Tendy of course!! , and our poor bowling unit have made things even easier for them, can't even be bothered to watch anymore, gonna sleep soon, hopefully i won't wake up until it's WI's turn to bat because it's been painful to watch to be honest and i'm very pissed off.

[mikesiva]

It's the kind of game that will kill the long version of the game, india have produced an absolute road, specially designed for Tendy of course!! , and our poor bowling unit have made things even easier for them, can't even be bothered to watch anymore, gonna sleep soon, hopefully i won't wake up until it's WI's turn to bat because it's been painful to watch to be honest and i'm very pissed off.

I don't blame India for preparing this pitch....

They will make runs on it, and when we bat, they will just use their spinners to bowl us out, because, quite simply, we can't play spin, with the exception of a couple of our batsmen, of course.

[AFRO]

I don't blame India for preparing this pitch....

They will make runs on it, and when we bat, they will just use their spinners to bowl us out, because, quite simply, we can't play spin, with the exception of a couple of our batsmen, of course.

If we can't play spin on this pitch then we really will have a problem!! , to be fair though we got 300 in the first test so we are capable of putting up a decent score against them, India are just flat track bullies right now imo!!..and they are milking their ancient batting line-up for all it's worth, but it will come to an end very soon though and i can't wait to see how they cope with that,

Back to the game and Sammy has been a joke, Edwards is driving me mad with his habit of bowling a decent ball and then the next delivery is sent for a boundry, Bishoo had his moments but he's still not bowling the Googley to the left hander,

The only shining light i'm thinking of is defeat in this series may see the end of the likes of Sammy and Edwards and hopefully some new bowlers will get a chance.

[mikesiva]

To be fair, the averages of our bowlers, except Roach, are going in the right direction. The averages of Rampaul, Fidel, Bishoo and even Sammy are going down.

The problem lies with our batsmen. When India make 600-6 declared on this road, the question is this - how much will our batsmen make? Or will this road turn into a minefield?

Fidel gets the wicket of Gambhir!

[mikesiva]

Looks like Sachin had a lucky escape. He should've been given out lbw to Bishoo, but escaped.

Oh DRS, where are you?

Bishoo gets Sachin's wicket! Justice has been done....

That was a scratchy innings from Tendulkar.