W Indies v England - Spoilers

[Wafer]

Where is Boycott's mother and the rhubarb when you need them?

Hopefully beating Boycott with it till he shuts up.

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

And Cook's got his century! Mind, he did run Ali out and 230-odd for 6 isn't wonderful. But he's playing himself back in nicely.

 

[Wafer]

Swanny is convinced it was Ali's own fault

Wish I was as bad as Cook....

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

Oops. A bad way to end the day.

 

[Wafer]

Yeah, deff Windies day, will be interesting to see how it goes when England bowl though

 

[nickyboy]

Not a great day but I suspect for WI to win a game they need to skittle the opposition out 1st innings for <200. Their batting seems just too fragile otherwise

Having said that it's a pretty low calibre contest. Can't see the Aussies looking at this and sweating too much

Prediction: We'll nudge our way up towards 300, get a 1st innings lead, bat better 2nd innings and then skittle WI out for the win

 

[psmiffy]

Barbados - Day 2 - England 240-7

Definetly Windies day - Cooke got his century - But they shouldnt have got 7 wickets on this pitch - Trott the sacrificifal offering - Bell a brainfart of a shot - Ballance got a good one, Root too casual, Moen run out by cooke, unnecessary- Stokes rubbish shot chancing his arm - Cooke careless but probably lost his concentration after getting the 100 - Though to Windies credit it appeared they bowled and fielded with much more purpose - leaving aside the spinner who had a bad day

280 will probably be a good score, 300 excellent - any more a bit of a miracle and in the context of winning the match probably counterproductive

Today will be the day where we see if Moen is the man - i'm not convinced yet that he is - he has had a match to get back into his rhythm after not playing much over the winter - will be interesting to see if he is more effective than Root

 

[Wafer]

And innings over. At least Jimmy didn't tire himself out batting...

 

[accountantpete]

No problem - Jimmy will soon skittle them out. One gone already.

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

Great ball there. Perfect.

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

WI all out for 189, trailing by 68 runs. An excellent 6 wickets for Anderson. Ali's bowling is a worry - he's struggling to find his rhythm.

 

[nickyboy]

OK. decent 1st innings lead. All ("All"?.... haha) that's needed now is sensible batting. So long as we can develop a lead of 300 there's no way back for WI

 

[Wafer]

Jimmy jimmy jimmy jimmy jimmy Anderson

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

Jimmy jimmy jimmy jimmy jimmy Anderson

Jiminy Cricket Anderson.

 

[nickyboy]

Fark me, I said "bat sensibly". Having said that, Taylor is bowling really well. Seems the winner will be the team with the least worst batting performance