Those 4 runs and dropping Rahul on 0 have really made a difference.
Surprised his fan club have been a bit quiet
Those 4 runs and dropping Rahul on 0 have really made a difference.
Surprised his fan club have been a bit quiet
Originally Posted by Luis Anaconda
Magnificent run out.....
I didn't think you would bite
It didn't bounce and was going down leg, tough chance.....only just seen itI didn't think you would bite
But if Bairstow had dropped it ...
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.
lol.
There's still a chance; he's bound to improve in the second innings.
"Plenty of strikers can score goals," he said, gesturing to the famous old stands casting shadows around us.
"But a lot have found it difficult wearing the number 9 shirt for The Arsenal."
Don't suppose it's monsoon season?
There's still a chance; he's bound to improve in the second innings.
Sadly, no. It's actually the best time to visit just now, weather-wise. Monsoon season is late May to September there.
"Plenty of strikers can score goals," he said, gesturing to the famous old stands casting shadows around us.
"But a lot have found it difficult wearing the number 9 shirt for The Arsenal."
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.
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.
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