India Vs Bangladesh - India 13/3

[thedarkknight]

trace of bullet, out of the screws vaadi routine dialogues 

one is the call and they will settle for 2 batsmen kadu vedi chevilo cheppinattu 

[mahesh1]

3.55pm "Don't bother us, we are sleeping," says Isam, when I ask him for an update. "Water is being cleared off the covers... slow process." Alagappan adds that it's still drizzling faintly.

[mahesh1]

Sreeram: "Variable bounce in the subcontinent is different from other places, because here you have to play on the front foot much as possible due to the natural low bounce and play with your bat to avoid LBW. But in Australian conditions you can trust the bounce and stay on the back foot and also avoid the high bounce. That is why batting on Day 5 track in subcontinent is much more dangerous than outside."

[mahesh1]

Siddharth: "@Balaji: This is not the same side touring England, is it. there would be Kohli and Pujara(in whites) and Rohit and Dhawan. I still feel that the problem India will face overseas is the bowling. The seamers aren't capable of taking 20 wickets. That has been a problem for quite some time. India easily win tests at home with the help of their spinners. But that is not the case when the play overseas." Yup. The bowling is definitely the bigger issue, by a distance.

[mahesh1]

one is the call and they will settle for 2 batsmen kadu vedi chevilo cheppinattu 

 

Sachin batting ki vachina prati sari take a look at his stats, adedo kotta vishayam ayinattu 

[mahesh1]

Amit G.: "Does anybody remember any instance when players of a particular side helped the groundsmen to remove water from the field & thus helped in improving the playing conditions ??????"

[mahesh1]

4.30pm Okay, we have some news. The match will resume at 5.00pm local time if there is no more rain.

[mahesh1]

Amaan Shikoh: "I remember a hailstorm in a Test match in Australia where some Australian players gave their helmets to the groundstaff in order to protect them from hail."

[mahesh1]

tarang: "i remember Jonty Rhodes in an IPL match of Mumbai Indians helping the groundsttaff to pull the covers off!! As usual Jonty at his acrobatic best!!!" Do you really need to be an acrobat to pull the covers off a ground?

[mahesh1]

I don't know about players, but on the final day of the Oval Ashes Test in 1968, the groundstaff were "assisted by volunteers from the crowd, armed with brooms and blankets" to help mop up the ground after a downpour and enable England to win, courtesy a Derek Underwood seven-for.

[mahesh1]

4.10pm "Groundstaff getting busy," Alagappan reports. "A couple of covers have been peeled off and the water is being shaken away by either sightscreen."

[mahesh1]

sumit: "@amit : Yep, I seem to remember reading about an Ind-NZ Test match in 1968-69 (thereabouts) - where at one of the (then) smaller Test venues (either Nagpur or Hyderabad) , NZ skipper Graham Dowling & his team actually rolled up their trousers & helped ground staff take water off outfield in buckets!! NZ needed only a few wickets to complete a rare overseas victory, and clearly felt local groundstaff weren't as keen as them to get the game re-started."

[mahesh1]

4.35pm As we said, it'll resume at 5.00pm local time. It will be 40 overs a side, with a 20-minute innings break. Five bowlers can bowl eight overs each. Powerplay 1 will last eight overs (during Bangladesh's innings, since India have already played more overs than that), and the batting Powerplay will last four overs.

[mahesh1]

5.00pm We are ready to go once again. There's some intensely heavy rain on my TV screen, but they're showing what it was like earlier. It's all cleared up, and the players are on the field. It's Pujara to face Taskin.