Is England batting that good?

[Peter R]

4 of 6 innings greater than 470... 3 over 500 including a 710 for 7d...
plenty runs on the board; or is India that bad?

[Islandman]

India has not played well but I am sure they would do even worse damage against our bowling attack.

Stangely enough seeing England ranked #1 gives me a little bit of hope that maybe we could see the WI there again during my lifetime.

[Peter R]

I-man, how old are you? 12? LOL

One can only hope...

[Gamma]

believe it or not to succeed in cricket you have to be ruthless ... india is not. as the #1 team they should have come to the west indies and DEMOLISHED us ... instead hey came with half a team and barely eked out a victory and so they lost some momentum and respect and they are paying for it now.

windies at their best and oz at their best were brutal and ruthless ... with half of the english team being south africans, it has added a diminsion to the team that the english never had before .... andy flower is no doubt a brilliant team manager ... hats off to him!

[Sickko]

I hope Tendulkar gets his 100th century this innings--

Test match series: England v India
Thursday, 18 August 2011 at The Kia Oval, Day 4 of 5
Close
England won the toss and decided to bat
England 1st Innings
591 for 6 (153.0 overs)
India 1st Innings
300 all out (94.0 overs)
India 2nd Innings
129 for 3 (35.0 overs)

England 1st Innings - Declared


Runs
Balls
4s
6s
Strauss c Dhoni b Sreesanth 40
106 5 0 Cook c Sehwag b Ishant Sharma 34
87 4 0 Bell lbw b Raina 235
364 23 2 Pietersen c and b Raina 175
232 27 0 Anderson c Laxman b Sreesanth 13
26 2 0 Morgan c Dhoni b Sreesanth 1
10 0 0 Bopara not out
44
75 3 0 Prior not out
18
28 2 0 Extras
10nb 7w 6b 8lb 31
Total
for 6 591 (153.0 ovs)
Bowler
O
M
R
W
Singh 34.0 7 118 0 Ishant Sharma 31.0 7 97 1 Sreesanth 29.0 2 123 3 Raina 19.0 2 58 2 A Mishra 38.0 3 170 0 Tendulkar 2.0 0 11 0
Fall of wicket

75 Cook 97 Strauss 447 Pietersen 480 Anderson 487 Morgan 548 Bell
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India 1st Innings - All out


Runs
Balls
4s
6s
Sehwag lbw b Anderson 8
6 2 0 Dravid not out
146
266 20 0 Laxman c Prior b Broad 2
7 0 0 Tendulkar c Anderson b Swann 23
34 4 0 Raina st Prior b Swann 0
29 0 0 Ishant Sharma c Cook b Swann 1
9 0 0 Dhoni c Prior b Anderson 17
50 2 0 A Mishra c Bell b Bresnan 43
77 6 1 Gambhir c Pietersen b Broad 10
62 1 0 Singh c Anderson b Bresnan 25
23 5 0 Sreesanth c Morgan b Bresnan 0
2 0 0 Extras
1nb 7w 8b 9lb 25
Total
all out 300 (94.0 ovs)
Bowler
O
M
R
W
Anderson 16.0 7 49 2 Broad 21.0 3 51 2 Bresnan 17.0 3 54 3 Swann 31.0 5 102 3 Pietersen 7.0 1 27 0 Bopara 2.0 2 0 0
Fall of wicket

8 Sehwag 13 Laxman 68 Tendulkar 93 Raina 95 Ishant Sharma 137 Dhoni 224 A Mishra 264 Gambhir 300 Singh 300 Sreesanth
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India 2nd Innings


Runs
Balls
4s
6s
Sehwag
b Swann 33
67 5 0 Dravid c Cook b Swann 13
32 2 0 Laxman
b Anderson 24
42 4 0 Tendulkar not out
35
51 5 0 A Mishra not out
8
18 1 0 Extras
10b 6lb 16
Total
for 3 129 (35.0 ovs)
Bowler
O
M
R
W
Anderson 9.0 2 39 1 Broad 6.0 3 8 0 Swann 15.0 2 51 2 Bresnan 5.0 0 15 0
Fall of wicket

49 Dravid 64 Sehwag 118 Laxman
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Umpires: S J A Taufel, R J Tucker, S J Davis
England: Strauss (C), Cook, Bell, Pietersen, Morgan, Bopara, Prior (W), Bresnan, Broad, Swann, Anderson
India: Gambhir, Sehwag, Dravid, Tendulkar, Laxman, Raina, Dhoni (C/W), A Mishra, Singh, Ishant Sharma, Sreesanth

[Peter R]

He fell short and wuss yet India get a buss tail again