*Official* England in West Indies 2022

[SillyCowCorner1]

Worst review in history

 

[Beamer]

Hate to sound like a technophobe, but that Hawkeye ball path is mad to me, no way that is smashing leg like that, it hit him just inside leg stump and he was miles forward. Weird.

 

[Pothas]

Would Broad and Anderson be taking wickets? Genuine question.

This ia turning into such a great tour for them to miss. You imagine Anderson would probably have bowled about 30 overs for 30 odd runs but unlikely they would be taking a bunch of wickets.

 

[grecian]

This ia turning into such a great tour for them to miss. You imagine Anderson would probably have bowled about 30 overs for 30 odd runs but unlikely they would be taking a bunch of wickets.

Yeah, I think Branderson should have gone, but there's no way anyone is running through sides on these pitches, they're just too ****ing slow, even when there's movement, even half-decent bats can see it coming, or it doesn't carry.

Still think they'd maybe have made in-roads with the new ball last Test when there was a bit in the wicket, but that's about the only time they may have made a difference. Oh and yes both of them are better opening bowlers than Chris Woakes, Overton or Fisher so intrinsically there's a slightly better chance of a wicket, but again just slightly.

 

[SillyCowCorner1]

That looks dead LBW

 

[SillyCowCorner1]

Oh wow...it's doing too much

 

[Pothas]

Yeah, I think Branderson should have gone, but there's no way anyone is running through sides on these pitches, they're just too ****ing slow, even when there's movement, even half-decent bats can see it coming, or it doesn't carry.

Still think they'd maybe have made in-roads with the new ball last Test when there was a bit in the wicket, but that's about the only time they may have made a difference. Oh and yes both of them are better opening bowlers than Chris Woakes, Overton or Fisher so intrinsically there's a slightly better chance of a wicket, but again just slightly.

Reckon there would have been some more serious talk about needing to move on from them to win away etc. As it is I would be amazed if they are both not back at the start our summer.

 

[Beamer]

So I admire the guts and determination it took to bat for so long, but I can't help but feel we were unecessarily negative. Just 30-50 more runs would have made it almost impossible for England to set a target.

I really miss proper West Indian batsmanship.

 

[Slifer]

So I admire the guts and determination it took to bat for so long, but I can't help but feel we were unecessarily negative. Just 30-50 more runs would have made it almost impossible for England to set a target.

I really miss proper West Indian batsmanship.

Honestly, at this point we have to take what ever morsels we can get. At least they got the lead to under 100.

 

[slippy888]

England need to bat more positive day 5 and sets West Indies around 260 score in 68 overs and go for the win here

 

[Gnske]

I see the Windies really advanced the game last night.

 

[Daemon]

It's even scarier once you factor in that he only has ten centuries in his whole career. That means no other WI opener has scored a ton almost ten years.

Stealing this from @Shri

 

[Prince EWS]

Can’t decide which is more boring - 444 deliveries of Kraigg or 60 overs of Leach.

I wonder how many balls Leach bowled to Kraigg and what the run rate was of that battle.

 

[Daemon]

I wonder how many balls Leach bowled to Kraigg and what the run rate was of that battle.

If only WI took a wicket last night and Eng sent Leach in to bat. We’d get to see the reverse.

 

[trundler]

Third longest innings by a West Indian. Also the third ever to have been longer than 700 minutes. The other two, of course, were Lara's two world record triples. I don't often want to bag the guy who scores a century but it was a total road where Leach bowled a record number of overs whilst going for under 1.7 runs per over. Yikes.

 

[honestbharani]

Imagine what Lara would have done to this bowling attack instead of him facing peak Harmison Flintoff.

 

[Xix2565]

I wonder how many balls Leach bowled to Kraigg and what the run rate was of that battle.

Leach to Brathwaite: 212 balls for 48 runs at a SR of 22.64 (not counting extras).

Fixed the number of balls.

 

[ataraxia]

Haha, that's over a Hundred match worth of dead-batting. Honestly great.

Wonder what the record for most balls by a bowler to a batter is?

 

[Uppercut]

I love it. 500+ behind with no batting quality to speak of, opening partner out second ball. Home stadium full of England fans. Such a beautiful act of fun killing, cricketing catenaccio, fuelled by the delicious salty tears of neutrals. You want to see some shots? Too bad, it's a test match, the result actually matters.

 

[Lillian Thomson]

They need pitches that will last five days to fleece the English tourists. An England tour funds the West Indies cricket board for the next four years.