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England [469/9 & 129/3] beat West Indies [287 & 198] by 113 runs in the 2nd Test at Manchester

Good partnership here. Still plenty of overs left of course. England need to keep plugging away — a couple more wickets and they will really be able to start applying pressure with the field settings.
 
Blackwood has got his runs at a very good rate. I dont see Windies chasing it but to save this match they need a couple of batsmen who can bat for 100+ balls and probably more.
 
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sindhiboy said:
Why doesn't Blackwood play odis??
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He supposedly struggles to rotate the strike as well as to clear boundaries when field is open. Struggled in the 2 ODIs he played, averages 27 in List A after 59 matches and 12 in domestic T20s after 19 matches.
 
2 quick wickets and Eng can take this game.
 
It was always going to be the legendary Stokes to provide the breakthrough.
 
42 overs left, enough time. England has left 5 overs with second ball, which can be crucial. Last night four overs were lost for slow over rate and that has reduced ENG’s overs with second ball.
 
West Indies might just have rated their chances of saving this match with 4 wickets down at Tea. But with the big partnership broken at such a critical moment, again England are back on the front foot and I’d say the win is now 75-80% likely in what will be a very long evening session (potentially 3 hours plus.)
 
Cricinfo comment,

""5 batsmen out in 42.4 overs... 5 more needed (including the tail...) in 42.2..."

I would say chances are very high that 5 last wickets will take less than 42 overs. WI has to play really well to save this test.
 
There is possibly 240 balls left , with just 4 lower order wickets left , its improbabale for WI to draw
 
Dowrich out LBW walking across his stumps to Woakes. Pretty lazy dismissal really.
 
Carlos Brathwaite made an interesting comment on the radio. Apparently WI batsmen in domestic FC cricket are simply not used to facing sustained spells of short pitched bowling, hence why they've struggled with the short ball.

Bowlers can simply pitch the ball on a length knowing a mistake will happen.

I don't think sluggish Caribbean pitches for many years (until recently) has helped either. How times change from era of Viv Richards and Richie Richardson.
 
Statistics are misleading when talking about Ben Stokes bowling skills. He delivers with old bowl and when it matters.

If he was a no.6 or no.7, he would have bowled a lot more and taken more wickets.
 
33 overs left. Still feels light years away with only 4 wickets to get.

Realistically West Indies need at least 3 wickets left going into the final hour (triggered when 15 overs remain) to have a chance of surviving this.
 
Great bowling from Curran.

Brooks trapped right in front for 62.

England into the tail.
 
They should have gone for review as it looked like off-stump missing. Poor IMO!
 
Curran always contributes with bat or ball. England need to find a way to keep him in the team.
 
An hour to go. WI somehow someway need to dig in and absorb the pressure. Don't make it easy for England.
 
I don’t want to use the word related to race; but it’s massive injustice to Moeen, for being dropped for this Bess guy. Even in his worst form, there is no comparison in batting while as a bowler as well, Moeen can’t be this bad.

I think, England will call back Moeen by the PAK series / at present they are basically a 10 men team.
 
Windies fighting hard, but some lousy shots from the batsmen today.
 
Holder will make big strides as a cricketer and captain of Windies team if he can save this for Windies although looks unlikely as of now.
 
First decent thing that Bess has done in the series.
 
Ab Fan said:
Statistics are misleading when talking about Ben Stokes bowling skills. He delivers with old bowl and when it matters.

If he was a no.6 or no.7, he would have bowled a lot more and taken more wickets.
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He has batted at six or seven for 52 of his 67 tests, and has bowled a lot more than he does now, and doesn't have more wickets.
 
1 wicket left now.

Going to be a superb win for England.
 
Congrats England. And thanks to ECB - for not trying out their disgusting idea of four day Test.
 
Played England. Runs at the top of the order for a change. Twenty wickets in two days, and innings victory.

Now on to, err, two strips to one side....

Leach must come in for the Ineffectual Bess and I want to see Wood back for one of Woakes and Curran. Buttler has had a bad two matches and should be replaced by Foakes.
 
Fantastic performance, has there ever been a more clutch player than stokes, the guy us a freak.
 
Stokes that man again.

Holder will regret his decision at the toss, and how sloppy WI were sloppy in the field.

