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

[flibbertyjibber]

Is there a reason England have been visiting the smaller nations - I'd have thought a 3 Test series would have taken in Jamaica, Barbados and Trinidad and Tobago?

Would we have a say where they play the games?

Quite nice to see a few different grounds.

 

[Howe_zat]

Is there a reason England have been visiting the smaller nations - I'd have thought a 3 Test series would have taken in Jamaica, Barbados and Trinidad and Tobago?

Antigua is one of the big players, at least historically. Grenada's a bit weird but I'd rather the odd weird one than the same tour every time.

 

[grecian]

Yay, we're the best

 

[flibbertyjibber]

Fantastic stuff. That boy Ballance can bat.

 

[Howe_zat]

Great win. Cofortably outplayed the oppo in all three disciplines away from home.

Professional job done by these two.

 

[Howe_zat]

Fantastic stuff. That boy Ballance can bat.

average 67.93

It's not going badly

 

[Cabinet96]

Didn't see most of the day, but sounds like a great effort. Top win

 

[flibbertyjibber]

average 67.93

It's not going badly

Harder tests ahead though, not getting carried away but we will know more about him and Root in 6 months time.

 

[Shady Slim]

ffs wi dies you useless pieces of **** why did you have to collapse faster than a structurally unsound building in a frickin' earthquake

 

[Howe_zat]

Harder tests ahead though, not getting carried away but we will know more about him and Root in 6 months time.

More true of Ballance than Root, who already has tons against Australia and NZ at home

 

[Cabinet96]

Five fifties in five games for Cook averaging 70. Going into a ground where he averages 233. Hardly the hardest conditions and bowling, but at least there are some encouraging signs.

 

[greg]

Boycott on the radio seems to be labouring under the misapprehension that Holder was dropped on the ball he was run out.

 

[greg]

Anderson should have been MotM

 

[Furball]

Jimmeh robbed.

 

[Spark]

More true of Ballance than Root, who already has tons against Australia and NZ at home

His record against both is fairly mediocre though. That Lord's ton in particular was fairly facile.

 

[GIMH]

His record against both is fairly mediocre though. That Lord's ton in particular was fairly facile.

Eh, he should have been out early doors then eased to 180 that proved to be pretty much the difference between the sides iirc

 

[Cabinet96]

Eh, he should have been out early doors then eased to 180 that proved to be pretty much the difference between the sides iirc

Kind of. We already had a lead of 240 and won by 350. Don't think anything would've gone wrong if he'd got out. Fair play getting the runs though, obviously.

 

[Spark]

My abiding memory is that we had more or less given up by the time he got to about 70. Not saying that it doesn't count, ofc, just that it doesn't have much predictive power for the summer (just as it didn't for the next seven Tests)

 

[Cabinet96]

Yeah it was. Some people till insist though.

People are idiots. If you ever want to be irritated do a twitter search for "clouderson".

 

[GIMH]

For some reason I remembered the margin of victory as being smaller