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

[Spark]

Kinda painful watching Brathwaite being completely incapable of working Root around.

 

[Pratters]

Yeah. It is really boring to watch. Didn't watch ththfirst forty minutes or so after tea as found the earlier session a bit too ordinary.

Liking it post the wicket though. Get 2 more and a bit less work tomorrow.

 

[Pratters]

Hate idiots like Sreesanth, Ballotelli and Stokes ftr.

 

[Pratters]

Brathwaite must be in 69 for at least half an hour.

 

[Spark]

Hate idiots like Sreesanth, Ballotelli and Stokes ftr.

Meh. It's sport, not academia.

 

[Pratters]

I love to see passion but idiocy gets tiresome after a while.

 

[Furball]

Even as a dedicated Test cricket fan I find this stuff extraordinarily difficult to watch and follow - it just feels like we're going through the motions for five days with no team actually set on winning just batting and bowling inconsequentially until they shake hands. Up the quality of the pitches, or I'm outta here.

Yeah at least when you've got a road with a bit of pace and bounce the batsmen at least get value for their shots, this is just hideous to watch.

 

[Pratters]

Not only is there low bounce and slowness, there are no cracks or any thing either. There is true low bounce.

 

[Furball]

I love to see passion but idiocy gets tiresome after a while.

I see you've become familiar with irony.

 

[grecian]

Kinda painful watching Brathwaite being completely incapable of working Root around.

He's done nothing wrong, his job is to occupy the crease, if he got frustrated and played silly shots it would matter, yet he's took all these off-spin balls, which may be dangerous against left-handers and never looked like getting out.

 

[Pratters]

Err Furball. School yard stuff.

 

[Furball]

This is ****ing garbage.

 

[Spark]

He's done nothing wrong, his job is to occupy the crease, if he got frustrated and played silly shots it would matter, yet he's took all these off-spin balls, which may be dangerous against left-handers and never looked like getting out.

yeah this how you get frustrated and play silly shots though

 

[Pratters]

yeah this how you get frustrated and play silly shots though

He did slash one wide off offstump to Stokes after that period.

 

[Furball]

Stokes bowling round the wicket in an attempt to hit Samuels as much as possible might just make this watchable.

 

[LegionOfBrad]

Inability to take 20 on flat tracks a big difference between this England side and that of 5 years ago.

This pitch is absolute ****ing garbage though.

 

[Fuller Pilch]

Look Braithwaite has scored good runs against Saf and NZ before - the kid can play. There is nothing wrong with attritional cricket. All 3 (4) results are still possible at the end of day 4 - this is good for test cricket

 

[Shady Slim]

you'd assume that the windies would try to plod to a decent total and try to absolute roll england in the last innings by bowling their asses off for about fifty overs after setting a decently high total marginallly too hard to chase

 

[Fuller Pilch]

We could have a chase of 170 in 40 overs with a legspinner bowling on the 5th day - it doesn't get much better

 

[WalkingWicket]

Look Braithwaite has scored good runs against Saf and NZ before - the kid can play. There is nothing wrong with attritional cricket. All 3 (4) results are still possible at the end of day 4 - this is good for test cricket

Result wise, yeah, I suppose it's good for Test cricket, as in, it isn't a one-sided mauling.. But if the play in between the start and the result is as mind-numbingly dull as this, then why not just turn on the news 5 days after the start to find out the result? I say I can speak for a few when I say I simply do not want to watch this. Which is not good for test cricket.