***Official*** England Tour of the West Indies: December 2023

[SillyCowCorner1]

Hopefully he doesn't go down the T20 Franchise route.

The only franchise league he's played in is CPL...and there's a competition here in the US, Minor League Cricket (?)

 

[Owzat]

This has been a brilliant chase - Salt exceptional and Harry Brook - what a cameo

I'd suggest therein lies the difference, big scores (relative to T20 anyway) win matches, cameos can finish off a chase or target set but rapid cameo 20s and 30s wow but without Salt would have been to no end

bowling again pretty poor, was it 16-0-96-0 from Mills, Atkinson and Livingstone, feel sorry for Mills, can't be many quicks in the side for their bowling coming on near last all the time!

definitely think England need to revamp both ODI and T20 sides, out with most of the old (except Rashid, maybe 1-2 others, and Rashid only because spin is an achilles heel without him) and in with some new. Plenty of time ahead of the 2027 World Cup, but less so for the forthcoming T20 version so quite surprising this side still has same OLD faces innit

 

[WICFan]

Hopefully he doesn't go down the T20 Franchise route.

That would be a disaster, Motie is going to become a key player in this West Indies side, across all formats.

With Hosein and Sinclair, the West Indies have some depth that they probably haven't had for some amount of time.

 

[SillyCowCorner1]

Teams news from yesterday,

Hetmyer and Alzarri have left the squad
Oshane and Johnson Charles added

 

[SillyCowCorner1]

We'll be bowling first in this one.
Matthew Forde comes in for Alzarri

 

[SillyCowCorner1]

Kyle Mayers get the drop, Johnson Charles is his replacement.

 

[SillyCowCorner1]

Some confusion over whether it's Kyle Mayers or Johnson Charles opening alongside Brandon King, thanks to conflicting graphics on different TV feeds... but West Indies' social media accounts suggest the answer is Mayers.


Can't get anything correct.

 

[SillyCowCorner1]

3 overs. 3 different bowlers. We see Mayers coming to bowl for the first time this series.

 

[SillyCowCorner1]

Bad bowling from Forde...straying too much down the leg-side

 

[GIMH]

Think Salt has secured his T20 spot for the foreseeable

 

[SillyCowCorner1]

Salt's timing of the ball is impeccable

 

[Red_Ink_Squid]

@GIMH - this is why I keep telling you how good Salt is.

 

[SillyCowCorner1]

Absolute carnage at the Brian Lara Cricket Academy.

 

[White Ball]

Flat deck have to back Windies to chase whatever England get here

 

[GIMH]

The champs are here folks

 

[Aidan11]

Not bad.

Not bad at all.

 

[GIMH]

Ah well. That’ll do Jos.

 

[SillyCowCorner1]

Alright, one wicket should bring 3 or 6 more

 

[Aidan11]

Jos is out but Salt still not shaken.

 

[GIMH]

Given he’s a known reader of my posts, Will Jacks must feel so inferior when he bats with Salt