*Official* England in West Indies 2022

[Fuller Pilch]

Good session. Hopefully Bonner can get his 100 and they can keep going. Roach is a decent no 9.

 

[SillyCowCorner1]

Good session. Hopefully Bonner can get his 100 and they can keep going. Roach is a decent no 9.

True. Roach can bat. He's no bunny.

 

[SillyCowCorner1]

Bonnor gets his second century.

Man, how I wish our younger batsmen take notes on how to bat with temperament and concentration aka bat until the cows come home.

 

[trundler]

Bonner shows Smith how to sweep a leg stump half volley. Great knock.

 

[SillyCowCorner1]

Good decision there Joel.

 

[SillyCowCorner1]

Roach's call causes his fall

 

[Number 11]

28 dots in a row pressured them into that run out

 

[Preed]

Who ever came up with the idea that Woakes and Overton were a feared new ball duo.Robinson and Wood injured every other game.We really are in trouble

 

[wpdavid]

This is increasingly reminding me of the first test in the 2009 series. That time we made 318 in the first innings. WI's lead was a bit bigger than what it should eventually be here, but not insurmountable. Until England were dismissed for 51 in their second innings to end the game in a hurry. The other similarity was that was the first game of Strauss's captaincy after KP was sacked, and this is the first game under his stewardship post Giles and Silverwood. England fans of a nervous disposition may want to avert their gaze from our second innings here.

 

[Woodster]

Our attack can look rather ‘samey’ and lacking any x-factor at the best of times on surfaces such as this let alone when we lose Mark Wood for the innings. Overton banging away halfway down at less that 80mph is surely taking more out of him than it’s worth!

 

[SillyCowCorner1]

Permaul might maul Bairstow fielding at silly-point if he gets a short and wide one here lol

 

[Starfighter]

BTW, at least for those watching in Australia, CWI is streaming this on their Youtube channel.

 

[Pothas]

This innings will never end

 

[SillyCowCorner1]

This innings will never end

#timelesstest

 

[HeathDavisSpeed]

Thank heavens for this new, modern, more incisive England bowling attack.

 

[kevinw]

Sometimes you wonder if Root is just goading the management into sacking him as captain.

 

[Preed]

Surely this is the worst England team for over 50 years and I can’t see it improving.Root must surely not be allowed to go on as captain as he really does not know what to do when we are under pressure

 

[Starfighter]

That was a big inside edge.

 

[the big bambino]

Think the others have answered your query well enough, though I'll also add that away from home WI in general are poorer in both disciplines against most of the Test nations, which also plays a bit into one's statistics away from home.

Well it was your query. Btw Gabriel doesn't do as well away from 'comparatively". He's much like the others. I checked a few years ago on their batting and they did a little better away from home suggesting the local wickets for tests do favour seam bowling; but also the batting is generally rubbish while the bowling at least does well at home.

 

[Uppercut]

This is increasingly reminding me of the first test in the 2009 series. That time we made 318 in the first innings. WI's lead was a bit bigger than what it should eventually be here, but not insurmountable. Until England were dismissed for 51 in their second innings to end the game in a hurry. The other similarity was that was the first game of Strauss's captaincy after KP was sacked, and this is the first game under his stewardship post Giles and Silverwood. England fans of a nervous disposition may want to avert their gaze from our second innings here.

The West Indian batting stonewalled very well in that game too. But IIRC it seemed to be a much more difficult pitch than this one.