West Indies in England

[evertonfan]

Tailenders should bat like this all the time. Why block and leave when you can wildly swing at everything?

 

[nightprowler10]

Ganga: "Its not my fault, how was I supposed to know he was going to bowl one on the stumps".

 

[King Pietersen]

Very expensive first over, but a wicket is awesome, Nice start for England. Monty and SIdebottoms cameo was awesome. Monty proving he can bat.

 

[Sureshot]

8-11 scored 60 runs and helped put on 106 (iirc) for the last 4 wickets.

 

[King Pietersen]

Windies have reported Harmison and Plunkett for bowling on the square just before play commenced. They've lodged a complaint to the the match referee.

 

[Griffo]

harmison has 2 wickets good signs for him

 

[angryangy]

Tailenders should bat like this all the time. Why block and leave when you can wildly swing at everything?

For sure! Well, maybe one guy should know how to block.

 

[Griffo]

that WAS hoggard but hes hopeless anyway

 

[angryangy]

Out goes Bravo, in comes Ramdin.

I like Bravo and Ramdin, enough to say the team would probably benefit more if they weren't poked down in the tail.

 

[Gunner786]

the commentators have no idea what they are on about

calling chanderpaul a 1 paced player and saying the tailenders should play aggressively

have they never seen chanderpaul play?
he can play fast when he wants to

 

[BigCrickNan]

Monty FTW great bowling, that ball to Sammy would of got anyone out. Maybe he can get his average below 30 finally...

216-4 > 229 all out.

 

[sohum]

Wowza. Talk about a collapse! I had Cricinfo up as a tab and suddenly it say Windies 229 all out. Blah.

 

[BigCrickNan]

Strauss has to go...1 fifty in 8 tests now...

 

[Dalek]

Jesus Strauss! leaving it with some in swing to top off stump

 

[rabeta]

Strauss has to go...1 fifty in 8 tests now...

It was a snorter though, the kinda deliveries that you seem to get when you are out of form. He does come a long way across though Strauss, and his head falls to the offside but this is the case for many left handers. We got ourselves in a great position here, Monty bowled some absolute corkers, what a quality bowler. Sidebottom was pumped up as well lol, that's what he needs to do when there is no swing, get something else into his game. Com'on England, lets build a good lead now...