Those 4 runs and dropping Rahul on 0 have really made a difference.
Surprised his fan club have been a bit quiet
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Those 4 runs and dropping Rahul on 0 have really made a difference.
Surprised his fan club have been a bit quiet
:vsign: Magnificent run out.....Quote:
Originally Posted by Luis Anaconda
I didn't think you would bite ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by PSRB
It didn't bounce and was going down leg, tough chance.....only just seen itQuote:
Originally Posted by Luis Anaconda
:-( lol.Quote:
Originally Posted by Luis Anaconda
There's still a chance; he's bound to improve in the second innings.
Don't suppose it's monsoon season?Quote:
Originally Posted by redgunamo
Sadly, no. It's actually the best time to visit just now, weather-wise. Monsoon season is late May to September there.Quote:
Originally Posted by PSRB
But if Bairstow had dropped it ...Quote:
Originally Posted by PSRB
Not to mention three reviews wasted in 14 overs. Keeper has something to answer there.
I still, of course, agree he is the best keeper for England. Wish we had gone for another seamer rather than Hartley
Well Bairstow would've dropped it. The reviews were shocking though.Quote:
Originally Posted by Luis Anaconda
Indeed. #spotfixingQuote:
Originally Posted by PSRB
Not to the start of June.Quote:
Originally Posted by PSRB
Rubbish, doesn't matter if it's a city on the plains like Delhi, Benares, Jaipur, the mountains like Himachal {Parvati Valley, Dharamsala, Manali}, Indian Tibet {Leddakh, Spiti} or the other side {Darjeeling} or on the coast {Goa, Kerala, Puri/Konark} - the best time to go is at the end of the monsoon around late Sept.Quote:
Originally Posted by redgunamo
Delhi has only 2 periods a year when it's not boiling hot, freezing cold or pīssing down and that's Sept and March. Then the weather's like a really nice, English summer's day. {You have the Holi festival in late March, too.}
In the mountains like the Parvati Valley, again the temp is like an English summer's day.
And the coastal tropics are nice everywhere all year round.
But if you go to Goa or the mountains in May, say, there's no greenery cos there's been no rain for 8-9 months. It's all grey in the mountains and dusty in Goa. But if you go in September, everywhere's lush and vibrant green.
Deffo the best time of year, and Sept usually has the Ganesh Chaturthi festival. It lasts ten days, the one in Mumbai is huge, with 150k clay statues being immersed in the sea. Some of them are massive. But on my first trip to India in '94, I was in the small, tropical fishing village Puri for it. Along the side of the road there's be a few dozen little, bamboo, open-fronted shacks. Inside there's be a stand at the back with a Ganpati statue, a stereo playing Bollywood music and a mat on the floor where 3-4 people would normally be playing cards - He is the God of good luck and fortune after all.
And at night, everyone would get together with a truck with a genny powering speakers playing Bollywood and colourful lights on pulling a flat-bed with a huge Ganpati statue with everyone dancing behind it like at Carnivals. That week is when Ganpati first came and started taking me.
But if you want sunny, English summer's weather and lush greenery, then the end of monsoon in Sept is the time to go, whether mountains, plains or coasts.
Imo, anyway.
I went to Delhi in September once. It was a ****ing nightmare. About 9,000 degrees every day.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ganpati's Goonerz--AFC's Aboriginal Fertility Cult
Fair enough. I'm an army man; it's all the same to me.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ganpati's Goonerz--AFC's Aboriginal Fertility Cult
That's the end of monsoon. Try it just before/as it breaks. 47 in the shade when I first went there. {'94.}. God alone knows what it's like now with Global warming.Quote:
Originally Posted by Peter
I'm going to the Maldives tomorrow - hope it's decent weather. Right time zone for the second Test at leastQuote:
Originally Posted by Ganpati's Goonerz--AFC's Aboriginal Fertility Cult
I also went in June. I thought I was going to boil to death. I remember getting off a flight at 11 at night and it was 38 degrees.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ganpati's Goonerz--AFC's Aboriginal Fertility Cult
Too hot for me. I will stick with Malaysia :-)
Oh, very nice. Not jealous at all.Quote:
Originally Posted by Luis Anaconda
I've just got back from Dublin. ****ing freezing and I got a stinking cold on the flight. Lovely :-)Quote:
Originally Posted by PSRB
It's all work, p ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by PSRB
probably about 47 in the shade, gg.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ganpati's Goonerz--AFC's Aboriginal Fertility Cult
Lovely temperatures at the moment, enjoy.Quote:
Originally Posted by Luis Anaconda
https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/weather...ate=2024-01-29
rain ;-)
Pissed down all day - still as I flew in at 5am didn't mind a day lazing about on the deck staring at the rain. Beats January in GermanyQuote:
Originally Posted by IUFG