**Official** West Indies in England 2012

[Jager]

Ah yeah, I didn't recall that 50. His failures obviously stuck in my mind more.

 

[FBU]

Anderson rested. Broad with the squad but they haven't decided whether to rest him or not yet.

 

[Viscount Tom]

Question over who takes the new ball though, out of the 3 seamers playing if both Broad and Anderson are rested only Bresnan's shown quality with reverse swing consistently so you'd have to think that the new ball partnership would be Onions and Finn.

 

[Scaly piscine]

Well it's straight forward really, the two seamers that aren't Bresnan. Don't think any of them would mind bowling up front against West Indies' top 4.

West Indies playing one of the worst tails in the history of cricket against Leicester, not that the top 6 is too flash either.

 

[uvelocity]

cant wait for onions to fail

 

[Dan]

According to Cricinfo, the Windies are only playing 10 guys. What the hell is going on?

 

[Scaly piscine]

According to Cricinfo, the Windies are only playing 10 guys. What the hell is going on?

I suspect it is because Narine hasn't arrived yet. (He's not playing apparently)

Someone on Twitter saying he played for his club in Trinidad yesterday.

 

[Dan]

Fair enough then. Must be intent on resting Sammy & Samuels.

Kirk Edwards improving then - lasted 3 balls for today's duck.

 

[wellAlbidarned]

Against Malik - a 6 foot 5 outswing bowler if cricinfo is to be believed.

 

[Dan]

Who has been discarded by 3 different counties and has a bowling average pushing 35. And has spent this season in Second XI cricket..

 

[wellAlbidarned]

Yeah, picked up on that. Bummer that cricinfo doesn't have full commentary for this game, could've been a peach for all we know.

 

[Cricketismylife]

Totally disagree, for a start he's got 50s against both India and Australia, so he does know how to score runs at international level, the lad just had a bad spell, sh/t happens, Strauss and Bell had a torrid time against Pak and SL but now everything seems fine with them and i'd like to think Kraigg could score some runs against the likes of NZ at home,

He's come out of the spotlight and by all accounts he's been working hard behind the scenes to sharpen up a few things, question his scoring all you like but defensively and concentration wise he's right up there with Shiv IMO, we'll see how he gets on this weekend for the a-team i guess,

i just think he'd compliment Gayle well, too many times we're finding ourselves 30/3 in the first 10 overs, it's not good enough, with Kraigg and Gayle up top i'm willing to bet that that trend stops.

I'm afraid that this is a woeful post. How on earth can you compare Brathwaite defensively with Chanderpaul? Just because a batsman plays no shots like Brathwaite does not mean that he has a good defensive technique. Brathwaite is technically all over the place and is nowhere close to test standard. He plays away from his body and doesn't transfer weight forward or back properly. Barath and Powell may be hopeless, but at least there's the odd chance they might come off with their attacking strokeplay. Brathwaite is just a stonewaller who is waiting to get out, if by chance he happens to stick around it's not like he would even score much anyway. I agree that both Barath and Powell need to be replaced, but there's no point replacing them with a player who is actually worse than them.

 

[Neil Pickup]

Anderson rested. Broad with the squad but they haven't decided whether to rest him or not yet.

Source?

 

[theegyptian]

Source?

England's Jimmy Anderson ordered to sit out final West Indies Test | Sport | The Guardian

 

[GotSpin]

I'm afraid that this is a woeful post. How on earth can you compare Brathwaite defensively with Chanderpaul? Just because a batsman plays no shots like Brathwaite does not mean that he has a good defensive technique. Brathwaite is technically all over the place and is nowhere close to test standard. He plays away from his body and doesn't transfer weight forward or back properly. Barath and Powell may be hopeless, but at least there's the odd chance they might come off with their attacking strokeplay. Brathwaite is just a stonewaller who is waiting to get out, if by chance he happens to stick around it's not like he would even score much anyway. I agree that both Barath and Powell need to be replaced, but there's no point replacing them with a player who is actually worse than them.

tbh, i dont think barath is hopeless. He just seems to lack any constraint or temperament right now.

 

[TT Boy]

I'm afraid that this is a woeful post. How on earth can you compare Brathwaite defensively with Chanderpaul? Just because a batsman plays no shots like Brathwaite does not mean that he has a good defensive technique. Brathwaite is technically all over the place and is nowhere close to test standard. He plays away from his body and doesn't transfer weight forward or back properly. Barath and Powell may be hopeless, but at least there's the odd chance they might come off with their attacking strokeplay. Brathwaite is just a stonewaller who is waiting to get out, if by chance he happens to stick around it's not like he would even score much anyway. I agree that both Barath and Powell need to be replaced, but there's no point replacing them with a player who is actually worse than them.

Good post.

 

[Furball]

Anderson rested. Broad with the squad but they haven't decided whether to rest him or not yet.

Pretty poor decision if the Guardian's correct. Anderson's hardly going to get any First Class cricket between now and the first Test, if he needs his workload managed then rest him from some of the 8 ODIs to be played between now and the first Test against South Africa.

 

[Jacknife]

Pretty poor decision if the Guardian's correct. Anderson's hardly going to get any First Class cricket between now and the first Test, if he needs his workload managed then rest him from some of the 8 ODIs to be played between now and the first Test against South Africa.

I reckon if he was 100% fit he'd be playing but Strauss said after the last test he was having trouble with his quads, the physio apparently spent most of the last test seeing to him on the sidelines. So if this is the case I have no problem with it.

 

[wpdavid]

I'm trying to remember who it was, a few weeks ago, bet me that Onions would never play test cricket again. I'm pretty sure that the unwritten rule is that the going rate is £50 in these circumstances.

 

[FBU]

Source?

James Anderson rested for Third Test against West Indies | The Sun |Sport|Cricket

Wonder who the source close to Anderson was. Probably someone from the managment as I doubt if Anderson knew what Flower's plans for Broad were.

How long will the rest be for and will he be selected for the ODIs? Will he sit at home for 7 weeks before Lancs have their first class game after all the one day stuff?

I suppose that they have to consider Broad's batting while not sure if they will get any runs from Bairstow. They won't know what to expect from Narine. I have a feeling Broad will play.