Story West Indies International Season: (Current - SA tour of WI)

[The Champ]

Coin Toss with Bob Willis:


Bob Willis: Well i have both captains and Match refree Roshan Mahanama for the test series and Smith is going to call and he has called tails and it has come down tails, whats ur decision Smith.


Smith: Well we would like to field looks a fine pitch yeah but if at all it has some help for bowlers it will have it initially so do want to capture it.

Chanderpaul: Well not a bad decision smithy suits us a lot thanks for this opputunity and we would love to put all bad memories back and put a decent score on board.

 

[The Champ]

Tony Cozier: Here r the team line ups and lets join the live action.

 

[gold639]

I don't agree with Smith's decision there.

 

[m_vaughan]

Am looking forward to this game. Can WI stage a comeback for their fans after being beaten by NZ in both tests and WI.

 

[jazz]

should be an cracking match

 

[The Champ]

Score Update first Hour of Play

WI had their slice of luck when Gayle was almost shot of his ground, very early in the first over of the match when he was in a misderstanding with fellow opener hinds.


But soon both openers Gayle and Hinds settled to play some fine shots as they dominated the SA pacemen on a track that is as good as plain sheet of glass no undulation what so ever.

 

[gold639]

Well,so Gayle has been lucky so far!

Will he take advantage of this and make a big score?

 

[The Champ]

Gayle looks in excellent form here in Antigua on a pitch tailor made for his style of stroke play with great shots some thing pierced the fielders some were hit straight at the fielders.


Gayle even hooked and drove the seamers for 4's.

While at the other end hinds was more confident in rotating the strike back to gayle.

 

[gold639]

Wow beautiful hook shot played by Gayle there.

 

[The Champ]

Ntini strikes first blood for SA- gayle dismissed


Ntini striked for SA with a special inswinger to gayle to trap him lbw for a superb 20 that promised more of just 23 balls with 4-4's WI 57-1


But Hinds continued to play well for WI in company of Sarwan.

 

[The Champ]

Score at first Hour WI 100-1

 

[jazz]

good start by the windies

im surprised about the byes

 

[gold639]

Yeah but SA now have the important wicket of Gayle.

 

[The Champ]

Score update Lunch

Both Sarwan and Hinds are looking solid out there in the middle and both really not troubled at all by the wkt.

BTW i think Smith has made a bad decision not to bat on this wkt looks a absolute perfect deck for batters

 

[gold639]

That is what I said at the beginning,Smith was crazy to choose to bowl.