All set for a cracking series decider.
 
Congratulations, England. Dominating win.

I think England should win 2-1 now. West Indies look demoralized.
 
Gosh, WI, you never fail to amuse me, take some pride in your game. How can one loose from this situation!
 
West Indies psychologically seemed to lose the match last night. Holder was in a stinking mood on the balcony after Broad’s quick wickets, looking like a man who had not formulated a Plan B, and this sense of despondency seemed to carry over into the final morning with West Indies using their reviews pointlessly to try and waste time, and a lot of negative body language in the field which allowed the England batsmen to run hard and Stokes to dominate. Declaring 300 ahead with 85 overs and two new balls available was probably only ever going to go one way.
 
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West Indies coach Phil Simmons bemoaned his batsmen's failure to convert promising starts into major scores during the 113-run defeat by England in the second Test at Old Trafford on Monday, as he warned of possible top-order changes for the series finale.

Whereas England built a first-innings total of 469-9 declared on the back of hundreds from Ben Stokes and Dom Sibley, no West Indies batsman has yet made a century in a three-match campaign now all square at 1-1.

Only opener Kraigg Brathwaite among the tourists' top three has so far passed 28 in either of the first two Tests, with both John Campbell and Shai Hope struggling.

"They haven't fired, so we've got to take that into consideration over the next couple of days," said Simmons, with the third Test set to start at Old Trafford on Friday.

West Indies batsmen Darren Bravo and Shimron Hetmyer both declined invitations to tour England for a series taking place against the backdrop of the global coronavirus pandemic.

But reserve wicketkeeper Joshua da Silva, who made an unbeaten century in the second intra-squad warm-up match, could now come into consideration, with back-up opener Shayne Moseley another option for the tourists.

Although they hold the Wisden Trophy following a 2-1 success over Joe Root's men in the Caribbean last year, you have to go back to 1988 for the last time the West Indies won a Test series in England.

Much of the focus heading into this tour was on the talented Hope, whose two career Test hundreds both came during the West Indies' shock win over England at Headingley, Root's Yorkshire home ground, three years ago.

'Big hundreds'

The 26-year-old averages an impressive 52.20 in one-day internationals but that figure plummets to 26.35 in Tests.

Captain Joe Root hailed Ben Stokes after his starring role as England beat the West Indies by 113 runs in the second Test at Emirates Old Trafford. Stokes followed up his superb first-innings 176 by posting 78 not out on the final day to help the...

"Yes, I am concerned," said former West Indies batsman Simmons when asked about Hope's recent form.

"He's gone four innings without a score (in this series) - in contrast to how we played over the last five or six months in the other formats, I am concerned now about his form."

Another frustration for Simmons during the second Test was that while Brathwaite (75), Roston Chase (51), Jermaine Blackwood (55) and Shamarh Brooks (68 and 62) all passed fifty, none of them got to three figures.

"We've had five or six fifties and no one has converted to a hundred," said Simmons.

"It's something that we've been talking about a lot, and no one has taken up that opportunity in this game yet again, so it is disappointing.

"I think it's critical that our batsmen carry on and make big hundreds. Our batsmen need to make hundreds because our bowlers have been doing their jobs," he added.

West Indies, however, were looking like they might yet escape with a draw until they were rocked in their first innings by Stuart Broad's three-wicket burst with the new ball.

https://www.news24.com/sport/cricke...tsmen-on-notice-after-england-defeat-20200721
 
I didn't think England should have left Stuart Broad out last week – and he proved at Emirates Old Trafford that they shouldn't leave him out, as long as he’s fit and available.

If you talk the talk, you have to go out there and walk the walk and Broad did that admirably. He was brilliant from first ball to the last.

At teatime on day four, West Indies were only four down - and my feeling was that, as long as they were still batting the next day, the Wisden Trophy would be safe.

But they lost six wickets quickly after tea and, from Jason Holder's point of view, the question would be whether they gifted it to England and let them back in the game - or whether it was ripped away from them with magical new-ball bowling.

I would actually say Broad's spell, when he took three wickets for one run with that new ball, got the initiative back and gave England the platform to go on and win the match.

With those bowlers they've got, it'll be interesting to see who plays now in the series decider - are you going to tell Jofra Archer and Mark Wood they're not playing?

