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England (371) defeat West Indies (121 & 136) by an inning and 114 runs to win the 1st Test match and lead the 3-match series 1-0

WI lost the plot. They were 88-3.

Atkinson has bowled well, but with the skies brightening now the batsmen could've cashed in.
 
Pathetic from WI, Test cricket on ventilator in Caribbean who wants to be an attritional batsman for WI in the age of T20 leagues offering crazy dollars
 
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Another strokeless wonder Athanaze. Put pressure on Louis and lost wicket

@RedwoodOriginal This is team you think have Test quality ?
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I said they have talent and should be given time to prove themselves. Criticizing them after the first innings of the tour where they had to bat in seam-friendly, overcast conditions is the exact opposite of that.
 
Big 3 have ruined cricket the likes of nz Pak windies living of scraps they don’t want to invest in the long game.. these games will barley go into the 4th day never mind 5th.
 
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I said they have talent and should be given time to prove themselves. Criticizing them after the first innings of the tour where they had to bat in seam-friendly, overcast conditions is the exact opposite of that.
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There was no big seam/swing . Just accurate 140 speed bowling .

Average team would lost maybe 4 wickets. But WI much below average , so bowled out
 
Kumar Sangakkara on Sky Sports Cricket:

"England are going to hard and they have a brand of cricket they want to execute well.

"The West Indies have bowled well and with control.

"The England dressing room has created a place where mistakes are okay as long as you learn, and as long as you're chasing something that is significant.

"Those are important attributes and knowing when to do it.

"West Indies need to understand who bats in what way and to have an attacking mindset."
 
Ian Bishop on Sky Sports Cricket:

"In England, the conditions are unique. We all know that. So, doing those little things right and for longer helps.

"I wouldn't say it was a reckless performance from the West Indies, but they needed to understand when to leave the ball and who's advantage it is when the sun is out or when it is overcast.

"Credit to England for their bowling."
 
England - 90/1 (21 overs).

Trailing by 31 runs.

I think England should send in Anderson next (nightwatchman). His possibly last innings.
 
This is test cricket of the highest order being played at Lords who will watch it on TV, such a one sided contest
 
Atkinson's seven puts England on top against Windies

Gus Atkinson’s scintillating spell of 7-45 showed England a future beyond James Anderson and put the home side in a commanding position on day one of the first Test against West Indies.

While Lord’s began the farewell to Anderson in the final Test of his legendary career, it was Atkinson, winning his first cap, who led the way with the best figures by an England debutant for 29 years.

At one point the Surrey pace bowler claimed a triple-wicket maiden as the tourists fell apart in a slump of four wickets for no runs in eight balls.

Anderson nipped in to have last man Jayden Seales lbw, leaving West Indies 121 all out after they had been asked to bat under dark skies and floodlights.

On a true, slow pitch, Zak Crawley and Ollie Pope swiftly put England ahead following Ben Duckett’s edge behind off Seales for only three.

Crawley could have been run out without scoring and Pope overturned being given lbw on 33, but they used the reprieves to add 94 for the second wicket.

Pope was eventually leg-before to Jason Holder for 57 and Crawley bowled by Seales for 76, allowing Joe Root and Harry Brook to take England to 189-3 and a lead of 68.


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In the next cycle, even uppity, mighty ECB will be forced to reduce Tests with broadcasters and sponsors demanding it.

They already were forced to give The Hundred priority due to declining value of their bilateral cricket .

This season of WI-SL tours is going to be of such low standards that even these will primarily become white ball tours.
 
ENG should bat till Tea & then bowl just to find out if they can rollout WI in 30-35 overs & finish the game in 2 days .
 
Looks like this match is going to be a big England win. West Indies haven’t turned up.

England seem to have tweaked their batting approach a bit since the previous series, top order has played quite sensibly and no outrageously silly shots, just putting the bad ball away. Crawley and Pope had to be legitimately got out by good full length bowling. It could be that the lower order is given more licence after this platform is set.

Stat padding summer for the English.
 
Let's see how this guy performs.

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Jamie Smith in the County Championship 2024
Inns: 9
Runs: 677
Avg: 56.41
SR: 76.67
100s/50s: 2/5
HS: 155
 
Sky Sports Cricket’s Kumar Sangakkara on Jamie Smith:

“England have picked Smith at No 7 to really accelerate the score and maybe bat with the last recognised batter and then the tail.

