*Official* England in West Indies 2022

[Heboric]

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.

Have to compensate the locals for putting up with the Barmy Army

 

[Gremlin]

A repeat of day 5 of the first test then?

 

[SillyCowCorner1]

Lees century loading...

 

[SillyCowCorner1]

There it is ?

 

[SillyCowCorner1]

Rare failure for Root

 

[theegyptian]

Fair play to England for trying to set something up here. Not sure I'd have bothered.

 

[Lillian Thomson]

Root has lost his marbles here. 250 was more than enough.

 

[WICFan]

Root has lost his marbles here. 250 was more than enough.

Strange stuff, West Indies wouldn't go chasing 250 with the batting lineup that isn't full of attacking strokeplayers.

 

[Bijed]

An element of protecting the bowlers? I know they had a night's break, but they were bowling late on yesterday and had been out there for absolutely ages, plus we've already had injuries on the tour

 

[Lillian Thomson]

The seamers only bowled about 25 overs each in two days.

 

[honestbharani]

An element of protecting the bowlers?

Why start now though, with Root?

 

[Bijed]

Why start now though, with Root?

So that Stokes can bowl unchanged for the rest of the day of course!

 

[chris.hinton]

John Campbell has got to be one of the worst test openers I've seen so out of his depth. Surely his career at Test Level is over for now

 

[Red_Ink_Squid]

Surely this can't be on...

 

[Uppercut]

Why wouldn’t it be? It’s a very weak batting lineup.

 

[wpdavid]

Why wouldn’t it be? It’s a very weak batting lineup.

.. against a relatively weak bowling attack.

But so far, the resistible force > than the moveable object.

 

[Uppercut]

When did Curtly start commentating? I’m worried he’ll ruin my impression of him as impossibly cool.

 

[slippy888]

England should have declared 10 overs earlier and set 250

 

[Red_Ink_Squid]

England should have declared 10 overs earlier and set 250

Honestly I wouldn't have blamed them for just batting out the day and taking the draw. Fair play for at least having a go.

 

[Lillian Thomson]

The thing is they set it up nicely and then wasted half an hour.