**Official** West Indies in England 2012

[Uppercut]

Haha it worked, too. It's a good thing Sammy has more patience than the commentators.

Quality phase of play, two or three years ago they'd never have been capable of that.

 

[Spark]

Well-deserved IMO. Decent spell of pressure bowling from both ends.

 

[Spark]

Haha it worked, too. It's a good thing Sammy has more patience than the commentators.

Quality phase of play, two or three years ago they'd never have been capable of that.

Surprising given that's what England's bowlers have been doing basically every innings for the last two years...

 

[GotSpin]

So sick of these boring draws. Killing test cricket IMO

 

[Scaly piscine]

More ****house batting from England. 104-5 or thereabouts today, pathetic.

 

[flibbertyjibber]

Silly by Strauss, good knock though. Need some runs from the tail now though.

 

[wpdavid]

Good job I missed the morning session- sounds like we've been absolutely dire. And it's a good job that WI didn't review that LBW against KP before he'd made a run, or they'd have a very healthy lead by now. As it is, they should be setting us a serious 4th innings total, so we'll see. I reckon the batsmen have been overconfident - they were poor in the first innings at Lord's as well.

 

[Uppercut]

Good job I missed the morning session- sounds like we've been absolutely dire.

Hmm a bit but it's moreso that the West Indies have been good.

 

[Spark]

Just goes to show - even on a flat deck, significantly bettering a 370 total set by the opp is no easy feat. People should be more cautious before casually predicting 500+.

 

[flibbertyjibber]

Just goes to show - even on a flat deck, significantly bettering a 370 total set by the opp is no easy feat. People should be more cautious before casually predicting 500+.

Well I said 400 before the innings started and 500 this morning. May still get there as we have a bit of batting left anyway. It is the 2nd innings West Indies collapse I am waiting for.

Even if England only lead by 30-40 you fancy WI will be 3 down by the time they get a lead, be more of a surprise if they knocked off the defecit without losing a wicket than if they were 3 down to be honest.

 

[Jacknife]

Good job I missed the morning session- sounds like we've been absolutely dire. And it's a good job that WI didn't review that LBW against KP before he'd made a run, or they'd have a very healthy lead by now. As it is, they should be setting us a serious 4th innings total, so we'll see. I reckon the batsmen have been overconfident - they were poor in the first innings at Lord's as well.

On the whole WI have been very good today, made England work for every run. The Lbw yesterday against KP was clipping so it would have stopped with the on field call, if that's the one you're talking about, the other close one he got a nick on.

 

[GotSpin]

Windies top order is so fragile even a lead of 50 would probably see the openers back in the sheds

 

[BoyBrumby]

Good job I missed the morning session- sounds like we've been absolutely dire. And it's a good job that WI didn't review that LBW against KP before he'd made a run, or they'd have a very healthy lead by now. As it is, they should be setting us a serious 4th innings total, so we'll see. I reckon the batsmen have been overconfident - they were poor in the first innings at Lord's as well.

It was an "umpire's call", I think. So would've stayed with the original NO.

Anyway, good, disciplined stuff from the Windies. Bres 12 from 52 and Broad 1 from 9; both players who like to get on with things too, so no small thing to dry them up.

Well, Broad now 5 from 10, but the point stands.

 

[Spark]

Woah. That's timing.

EDIT: It begins...

 

[Ruckus]

wow pretty good effort from the Windies so far, wasn't expecting this at all after seeing the score yesterday.

 

[theegyptian]

ridiculous shot by broad

 

[Spark]

Bresnan's not gonna last too long against Roach if he keeps playing at those.

 

[wpdavid]

On the whole WI have been very good today, made England work for every run. The Lbw yesterday against KP was clipping so it would have stopped with the on field call, if that's the one you're talking about, the other close one he got a nick on.

Fair nuff - happy to give credit if due. And as someone said, talk of us batting through the day was always over-optimistic. But going back to the match state, if they cans set us over 150 in the 4th innings, this could be very close indeed.

 

[marc71178]

Why was it overoptimistic when they'd just batted over 2 sessions losing just 2 wickets?

 

[wpdavid]

Why was it overoptimistic when they'd just batted over 2 sessions losing just 2 wickets?

Because there aren't many occasions when a side bats for a whole day with the first 2 wickets already gone. Fresh start for the bowlers, new ball to come, etc.