West Indies Tour of England - May to June 2012

[Aalay]

Oh Tinoooooo!

 

[angryangy]

Something tells me Andy Flower has already dealt with England's lunches.

 

[Papa_Smurf]

Strauss, you ----

 

[barmyarmy]

Right, lunch on day 4. The only way we can get something out of this game is still to be batting at 6pm tomorrow.
Flat pitch. Cash in.
5 sessions (extended) should be enough to score 600. Anything less is pathetic.

 

[Papa_Smurf]

Please...England will be facing their nightmare, mystery spin

 

[Haarithan]

Really appreciate the Windies for having provided us the much needed reality check before the South African tests.

 

[swacker]

This has to be up there with Jason Gillespie's double ton and Phil Hughes's 30 odd at Lord's as one of the great unexpected innings of our time.

 

[puddleduck]

This has to be up there with Jason Gillespie's double ton and Phil Hughes's 30 odd at Lord's as one of the great unexpected innings of our time.

Hahaha

Fair play Tino. Poor England though. Reality is over the last year their fielding has actually been fairly appalling. Would love to know how many runs they've conceded to missed chance over that time. Won't be beating the Saffers if they decide to do that to Kallis, and Samuels who has looked immoveable most of the tour wouldn't get near their batting lineup.

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Can't help but feel England might find it easier to start posting big totals again if their openers could actually score runs together. Poor Trott has basically been an opener for the last 2 years

 

[WubbaLubbaDubDub]

2 down England before Narine even bowling his first delivery It will be interesting to see what does the Test Specialist KP do now

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3 down Strauss gone too

 

[angryangy]

Well, he's turning it.

 

[barmyarmy]

Flat pitch and average bowling attack. This is what I've been saying for a while now. Something has gone badly wrong with our batting in the last 12 months.
Can see a heavy victory for SA this summer.

 

[puddleduck]

I think more and more it's starting to be highlighted how woefully bad that Indian attack was. Also how average an Australian attack it was.

 

[Papa_Smurf]

I think more and more it's starting to be highlighted how woefully bad that Indian attack was. Also how average an Australian attack it was.

Agreed. Like I said, England had the same batting woes during the summer before last.

 

[swacker]

England three down. Could get interesting. Nice of them to give Bairstow the chance to play an innings of substance anyway.

 

[jacobfelix]

With the loss of play for first 2 days...& since this has become a 3 dayer....is the follow-on score 226 or 276 ???