Tweets as England break 28 year drought on Indian soil @maza786
There would be no one more ecstatic with outcome of the series than Tony Greig. Hopefully it does give them a few lessons on DRS. Its a MUST
Not agreeing with Warne that Swann is best spinner going, but he IS more admirable in a sense given he is conventional, yet achieves highly
Determined resilience from the Warwickshire Bears as they petered out proceedings and bored the hosts into submission
Only South Africa have split captaincy system for Test/ODI so don’t know what Sourav G is on about when he refers to “most other teams do”
ENGs Asian 2012-Humiliated in UAE, decent in SL,failed in World T20 defence,end with a monumental start to Cook’s full time captaincy career
Since winning WC11:Played 20|Won 6|Lost 10|Drawn 4 – 3 series wins and 3 series losses. Sorry tale for a team who started the period as NO1s
Can #TeamHafeez and #TeamMisbah rub salt into the wounds for the Team Ind?To some extent they may,despite it not happening in premier format
Compton’s series–1 half century, 2 not outs, 3 battling 20s/30s and a few low scores. Needs to be persisted with. Proper test class opener.
England in tests this year – Played 15 | Won 5 | Lost 7 | Drawn 3
England in series this year – Played 5, defeated by Pakistan and South Africa, beat West Indies and India, drew in Sri Lanka
Pak only got to play 40% the number of tests Eng did in 2012.Eng will play 14 tests in 2013. It’s an Oceania year (home & away vs. NZ & Aus)
Art of extreme long, patient, risk averse ‘staying in’ has returned in tests. Pleasing for all purists, painstaking for others.Age of #digin
I’ve been following his carer since he was captaining the U19s in Bangladesh 2004 and scored a double century in a side match vs. Australia before 5th Ashes test 2005 at the Oval where Michael Vaughan lifted the urn in the greatest and most thrilling test series of our generation. It’s phenomenal to see how far he has come.
5 centuries in 5 first 5 tests as captain
Youngest player to 7000 test runs
Only Englishman to score 23 test centuries
Won 12 ODIs as captain this year and lost 2 with 3 centuries
First England captain to win in India in around 30 years
Player of the series in last Ashes series that England won down under for the first time in 24 years
Already tipped to be the 2015 World Cup winning captain
Unflappable concentrator, man for a crisis
Top close in fielder as well and the best ball shiner in the game!
Uncomplicated, organised, methodical in approach
Defends and plods on the front foot, scores and attacks on the back foot
Far from being gracious or an attacking player, but his defensive game is impenetrable and is busy at the wicket
Already an English great, probably will end up as a world great
Next major challenge for him: Champions Trophy on home soil and retaining the Ashes in 10 back to back tests home and away
Thoroughly professional at his job like Strauss, refraining from the celebrity circus
Stamina, concentration and a willingness to work on faults in his game is the key to his brilliance in the longer format
Shot selection and knowing when to sit back and score is the key to his recent brilliance in one day games
Textbook forward defence, productive cut shot, well placed sweep, glorious drive, and keen worker into the on side by getting across to off stump to tuck away neatly with a push or gentle closed faced nudge
He’s one of those players who is hard to criticise
You can never underestimate his quality anymore; you do so at your peril
Nagpur must be a special place for the Essex man. Made his debut in style here 6.5 years ago and today wins his first series as full time captain here against the odds
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