5 September 2007

All down to a decider...

I was only able to catch small bits of today's ODI, but it looked like England's fielding let them down. Much comment has been made of India's fielding weaknesses but as the pressure came on there were misfields and runs pinched involving Pietersen (admittedly the ball bobbled rediculously but that's an excuse for fumbling, not for letting it go for four), Anderson, Prior, Bell, Panesar and Cook. That's too many runs given away to deserve to win a game unfortunately, despite everyone's best efforts.

England shouldn't be down though. In some ways I'm pleased that India came through to win given the travesty of the Shah wrong decision, but they also got very lucky. In the last few overs, Uthappa managed to edge the ball just to the right of Prior (one of which Prior should have stopped), just to the left of him and Dhoni managed to top edge it just over him, all off Anderson. You had to feel for Anderson and he surely won't have such bad luck in the deciding match. Bring on Lords....

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