West Indies in England

[Rangeela]

2nd Test Stumps Day 3

England 1st Inning 566/9 dec (Trescothick 105, Flintoff 167) (Bravo 4/76)
West Indies 1st Inning 336 (lara 95,Sarwan 139) (Hoggard 3/89, Giles 4/65)
England 2nd Inning 148/3 (Trescothick 88*) (Lawson 3/20)

England lead by 378 runs with 7 wickets remaining

 

[m_vaughan]

England doing really well.

Anyways Rangs why dont u post the PWC Batsman/Bowler Ratings also in this forum?

 

[jonah]

Gilo! Gilo!

 

[Rangeela]

Originally posted by m_vaughan
Anyways Rangs why dont u post the PWC Batsman/Bowler Ratings also in this forum?

not a bad idea...I'll see what I can do

 

[Rangeela]

2nd Test Result

England 1st Inning 566/9 dec (Trescothick 105, Flintoff 167) (Bravo 4/76)
West Indies 1st Inning 336 (lara 95,Sarwan 139) (Hoggard 3/89, Giles 4/65)
England 2nd Inning 248 (Trescothick 107) (Lawson 4/94, Gayle 5/34)
West Indies 2nd Inning 222 (Gayle 82) (Giles 5/57)

Result: England won by 256 runs

Man of the Match: A Flintoff

Series: England leads the 4-Test series 2-0

 

[m_vaughan]

England retain the Wisden Trophy. Now its 8 wins in the last nine test matches, with the other one ending in a draw.

 

[rocklara]

well again, congrats, to m vaughn, jonah, sharmison and all of the english fans on the forum, for their retainment of the wisden trophy, brilliant all round performance, it must be said...and u guys are certainly the unassailable number 2 team. keep it up

 

[Rangeela]

England squad for third Test
Marcus Trescothick, Andrew Strauss, Robert Key, Michael Vaughan (capt), Graham Thorpe, Andrew Flintoff, Geraint Jones (wk), Ashley Giles, Gareth Batty, Simon Jones, Matthew Hoggard, Stephen Harmison, James Anderson.

 

[The_gas]

come on england, i may ask for the days off work in order to watch on thursday and friday!

 

[straw]

Do ya reckon England will rest players for the 3rd test?

 

[Rangeela]

Originally posted by straw
Do ya reckon England will rest players for the 3rd test?

I doubt it..I think they will go for a win for the series... might rest players in 4th test depending on the outcome for 3rd test

 

[Rangeela]

probable squad for 3rd Test

England (probable) 1 Marcus Trescothick, 2 Andrew Strauss, 3 Robert Key, 4 Michael Vaughan (capt), 5 Graham Thorpe, 6 Andrew Flintoff, 7 Geraint Jones (wk), 8 Ashley Giles, 9 Matthew Hoggard, 10 Stephen Harmison, 11 James Anderson.

West Indies (probable) 1 Chris Gayle, 2 Devon Smith, 3, Ramnaresh Sarwan, 4 Brian Lara (capt), 5 Shivnarine Chanderpaul, 6 Dwayne Bravo, 7 Ridley Jacobs (wk), 8 Omari Banks, 9 Pedro Collins, 10 Jermaine Lawson, 11 Fidel Edwards.

 

[duffarama]

It looks like Giles is a permanent member of the England test side. Or is he?

 

[Rangeela]

3rd Test Stumps Day 1

West Indies won the toss and elected to bat first

West Indies 1st Inning 275/6 (Chanderpaul 76, Bravo 77) (Hoggard 3/61)

 

[m_vaughan]

It looks like Giles is a permanent member of the England test side. Or is he?

You bet he is. Infact apart from Anderson and Key, everyone is.