Story Hot and Sticky Tour (ENG vs WI)
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tigerdes
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RB: Unsurprisingly the Man of the Match award went to Gareth Batty and he collected hiss cheque and champagne holding the hand of Ricky Clarke. It is reported that Vikram Solanki left the ground early and will not be joining the team in Bridgetown for the next test. He has been reportedly given a weeks leave for personal reasons.
tigerdes
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I am afraid that'll be it for a couple of weeks now guys you'll just have to wait to find out if England clinch the series in the next test. Exams start soon and so I'm off to revise.
Thanks to all of you that read the thread I will be back with more news and good luck to Vaughanie, Gas, Mad Matt, Fishbowl, Colin and Karan in your respective tours. Keep up the good work fellas.
Thanks to all of you that read the thread I will be back with more news and good luck to Vaughanie, Gas, Mad Matt, Fishbowl, Colin and Karan in your respective tours. Keep up the good work fellas.
m_vaughan
Chairman of Selectors
best of luck for your exams mate!!
tigerdes
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BL: The tension, the drama, the buzz, the atmosphere, the crowd, the desperation to do anything but revise. F**k revision, f**k exams, that's not what heroes focus on, its time for more cricket and welcome all of you here for the 4th Test between the Windies and England. England lead this series 2-1 and could seal a famous win here if they can win this test match.
RB: That's right Bill and a number of surprising decisions made by the West Indies selectors. Despite a magnificent century, Smith has been overlooked by the selectors and they have named a four pace man attack in conditions that look to be favouring the spinners. We'll just have to wait and see how that pans out but for more info on the pitch it's over to Tony Greig to hear about all the glitches with the pitches and the facts about the cracks.
TG: Well thank you Richie and its a steaming hot day here today. And boy what a beautiful pitch we have for this game. It's a spinners wet dream of a pitch, dusty and showing more cracks than a nudist beach in the height of summer. We'll be operating the revolutionary 'crack cam' during this match that will hopefully give us some extra insight during the match. Rumour has it that Lara and his team have been down here with polyfilla desperately trying to resolve the complete cock up of naming no specialist spinners. But they'll need a lifetime's supply if they're going to fix this pitch. The ball will turn a lot especially in the fourth inning.
It's overcast here today and there may be a rain interruption or two during this match. England have won the toss and unsurprisingly elected to bat first. If they can weather the storm of the new ball there will be plenty of runs available and the humidity should make it a sticky encounter for those in the field. West Indies will have to work hard to win here, back over to Richie in the studio.
RB: That's right Bill and a number of surprising decisions made by the West Indies selectors. Despite a magnificent century, Smith has been overlooked by the selectors and they have named a four pace man attack in conditions that look to be favouring the spinners. We'll just have to wait and see how that pans out but for more info on the pitch it's over to Tony Greig to hear about all the glitches with the pitches and the facts about the cracks.
TG: Well thank you Richie and its a steaming hot day here today. And boy what a beautiful pitch we have for this game. It's a spinners wet dream of a pitch, dusty and showing more cracks than a nudist beach in the height of summer. We'll be operating the revolutionary 'crack cam' during this match that will hopefully give us some extra insight during the match. Rumour has it that Lara and his team have been down here with polyfilla desperately trying to resolve the complete cock up of naming no specialist spinners. But they'll need a lifetime's supply if they're going to fix this pitch. The ball will turn a lot especially in the fourth inning.
It's overcast here today and there may be a rain interruption or two during this match. England have won the toss and unsurprisingly elected to bat first. If they can weather the storm of the new ball there will be plenty of runs available and the humidity should make it a sticky encounter for those in the field. West Indies will have to work hard to win here, back over to Richie in the studio.
tigerdes
Club Cricketer
RB: Well West Indies got off to a magnificent start here. After starting aggresively Vaughan was clean bowled for 23 trying to leg glance a yorker and he was joined pretty shortly afterwards by Andy Strauss. The debutant missing a straight one and subject to a straightforward LBW decision. With Hussain playing around a straight one and Thorpe foolishly run out it seemed that England's aspiration to get over 400 was destined to failure at 98/4.
In my many years as a captain both on the pitch and of the commentary team I have learnt a few things. Knowing your opposition, knowing their strengths and weaknesses, when to attack and when to pull back. Lara was clearly playing truant that day at Captain school as a series of catastrophic blunders gifted England back control. Lara's first school boy error was insisting on playing a tight close in field as Trescothick and Flintoff plundered runs for fun. Sticking with a four prong pace attack Flintoff raced to 50 and then to a magnificent century ably supported by the graft of Trescothick 64 and Foster 32.
Batty 60 and Giles 59* well and truly massaged salt into West Indian wounds as they thumped 130 runs to lift England total to 458 all out with still an hours play left in this opening day.
Scoring at close to 7 runs per over it may be suggested that Tutsi's 5.2 patch was too easy but in reality this substantial scoring rate owed to poor field positions, a lightning fast outfield and some fancy footwork. England in the driving seat and with two on form spinners weaving their magic West Indies are going to struggle to get back into this match.
In my many years as a captain both on the pitch and of the commentary team I have learnt a few things. Knowing your opposition, knowing their strengths and weaknesses, when to attack and when to pull back. Lara was clearly playing truant that day at Captain school as a series of catastrophic blunders gifted England back control. Lara's first school boy error was insisting on playing a tight close in field as Trescothick and Flintoff plundered runs for fun. Sticking with a four prong pace attack Flintoff raced to 50 and then to a magnificent century ably supported by the graft of Trescothick 64 and Foster 32.
Batty 60 and Giles 59* well and truly massaged salt into West Indian wounds as they thumped 130 runs to lift England total to 458 all out with still an hours play left in this opening day.
Scoring at close to 7 runs per over it may be suggested that Tutsi's 5.2 patch was too easy but in reality this substantial scoring rate owed to poor field positions, a lightning fast outfield and some fancy footwork. England in the driving seat and with two on form spinners weaving their magic West Indies are going to struggle to get back into this match.
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BL: Welcome to my heroes corner, a brand new feature for this tour as we draw to the thrillingconclusion of this test series and prepare to enter the drama and excitement of the one dayers. Well for the Windies it has to be Fidel Edwards who worked hard for his five wicket haul but the hero of the first innings has to be Andy Flintoff who raced to a quick fire 100 in just 105 balls. An honourary Victorian for that effort. Let's see if he can bowl like Big Merv...
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m_vaughan
Chairman of Selectors
Yeah..though not quite a good debut for Andy Strauss. Fantastic effort from Freddie, doing what he does best, smashing the candlelights out of the Windies bowling!
It seems tutsi v5.2 is not quite working for you. Well, if you ask me, this patch, and most of the others released so far, suit the ODI mode and not so much in test matches.
You can modify the cfg files using the cfg editor to make the CPU play in a test match mode. I did the same before the 3rd test against NZ, and the result was very good. A drawn test match.
It seems tutsi v5.2 is not quite working for you. Well, if you ask me, this patch, and most of the others released so far, suit the ODI mode and not so much in test matches.
You can modify the cfg files using the cfg editor to make the CPU play in a test match mode. I did the same before the 3rd test against NZ, and the result was very good. A drawn test match.
tigerdes
Club Cricketer
May well do that, but the trouble is its all so complicated. With all the strock editing etc... so far the Windies have raced to about 80/2 in reply so maybe it's just the conditions?
m_vaughan
Chairman of Selectors
it could well be the conditions or maybe even the field settings
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