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

Batted Sibbers. Two centuries in his first eight tests, excellent test match temperament.
 
This is painful to watch. Get on with the game. This game has been a terrible advertisement for test match cricket. So much negativity and defensiveness!
 
Sibley has been painfully slow but England, after years of top order collapses, have needed someone to hold up an end.
 
Shams123 said:
This is painful to watch. Get on with the game. This game has been a terrible advertisement for test match cricket. So much negativity and defensiveness!
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I think it’s an good advert for tests, especially if England win which I think they will. If you want sixes, watch T20.
 
This will most likely be a draw especially with the weather forecast tomorrow. England need to accelerate now. No reason not to. They can’t lose from here
 
Robert said:
I think it’s an good advert for tests, especially if England win which I think they will. If you want sixes, watch T20.
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I dont want them to play rash shots but atleast show some intent and put bad balls away.
 
Shams123 said:
This is painful to watch. Get on with the game. This game has been a terrible advertisement for test match cricket. So much negativity and defensiveness!
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Well they have put England in a pretty strong position now
 
Good innings by Dom but also the right time for him to get out.

Just slog slog slog now.
 
Sending Pope here was a poor move. Should have been Buttler to accelerate but he is gonna come in anyways now.
 
Robert said:
Goodness yes, a 250-ball century is much preferable to 50-4 continually.
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True. I hope he just increases his shot range just a tad bit. Much needed successor of Cook in Eng's test lineup.
 
Awwww Popey.

Still WI are on their last legs here. This is the value of the long slow partnership. An hour of Stokes and Buttler is going to be carnage.
 
MenInG said:
Well they have put England in a pretty strong position now
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This was our UAE template for years. Steady scoring rate for the first 100 overs, with Azhar, Younis and Misbah blunting the attack. Then Shafiq and especially Sarfraz would up the tempo and take us to 450 plus.
 
lol england taking revenge.

400+ and games beyond Windies
 
West Indies can be completely out of the game if England cross 500.

Innings defeat is likely.

Can Stokes reach 300? His highest score is 258.
 
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ENG 378/5 (139.0) CRR: 2.72
Day 2: Tea Break - West Indies opt to bowl
 
Bowling average of Chase in 41.24. That's quite poor.

Is he the best West Indies have? How is Rahkeem?
 
sweep_shot said:
Bowling average of Chase in 41.24. That's quite poor.

Is he the best West Indies have? How is Rahkeem?
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Chase plays as a batting all rounder. Rahkeem is a bowling all rounder, a pretty solid offie and a decent batsman as well.

WI dont have many good spinners at the moment but Rahkeem looked pretty decent the little I have seen of him. Chase has been playing because he provides more strength to the batting which is pretty weak overall for WI.
 
Titan24 said:
Chase plays as a batting all rounder. Rahkeem is a bowling all rounder, a pretty solid offie and a decent batsman as well.

WI dont have many good spinners at the moment but Rahkeem looked pretty decent the little I have seen of him. Chase has been playing because he provides more strength to the batting which is pretty weak overall for WI.
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They should try to play both together and see how it all gels up.
 
sweep_shot said:
Bowling average of Chase in 41.24. That's quite poor.
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Is*.

Titan24 said:
Chase plays as a batting all rounder. Rahkeem is a bowling all rounder, a pretty solid offie and a decent batsman as well.

WI dont have many good spinners at the moment but Rahkeem looked pretty decent the little I have seen of him. Chase has been playing because he provides more strength to the batting which is pretty weak overall for WI.
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Rahkeem is extremely unfit though. I have never seen a fatter cricketer than him. How can he pass fitness test?
 
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West Indies have been in the field for almost 149 overs. England are tiring them out.

400 is up for England.

402/7.
 
ENG 426/8 (154.4) CRR: 2.75
Day 2: 3rd Session - West Indies opt to bowl
 
Bess to gone in for some tonk, declare nine down and get WI in.
 
England ideally should have got 550 which could have been possible had they played positively today.

Now chances of being 450 all out with forecast for tomorrow not great it can be anyone's game.
 
An hour before close tonight would have been good against Windies but with 20 overs left looks like they may just get 8-10 overs in.
 
Day 2 - Session 3: West Indies chose to field.

ENG 469/9d (162.0), RR: 2.89

Stokes 176 (356)
Sibley 120 (372)
Buttler 40 (79)
Bess 31* (26)

Chase 44 - 3 - 172 - 5
Roach 33 - 9 - 58 - 2
 
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ENG 469/9 decl
WI 32/1 (14.0) CRR: 2.29
Day 2: Stumps - West Indies trail by 437 runs
 
England v West Indies: Ben Stokes & Dom Sibley hit centuries in second Test

Ben Stokes and Dom Sibley completed centuries to move England into a dominant position on day two of the second Test against West Indies.

