Alec Stewart says India will return home with lost glory – Cricket News Update
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Alec-James-Stewart-c43081, the former England skipper, said that India came as the world’s no.1 team, but having played poorly in the present English conditions they will go home with a bruised and beaten reputation.
In the ongoing four-match Test series, the tourists have displayed an extremely poor performance in all departments of the game. They took an unimpressive start of the series, but instead of showing improvement, Indian team faced
a continuous downfall in their performance.
In the first game of the series, India lost by 196 runs, and in the second game, they again failed to prove their batting and bowling skills and were beaten with a huge, 319-run margin at Trent Bridge.
The situation for the tourists became worst when they faced injury blows from the opening-day game of the series. The spearhead of their bowling attack, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Z-Khan-c98379, sustained a hamstring injury in the first game and was ruled
out of the series. In the same way, the big-hitter http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Harbhajan-Singh-c61453, were also excluded due to their fitness issues.
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On the other hand, England, under the leadership of http://www.senore.com/Cricket/AJ-Strauss-c964, displayed an impressive performance and showed great team work. Their batsmen and bowlers played an equal role in their team’s way to the top spot in International
Cricket Council's (http://www.senore.com/Cricket/ICC-World-Cup-2011-c100625) rankings for Test cricket.
In the recently concluded third Test match, the hosts played outstanding and steered their side to a victory over the visitors by an innings and 242 runs.
The English batsmen, in their first innings of the third Test match, hit a huge 710 runs for the loss of seven wickets. http://www.senore.com/Cricket/AN-Cook-c1026 played a marvellous innings of 294 runs off 545 balls, including 33 fours, and was awarded the
Man of the Match title. Strauss hit 87 runs off 176 balls, including 13 fours. http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Eoin-Joseph-Gerard-Morgan-c56032 also played useful innings of 104 runs off 199 balls, including 11 fours.
The fourth and final Test between India and http://www.senore.com/Cricket/England-c56013 will be played on August 18, 2011, at The Oval.
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