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Good job KP edged that into his pads, it was dead in front.
 
I understand that. But today he didn't look great out there whereas Trott and Strauss have shown how easy this pitch is against the quality of bowling from WI.

:edit Trott gone, oh well :))
 
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Everyone's allowed a bad day at the office. Come on, use your noggin.
 
I take back my original choice of words, not out of form. Just looked out of touch, today.
 
Then we agree on all counts.

Good strategy from England against Shillingford, hit him out of the attack.
 
Coasting.

Just hopefully won't get complacent and fall to rubbish bowlers like Samuels.
 
The real Darren Sammy has stood back up. Garbage bowling.
 
Another ton up for Strausser!

Done it against rubbish bowling, although two tons equals two tons. But we need this against South Africa too.
 
Strauss didn't score much against India last summer so I won't say it's all because of rubbish bowling plus there are no easy centuries in international cricket.

I am happy for him. He is a great guy.
 
370 is about par on this flat pitch. Strauss gets his 100 and England pretty comfortable. The West Indies' bowling has not been disciplined enough, too many short and wide freebies, and needless extras.
 
Stumps - 259/2
Strauss 102*
Pietersen 72*

The pitch has been baked and the weather forecast is lovely. Day three will be the best day for batting in this match. Chance for England to really turn the screw tomorrow, with two class players at the crease and a lot of batting to come.

Roach was disappointing, Sammy and Shillingford got walloped. Rampaul was excellent and emerges in credit.
 
I missed today's play, but judging by comments and scoreboard, TB has been an absolute run-fest and a flat belter of a pitch. 8 wickets left with 111 behind? Hopefully we'll knock them off soon and get a 150 lead. And hopefully there will be cloud about for the last two days, TB is too easy to bat on without cloud. It's a bit extreme though, to go from a demon pitch with cloud, to a batting beauty without.
 
madaboutcricket said:
Westindies is exposing the real quality of the England team. This is really making me upset that our rockstars lost all 4 games against this average/decent team. :(
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Or perhaps the Windies are just better than your rockstars away?

Or perhaps when there is no cloud at TB, and not much grass, it ends up very flat except for the new ball spell?
 
Ruri - don't waste your time. Obvious troll is obvious
 
Well Done Strauss for yet another hundred. Good person and a fantastic captain that's been going through a lean patch. But as James says, he needs to do this against Morkel and Steyn.

Credit to England though and a big up to Windies for putting up a solid fight with the bat thanks to Samuels and Sammy.
 
I'm being very cautious about Strauss.......no tons nor many runs in a zillion innings against Australia, Pakistan and Sri Lanka, then he gets two centuries against West Indies. Awfully convenient. But I would like nothing more to be proven wrong.
 
James said:
I'm being very cautious about Strauss.......no tons nor many runs in a zillion innings against Australia, Pakistan and Sri Lanka, then he gets two centuries against West Indies. Awfully convenient. But I would like nothing more to be proven wrong.
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To be fair though, the Windies have a better bowling attack than India last year, or Sri Lanka (apart from Herath). And he's led the charge somewhat, and not done it off the coattails of Cook or Trott guiding from the other end, so I'm reasonably satisfied with him. If we win the SA series with him averaging 5 runs, I'd still keep him. He's clever at man-managing, and if we win, I'd keep a Brearley-esque figure.'

I am personally delighted he's managed 2 centuries, he looks well in form. He's always looked in decent form actually over the past few years, but terrible temperament to kick it after a handful of runs.
 
Strauss plays his hundredth match in the third test versus South Africa at Lord's. Could be absolutely massive.
 
Sherlock said:
Well Done Strauss for yet another hundred. Good person and a fantastic captain that's been going through a lean patch. But as James says, he needs to do this against Morkel and Steyn.

Credit to England though and a big up to Windies for putting up a solid fight with the bat thanks to Samuels and Sammy.
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no, he is fairly average. He is a good leader but not a good captain.
 
Anfield said:
no, he is fairly average. He is a good leader but not a good captain.
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A leader whom is a captain.

