Story West Indies Tour Of England
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m_vaughan
Chairman of Selectors
James Anderson at no.4 ?
Ian: " Well this is surely a great performance from england to bounce back from 109/5 on that of a slow wicket. brian lara, may have regretted bowling first, as batting will be extremely difficult against slow bowling, where the ball will not come on. It was truly a great english recovery, led by andrew strauss helped with a bit of ordinary bowling from the west indies, so i will say 243 is a really good score. your thoughts, mikey"
Mikey: " yes ian i do agree almost 100% with your comments. A good recovery by the englishmen, remebering being 1-0 down, they have to win this match, its a must win situation for michael vaughn's men. They have to play good cricket to restrict this long west indian batting lineup, but it can be done, with tight bowling and resilient fielding. It will be an interesting run chase."
Mikey: " yes ian i do agree almost 100% with your comments. A good recovery by the englishmen, remebering being 1-0 down, they have to win this match, its a must win situation for michael vaughn's men. They have to play good cricket to restrict this long west indian batting lineup, but it can be done, with tight bowling and resilient fielding. It will be an interesting run chase."
Ian: " Congrats to england for their incredible fight back, which resulted in the series being levelled at 1-1. Harmison, ofcourse being the architect of this west indies batting collapse, and being instrumental in this 123 run victory. Brian lara played a lone innings with his batsmen collapsing around him. really it was careless batting one must say of the west indies, from the start going at over 4.50, it only needed complacency to creep in and that jus happened. Taking nothing away from england, it was a team performance. An interesting finale will be met at headingley leeds, with the 3rd and final odi, your thoguhts mikey..."
Mikey: " well ian is there for everyone to see. One team on the day simply outplayed the other. careless running and ordinary batting outdone the west indies, in a run chase which should have been attained. They were never behind the run rate, but poor shot selection will cost you important games such as this one, but it sets up a grand finale. But as u said take nothing away from "big" steve and andrew flintoff, with a remarkable spell of bowling between them. we now move to the presentation with paul allot..."
Paul: " ladies and gentlemen welcome to the presentation of this second wills trophy odi, and we must say well done to england. We call on the losing captain of touring west indies, brian lara..."
Paul: " brian, well simply not your day to be a captain..."
Lara: " well, the guys for the most part did well in restricting england to a respectable 242, but i thought it all went wrong when chris went early, and we couldn't really capitalize on a run rate of 4.5 rpo losing too many wickets in the process. Well done to england and steve, who bowled immaculate length and line. However we have to look forward to the final odi, as a challenge and see if these young team can put together an allround performance."
Paul: " good luck to the final odi, brian. And now we call on the winning captn mr michael vaughn."
Paul: " michael, great comeback, what was the plan out there in uncomfortable batting conditions?"
Vaughn: " well the plan was to go out there and to get a decent defendable total. Also it was important for one of the top batsmen to stay there and play a good innings and strauss was just that type we needed. In return, steve wrapped it up for us and here we are heading into a grand finale, but we need to keep that performance going."
Paul: " Well here u have it and we're off to leeds for this final 3rd odi, good bye."
Mikey: " well ian is there for everyone to see. One team on the day simply outplayed the other. careless running and ordinary batting outdone the west indies, in a run chase which should have been attained. They were never behind the run rate, but poor shot selection will cost you important games such as this one, but it sets up a grand finale. But as u said take nothing away from "big" steve and andrew flintoff, with a remarkable spell of bowling between them. we now move to the presentation with paul allot..."
Paul: " ladies and gentlemen welcome to the presentation of this second wills trophy odi, and we must say well done to england. We call on the losing captain of touring west indies, brian lara..."
Paul: " brian, well simply not your day to be a captain..."
Lara: " well, the guys for the most part did well in restricting england to a respectable 242, but i thought it all went wrong when chris went early, and we couldn't really capitalize on a run rate of 4.5 rpo losing too many wickets in the process. Well done to england and steve, who bowled immaculate length and line. However we have to look forward to the final odi, as a challenge and see if these young team can put together an allround performance."
Paul: " good luck to the final odi, brian. And now we call on the winning captn mr michael vaughn."
Paul: " michael, great comeback, what was the plan out there in uncomfortable batting conditions?"
Vaughn: " well the plan was to go out there and to get a decent defendable total. Also it was important for one of the top batsmen to stay there and play a good innings and strauss was just that type we needed. In return, steve wrapped it up for us and here we are heading into a grand finale, but we need to keep that performance going."
Paul: " Well here u have it and we're off to leeds for this final 3rd odi, good bye."
