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He's not overrated or underrated, we all know he is yet to prove himself. But has potential as a utility cricketer, his bowling is keeping him in the test team at the moment.
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West Indies v England | 21st -25th April, 2015 | 2nd Test | St. George's
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He's not overrated or underrated, we all know he is yet to prove himself. But has potential as a utility cricketer, his bowling is keeping him in the test team at the moment.
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congrats England fans, feels weird winning something
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Pressure reliving performance from Cook in this Test, he really needed that.
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Fantastic win, it was a motorway but magic from Anderson turned the game on its head
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Yep, two fifties for Cheffy.
Ballance has got some shots.
Proper test cricket - attritional stuff where the WI stood and slugged it out with England for four days, then crumbled on the last morning. England worked very hard for that and deserved what looks like an easy win from the scorecard but wasn't!
Ballance has got some shots.
Proper test cricket - attritional stuff where the WI stood and slugged it out with England for four days, then crumbled on the last morning. England worked very hard for that and deserved what looks like an easy win from the scorecard but wasn't!
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Joe Root wins Man of the Match, Well deserved. He has the potential to score more runs then Tendulkar.
I'd have picked Andersn but not going to argue with this award.
I'd have picked Andersn but not going to argue with this award.
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Four wins in last five Tests. Nice
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Excellent work by the bowlers to bring it home for England.
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Ouch. 4-200 for Bishoo and 4-100 for Ali despite Bishoo bowling better. Strange game is cricket.
I agree, but I cannot call this "proper" Test cricket.
Until 2000, the chances of a team scoring a total of 600 runs in a Test match losing were something around 5%.
The West Indies did in this Test, yet lost convincingly.
There has been a perversion of Test cricket as it is twisted towards the batsmen in what I consider is:
a) An effort by Cricket Boards to ensure that TV networks get the 5 days they have paid for, and
b) a misguided effort to persuade Indian viewers to love Test cricket as it increasingly imitates the fast scoring and high scoring of ODIs.
Point b is particularly stupid. It's as if FIFA made football 8-a-side with goalposts stretching all the way between the corner flags in a bid to get American basketball fans to love "soccer" with scorelines of 60-58.
Test cricket needs to hold onto its core audience, which is the richest demographic in all of its markets, not discard that demographic in a forlorn attempt to appeal to T20 fans who don't actually like Tests.
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