I am not a mathmetician so I see two scenario's, a couple of early wickets or an Shik attack.  Either way there is a price adjustment.  A steady start by India will just be uninteresting for everybody.

I was about to apologise to any West Indian friends but that would seem unfairer!

If Sammy doesn't get Best on now he is an idiot

This Gabriel is just a big lump old school spear chucker. He is going to get put to the sword by this generation of Indian batters

was going to say these 3 day pitches are doing nothing for test cricket in India but as we can see it is not the fault of the curator, Dhoni or the Board.  West Indies are very sad. Oh for the days down the Harleyford Road in the 70's!

draw 26, should be 1000000000000000000000000000000000000000

nice to see pujara going well again as well.  He's the best of the lot when it comes to the new generation in this format imo

India developing a good side here

Dharwan, Vijay,Pujara, Kohli, Sharnma ( the incredibly talented ), Jadeja ( Khartik ), Dhoni, Aswin, Kumar B, Shami plus a fast bowler away or a spinner at home.

WD..YES

Backed pre toss to lay at lower if winning the toss.........

And having a litttle stab at run lines

so a free bet to nothing(literally)is where i stood.....

Groundsman said a few days back that this would go the 5th day. Agree very poor by WI.

I think Shillingford bowls with a bent arm.  I call it chucking but maybe it is legal but it shouldn't be.  Further to that I don't think you can bowl a genuine dhoorsa without bending your arm.

I think the head on to the fielder replay was misleading for the catch but on another angle i did think the ball bounced before he caught it.  Whether it bounced off his fingers I don't know.  I think the bowler was unlucky with camera angles but maybe it did bounce.

I agree WD.

You can bowl a dhoorsa with a straight arm but you'll get next to no purchase.

the wrist still comes into play with a conventional off break, it's almost impossible to allow the wrist to do the same with a dhoosra and the elbow has to bend to allow it.

oh and btw did I tell anybody that I thought Rohit Sharma was incredibly talented! kerching, that's another rupee for him!


I bowl a wicked dhoorsa in my hallway but the arm doesn't come over the shoulder! It is like from the forehead down, spins away. 


I think in the old days it was the straight one but maybe Murali with his weird wrists could actually bowl a genuine dhoorsa ( I am not one of his knockers, he has a genuine bent arm so to speak but much of his spin comes from the bending almost backwards of his wrist imho )

I think what happened was Harbhajan then developed one in his Turbanator days and the rest followed.  I was just shocked at Shillingfords action.  I remember being called a chucker in days of yore was akin to getting a racial slur!

I hope gayle get 100 plus here and sachin open the batting and he get a 10 not out chasing 20

shillingford and samuels both reported for chucking and to undergo tests.

Surprised and pleased to see Shillingford get picked up on this.

When they were checking his front foot for no balls the angle of his bowling arm was embarrassing.

I guess there's a balance between wanting spinners to thrive in the game and allowing illegal actions.

Test cricket needs wickets to fall regularly to make it interesting but too many spinners are using the front of the hand ball to take those wickets.

Swann has said he can't bowl a doosra without chucking it which is of course correct for most bowlers, not just him..

Very interesting.  I thought this Test was over but far from it!

I am glad that Shillingford is being investigated.  I didn't see Smauels bowl but it would appear many of us called Shillingford without even looking for it ffs!

If I was a Test batsmen and I got out to a dhoosra I would refer the decision to the third umpire.  That would set the cat amongst the pidgeons!  I wonder what the ruling would be on that...checking the legality of the ball, they check for no balls!