Does Jimmy Anderson miss out again at his home ground? This game will have taken a lot out of the bowlers and it's back to back to back - so I would probably go with rotation again.

It's a difficult one - Sam Curran always nips in with vital wickets, as does Ben Stokes, who is such a phenomenal cricketer. Any side in the world would want him.

Just when they desperately needed to get Shamarh Brooks out, Curran found a way. There's a stat I saw that, out of 18 Tests Curran has been involved in, England have won 13.

I was also really pleased for Dom Bess to get two of the last three wickets after the seamers had set it up. Right at the end, he found that line.

Rob Key made the point in the morning that England needed to bowl him from the James Anderson End. The problem was all the seamers were queuing up to bowl from that end because it was doing more and the breeze was taking it away.

So Bess had to wait his turn patiently, finally he got to the right end and it was nice for him to get the wicket that won the match.

He's still learning his trade and he's learning it in front of the Sky cameras, trying to help England win a Test series.

For me, if there was one real highlight of the whole Test, it was to see England put runs on the board in the first innings.

I think that's one thing they were desperate to put right. Once they do it, they've got the bowling attack - whoever's injured or rested - to take 20 wickets.

Stokes showed he can play any way he wants to, contrasting the style of his two innings - but Dom Sibley also played a big part with his first-innings hundred.

He may not be overly pleasing on the eye, but he's very pleasing on the scoreboard. The bowlers are always grateful for an opening batsman who bats time and lets them sit and watch.

Pakistan will have quality spinners when they come here next month and Sibley's going to have to work out a way of rotating the strike against them, but he will develop and get better at that.

West Indies have got more problems with the batting and they'll have to go again with virtually the same bowling attack. England have options and I'd say they're in the ascendancy now.

https://www.skysports.com/cricket/n...nce-showed-why-england-should-always-pick-him
 
England will “consider rotating” all-rounder Ben Stokes even though his presence makes it a better team, coach Chris Silverwood said ahead of the third Test against the West Indies.

Stokes scored 176 and an unbeaten 78 in the two innings besides taking three wickets to help his side beat West Indies by 113 runs in the second Test to tie the three-match series 1-1. His performance also earned him the No. 1 position in the ICC all-rounder rankings, displacing West Indies captain Jason Holder.

“We want him out there as much as we can; everyone can see how good he is,” Silverwood said. “But you know what, we’re going to consider rotating him. He’s been at the centre of the last couple of games and we’ve got to make sure he’s O.K. But if he is fit and healthy, he’ll play.”

Stokes had pulled himself out midway through his 15th over in West Indies’ second innings but later insisted there was “absolutely nothing to worry about.”

Silverwood said Stokes would have to “rein” himself in during training as he was always looking push himself. “He’ll keep pushing himself, which is why he is as good as he is,” said Silverwood. “But from a training perspective we try and rein him in where possible and keep him as fit as a fiddle because I know we’re a better team with him out there. We’ve got to look after him the best we can.”

‘Strongest attack’

England picked James Anderson, Jofra Archer and Mark Wood to form the pace attack for the opening Test, but went for Stuart Broad, Chris Woakes and Sam Curran in the second. With many seamers at his disposal, Silverwood will face a selection headache but he said he was determined to pick the “strongest attack” to win the third Test.

“We’ve got to put out the strongest attack out that’s available to us. It’s very difficult to keep everybody happy all the time. But if you do things for the right reason, I think there’s an understanding there,” he said.

“Everyone wants to play all the time and I’d probably be more disappointed if they didn’t. When you’re leaving out world-class players, from my point of view it’s a very good place for English cricket to be. It’s never easy and you’re always going to get pushback. But you try to be as honest as possible,” Silverwood added.

Silverwood also hinted that both Dom Bess and Jos Buttler might keep their spots in the third Test. “I thought Bessy got better and better as the game went on. He found his rhythm and the last few overs he came to the forefront. All the options are on the table but Dom is the spinner that’s in possession at the moment,” Silverwood said.

https://sportstar.thehindu.com/cric...wood-dom-bess-jos-buttler/article32158776.ece
 
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It has to Broad, Archer and Woakes or Anderson, Broad and Archer.

No footmarks for Bess now. Get back Leach in the XI.
 
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