England's Summer Test Series

[ChesterDave]

BOOM BOOM BOOM

Tendulkar, Raina and Laxman all gone. A couple overs before lunch. Would be awesome to get them all out before close.

[ChesterDave]

HHHHHHHHHHOWZAAAAAAAAAAT!!!!

2 wickets in 3 balls! India 33 short of avoiding the follow on. Englands odds of winning crashed from 5/1 to 6/4 in 2 minutes.

[ChesterDave]

All gone. 188 lead. Dravid 101 NO

I think we have a half dozen over or so to survive before close

[Chazza]

Going horribly wrong collapsing from 54-1 to 62-5

Morgan and Prior need to hang around for a few hours

[ChesterDave]

Betting market seems to like it though. England down to almost even money from 5/2.

Obviously feared that Strauss would be too conservative in declaration and any lead around 300 will be tempting enough for India to go for.

Declaring at tea 450 ahead would have been useless but being bowled out an hour before tea ~350 and there is a great finish on the cards.

[Chazza]

131-3 India, need to get Tendulkar early

[Chazza]

135-4

[Buzzo]

135-4

I just looked away for like ten minutes and missed 2 wickets. Looks like India need a massive innings form Tendulkar.

[Muddled]

Pssh, you guys should watch a more interesting sport.

Like the World Aquatics Championships. Now there is a sport.

They don't stop for tea and scones.

[Chazza]

No review on the LBW has saved Sachin

Umpires have generally been spot on but Billy has missed one, very close call mind

[RichC]

I dont' think hawkeye is available this summer - makes no sense to me as that was plum out.

[Chazza]

I dont' think hawkeye is available this summer - makes no sense to me as that was plum out.

The Indians wouldn't agree to it for LBW's but they have allowed the referals for catches etc.

[RichC]

I can't believe they've been able to do that - it's a very useful piece of technology and should just be enforced - it works the same for both sides

[destinydude]

I think most of the Indian 'senior' players were against hawk eye as they felt it was too vague and it got most of the criticial 'predictions' wrong.

Even Sachin's not out against Pakistan in the World Cup semis is a farcical prediction from the hawk eye. It was clearly going to hit the stumps but surprise surprise hawk eye says no.

The usual hit rate for hawk eye is around 95% and it is a very costly software to use. So with the kind of not so good acuracy it has, BCCI felt they dont want to use it.

Hot Spot on the other hand is a bit cheaper and has a lot more accuracy than hawk eye. More over hot spot shows what has happened where as hawk eye predicts, much like the umpire does.

So, the BCCI felt the umpire's guess was more respectable than hawk eye's.

[Buzzo]

Sachin Tendulkar has faced 35 dot balls in a row
Suggests he having trouble with a different type of 'runs'.