"As a debutant, the pressure is almost doubled as he has to live up to that expectation. The key for him is to know when he is ready to do that.”
 
England batting is their Top 4. The rest are passengers. Ben Stokes has massively regressed. Their bowlers cannot bat either. One of the weakest England sides in a long time.

I still expect England to win by an innings. WI are super trash.
 
Score Update

England 371 all out in 1st Innings in reply to West Indies 121 All out.
 
Horrendous batting with no intent to score at all by Brathwaite

Edit : And gets out because of it. Terrible minnow level batting
 
James said:
Looks like this match is going to be a big England win. West Indies haven’t turned up.

England seem to have tweaked their batting approach a bit since the previous series, top order has played quite sensibly and no outrageously silly shots, just putting the bad ball away. Crawley and Pope had to be legitimately got out by good full length bowling. It could be that the lower order is given more licence after this platform is set.

Stat padding summer for the English.
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did post today possibly a 2 day Test 38/4
 
18 overs left - if it gets over today , what will Strauss do on his designated day tomorrow ?
 
Score Updates

West Indies 39/4 after 20 overs still trailing England by 211 runs. Poor batting from WI but can anybody rise to the occasion for the maroon army here. WI in deep trouble at the moment.
 
Jimmy is still such a beast in these conditions, a shame he is being pushed out, but England have done it the right way at least and with a plan in place
 
Bazball in last 1 year:
Lost 6 tests out of 10.
Lost 2 tests in home out of 5.
Now they have straight 6 matches against West Indies and Sri Lanka and after winning against these two minnows, they will tell the world that people will remember us for the way we played cricket (against minnows 😂)

Before that they drew a series in New Zealand, lost 1 test in home against ordinary South Africa.
Till then their only achievement is defeating Pakistan (against whom even Australia won with normal approach).

But but please remember us because we play fast, don't see our results, see our moral results. 😂😂😂
 
Seriously test cricket needs tier system now .

Its getting boring when a team smashing others . Not contest at all .

Win or lose is part of the game but atleast be competitive .

India , Australia, England,south Africa , NZ - Tier 1

Pakistan, Westindies, Srilanka , Bangladesh, Afghanistan , Ireland - Tier 2
 
Jamie Smith struck a half-century in his first Test before Ben Stokes took his 200th wicket and James Anderson his 703rd as England closed in on a resounding victory over West Indies at Lord's.

Smith's 70 from 119 balls, in which he pulled a six out of the ground, followed Surrey team-mate and fellow debutant Gus Atkinson's seven-wicket haul on day one as West Indies were skittled for 121.

Smith was one of five players to pass fifty in England's 371 all out in reply, with Joe Root (68) and Harry Brook (50) also backing up opening-day half-centuries for Zak Crawley (76) and Ollie Pope (57).

England's lead was 250 when Smith was last man out, and West Indies crumpled to 79-6 in the final session to trail by 171 at stumps.

With the tourists reeling at 38-4 when Atkinson bowled Kavem Hodge (4), there was a realistic chance of a two-day finish, and England were sensing that again when Anderson (2-11) made it 55-5 by nicking off Alick Athanaze (22) for his 703rd wicket, in what is his 188th and final Test match after 21 years of service.

Jason Holder (20 off 59) and Joshua Da Silva (8no off 16) - both of whom were out to Atkinson for ducks in the first innings - battled to take the game into at least a third day, although England appear nailed on for a 1-0 lead in the three-match series ahead of next week's second Test at Trent Bridge.

The final moment of the day was Holder fencing Atkinson (2-27) to Pope at short leg - Stokes rewarded for adopting a short-ball ploy on the day he became only the third player, after Sir Garfield Sobers and Jacques Kallis, to complete the double of 200 Test wickets and 6,000 Test runs during a lung-busting 10-over spell.


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shaz619 said:
Is this the same team which won in Australia @Markhor
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There's some changes from that tour but it shouldn't have caused this collapse.

They played Kevin Sinclair in Australia which did strengthen the lower order, but they replaced him here with a specialist spinner Gudakesh Motie.

