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

Day 1 Session 2: West Indies won toss & fielded

ENG 63/2 (26.0) - CRR: 2.42

Sibley 22* (83)
Root 18* (37)

Min. Overs Remaining: 57.0
 
Hoping the Post-Covid era will see Root scoring more hundreds than fifties.
 
Gabriel injured. Hasn’t been at his best today and now going off.
 
Usual kind of dismissal for Root, playing away from the body. A top player but it happens quite frequently for him.
 
85/3.

Game is on balance. West Indies are probably slightly ahead with Root's wicket.
 
Good bowling by Joseph, variation with release points and coming much wider on the crease seems to have done the trick for the Root dismissal.
 
sweep_shot said:
Big blow for West Indies. He was crucial during first Test.
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Should've been rested. He was clearly struggling at the end of the previous test, and now he's been asked to bowl on the first morning after a very short turnaround. Was struggling from ball 1 today. Now they're a bowler down for the whole match.
 
Just seen the root dismissal.
That is why he is not a top, top test player. Smith would never do that
 
Sibley has reached 41*.

Can he score a big century? That's what is required for England.
 
Pujara is more impactful as a test player than root, he isn't great in all conditions but atleast he goes big when he is in form. Also he is immovable in asian conditions
 
Chappell once said that if you put opponents in and don’t get them at least three down by first lunch, 4 out of 5 Tests you won’t win it. I once checked around 35 randomly selected Tests where teams put opponents in and the stats were almost bang on. This was a curtailed morning session, but roughly if I take first 29 overs as the cut off (for lunch), Poms were two down.

I’ll take an 1:3odd here for England to win this & 1:5 for WIN not the win it (both from the previously mentioned hypothesis- 23 out of 35 of my samples ended in loss for toss winning side).
 
Steve smiths batting style has really left a big impact, nowadays too many players try to copy his unusual grip and stance.
Looks really awful.
 
112/3.

England are slowly getting to a strong position.

If they can finish the day on something like 200/3, they should be the happier side.
 
Good for England if Burns and Sibley can be their long-term openers.

40+ test average from both should mean they are doing a very job for England.
 
Poor cricket by English team - they are heading into a situation which led them to lose the last Test (bogged down and suddenly lost 5 for 30 when they should have taken the game out of WIN chase).

One of the most important features in Test cricket is Run Rate - against old ball, teams have to increase scoring rate, which England failed to do. LO cricket doesn’t question the attitude because the asking is given, but in Test cricket teams can choose own tempo and Poms are failing there.

In 19 overs time WI will get the new ball and they will have two strikes with it - 3 overs this evening and again tomorrow morning with pacers rested over night. If Poms ends like 180-3 tonight, still WIN will have a good chance to make it 245-9 by lunch tomorrow.
 
It feels like an espresso shot of test cricket, too much of pure old school test cricket without much dilution. Though this one might make some people sleep rather than waking them up. :yawn
 
Holder brings back Gabriel to get a wicket and he nearly did in his first over only to be spilled by Holder at 2nd slip.
 
It isn't showing the bowling speeds though but I noticed earlier that they had been showing some speeds with the mph/kph together which is good to see/know for the audiences.
 
WI pacers probably need to add bit of bouncers in between to test the footwork of the batsmen.
 
Deewana Mastana said:
It isn't showing the bowling speeds though but I noticed earlier that they had been showing some speeds with the mph/kph together which is good to see/know for the audiences.
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Faced some problems in the first day of the first test as well.
 
Don't think they'll be playing much longer as the clouds are getting darker and lights fading quicker despite the lights being on most of the day.

Bouncers are needed and also go round the wickets as well try different options.
 
sindhiboy said:
Sibley dropped twice, he has to score over a 100 to make his stonewalling count
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West Indies will lose this game if they dont take catches. Sibley will score big and they are to blame.
 
Come on Sibbers.

England may regret leaving Wood out here. OT is quite pacey.
 
