India in England

[dedja]

Funny how the crowd went from boos to cheers when they saw the Sherminator walk out after tea ...

[RustyCage]

the umps had a bit of a chuckle when they walked back out

[Media Park]

Stumps Day 3:

ENG 221

IND 288

ENG 6/441
Ian Bell 159
Eoin Morgan 70
Matt Prior 64* (55)
Kevin Pietersen 63
Tim Bresnan 47*

Kumar and Sreesanth have two wickets each.

[stampy]

the poms will win this easily now, they remind me of our sides great fighting qualities pre '07

[bulldogproud2]

Well done to Dhoni for recalling Bell.. great sportsmanship.
Still not sure we will win as the pitch is playing extremely placidly.
Great to see 417 runs scored in the days play, first time at Trent Bridge for over 50 years. The final session was great viewing with Prior and Bresnan scoring at six an over, with many overs going for more than ten.
Cheers

[CoverKing]

Well done to Dhoni for recalling Bell.. great sportsmanship.
Still not sure we will win as the pitch is playing extremely placidly.
Great to see 417 runs scored in the days play, first time at Trent Bridge for over 50 years. The final session was great viewing with Prior and Bresnan scoring at six an over, with many overs going for more than ten.
Cheers

No idea why he did it. Bell was clearly lacking concentration and was his own fault. Yes good sportsmanship but didn't need to be done IMO

[Lightning McQueen]

From cricinfo:

England's lead was 187 with seven wickets in hand, when Bell, batting on 137 with the mastery of Yoda, made a rookie's assumption that ended his innings, temporarily. Morgan flicked the last ball before tea towards the square-leg boundary, where Praveen Kumar dived to try to save it. And he did, though he didn't think he had. Praveen then took his time to get up and throw the ball towards the wicketkeeper's end, by which time Bell had gone to the non-striker's end, jogging at first and then walking, either because he thought it was a boundary or that tea had been called. The throw reached Abhinav Mukund and he took off the bails, after which the umpire called over and handed Ishant Sharma his sweater. India had appealed for a run-out, though, and after a long delay, while the decision was referred to the third umpire, Bell was given out.

The Indian team was greeted with boos from the Nottingham crowd as play resumed after tea. But suddenly Bell walked out to bat and there were cheers. During the tea interval England's captain and coach, Andrew Strauss and Andy Flower, had asked Dhoni if he was willing to withdraw the appeal. India had been within their rights to appeal for the run-out, and Bell was out according to the laws, but Dhoni agreed to let Bell resume his innings.

[Goat Herder]

Interesting incident, and yes, I reckon Bell could consider himself fairly lucky to have emerged with bat in hand after tea. Geez, didn't the Pommy crowd fairly stick it to Dhoni & his men moments before the Shermanator skipped down the race??

Conjured up memories of Deano being run out over in the West Indies in '91 after being bowled off a no-ball & starting to stroll off the field, thinking he was out. No chance of Sir Vivian recalling Deano..

Had to agree with David Gower (by memory), who put forward the hypothetical scenario of the batsman being Tendulkar instead of Bell, on 137no at Mumbai and subjected to the same incident. The match would've been called off.

Bravo MS Dhoni! At last, a feel-good international cricket story for a change..

[Squids]

Nice to see Cook back to normal, average, very average.

Was Trott hampered by his shoulder? he is easily my favourite pommy player.

Nice to England will take the No.1 ranking, we can atleast say we were beaten by the best then

[Sam_goUUUdogs]

England 544/9

Lead of 477

[GWW]

What was Bell thinking

Saw it on the News tonight, I'm 50/50 as to whether it was bad sportsmanship on India's behalf to initially claim the run out.

[Sam_goUUUdogs]

And all out for 544

India need 478 to win

[Sam_goUUUdogs]

India 8/1 at lunch

[Sam_goUUUdogs]

India 13/2

[mal]

Worlds most popular I mean populated cricket team is 3/31

[Squids]

37/4

Raina isn't a test cricketers......

[RustyCage]

What was Bell thinking

Saw it on the News tonight, I'm 50/50 as to whether it was bad sportsmanship on India's behalf to initially claim the run out.

India were 100% correct in taking the bails off, he just wandered off while the ball was live. Jogged part of the way down while Morgan was telling him to go back. It was Bells stupidity. He was lucky. Even Warney said he wouldn't be surprised if Bell did a big con job by pretending he thought the ball went for four.

[RustyCage]

Do you think Sri Lanka were wrong to run Murali out when he went down to celebrate Kumar getting a ton?

[dedja]

India imploding ... 6/55.

Luke Norman's brother is on a hat-trick.

[mal]

India imploding ... 6/55.

Luke Norman's brother is on a hat-trick.

Luke it I mean Like it

The worlds most popular I mean Populated Cricket team is now
6/66 and having a Devil of a time