Richard
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Obviously the same team'll play the next game.
Barring injuries. Can just see Shah getting some sort of injury.
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Barring injuries. Can just see Shah getting some sort of injury.
Precambrian
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Prince EWS
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There will be no second Test and Bell will score 240 in the two-day practice game before the third Test.
Richard
Cricket Web Staff Member
No. And it's unlikely the Stanford Ground is either.
four_or_six
Cricketer Of The Year
Not according to Botham. I think there's not been first class cricket there at all from what I can understand.
Blimey.
Richard
Cricket Web Staff Member
No-one should attach the remotest relevance to a two-day game, and fortunately it looks like that might be cancelled now. If some sort of game gets played at The ARG starting on the 15th\16th, it'll have to be seriously looked at.
It's very picturesque and has good facilities, but is simply too small for a Test imo.
Richard
Cricket Web Staff Member
Why would there be any played there? Stanford has espressed his disinterest in the First-Class game. And even if he liked it, he'd have to basically offer to host the Leeward Islands Cricket Association - something he's hardly going to be likely to do.
Stanford doesn't have a First-Class team of his own, and for a ground to have First-Class cricket played on it, it needs to have a home team.
shivfan
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pasag
RTDAS
How many FC games have been played at this ground? From memory there hadn't been any before we'd played there for the first time last year and as far as I know there haven't been any since.
roseboy64
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Beat South Africa for the first time away in the back end of 07.
Richard
Cricket Web Staff Member
Looks like there's no chance of playing at The ARG. Not terribly surprising really.
Only chance of not having this series reduced to a three-match one would be to have another game at Kensington Oval. Even if they can prepare two pitches in 13 days, it'd be damn difficult to find accommodation for all the fans.
Only chance of not having this series reduced to a three-match one would be to have another game at Kensington Oval. Even if they can prepare two pitches in 13 days, it'd be damn difficult to find accommodation for all the fans.
shivfan
Banned
Andy Roberts who was the groundsman reckons it wouldn't be possible to get it ready in time for a test match. That's not official though.
Furball
Evil Scotsman
Just tarmac the pitch - it will probably be more helpful for bowlers than most ARG pitches anyway.
Richard
Cricket Web Staff Member
It's hardly surprising though, is it? You don't have to be a turf technician to know that preparing a cricket pitch with 2 days' notice is hardly realistic. It takes weeks to do with good effect.