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

[Richard]

Dire is all I can say, FFS KP.

Terrible. Classic case of playing the man rather than the ball. But for the events of that first delivery I'm pretty certain he'd never have played that shot second.

 

[NZTailender]

Bell for a maiden century. Heard it here first.

 

[Richard]

Bell for a maiden century. Heard it here first.

Greigy. Heard it here first.

 

[PhoenixFire]

Bell gone.

 

[Scaly piscine]

Trademark Bell innings, slows it down so the pressure piles on the batsman at the other end, gets in and then doesn't make it count.

 

[NZTailender]

Thinking I should edit and add in jest etc.

 

[PhoenixFire]

Bell for a maiden century. Heard it here first.

Too late

 

[Nate]

Awesome quick bowling by the Windies at the mo. Edwards at first-change is a great idea.

 

[Richard]

Thinking I should edit and add in jest etc.

Ind33d. Will people realise for you what they did not for me, however?

 

[Richard]

Awesome quick bowling by the Windies at the mo. Edwards at first-change is a great idea.

Second change is even better IMO. Though Smith's been poor today.

 

[Scaly piscine]

Bah, 5th wicket partnership doubled the score but needing a minor miracle now.

 

[PhoenixFire]

Shah gone.

 

[roseboy64]

Get rid of Collingwood now and the game's as good as done.

 

[PhoenixFire]

It's as good as done tbh.

 

[roseboy64]

I'd be prepared to say that with Collingwood gone.

 

[roseboy64]

Oh geez..... Collingwood gone.

 

[stumpski]

Great catch, and it's falling apart now.

Mascarenhas not doing his prospects any good with his 3rd single-figure score.

 

[PhoenixFire]

Nice delivery by Bravo though.

 

[Richard]

Mascarenhas not doing his prospects any good with his 3rd single-figure score.

If that's seriously held against him they're mad. He's been easily the best of the bowlers in this series. I've been thinking he'll become the next Mark Ealham already - I hope it won't come to pass.

 

[stumpski]

He's been very tidy I agree, but has he had to bowl his 70 mph floaters in the closing overs?

WRT his batting, obviously he's a better player than scores of 2, 3 and 5 would indicate, but he needed runs to hang onto his place when Bopara and Flintoff return.

Who's that gone, Plunkett? I wasn't watching.