Of course he's a fantastic captain, even when he wasn't playing well the team still performed, barring a couple of series.
 
James said:
Strauss plays his hundredth match in the third test versus South Africa at Lord's. Could be absolutely massive.
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Graeme Smith will be playing his 100th in the first test of the series. Will be interesting to see who has the better 100th test.
 
Pitch is so flat it bored me. except for kp who is as entertaining as ever. i hope there is a green top at birmingham.

plus the seemingly endless no balls by windies :facepalm:
 
not my fault people :D. something wrong here. i click once and repeat post comes.

if some admin or mod would be gracious enough to delete the 2nd darned post.
 
Holding was saying in commentary that the WI bowlers always seem to bowl off 20 yards in training, ignoring the no-ball crease. Ottis Gibson is at fault as much as the bowlers for allowing them to train so sloppy. "Train the way you play" is one of the basic coaching tenets he should not be ignoring.
 
England produces some of the FLATTTTEST tracks nowadays.
 
How long will England keep ignoring James Taylor for medicore Test batsmen like Bairstow, Patel, Bopara and Morgan?
 
Poison said:
England produces some of the FLATTTTEST tracks nowadays.
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3 wickets in the session, Bairstow got a working over from Roach, so whilst it is good for batting it is not dead or completely slow, hardly a featherbed.
 
Great session by WI.

But now comes their own personal danger time. So often they look great in knocking the other team 5-7 down and then the tail gets away from them and adds 150.
 
England could do with a lead of 100 to bring Swann into the game.
 
still WI are in this if they can restrict the lead under 75.England hv to bat last
 
To restrict this English batting line up to under 450 on this track is a great effort.

Can WI get to 300 in the 2nd innings and set around 250 for England to chase?
 
cricketindiafan said:
To restrict this English batting line up to under 450 on this track is a great effort.

Can WI get to 300 in the 2nd innings and set around 250 for England to chase?
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all depends on Shiv n Samuels.Bravo also needs to step up
 
Not really watching it, out and about today, but 250/2 to 420 all out sounds like a pretty shocking effort.

England need to bat and bowl very well in this 2nd innings or they gonna loooooose.
 
cricketindiafan said:
To restrict this English batting line up to under 450 on this track is a great effort.

Can WI get to 300 in the 2nd innings and set around 250 for England to chase?
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WI may get anything between 50 to 400 - they are that unpredictable.
 
IndianWillow said:
WI may get anything between 50 to 400 - they are that unpredictable.
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:)) very true!

A good comeback from the WIndies, it has been a good test match so far, both teams have looked like they are in control only to be pegged back.

The lead of about 60 is not much, its quite likely that the Windies will be 3-4 down before they cross it. Their top order really needs to knuckle down, see off the new ball and just bat for a long time.
 
Anderson to Powell, OUT, gone! First breakthrough as Powell drags a drive into the stumps. It was up there enticing the shot, Powell couldn't resist but the footwork wasn't really there and the ball cannoned into his leg stump off a thick inside edge
 
Poor stuff from Powell! These guys have no mental application.

Gayle is excellent at bashing the ball but what has he done in Test Matches in tough conditions, yes he will strengthen their team a little bit but they will still lose as badly as they have being doing recently.
 
DeadlyVenom said:
Poor stuff from Powell! These guys have no mental application.

Gayle is excellent at bashing the ball but what has he done in Test Matches in tough conditions, yes he will strengthen their team a little bit but they will still lose as badly as they have being doing recently.
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Gayle averages 40+. 13 test hundreds. Centuries in SA & Australia - tough conditions. 2 triple hundreds. 1 in SL. Very tough over there.
 
Trott on the boundary signing auto graphs. Seen him once at Edgbaston. Seems an okay guy.
 
DeadlyVenom said:
Poor stuff from Powell! These guys have no mental application.

Gayle is excellent at bashing the ball but what has he done in Test Matches in tough conditions, yes he will strengthen their team a little bit but they will still lose as badly as they have being doing recently.
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Averages around 50 in Aus, 55 in SA, 69 in NZ, 36 in England isn't horrible either.
 
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