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Not a lot to say. Sort of a good innings from Strauss, and sort of not. Some gorgeous driving and some terrible wafts. Clearly it looks like his day, that is all.
 
James said:
Not a lot to say. Sort of a good innings from Strauss, and sort of not. Some gorgeous driving and some terrible wafts. Clearly it looks like his day, that is all.
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The wafts are nerves I think. He was fairly chance-free from 50 onwards (when I started watching) till he hit 80.
 
No ball, village green shot to slip, dropped anyway.
 
He might have heard the call and gone for the free hit. That's possible too.
 
Johann is bricking it now.

These 5 runs could take a while.
 
Great by England. Nice to see Strauss scoring some runs again. hasn't had a hundred since the ashes so hopefully he can get one.
 
I'll be able to sigh in relief if Strauss hits that magic number soon.
 
Might as well send Bell in. He's a master at scoring in these situations.
 
Ruri said:
Pressure-Free?


But KP is more fun!
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yep. Don't think I've seen Bell fail in these situations where there's no pressure. Otherwise he'd be unable to maintain such a high average. You can not say the man doesn't take his chances :D. He sees the opportunity to score a pressure free 100 and goes for it.

Was a fan of him, thought he had a lot more potential. But looking at the subcontinent test matches seems nothing changed. Getting really tired and fed up. Thought he was now a good player of spin and improved since facing warne (who troubled him), but looked clueless. Great against all the average spinners, get a good mystery spinner in there and he fails.

Sick of seeing Bell just scoring when there's no pressure, but that's all he seems to do. To think the guy nearly got to no.1 batsman in the world. Scary.
 
ads101 said:
Sick of seeing Bell just scoring when there's no pressure, but that's all he seems to do. To think the guy nearly got to no.1 batsman in the world. Scary.
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I've seen him play some pressure innings, against Australia and SA. Not often enough, but sometimes.

Anyway....... STRAUSSY!!!!!!
 
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Dingdong won't be under any pressure when he comes in today. WI are awful! Under this cloud, Marshall would have shot us out for 150.
 
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Great comment from Michael Holding on IPL and lure the of the $$$$ "You can't take national pride to the supermarket"

:D
 
Robert said:
I've seen him play some pressure innings, against Australia and SA. Not often enough, but sometimes.

Anyway....... STRAUSSY!!!!!!
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He did get a few promising scores in Australia at 3 in the ashes ages ago. But that's it. The first test in the recent ashes series looked as if he might, but he got out in the first test on 50 or so. And then for the rest of the series it was dominated by all the rest of the english batsman (and Bell picked up a century when everyone else was doing it).

South Africa he scored a hundred when others did it. And scored a goodish 70 once in a failed run chase I think.

I can't even remember a proper pressure ideally matchwinning knock. When you really need him, he goes missing. And he continues to do that. It's unbelievable how high is average and how many runs he's scored when he's not under pressure. Makes you think if he didn't bottle it all the time, he'd be a great player.
 
ads101 said:
yep. Don't think I've seen Bell fail in these situations where there's no pressure. Otherwise he'd be unable to maintain such a high average. You can not say the man doesn't take his chances :D. He sees the opportunity to score a pressure free 100 and goes for it.

Was a fan of him, thought he had a lot more potential. But looking at the subcontinent test matches seems nothing changed. Getting really tired and fed up. Thought he was now a good player of spin and improved since facing warne (who troubled him), but looked clueless. Great against all the average spinners, get a good mystery spinner in there and he fails.

Sick of seeing Bell just scoring when there's no pressure, but that's all he seems to do. To think the guy nearly got to no.1 batsman in the world. Scary.
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Told yaaaaaaaaaaa
 
Robert said:
I've seen him play some pressure innings, against Australia and SA. Not often enough, but sometimes.
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Exceptions prove rules.

Cook, Trott, KP and Prior are all better batsmen than Bell.
 
James said:
Told yaaaaaaaaaaa
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I know.

Finally given up on him. Can't even enjoy his batting anymore, when he scores out of pressure it just annoys me and it reminds me why he can't play like this under pressure. And under pressure he never lasts long anyway.
 
James said:
Exceptions prove rules.

Cook, Trott, KP and Prior are all better batsmen than Bell.
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Never understood the first statement.... surely exceptions break rules?

Anyway, concur with the second statement.

Bell's a good man to really ram home an advantage which others have made.
 
Great contest between Roach and KP.

The best bowler on one team versus the best batsman on the other is always worth watching.
 
Gabriel being selected over Rampaul is fairly stupid.

Bowling in England isn't about pace over substance, it's skill with the seaming and swinging ball that matters.
 
How good a feeling it must be for the bowlers. Put on your whites for 1 ball, then head off inside to have your feet up for the rest of the day.

Jimmy's anxious though, no doubt ready to pad up should one of these fall.
 
Going off due to bad light. That'll be stumps.

ENG 259-3

Strauss plays himself back into form, goes off with a very warm round of applause which rings around Lords.
 
Even if England play like a bunch of donkeys from now on they should still get 150 lead, which will be plenty.

England's test unless it wains.
 
england bowlers filling their boots with cheap wickets and loads of runs as expected. W.I are pretty much cannon fodder and any bowlers/batsmen on england side who miss out in this series should be kicking themselves.
 
I bet strauss is glad that england were playing W.I 1st this summer and not S.A because his test career might have ended this summer.
 
