*Official* England in West Indies

[Zinzan]

Id love to see the video highlights, but the link posted has to be viewed by people in Australia.

You Tube has a couple of clips already

 

[Flem274*]

Not sure what to say tbh.

Picturing Hussains snobbery in my head, I'll be content with HAHAHA

 

[pup11]

Hussain rolling out the IPL as an excuse was laughable.

Does he not know the West Indian cricketers (Taylor, Edwards, Sarwan et cetera) were also apart of the IPL auction? Didn’t seem to hinder Sarwan, who hit a century whilst Jerome Taylor after being bought went on to produce his best figures in test cricket...

That's seriously lame especially coming from someone like Hussain, i think rather than people like him finding excuses for this English defeat, they should appreciate the quality of cricket produced by West Indies in this game.

Taylor is one of the most under-rated fast bowlers going around imo, and he stamped his class all over England, poor stuff from England nonetheless, but i think they deserve this for simply playing Ian Bell over Shah.

 

[nightprowler10]

Haha, first I heard Hussain used that as an excuse. That's pretty poor. What exactly did he say though, that they were lacking focus due to the IPL?

 

[TT Boy]

Haha, first I heard Hussain used that as an excuse. That's pretty poor. What exactly did he say though, that they were lacking focus due to the IPL?

Yeah that was the basic jist.

He was just going through every implausible reason for England’s defeat without considering that England are a one man batting side and Jerome Taylor bowled an exceptional spell which took the pitch out of the equation. Just poor form to mention the IPL, Ian Bell wasn’t apart of it, neither were Cook or Strauss and it wasn’t like KP’s mind was elsewhere, he got a first ball pearler whilst Fred showed the must application.

 

[HeathDavisSpeed]

Hussain's a pretty poor commentator in my mind. Either states the bleedin' obvious or comes out with absolute tripe (full of the goodness of marrowbone jelly). I'm glad he's not on the Channel 9 "telecast". I'll take Tubbs over Nass in the commentary box any day.

 

[pskov]

Hussain's a pretty poor commentator in my mind. Either states the bleedin' obvious or comes out with absolute tripe (full of the goodness of marrowbone jelly). I'm glad he's not on the Channel 9 "telecast". I'll take Tubbs over Nass in the commentary box any day.

Rather a commentator that states the bleedin' obvious than Bill Lawry, who's only 'analytical' comments seem to be either "Australia are in the drivers seat here!" or "Australia aren't out this match yet!".

 

[HeathDavisSpeed]

Rather a commentator that states the bleedin' obvious than Bill Lawry, who's only 'analytical' comments seem to be either "Australia are in the drivers seat here!" or "Australia aren't out this match yet!".

I'd rather neither if its all the same.

 

[Flem274*]

Hussain is just a patronising **** to teams he considers worse than the mighty England.

 

[roseboy64]

Yup & if the Windies can get Bravo fit & Taylor's batting improves, they could have 2 damn decent allrounders

BTW, any updates on Bravo's fitness ?

Should be back for the ODIs at worst.

 

[Zinzan]

Should be back for the ODIs at worst.

Good to hear that

 

[pasag]

Hopefully the pitch at Viv Stadium isn't as bad as it was last time.

 

[Langeveldt]

Congratulations to the West Indies, perhaps we could lend England another load of our players to guide them through these tough times? What a crock of ****

 

[wpdavid]

Congratulations to the West Indies, perhaps we could lend England another load of our players to guide them through these tough times? What a crock of ****

Yes please.

 

[fredfertang]

Imran Tahir would do for a start

 

[Prince EWS]

Congratulations to the West Indies, perhaps we could lend England another load of our players to guide them through these tough times? What a crock of ****

Martin van Jaarsveldt should be eligible soon, yes?

 

[Evermind]

Yeah same. Fell asleep in the lunch break; absolutely gutted.

Hehe...was about to go to sleep when Cook fell...decided to stay up for a couple of hours. Totally worth it!

 

[TT Boy]

Martin van Jaarsveldt should be eligible soon, yes?

Don’t think so but Claude Henderson is ready to replace Monty, he got British citizenship last year…

And Dawid Malan will be coming to an England middle order soon. As will Eoin Morgan and to complete the poacher process, England only needs Jonathan Trott to start hitting the ball of the square and they can have a top order which is exclusively made elsewhere.

Can't also forget that Dwayne Smith wants to represent England as well.

 

[Precambrian]

Can't also forget that Dwayne Smith wants to represent England as well.

My! Really????

I used to love him when he debuted. His 100 vs SA was top of the drawer stuff. Wonder his brain activity ceased soon after that.

 

[Uppercut]

In response to being bowled out for 51, England will probably decide that their bowling attack is not up to scratch. Sidebottom will promptly be dropped with the top six remaining unchanged.