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Stokes being flogged here - 11-over spell. He has a history of breaking down when bowling. I'm not sure Root is very good at looking after his bowlers - both Stokes and Anderson were asked to bowl long spells yesterday as well.
 
littlebabyjesus said:
Stokes being flogged here - 11-over spell. He has a history of breaking down when bowling. I'm not sure Root is very good at looking after his bowlers - both Stokes and Anderson were asked to bowl long spells yesterday as well.
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Agree wholeheartedly. Paying the price for leaving out Broad. I feel he would’ve had some success (or even a field day) on this up and down pitch. Poor sod Curran isn’t a new ball bowler - 4th at best.
 
Cerberus said:
Agree wholeheartedly. Paying the price for leaving out Broad. I feel he would’ve had some success (or even a field day) on this up and down pitch. Poor sod Curran isn’t a new ball bowler - 4th at best.
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Mad isn't it? It's exactly the sort of pitch Broad can have his magic spells on. Like Roach did today, he might just have done the same. Crazy how wrong England have got this. No excuses for 77 all out, and there were some bad dismissals in there, but it might have happened differently if WI had scored much less first innings.
 
Thanks Geoffrey.

Great foot on the neck windies cricket here. 628 to win. After first three overs this morning i thought we may be facing 400 odd and in with a shout.
 
Eighteen wickets on day two, none on day three. That can't have happened too often.

Still going to get thrashed, mind.
 
butchersapron said:
I'm going to bed dreaming of great things later.
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The slim chance of reflected glory being the only sane response, or the response that keeps us sane, in a life under a system that reflects no glory for us at all.

Jennings still goes in the first half hour in my dream though.
 
England can't win this but they have to believe they can save it. Mendis and Mathews batted the entire fourth day in NZ. It can be done. Weird NZ wickets that flatten out mind. But I watched a lot of m&m in NZ and their method was clear and calm and they believed in it. I want to see that tomorrow whatever happens.
 
Two down at lunch. Some decent bowling and the odd ball misbehaving but nothing awful. And two bad dismissals really - another terrible shot from Jennings, then Burns misses a straight one from the part-time spinner. Some nice stuff from Burns before that, but he seems to love the guide through the slips. Not sure that's smart in test cricket when you're batting to save the game. Jennings wasn't scoring but was digging in. But he just couldn't resist launching into a full ball with no footwork. Disappointing that he couldn't discipline himself to stay there, without scoring if necessary.
 
I worry about Joe Root. I don't think captaincy agrees with him. It's not done his batting any good and he still hasn't got the idea about rotating his bowlers properly. If you want Jimmy Anderson to be playing for as long as possible, as any sane person would, you can't be bowling him for 30 overs in an innings. And you can't pick a new ball bowler on the strength of his batting.
 
Humiliated on day 2 with the bat. Humiliated on day 3 with the ball. Humiliated again on day 4 with the bat.

Extraordinary test match. Roston Chase now has better best figures than Shane Warne. And the ball wasn't even turning. Inept from England. For the first couple of hours it looked like they might give this a good fight, and at least take it into day 5. Then I went out and come back to find out that it all went hideously wrong. Of all England's terrible performances that they've thrown in over the last few years, I think this ranks as the rankest of the lot.

Players to be very concerned about: Jennings, Ali, Curran, Rashid. wtf has happened to Moeen's batting?

Antigua is slow and placid and a place where huge scores can be made. Who plays? Curran can't. Neither can Rashid. So Broad and Leach come in - a match late, some would say. Do all the batsmen get let off after this and allowed to play again? They probably will be.
 
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Denly bowls some leggies as well. So it appears Moeen is in danger here, and that Curran is likely to play again. I don't quite see what the basis is for picking Curran again. Woakes is also out there. He's a better bowler and batter imo.
 
Tinge of green so the Windies win the toss and bowl. Denly and Broad in, Jennings and Rashid out. Ali preferred to Leach, which I'm not totally sure about. Curran included, which I'm also not totally sure about. But first up, batting! Good toss to lose?
 
Well that's how you clean up a tail. Moeen top-scorer, but the end was swift. Can England, without the same pace, produce the same kind of results? May be a Broad-friendly pitch.
 
What I saw of it was a very strong windies bowling attack. England were rubbish but some of the wicket balls would have taken out any batsman. Root's wicket for instance was a fantastic ball plus some astonishing fielding.
 
I don't think the score is the issue, it's the fact that we are all out not long after tea on the first day. No-one seems to be able to play an innings any more. You end up relying on Bairstow and Moeen to smash it around for an hour. What ever happened to patient test openers?
 
Broad-friendly pitch? Oh yes. Unplayable deliveries are just around the corner. You've just got to hope you miss it. tbf the Bairstow/Moeen approach is fair enough in that situation. Not necessarily much value in patience.
 
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