James said:
Even if England play like a bunch of donkeys from now on they should still get 150 lead, which will be plenty.

England's test unless it wains.
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that's not fair dude. Donkeys were good batsmen. You should not make fun of them now :nasser
 
Amjid Javed said:
england bowlers filling their boots with cheap wickets and loads of runs as expected. W.I are pretty much cannon fodder and any bowlers/batsmen on england side who miss out in this series should be kicking themselves.
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Yes, the WI team look like minnows - perhaps practically are - but probably won't do worse in England than the Injuns did. :)) :nehra
 
To think that the West Indies are the only team to win a test against Misbah's XI :facepalm:
 
talha3 said:
To think that the West Indies are the only team to win a test against Misbah's XI :facepalm:
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Illustrates that you can't make predictions in sport!

As a Jamaican I'm happy for WI to have got that 1-1 result but it leaves a slightly sour taste in my mouth, given how abject we were in the field in the second Test. I also have a strong dislike of two-Test rubbers, unless they involve Bangladesh and/or Zimbabwe (both for whom one-off Tests might also be OK). The top eight Test teams - including SL, WI and NZ - are worthy of proper series of at least three Tests. ENG, ZAF, AUS, IND and PAK should all play four- or five-Test series with each other IMO. :holding

Misbah's Test team has been reassuringly solid if not dominating. England weren't rubbish in the UAE as such, despite their issues against good spin; Pakistan were excellent (only in the Tests, but they matter most).
 
WalkingWiggett said:
Illustrates that you can't make predictions in sport!

As a Jamaican I'm happy for WI to have got that 1-1 result but it leaves a slightly sour taste in my mouth, given how abject we were in the field in the second Test. I also have a strong dislike of two-Test rubbers, unless they involve Bangladesh and/or Zimbabwe (both for whom one-off Tests might also be OK). The top eight Test teams - including SL, WI and NZ - are worthy of proper series of at least three Tests. ENG, ZAF, AUS, IND and PAK should all play four- or five-Test series with each other IMO. :holding

Misbah's Test team has been reassuringly solid if not dominating. England weren't rubbish in the UAE as such, despite their issues against good spin; Pakistan were excellent (only in the Tests, but they matter most).
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Top post. A 2 test match series proves nothing. I hope ICC abolishes it. Against WI we should have played 3 test matches at least but instead we played 5 meaningless ODIs and two T20s.
 
Holding Chacha finally saying something against WICB on air, about the way they have treated Jerome Taylor. He was correct! I didn't hear him but bird told me that was the topic. I think WICB asked Taylor to play whole domestic season to prove and be considered for selection.
 
I saw it.

Holding called them out on why is Taylor being held to a different standard than any other bowler. WICB has told Taylor he needs to play a FULL (every match!) domestic season before will even be considered. Meaning that even if he played county cricket this year, he would STILL not be selected until mid 2013 AFTER the entire WI domestic season (if he managed all the games). They claim that is their procedure.

BUT we all know Edwards & Rampaul have been allowed back from injury after missing seasons with no such constraints put on them. Indeed Fidel has been taken on tours when not even fully fit, hoping he will get right halfway through.

It seems they want to force Taylor out for some unknown reason. Holding was really mad. He said he would love the chance to bowl at the WICB in the nets. I'd say he would still hit 140kph+ with that kind of anger !
 
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No rain apart from maybe on Sunday night and Monday morning.

Monday is actually predicted to get up to 20 degrees and kick start the summer.

Windies are possibly jiggered.
 
Got a feeling England will smash it around today and possibly get a lead of 150-200.
 
Nass is analysing Anderson's swing bowling from day one. 85mph both ways, probably the best new ball bowler apart from Steyn.

Anderson is just such a fine cricketer.
 
Anderson, since his comeback has been fantastic.

Before he could only swing it away from the right-handed batsmen but, at the moment he is one of the best new-ball bowlers when he's in his element.
 
Strauss gone.

Apparently he has never added more than 6 to an overnight century.

No mystery to me - he is just a poor starter.

His career has been a fair few fifties, the occasional big match-winning hundred, and loooooads of single figure scores.

Worth having around but very susceptible to the new ball. A decent average of 42 reflects this.
 
Bairstow looked comfortable and confident (Up the Yorkshire!) but got a good nut from Edwards. Promising start and Jonny looked happy with his first try at test cricket.

Bell, Prior and hopefully the lower order will now stroke it around and score boundaries so we can be bowling in the evening.
 
Is this going to be another Broad Test?

A score now and then some more wickets from Barbie would be lovely.

The Oval '09. Lord's '10. Trent Bridge '11.

Lords '12?
 
Broad is one of the most naturally talented batsmen in the team. Nojoke
 
Ok. So can anyone explain as to what happened to this pitch overnight? Or rather what happened to the WI bowlers overnight?
 
Lol, 150 would be more than enough lead over Windies. They'll have to score close to 350-400 just to have a chance.
 
style_guru said:
Ok. So can anyone explain as to what happened to this pitch overnight? Or rather what happened to the WI bowlers overnight?
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Same pitch, same clouds, just their bowlers are getting used to the conditions and bowling with more discipline.
 
James said:
Same pitch, same clouds, just their bowlers are getting used to the conditions and bowling with more discipline.
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So the WI bowlers who could not get used to the conditions despite being there for more then a few weeks, have suddenly got used to it overnight:13:

Wait till they again bowl poorly if England needs to bat in the 2nd innings:facepalm:
 
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