*Official* West Indies Tour of England 2020

[Daemon]

Haha nah I think he just recongised that you'd jinxed your team's players repeatedly and so tried to get you to say positive about them again to create a collapse.

Haha yeah, this

 

[BoyBrumby]

Haha nah I think he just recongised that you'd jinxed your team's players repeatedly and so tried to get you to say something positive about them again to create a collapse.

Ha, fair call.

Cornwall all over Sibley here.

 

[grecian]

TBF Brumbers was talking about people looking good before they get out for the most part, something you can rarely accuse these two of doing.

 

[Groundking]

Not the worse series from Sibley. Hopefully they up the tempo a bit now

 

[BoyBrumby]

Not the worse series from Sibley. Hopefully they up the tempo a bit now

Seems very much a dogshit or diamonds kinda batter.

Either goes v cheaply or makes something substantial.

He'll doubtless give it away now I say this, but Root really looks like he's playing a different game to the openers. If he had Sibley's patience he'd be truly deific.

 

[Neptune]

Should be declaring soon surely.

 

[Groundking]

Should be declaring soon surely.

Nah keep going until the end of the day, can't guarantee the weather and we should be able to bowl them out in 1 day.

 

[ImpatientLime]

tough gig this one for cornwall but my word he looks pedestrian

 

[flibbertyjibber]

Nah keep going until the end of the day, can't guarantee the weather and we should be able to bowl them out in 1 day.

Way we are going it looks like 400 and declare to get a crack at them tonight.

 

[Bijed]

Looks like OS is actually Andy Zaltzman

 

[trundler]

Root couldn't have played a more perfect innings in this situation. Fantastic stuff. More of this and less of the last test please.

Played, Burns. Finally a steady opening duo for England.

 

[Neptune]

That’s a shame.

 

[trundler]

Thing with Root is that the rise of Joe Root the ODI ATG means that he gives the bowler plenty of chances early on. Today the opening duo did their job and thwarted the West Indian attack. Root doesn't get exposed to the new ball, Root has a license to go for it, Root does well.

 

[Groundking]

Beautiful from Broad

 

[OverratedSanity]

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Looks like OS is actually Andy Zaltzman

He's been fighting the good fight for years

https://www.espncricinfo.com/story/_/id/20570358/andy-zaltzman-six-things-cricket-help-change-world

The inaccurate, deceitful statement of the number of fifties scored by Test batsmen
When a batsman in a Test match reaches 50, you will be told as a matter of incontrovertible fact how many Test half-centuries he has now accumulated. "That is Big Bertie Crumphammer's 17th Test fifty," a commentator will dutifully announce, when Crumphammer reaches fifty for the 98th time in his career, his 81 dazzling centuries cast into temporary statistical oblivion for no discernible reason.

This has to stop. Did Mohammad Azharuddin, whilst scoring centuries in his first three Tests against England in 1984-85, also score his first-ever Test fifty on three separate occasions? Did the young Everton Weekes, having converted his first five 50-plus scores into centuries in a consecutive innings, run himself for 90 in Madras in January 1949 in order to get his maiden half-century under his belt, to quell the social media grumblings that he had played eight Tests without making a fifty? Imagine Narsingh Deonarine and the late George Headley batting together for West Indies in a hypothetical Test next week in which each team is allowed one player from the dead to play via a special Hawksoul Ouija machine. Both players reach fifty. Both will be credited with their "sixth" Test half-century. Are they thus peas from a statistical pod, the legendary Headley with his ten centuries in 22 Tests, whilst Deonarine has failed to trouble the honours board engravers in 18 matches? Or is Deonarine in fact a superior player because his five previous "fifties" were scored in fewer matches? Don Bradman made only 13 half-centuries in 52 Tests. Can he possibly have been all he was cracked up to be?

The world would be a better place if we were told the number of times a batsman has reached fifty, not the number of times he has reached fifty without subsequently reaching 100 (which, in isolation and without context, is a statistic of considerable irrelevance, even within the innately irrelevant field of sporting statistics). Not a better place by a discernible amount, but a better place nonetheless.

 

[grecian]

I know Windies fans want to criticize their bats, but this is deeply good from Broad in these conditions, would be a struggle for any side.

 

[ImpatientLime]

friendly reminder that england dropped this bloke for the first test

his renaissance since the 2018 New Zealand tour has been so so good

 

[ImpatientLime]

jeez this is such an examination of your technique

 

[BoyBrumby]

Wow. Kemar did well to get a tickle on that.

Fair to say Stu is having one of his streaks.

 

[Groundking]

Broad has been magical this year, amazing again. On the precipice of 500, amazing stuff