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***Official** West Indies in England***

Perm

Perm

Cricket Web: All-Time Legend
A groan of disappointment surges through the West Indies camp as they realise the Saj will not be serving up pies for them in the ODI series.
 
roseboy64

roseboy64

Cricket Web Content Updater
:laugh: Anyway, West Indies have injury troubles too with Gayle a doubt and Rampaul definitely out of the OT Test. Based on performances in this game so far and the series I'd go with this:

Gayle
Ganga
Smith
Samuels
Morton
Bravo
Ramdin
Powell
Taylor
Edwards
Collymore

Smith would be out if Chanderpaul and Gyale are both fit. If Gayle isn't fit but Chanderpaul is, Smith would move up the order to open. Joseph/ Sammy in if both aren't fit. Would be tempted to select Sammy as he provides a bowling option as well as he can't do much worse than Joseph did.
 
BoyBrumby

BoyBrumby

Englishman
No disrespect intended, but that looks a very mediocre team. :-O A 6-7-8 of Bravo, Ramdin & Powell would be a terrifying prospect if I were a Windies fan.

Hope to the good lord that Chanders is fit & that Sir Brian is belatedly summoned....
 
roseboy64

roseboy64

Cricket Web Content Updater
BoyBrumby said:
No disrespect intended, but that looks a very mediocre team. :-O A 6-7-8 of Bravo, Ramdin & Powell would be a terrifying prospect if I were a Windies fan.

Hope to the good lord that Chanders is fit & that Sir Brian is belatedly summoned....
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Just going with the best that's available in the squad. Bravo is and will be a better bastman than Joseph and Sammy are and will ever be.
 
BoyBrumby

BoyBrumby

Englishman
roseboy64 said:
Just going with the best that's available in the squad. Bravo is and will be a better bastman than Joseph and Sammy are and will ever be.
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Yeah, sorry, I hope you didn't read it as a slight on your selectorial acumen, I wasn't having a go at your team. I was just commenting on the Mother Hubbardesque status of the Windies' playing cupboard.
 
P

Poker Boy

State Vice-Captain
roseboy64 said:
:laugh: Anyway, West Indies have injury troubles too with Gayle a doubt and Rampaul definitely out of the OT Test. Based on performances in this game so far and the series I'd go with this:

Gayle
Ganga
Smith
Samuels
Morton
Bravo
Ramdin
Powell
Taylor
Edwards
Collymore

Smith would be out if Chanderpaul and Gyale are both fit. If Gayle isn't fit but Chanderpaul is, Smith would move up the order to open. Joseph/ Sammy in if both aren't fit. Would be tempted to select Sammy as he provides a bowling option as well as he can't do much worse than Joseph did.
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Do they really need FIVE seam bowlers though? To think at one time people thought four was too many - five definately is.They should really have picked a specialist spinner in the squad. I just hope for their sake Chanderpaul is fit - any news? And why did they not play Samuels in this match to give him an innings before the Test? And the bad news just keeps coming for the Windies - Mahmood is injured :laugh:
 
Prince EWS

Prince EWS

Global Moderator
pasag said:
England unchanged for OT.

Strauss
Cook
Vaughan
KP
Collingwood
Bell
Prior
Plunkett
Harmison
Sidebottom
Monty

http://www.cricketweb.net/article.php?CategoryIDAuto=1&NewsIDAuto=3981

If Goughy is right and Sidebottom will be ineffective outside Headingley, this is going to be painful wrt to the bowling.
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Even if Sidebottom is toothless outside of Leeds, he doesn't take me as the type that would decide to bowl wayward rubbish that makes you cringe. And the way the West Indies are batting, if you put the ball in a good area and bowl over 125km/h or under 90km/h, you have a good chance of getting a wicket whether the bowl moves or not.
 
Prince EWS

Prince EWS

Global Moderator
roseboy64 said:
Just going with the best that's available in the squad. Bravo is and will be a better bastman than Joseph and Sammy are and will ever be.
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If the West Indies go with Bravo at 6 and Ramdin at 7, I think they'd be more inclined to pick Sammy than Edwards as he offers something with the bat as well.
 
Goughy

Goughy

Hall of Fame Member
Yeah, I have predicted Sidebottom to struggle outside Headingley unless he gets favourable weather conditions. Though the WI batting may leave me with egg on my face do to their incompetence
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simmy

simmy

International Regular
The only good thing that can be said about the Flintoff injury is that it happened now and not in an Ashes year for example. Could be good for him to have a break from the game too.

Anyway, I have already bet on an England win...
 
TT Boy

TT Boy

Hall of Fame Member
Prince EWS said:
Even if Sidebottom is toothless outside of Leeds, he doesn't take me as the type that would decide to bowl wayward rubbish that makes you cringe. And the way the West Indies are batting, if you put the ball in a good area and bowl over 125km/h or under 90km/h, you have a good chance of getting a wicket whether the bowl moves or not.
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Indeed for as Martin Johnson explains...

"No wonder England selected Ryan Sidebottom for this Test. When the chairman of selectors talked about the need to "add variety" to the attack, he wasn't so much talking about Sidebottom being a left-armer, as the fact that he was liable to confuse the West Indian batsmen by aiming the ball at the stumps."
 
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