112 runs partnership , This two have put Poms ina good position from where they can look to win the test.
 
MMHS said:
Poor cricket by English team - they are heading into a situation which led them to lose the last Test (bogged down and suddenly lost 5 for 30 when they should have taken the game out of WIN chase).

One of the most important features in Test cricket is Run Rate - against old ball, teams have to increase scoring rate, which England failed to do. LO cricket doesn’t question the attitude because the asking is given, but in Test cricket teams can choose own tempo and Poms are failing there.

In 19 overs time WI will get the new ball and they will have two strikes with it - 3 overs this evening and again tomorrow morning with pacers rested over night. If Poms ends like 180-3 tonight, still WIN will have a good chance to make it 245-9 by lunch tomorrow.
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"Poms" are doing just fine. They were inserted by WI and are 200-3 and have batted at four an over for the last 50 of these.
 
Very good day for England, chance to build a strong position in the match tomorrow.
 
A mistake from Windies at toss and are paying the price.

Good batting by Sibley and Stokes. He shouldn't miss out on 100 tomorrow morning, Sibley.
 
Bowlers are going through the wicket on the first day, so it will break up. Should be good for Bess on the last day.
 
Dom Sibley and Ben Stokes batted England into a strong position on an attritional first day of the second Test against West Indies.

Sibley inched his way to 86 not out from 253 balls, adding an unbroken 126 with Stokes, who batted beautifully for his unbeaten 59.

In closing on 207-3, England recovered from being reduced to 29-2 by off-spinner Roston Chase removing Rory Burns and Zak Crawley with successive balls either side of lunch.

Not only that, but the home side dealt with the disruption of dropping Jofra Archer for a breach of the bio-secure protocols.

Pace bowler Archer was left out after travelling to his Brighton home in between the first Test in Southampton and this game at Emirates Old Trafford.

Without him, England fielded an entirely different pace attack to the one that lost the series opener, but it was their batsmen who were thrust into the action when West Indies won the toss on a murky day in Manchester.

The touring pace bowlers, so impressive in the six-wicket win at the Ageas Bowl, looked weary and were not helped by their fielders, who dropped Sibley twice.

West Indies also face the prospect of having to bat last on sluggish pitch that is already offering turn and some uneven bounce.

Archer's omission was announced three hours before play was due to begin. Without it, this would have gone down as an unremarkable day of Test cricket.

The bio-secure, behind-closed-doors environment in Southampton was masked by the quality of the match, while the openness of the ground provided life from the outside world.

This may yet mature into a similarly compelling contest, but the urban, enclosed nature of the impressively redeveloped Old Trafford resulted in a sense of claustrophobia.

A crowd, usually so boisterous in Manchester, was missed, while the conditions - leaden skies and a tacky surface - was not conducive to thrilling cricket.

The weather prevented any action before 12:30 BST, and the players were still out there when the sun finally appeared at 19:30.

England had much the better of it, vindicating captain Joe Root's view that he would have batted on winning the toss, rather than unleashing a new-look pace attack of Stuart Broad, Chris Woakes and Sam Curran on a day that would have been ideal for them.

Sibley grinds it out

Sibley is unlikely to earn plaudits for his style, but the manner in which he values his wicket has been needed by England not only here, but for so long in their search for a reliable opening pair.

He dropped anchor in a vigil that mainly included leaving anything outside off stump and shovelling the ball to the leg side any time West Indies bowled straight. His first boundary did not come until the 91st ball he faced, and only 14 of his runs were scored in front of square on the off side.

He saw all of Burns, Crawley and Root gift their wickets away. Burns played down the wrong line to be lbw to Chase, Crawley softly turned his first ball to leg slip, and Root edged a wild drive off Alzarri Joseph to second slip.

At 81-3, England were teetering, only for Stokes to join Sibley. When Stokes lofted Chase for a straight six, it ended a period of more than an hour without a boundary, during which time Sibley was dropped at short leg off Chase on 44.

