*Official* England in West Indies

[TheRedButton]

Sounds like there is going to be an official announcement tommorow - two tests in Barbados?

 

[Richard]

Who is the match referee?

Sir Alanstan Hurst.

 

[silentstriker]

Plus resuming it somewhere else would mess up all the computer programs that record match statistics, since now they need to handle multiple grounds for a single match .

The programming lobby should step in and prevent such a thing.

 

[NUFAN]

My solution is....

1) Abandon this Test match.

2) Start a new test, calling it the third Test, at the ARG tomorrow.

The thing that is annoying me is that some of these players will win a Test Cap and do absolutely nothing, it kind of grinds my gears.

 

[vicky]

You were familiar with the nonsense of Stanford's ground being used for the Twenty20 thingy a few months back?

It's got to be the ARG or somewhere else in the Caribbean.

From memory the pitch that was laid for the final was quite a good wicket... i don't see the issue...

 

[Richard]

The thing that is annoying me is that some of these players will win a Test Cap and do absolutely nothing, it kind of grinds my gears.

Yeah, ideally this match would be completely scratched from all records. The same should've happened at Sabina in 1998.

 

[Richard]

From memory the pitch that was laid for the final was quite a good wicket... i don't see the issue...

There were loads of other things that people were dissatisfied with. In any case, a Test is 11 times the length of a Twenty20.

 

[TheRedButton]

Wouldn't mess up our stats

 

[NUFAN]

Haha, bloody hell, it'll be a new game started.

England didn't start the first of the two Tests in T&T at 16-3 or whatever it was.

Hmm.. I dunno, if the match was to start tomorrow, I don't know if they'd be able to make it a 5 day Test, mainly for TV audiences.

 

[vicky]

There were loads of other things that people were dissatisfied with.

more to do with the event than ssues with the ground or playing surface though?

 

[shivfan]

From memory the pitch that was laid for the final was quite a good wicket... i don't see the issue...

The Stanford ground might be too small for Test cricket....

 

[NUFAN]

Yeah, ideally this match would be completely scratched from all records. The same should've happened at Sabina in 1998.

AWTA - Would improve Athers average too.

 

[Pothas]

Is this the shortest test in history? Just 10 balls bowled.

 

[Richard]

Hmm.. I dunno, if the match was to start tomorrow, I don't know if they'd be able to make it a 5 day Test, mainly for TV audiences.

No knowing. There really is no knowing. It depends mostly on the host broadcasters - Sky can generally make room for pretty well anything.

 

[Richard]

AWTA - Would improve Athers average too.

And Hussain's. Two batsmen who've had enough unfair dampeners put on their averages don't need another!

 

[four_or_six]

Strauss doesn't have a great record as captain for getting completed matches.

 

[Neil Pickup]

This is God's way of preventing Owais Shah from playing Test cricket.

Clearly it's all been a cosmic conspiracy all along.

 

[pskov]

There's a two day tour match at Barbados between this and the next test, so there is a decent buffer to get something organised at another ground on Antigua. You could spend another three days or so sorting out the ARG and still play a 5 day test, cancel the tour game and still start the Barbados test on time.

 

[Richard]

more to do with the event than ssues with the ground or playing surface though?

There were a few things that disappointed everyone, UIMM. Lights, outfield, something like that. I didn't pay much attention to it, as I don't care for Twenty20, but I thought there were a good few complaints.

 

[shivfan]

No knowing. There really is no knowing. It depends mostly on the host broadcasters - Sky can generally make room for pretty well anything.

Yep!

A five-day Test match at the ARG is possible, because England's next game is a two-day practice game in Barbados....