The middle order is just too inexperienced. Kirk McKenzie is not a Test #3. Guy averaged 24 in their weak FC tournament this season yet made the squad ?! Even 35 year old Darren Bravo would've been a better pick - he was the 2nd highest runscorer behind Athanaze last year yet never got recalled.

The experienced players Brathwaite and Holder also need to sort themselves out. The captain averages 25 since start of 2023 (inflated by Zimbabwe bashing).
 
Risible effort from Brathwaite in this game. Needed to at least stay in for a while and give the other West Indies players some confidence even if he couldn’t get many runs. Two very quick dismissals.
 
England should wrap this up before Lunch tomorrow. Just 4 wickets to go.

Anderson can't surpass or equal Warne's 708 now but he can get closer. He has 703 wickets.
 

England vs West Indies, 1st Test at London​


ENG 371

WI 121 & 136

England won by an innings and 114 runs
 
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The last legend from pre T20 era one for the romantics, bows out , end of an era 21 years amazing
 
England captain Ben Stokes speaking during post-match interview:

"It was a really good start. To come out here and put in a performance like that was very clinical.

"Before the game starts, it's always amazing to see two young lads with a boat-load of talent coming in and receiving their caps...but to go on and put in performances like Gus and Jamie did is very pleasing.

"They're two guys who have got a high ceiling, Gus with the ball and Jamie with the bat and behind the stumps, and I think the future for those two is looking very good."
 
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England vs West Indies, 1st Test at London​

ENG 371

WI 121 & 136

England won by an innings and 114 runs
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First Rothesay Test (day three of five), Lord's:

West Indies 121 (Atkinson 7-45) & 136 (Atkinson 5-61)

England 371 (Crawley 76, Smith 70, Root 68; Seales 4-77)

England won by an innings and 114 runs, take 1-0 lead in three-match series

James Anderson ended his legendary international career in England’s crushing victory over West Indies in the first Test at Lord’s.

Anderson, England’s all-time leading wicket-taker, took one of the four wickets to fall on the third morning as the hosts completed a rout by an innings and 114 runs.

On an poignant day at the home of cricket, 41-year-old Anderson was given a guard of honour by both teams on his entrance to the field and was visibly moved by the standing ovation he received from the expectant crowd.

The result was already in little doubt after West Indies had been reduced to 79-6 on the second evening, 171 away from making England bat again.

Anderson bowled the first full over of the day and struck in his second, having Joshua da Silva caught behind.

Gus Atkinson had Alzarri Joseph held at long leg to become the first England bowler to take a 10-wicket haul on Test debut since 1976, then bowled the swiping Shamar Joseph.

The stage was set for Anderson, who somehow missed the chance for the fairytale finale when he dropped a caught-and-bowled chance off Gudakesh Motie.

Instead it was Atkinson who had the final say when Jayden Seales was caught at deep square leg to leave West Indies 136 all out. It gave Atkinson 5-61 in the second innings and 12-106 in the match, the best figures by an England debutant in 134 years.

The win halts a run of four successive Test defeats for England and gives them a 1-0 lead in the three-match series.

Anderson immediately joins the England coaching team as a bowling mentor for the second Test at Trent Bridge, which begins on Thursday.

This has been a long goodbye for Anderson, who announced his intention to retire in May after talks with England captain Ben Stokes, coach Brendon McCullum and managing director Rob Key.

Much of the week has been a celebration of his unparalleled career, one that has made him the most successful fast bowler to ever play Test cricket.

This did not have the drama of the exits of his great friends Sir Alastair Cook and Stuart Broad. Cook made a century in his last Test against India, while Broad hit a six from the final ball he faced in Test cricket then sealed an Ashes draw with his final delivery against Australia at The Oval last year.

On the same ground where he made his Test debut against Zimbabwe in 2003, Anderson was last down the pavilion steps. He walked between the two sets of players lined up on the outfield while the big screen showed his picture and a caption of “James Anderson The Greatest”.

In a mix of England’s old and new, Atkinson, playing his first Test, and Anderson, in his 188th and last, bowled unchanged and in tandem throughout the hour of play on Friday morning.

Anderson, as he has done so often, found movement down the Lord’s slope to take Da Silva’s edge, while Atkinson bounced out Alzarri Joseph and splattered the stumps of Shamar Joseph.

