David Vs Goliath as Geoffrey Says

As the Nagpur test ends in draw what credit that both England and Team India would like take to the next in Mohali. As every body know Mohlai pitch is the best pitch in India for the Fast bowlers which offers more than any other pitches India (Except the Green top Pitch wich given to Austratlia on 2004) . What issue will both teams like to look into. When Geoffrey said on day one that this match was David (Eng batsmans) vs Goliath (Indian Spinners) and also suggests that fairytale might have a reverse climax that Goliath may end winning up the battle.But all Fairytales are having the same this time even the though the Honors are even by ending the test match draw we saw David holds the upper hand in the match except the First day.Indian Spinners failed to deliver in the first innings when England's top order was put on backfoot by pacers but some wayward bowling on the second day with lack of the fifth bowler and some spirited batting my Collingwood and Harminson saw England bailed out from the fire and gave england bowlers some thing to defend.

When your are having three persons making debut and makeup skipper before fewdays who donned the role for few times in the county and facing the BIG Indian team on their turf is always challenge but England team did their best to keep the spinners at bay also make Indian batsmans play below the par with their debutant spinners.Surely their stars were COOK who made an impressive debut inspite of added into the team lately and Kevin Pietersen makes a superb 83 in the second innigs which really changed the Englands ways in the second innings .England debutant spinner has also has reason to cheer with the wickets he picked up Sachin, Kaif, and Dravid.England bowlers also has Hoggard who always never failed to deliver when others in the list not up to the best.Even India performed below the expectation they do have some thing to cheer Kaif's 90 when most of the best batsmen are back in the hut and facing some good spell of swing bowling kaif has met his expectations along with kumble he produced one of the best late order innings after Azhar's sizzling at Kolkatta some years back against SouthAfrica with same willy legspinner. Apart from that Sreesanth made an impressive debut in the First innings and Jaffer made good comeback with Rahul live upto his tag "THE Wall" India also has some thing to Cheer.

But at the end of first test match David (England ) has holding slighter adavantage than Indians. and as we know Mohali assist for fastbowlers Indian batting needs to dig some thing from their bags to have the series and move up to second in the Test Ratings...

-- Raja Shanmugam

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