***Official*** England in West Indies 2015

[mightymariner]

Stream working okay, guys?

All good here, nice comms

 

[Cabinet96]

They won their last test series didn't they?

They're simply completely out of touch coming into this game off the back of so sort of preparation at all. Because they thought they could turn up and beat this lot with their eyes closed. Graves' arrogant stupidity seems endemic of the attitude around the side, and they're paying the price.

Yeah but they also failed to win a single test in their two before that to go with being awful in the one day stuff. Overall they've been trash in all formats for 18 months.

Though accusation of complacency is a pet hate of mine really. Kind of undermines their professionalism when you say they are.

 

[wpdavid]

The worst thing about all this is all the ****e we'll hear about how KP's turkey shoot against a uni side means he should be out there. Apart from any other minor considerations like being professional enough to win the bloody match, you'd think they'd want to make sure they didn't put themselves in that position.

 

[wpdavid]

Yeah but they also failed to win a single test in their two before that to go with being awful in the one day stuff. Overall they've been trash in all formats for 18 months.

Though accusation of complacency is a pet hate of mine really. Kind of undermines their professionalism when you say they are.

Certainly does. The problem being?

 

[OverratedSanity]

They're 40/3 ffs. You blokes are talking like they've been shot out for 70 after WI put up 500.

 

[Cabinet96]

Well if I genuinely thought they were complement I wouldn't want them to be playing for England again any time soon. I suppose you wanting them entire team and backroom staff dropped and sacked respectively isn't out of the question though...

 

[Pothas]

Yeah I have no idea how anyone could think any of those top 3 are complacent.

 

[Jono]

The worst thing about all this is all the ****e we'll hear about how KP's turkey shoot against a uni side means he should be out there. Apart from any other minor considerations like being professional enough to win the bloody match, you'd think they'd want to make sure they didn't put themselves in that position.

surely the worst thing is that the current players are stinking it up and not KP...

 

[Prince EWS]

Yeah I have no idea how anyone could think any of those top 3 are complacent.

Yeah if anything I think the problem may have been the opposite. There's lots of pressure to bounce back on this tour so they might've just been a bit too intense about it all.

 

[Prince EWS]

Mostly though, West Indies have bowled well and England have batted poorly.. cricket is like that sometimes. We don't have to be armchair psychologists every time England play.

 

[wpdavid]

I don't remember saying the whole lot should be sacked.

And it isn't even that the top 3 were individually complacent per se. At least, I hope not.

But the approach from the top stinks, if they genuinely think they can turn up for a test series off the back of the sort of itinerary we've seen here. And Graves' comments were unbelievably ignorant, even if he has got where he is today by not calling a spade a bloody shovel. I agree that it doesn't automatically filter down to guys like Cook and Trott given their recent track record, but at a management level we've definitely been complacent.

 

[Pothas]

Yeah if anything I think the problem may have been the opposite. There's lots of pressure to bounce back on this tour so they might've just been a bit too intense about it all.

All three are desperate for runs for different reasons as well. Really the biggest of all the World Cup fails is they managed to turn Ballance from the great success of the summer to someone with questions over his form.

 

[Jono]

Yeah I have no idea how anyone could think any of those top 3 are complacent.

yep

 

[mightymariner]

Great over from Holder (maybe except for the last ball),

 

[Cabinet96]

Already some turn and big bounce here.

 

[Goughy]

This is all very solid from WI. If you cant be brilliant then be consistent and have a plan. You could never claim that this is exciting but it is good Test cricket.

 

[Prince EWS]

Fox Sports airing a profile on Kevin Pietersen in the break, so cheeky

 

[Spark]

Here's the stream for the last forty minutes or so, once we got all the technical stuff sorted:

WI vs ENG 1st Test Day 1 Stream 2 by cricketweb broadcast live on ...

 

[Spark]

cricketweb is on Mixlr. Mixlr is a simple way to share live audio ... Stream is up again. Dan, Howe and I just for the first hour.

 

[Prince EWS]

Martin van Jaarsveldt will be fuming about not getting a commentary mention on the leg-slip-catch-from-first-slip issue.