While Stokes took time to find some fluency, he was never troubled, and it brief flashes of his strokeplay provided the highlights of a day when England hit only 11 fours and one six.

On a rare occasion that Sibley, on 68, was drawn into playing outside off stump by Shannon Gabriel, West Indies captain Jason Holder could not hold on to a straightforward chance at second slip.

A struggle for weary Windies

After their pace bowlers bowled with such incision in Southampton, West Indies pounced on the opportunity to do so again in grey Manchester, ignoring the history that says no side has won a Test on this ground after winning the toss and choosing to field.

They instantly looked flat. Gabriel, man of the match with nine wickets in the first Test, sent his second delivery down the leg side for five wides and later spent time off the field with what looked like a groin problem.

Chase was only bowling in the first hour because the pacemen were so poor, but struck with his second and third deliveries, and remained tidy throughout the day.

The sprightly Joseph led an improvement of the fast bowlers, getting his reward when Root chased an outswinger he could barely reach.

Kemar Roach and Holder managed one threatening spell apiece, in the afternoon and evening respectively, but Holder was also forced from the field.

When he returned, he missed the chance off Sibley, was in the firing line when another Gabriel wide went straight to second slip, and could not inspire his team into finding a way to past England's increasingly comfortable fourth-wicket pair.

England head coach Chris Silverwood on Sky Sports: "Dom concentrates very well. He's willing to bat for long periods of time - and that's what we needed at the top.

"Those partnerships have put us in a great position. We've got to back it up tomorrow."

Ex-England captain Michael Vaughan on BBC Test Match Special: "You only have to go back a year or two ago and we were criticising England for being too flamboyant and the mentality not being right.

"This is completely the other end of the spectrum - and I prefer this end. It's been a day's play I would see in the 80s. This is what I believe Test cricket should be played like."

West Indies all-rounder Carlos Brathwaite: "West Indies need someone like Dom Sibley but with the ball. It's not going to look pretty all the time. Sometimes you just need someone to run in and do the hard yards.

"It looks as though the bodies aren't quite holding up as well as they thought they would. We need to see more with the ball."

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cricket/53435303
 
Robert said:
"Poms" are doing just fine. They were inserted by WI and are 200-3 and have batted at four an over for the last 50 of these.
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Indeed they have recovered well. Now can think of batting once & take WIN out of Test. 450 on board and 15 overs at the end of day 2 - don’t think WIN will save the lead.
 
England have not lost back-to-back Tests at home since 2008, so they've been good at bouncing back from defeats.

Sibley and Stokes have knuckled down, laying a foundation for England to score 400.

Jason Holder's side hasn't really justified the decision to bowl first, they need early inroads.
 
90* off 285 balls, don’t remember last time I saw something like this in first innings of a test match.
 
ENG 229/3 (94.1) CRR: 2.43
Day 2: 1st Session - West Indies opt to bowl
 
Slowest century in England is 329 balls, Sibley needs to make 10 off 37 balls or more to beat it.
 
sindhiboy said:
Didn't taufeeq Umar score a 300 ball 100?
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Taufeeq scored 100 off 249 balls vs WI in 2011 when Pak was setting a target in the second innings. He did play 314 balls in total but scored 135 runs of that with a SR of 43 which which to be honest is pretty common. However SR of around 30 or less is an extreme.
 
This Sibley guy is another Azhar Ali. No attempt to dominate the bowling once set. Stokes will take the bowling on once he gets to 100.
 
After so many openers tried since Strauss finished who are just not up to it, Sibley is a breath of fresh air. He can anchor the top order and let the others score faster.
 
shariqnoor said:
This Sibley guy is another Azhar Ali. No attempt to dominate the bowling once set. Stokes will take the bowling on once he gets to 100.
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Azhar never scored a 311 and something balls 100. Azhar even has a 300 in tests, imagine Sibley going for a 300 at this pace. :irfan
 
Sibley has been playing quite tentatively which is fine. As I speak, he's just reached his century.
 
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