Deja vu, disappointment, disenchantment and disillusionment seem to be the order of the day for legions of team India cricket fans what with their favourite team putting up yet another pathetic and spineless display on the third morning of the fifth test match underway at London's iconic Oval Cricket Ground..........
England began the day on a bright note with Messrs Root, Broad and the rest rubbing copious amounts of salt into the already festering Indian wounds and notching up a little more than hundred runs in the ten odd overs sent down by the besieged, bruised and battered Indian bowlers this morning.........
Staring down the wrong end of a gargantuan or rather mammoth barrel and 338 runs in arrears at the beginning of their second innings in this make or break test match and the marauding James (Jimmy) Anderson only exacerbated or heightened team India's collective misery by sending back India's most successful batsman Murali Vijay back to the pavilion with a masterly inswinging delivery to which Vijay had no answer.........
Messrs Gambhir and Pujara put many a tailender to shame with their inexplicable calling, judgement of a run and penchant for yes, no and misery what with their start stop tactics sending a miserable Gambhir back to the pavilion what with his frantically flailing bat being a good yard short of the crease when a measured throw by Chris Woakes ended up clattering both the stumps as well as Gambhir's bid to make a comeback at the highest level.............
Both Kohli and Pujara are missing more often than playing the ball from the middle of their bats even as I finish this piece and forgive me for sounding like a prophet of doom; but I firmly believe that team India would have done both itself and it fawning fans a huge service by taking the current test match into the fourth day what with Anderson sending Pujara back to the pavilion and reducing team India to a rather sorry looking 30/3.............
Time for a wholesale purge in team India methinks; please do let me know what you think...........
England began the day on a bright note with Messrs Root, Broad and the rest rubbing copious amounts of salt into the already festering Indian wounds and notching up a little more than hundred runs in the ten odd overs sent down by the besieged, bruised and battered Indian bowlers this morning.........
Staring down the wrong end of a gargantuan or rather mammoth barrel and 338 runs in arrears at the beginning of their second innings in this make or break test match and the marauding James (Jimmy) Anderson only exacerbated or heightened team India's collective misery by sending back India's most successful batsman Murali Vijay back to the pavilion with a masterly inswinging delivery to which Vijay had no answer.........
Messrs Gambhir and Pujara put many a tailender to shame with their inexplicable calling, judgement of a run and penchant for yes, no and misery what with their start stop tactics sending a miserable Gambhir back to the pavilion what with his frantically flailing bat being a good yard short of the crease when a measured throw by Chris Woakes ended up clattering both the stumps as well as Gambhir's bid to make a comeback at the highest level.............
Both Kohli and Pujara are missing more often than playing the ball from the middle of their bats even as I finish this piece and forgive me for sounding like a prophet of doom; but I firmly believe that team India would have done both itself and it fawning fans a huge service by taking the current test match into the fourth day what with Anderson sending Pujara back to the pavilion and reducing team India to a rather sorry looking 30/3.............
Time for a wholesale purge in team India methinks; please do let me know what you think...........
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