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Originally Posted by Seamer After ten overs, those two will be cramped up from dehydration and England will be having to employ their 13th, 14th and 15th men. Harmison will be sobbing from homesickness before he gets off the tarmac apon arrival. Likely be too sad to bowl in a test. Giles will be up against the best players of spin in the world. Hoggy, well good luck with that swing mate.
I'm telling you FF, India is the hardest test of any team. The Aussies did it last year - can England do it? Look forward to seeing them try. |
Well as I keep saying and you keep ignoring, the last time we toured there we went with a rubbish side and did surprisingly well. Just because Aus found it so difficult there in 2001 and that series where Dean Jones nearly died, don't assume every side have the same problems.
Vaughan and Tres have both toured India before - they were nowhere near as good as they are today but they both came away with more than respectable records - averaging 53 and 48. Bowling-wise, that was the tour where both Hoggard and Flintoff very certainly did not 'cramp up from dehydration' - they kept running in again and again and again and both proved what tireless, big-hearted bowlers they are. I think Nasser Hussain said of that tour that Hoggard was willing to run through a brick wall for him. Hoggard and Flintoff carried the pace attack and bowled 100 overs apiece in a three match series against some of the world's best batsman.
Since that tour Flintoff has improved immeasurably as a bowler and has added reverse-swing to his repertoire, which wil suit those dry crumbling pitches and sandpaper-like ball brilliantly. Giles too had a decent series - only bowler to get Tendulkar stumped? Well it ain't Warne, who as we know has a terrible record in India.