4th ODI preview!

Three down four more to go. The Indian cricket team is in a little bit of a bind, if they don't win the fourth ODI at Old Trafford tomorrow, they are in for an uphill battle. If England win their third out of seven matches, India will then have to save three matches in order to prevent England from winning the series - phew, it's enough to make a grown man cry.

Worse news for India, England is not going to take it lying down. Flintoff will probably be back, adding to the firepower of the English bowlers, this can only mean one thing for the Indians...buckle down and STOP conceding runs in the field!! Conservative estimates contend that India concedes about 40-50 runs thanks to sloppy fielding. Things are getting so bad that Robin Singh, India's newly minted fielding coach is also sort of wiping his hands off the responsibility of the failures, he is reported by cricinfo.com as saying:

We can only instill as coaches, it's up to the players to execute it out in the middle.

Uh-oh...I guess the players in the middle will have to pull off something major and silence their detractors...if only until the next match. Good news is that India have won the last two encounters they had at Old Trafford, so maybe the ground is lucky for India, good thing too, cuz India is gonna need all the luck they can get. However, it is futile to despair, the only thing to be done at this point is keep faith in the abilities of the team and hope to god that Sachin Tendulkar finds his elusive century!

So, in the immortal words of Shahrukh Khan, Chak de India!