19th Match - England v West Indies

[Arachnodouche]

Yeah very flaccid from the Windies. That's what roids'll do to ya

 

[Howe_zat]

Been park cricket for the last half hour. Very low key stuff.

 

[DravidFan]

Terrible line on the short stuff from Brathwaite.

 

[Beamer]

I think we've been well and truly found out here. Even if we had scored 280 odd we would have lost. If conditions are against us we have no variety or ability to fight back. A lot of thinking is needed between now and Monday.

 

[Cabinet96]

**** sake

 

[Howe_zat]

Aw that's a shame. He was getting a bit tied down and antsy, no runs from his last 8 balls.

Good take

 

[91Jmay]

Been a bit of a painful end. Woakes basically stopped trying to score to guarntee Root his ton.

 

[MW1304]

Serene from Root. Could hardly be in finer form. Keep it up.

 

[Howe_zat]

Made it look easy, great player.

 

[MW1304]

My heart is happy for a boring win. Still, it was particularly gutless from the Windies in the field. Not great to see.

 

[Beamer]

Poor from us, very professional from England and Root.

Lets hope this was our bad day at the office and we regroup for Monday.

 

[91Jmay]

I am fairly hopeful Morgie will be ok, just sweating on Roy's fitness now. Vince is not a bad player but nowhere near as good as Roy.

 

[trundler]

What an utterly mundane and quiet thread..

 

[Malcolm]

100 runs
2 wickets
2 catches

AMAZING !!!

 

[Beamer]

What an utterly mundane and quiet thread..

The lack of competition in the match from about the 3rd over of the England innings sucked the life out of the contest.

 

[Bahseph]

Russell is an interesting topic imo, the Windies can't expect him to tone it down and manage his injuries. His whole game is built around being explosive. Doesn't do much with the ball other than being quick and having that unnerving bounce, and his batting is built around power because I don't think he has much of a batting technique. It's a risk playing him, but you do see the upside.

 

[andmark]

What an utterly mundane and quiet thread..

Yeah, let's liven it up. Sachin>>>>>Bradman.

Not much to say about the match really. The rain staying away was an event in fairness.

 

[PikeyB]

As an England fan , I was more nervous about this fixture than any other . I saw it as a make-or-break game for England's World Cup hopes . Points and nrr don't matter much if you aint got the game to take it all the way .

Sadly Windies didn't get much chance to deploy their formidable bowling and batting attack . The toss , the injuries etc stunted their hopes early .

 

[vcs]

Root looks in some form. Will need to get him in to bat early and Bumrah to target his pads.

 

[Howe_zat]

It's not like West Indies were stuffed from the word go though? The opening spells dented their chances of putting up a really big score, but they were 145-3 after 30 and 184-5 after 36. Smarter batting could make 280+ from positions like that.