With the last pair at the crease and one final wicket to take, the crowd sang Anderson’s name and cheered him to the crease, only for Motie’s chipped drive to pop out of the bowler’s left hand as he followed through.

In almost comical scenes, with Motie somehow evading fielders and the whole ground willing Anderson towards his moment, celebrations were muted when Seales hooked Atkinson to Ben Duckett.

Anderson led England from the field, soaking up the adulation, then was interviewed by his first Test captain Nasser Hussain in the England dressing room, pint of Guinness in hand.

Anderson’s 3-32 leaves him with 704 Test wickets, third on the all-time list behind only spinners Muttiah Muralitharan and Shane Warne. It was England who decided to move on from Anderson, and now England must prepare for life without him.

England refreshed their team in response to the 4-1 defeat in India and with an eye on planning for the Ashes in 2025-26.

Atkinson was superb, bowling with high pace and little fuss to record the best match figures by an England bowler on debut since Fred Martin against Australia at The Oval in 1890. He also managed to trump Anderson’s career-best match figures of 11-71.

Jamie Smith was tidy behind the stumps and impressive for his 70 on day two, while off-spinner Shoaib Bashir was not required to bowl in his first home Test.

Perhaps most importantly for England, Stokes’ return to play a full part as an all-rounder provides balance that has been badly missing. His repaired left knee allowed him untroubled spells of eight overs in the first innings and 10 in the second.

Still, the skipper would like a score with the bat – his four on Thursday was his fifth successive single-figure score in Tests.

England will make at least one change for Nottingham, with Matthew Potts and uncapped Dillon Pennington vying to replace Anderson. At some point in the summer Mark Wood will come back into the Test reckoning.

This was a chastening week for an inexperienced West Indies side. Concerns over their batting were realised and an exciting bowling attack was hampered by an injury to Shamar Joseph.

The Windies do have form for shock results. They stunned England at Headingley in 2017 and at the beginning of this year produced one of the all-time great Test wins by beating Australia in Brisbane.

They should improve as the series progresses, but England look too strong and anything other than a 3-0 series win should be regarded as a disappointment for the home side.

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England v West Indies: James Anderson ends career in huge win at Lord's

James Anderson ends his legendary international career in England’s crushing victory over West Indies in the first Test at Lord’s.
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ECB should have let Jimmy play the full series and get over warne as the top test wicket taker. Yeah I know there is another guy at top but to me he chucked his way there so I dont count him
 
West Indies captain Kraigg Brathwaite said in post-match press conference:

“It’s quite disappointing but it’s gone. We have two Test matches left in this series and we have to look ahead and stay mentally tough. That’s important for us.”

“Every individual I believe in 100%. I know they can get the job done at this level so I believe in them for sure.”

“Positives? We did bowl them out, albeit 50-60 runs too many. With the bat, we got three guys that got to 20-add and batted for an hour. We caught decently as well.”

“It’s a little too early to decide. Obviously, it’s a different pitch we’ll be playing on so when we get there we’ll know.”

“I’m coping okay. Test cricket is always a challenge but, as I say to the boys as well it’s the same thing for myself, you’ve just got to stay mentally tough. You’ve got to believe that something’s coming around the corner. Just keep doing the right things and everything will work out.”
 
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Mark Wood added to England Men's Test Squad

Durham fast bowler Mark Wood has been added to the England Men’s Test squad for the Rothesay second Test against the West Indies starting next Thursday at Trent Bridge, Nottingham.

England Men's Test Squad:

Ben Stokes (Durham) Captain

Gus Atkinson (Surrey)

Shoaib Bashir (Somerset)

Harry Brook (Yorkshire)

Zak Crawley (Kent)

Ben Duckett (Nottinghamshire)

Dan Lawrence (Surrey)

Dillon Pennington (Nottinghamshire)

Ollie Pope (Surrey)

Matthew Potts (Durham)

Joe Root (Yorkshire)

Jamie Smith (Surrey)

Chris Woakes (Warwickshire)

Mark Wood (Durham)

Test Series Versus West Indies

1st Test: England v West Indies, 10-14 July 2024, Lord’s Cricket Ground, London - England won by an innings and 114 runs

2nd Test: England v West Indies, 18-22 July 2024, Trent Bridge, Nottingham

3rd Test: England v West Indies, 26-30 July 2024, Edgbaston, Birmingham
 
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