planetgeli
There's no future in England's dreaming
Dull game, killed by the pitch. Surely England need to take batting practice this time? They've just bowled 188 overs ffs.
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planetgeli
There's no future in England's dreaming
And here we go again. England 2 down already, purely from trying to force the pace. Lees given freedom to play shots, gets out quickly. Because he obviously didn't need practice and experience. Root gone for 9. England can't win this game. But they are giving themselves a chance of being the only ones to lose it. So we'll get batting practice lower down the order.
Two slog sweeps to get out btw.
Two slog sweeps to get out btw.
littlebabyjesus
one of Maxwell's demons
If giving the opposition 65-70 overs to bat out is your only chance to win, you take it. I think this attitude is spot on.
planetgeli
There's no future in England's dreaming
Worked well didn't it. Again. While flogging some of our bowlers, again, on a flat pitch with no hope of taking 10 wickets, again, while their bowlers rested, in back to back tests (3 in 3 weeks), and some of their players got batting practice.
Are we 2-0 up in your mind?
It's 0-0 in mine. With tired bowlers and openers who need as much practice as they can get. Lawrence might even appreciate batting in normal Test circumstances rather than be sent out there to play ODI for a cause that was never going to happen.
Tests are won over a series, not a game.
188 overs ffs and then they bowl 40. So we bowl again.
littlebabyjesus
one of Maxwell's demons
They have had plenty of batting practice in the first innings when it meant something. Batting when it's meaningless is of questionable value anyway.
Score is 0-0. Credit to WI for that. After early wobbles two batters came together to see them through both games. You don't have a right to win, but fuck me if you don't try to win you deserve to lose. It may well be more of the same in Grenada. I hope the same attitude prevails.
Score is 0-0. Credit to WI for that. After early wobbles two batters came together to see them through both games. You don't have a right to win, but fuck me if you don't try to win you deserve to lose. It may well be more of the same in Grenada. I hope the same attitude prevails.
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littlebabyjesus
one of Maxwell's demons
Greentop apparently. England lose the toss...
Grenada's National Cricket Stadium looks pretty good. It can hold 20 per cent of the country's entire population!
Grenada's National Cricket Stadium looks pretty good. It can hold 20 per cent of the country's entire population!
littlebabyjesus
one of Maxwell's demons
Fisher's a bit unlucky to miss out imo. He looked pretty good last match. Better than Overton in the first match, and better than Woakes in either match.
littlebabyjesus
one of Maxwell's demons
46-3
I think this series is going to have a winner after all!
I think this series is going to have a winner after all!
planetgeli
There's no future in England's dreaming
Yeah no practice needed there. Lawrence entirely comfortable after his two frenetic ODI in a Test innings' in the last 2 matches...plays frenetically. Top stuff.
What an absolutely terrible review. It always amazes me how many players' batting partners are too afraid to say 'dude. that was smashing into the stumps, clear off'
I mean surely you just ask the guy, 'did you hit it?'. If he says no and it's that blatantly plumb then just tell him to go. The English seem to be the worst at this. India and the Aussies are pretty ruthless against their partners. Well, not ruthless, honest.
I mean surely you just ask the guy, 'did you hit it?'. If he says no and it's that blatantly plumb then just tell him to go. The English seem to be the worst at this. India and the Aussies are pretty ruthless against their partners. Well, not ruthless, honest.
planetgeli
There's no future in England's dreaming
Reset's going well today.
This could get seriously embarrassing.
This could get seriously embarrassing.
littlebabyjesus
one of Maxwell's demons
One abject collapse per series is about par for England in West Indies. Here it is.
Somehow they need to get to 150. That could still make a match of it.
Somehow they need to get to 150. That could still make a match of it.
QueenOfGoths
Fuck you Dave!
Well this is going well! 
planetgeli
There's no future in England's dreaming
Series are won over, er, the series, not one game. England's chase of 'victory' was futile in both games. Mainly because of the pitches - NZ, India, Australia would have struggled to take 20 wickets on those surfaces - and a bit because this is 'reset' England with rookie bowlers and an experienced bowler who can't get wickets overseas. And a nothing but average spinner. They had no chance.
I bet Braithwaite feels in good nick. He knew how to bat on those pitches where you could only really get yourself out. I bet he feels confident.
We built no confidence. Batting. While trying to blood fresh players. Just charged up a hill for a win that was never there. Got a bit tired doing so. Bowling. When we could have tired them out instead (oh look, they are bowling first today). But never mind. Overton is back to freshen up our bowling.
Series defeat ahoy. But that won't be any great surprise anyway I guess.
SpookyFrank
A cheap source of teeth for aquarium gravel
Green top eh? Well the batting may have gone to shit, but at least we've got Anderson and Broad.
Zapp Brannigan
Built like a steakhouse, handles like a bistro
7!Every time I see the thread bumpted I think "another wicket gone" I wasn't expecting 67-6 though
littlebabyjesus
one of Maxwell's demons
The riches of 163.
Not sure I get what WI are doing, bowling two part-timers.
Not sure I get what WI are doing, bowling two part-timers.
SpookyFrank
A cheap source of teeth for aquarium gravel
10 and 11 top scoring ffs.
littlebabyjesus
one of Maxwell's demons
Me and my pessimism, hoping for 150. 200!
souljacker
innit
Jack leach officially England's best all rounder! Drop Stokes and promote him to number 5!
littlebabyjesus
one of Maxwell's demons
204. Mahmood agonisingly one short of his first ever 50 in any form of cricket. 
Totally bizarre from West Indies. Appalling session from them in every way - thinking, tactics, commitment, concentration, execution.
Totally bizarre from West Indies. Appalling session from them in every way - thinking, tactics, commitment, concentration, execution.
littlebabyjesus
one of Maxwell's demons
After watching the highlights, I'd say that two batsmen got themselves out (not Lawrence). Crawley and Stokes. Crawley is looking less and less like an opener tbh. He's far too loose. And he's one of those who were given second-innings time to bat normally in the first two tests. Stokes? Ah well. He can't get going every time.
Some of the others were got out by brilliant balls. Overton's delivery was unplayable. A better batter maybe would have been lbw, not bowled, but he's still have been out. It was disappointing they couldn't hang on until the ball went soft, but credit to the WI bowlers who were able to control the movement, and let's acknowledge the conditions. In the end, 204 may not be a bad score.
planetgeli
There's no future in England's dreaming
W.Indies went to pieces there. At about 70 overs they decided they'd go for the new ball. Wtf? Mayers had 2-0 off 5 overs and they left him aside for about 50 overs. They even bowled Blackwood before him again. Terrible display of captaincy plus freak of cricket (137 for the last 3 wickets - an England last 3 wickets) equals 204 and yes, that should give a fighting chance.
Pitch might even be made for Woakes.
Pitch might even be made for Woakes.
planetgeli
There's no future in England's dreaming
Also - Mahmood becomes only the 12th number 11 batsman to top score in a Test in about 140 years. Though 7 of those are in the last 15 years.
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