Stokes continued his stellar form - this was his fourth hundred in 12 Tests - and played some sparkling strokes after reaching three figures before falling for a superb 176.

Opener Sibley picked up where he left off on day one, doggedly occupying the crease for a second Test ton before he too looked to accelerate and was caught in the deep on the leg side for 120.

Between them, the fourth-wicket pair shared 260, England's largest partnership on home soil for nine years.

Jos Buttler added 40 before England finally declared on 469-9 at Emirates Old Trafford.

Off-spinner Roston Chase picked up 5-172 for the exhausted West Indies, who were flattened after winning the toss and choosing to bowl.

England left themselves an hour to bowl, with Sam Curran trapping John Campbell as West Indies reached 32-1, 437 behind.

It means England have a prime opportunity to level the series at 1-1, but they must be mindful of the weather, with rain forecast for Saturday.

Stokes lights up empty ground
All-rounder Stokes has long been England's talisman, inspiration and the man they turn to in tight moments. The runs he has scored in the past year also suggest he is their best batsman.

This innings showed the different sides of his batting. So careful for so long, his hundred from 255 balls was easily his slowest in Tests.

But he exploded into life after reaching his 10th century with a reverse sweep off Chase, particularly with some glorious lofted drives over mid-wicket.

The great shame is there were no spectators in attendance to enjoy it. It is not difficult to imagine a thrilled Manchester crowd revelling in Stokes' romp through the afternoon.

He was dropped on 157 at gully by Shai Hope off Shannon Gabriel and it was an edge from an attempted reverse sweep off the pace of Kemar Roach that prevented complete carnage.

Indeed, the needless manner of the dismissal was characteristic of an occasionally confused England approach. In the desire to push on, they lost six wickets for 86 runs.

Sibley soldiers on
Sibley's determined grind characterised a stodgy first day. When he returned on Friday, on 86, with England 207-3 and Stokes 59, the opener continued his dogged occupation of the crease.

His awkward technique will not entertain in the manner of a Stokes, but his determination, patience and adhesiveness are needed to lay the platform for the strokemakers down the order.

He went to his hundred from the 312th delivery he faced with one of his best strokes, an on-drive for three. At that point, he had hit only four fours.

Like Stokes, Sibley tried to push on, only to loft Chase to deep mid-wicket and become the first of the regular fall of wickets.

Buttler's runs were welcome given his recent lean trot, but, given the circumstances, he will need more to suggest his place in the team has long-term security.

West Indies toil away
This was another draining day for West Indies, who gifted England the chance to bat first on a placid pitch.

Fielding the same attack that won the first Test, they simply ran out of steam, while Gabriel and fellow pace bowler Alzarri Joseph both had spells off the field.

Any chance they had of getting among the England batting evaporated with some wayward bowling in the morning session, and they frequently looked short of ideas. They barely bowled a bouncer, for example.

With the fast bowlers struggling, Chase was asked to deliver 28 overs in succession, and the turn he found could be a factor later in the match.

By the end, the tourists were ragged. Gabriel fluffed the chance to run out Stuart Broad and Roach dropped a simple catch in the deep off Dom Bess just before England declared.

As England's new-ball bowlers struggled to find any movement, openers Campbell and Kraigg Brathwaite looked set to boost West Indies by batting through to the close.

Curran, though, pinned Campbell on the pads to get an lbw decision on review and would have had another if he had chosen to look again at an appeal against nightwatchman Joseph.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cricket/53448337
 
Tomorrow will be rained off, so England will have 2 days of 98 overs each to beat the West Indies. It is doable but will be very tough.
 
James said:
Tomorrow will be rained off, so England will have 2 days of 98 overs each to beat the West Indies. It is doable but will be very tough.
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West Indian batting isn't as great as their bowling. I think England should get 19 wickets in 2 days (got 1 wicket today already).
 
Scoreboard pressure for the first time for West Indies.

A couple of the bowlers carrying injuries too.

It's going to be tough for the tourists.
 
i dont think shannon gabriel was spraying them down the leg side yesterday completely accidentally. i think he was genuinely p off he was asked to bowl . he should probably rise above it but we have to remember these are different countries thrown together as one side
i have no idea why you would bowl first at old trafford, and i suspect shannon gabriel couldnt understand it either
 
England's chances of reaching finals of world test championship will significantly drop if this match results in a draw.
As of now draw looks like the most probable event.
 
If Windies can score 270, it will mean they have saved the follow-on and that will also mean the result will be a draw.

So, Windies will look to bat long on day 4 and get to 270 mark first. On other hand, England will have to enforce follow-on to win this test match.

Don't think there will be any cricket today.
 
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Doesn't seem like any game will happen today.

Draw is probably the most likely result.
 
If WI do manage to just about avoid the follow on during day 4, England should declare their innings on 0/0 :yk to give themselves max amount of time to bowl the West Indies out
 
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