**Official** West Indies in England 2012

[superkingdave]

Onions can hardly be in better form (34 wickets @ 12.6), hope he has a good test, a likeable player really.

 

[GIMH]

Squad officially announced

Strauss
Cook
Trott
Pietersen
Bell
Bairstow
Prior
Bresnan
Broad
Swann
Onions
Finn

 

[fredfertang]

Hope they give Broad a rest as well, though if its cloudy and Onions plays and the WIndies bat first it might be another of those two day Tests

 

[uvelocity]

I don't think the windies will bat quite that quickly

 

[flibbertyjibber]

Frustrating to see Anderson rested when they will pick him for meaningless one dayers anyway. I'd have picked the same team and brought in Dernbach, Finn and Onions for the one dayers and rested Broad and Anderson in those matches.

 

[BoyBrumby]

Just been watching Cricket Writers on TV & the collective wisdom of Messrs Marks, Booth & Brenkley is that Angry is quietly seething at his omission. The Windies on a fast Edgbaston track is exactly the type of fixture a quick wants to be playing in.

Also suggested if Bairstow fails again we'll see a new #6 for SA.

 

[Furball]

Such a dumb decision.

 

[Cabinet96]

Hope they give Broad a rest as well, though if its cloudy and Onions plays and the WIndies bat first it might be another of those two day Tests

Doubt it will happen. If they were gonna give him a rest they would have removed him form the squad. No point in him training with them and hanging around if he's not gonna play.

Just been watching Cricket Writers on TV & the collective wisdom of Messrs Marks, Booth & Brenkley is that Angry is quietly seething at his omission. The Windies on a fast Edgbaston track is exactly the type of fixture a quick wants to be playing in.

I'd feel the same way. He has some real tough tests to come in the next few months against SA and in India, I doubt he'd want to give away the chance to bowl about 30 overs and get 6-8 wickets in a match against WI.

 

[Scaly piscine]

Just been watching Cricket Writers on TV & the collective wisdom of Messrs Marks, Booth & Brenkley is that Angry is quietly seething at his omission. The Windies on a fast Edgbaston track is exactly the type of fixture a quick wants to be playing in.

Also suggested if Bairstow fails again we'll see a new #6 for SA.

A what?

 

[Manee]

A what?

A fast Edgbaston track.

 

[bikubarat]

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.

That's right. I am totally agreed.

 

[roseboy64]

ODI squad:

Sammy (captain)
Dw Bravo (vc)
Tino Best
Darren Bravo
Johnson Charles
Fidel Edwards
Chris Gayle
Sunil Narine
Kieron Pollard
Denesh Ramdin
Ravi Rampaul
Andre Russell
Marlon Samuels
Dwayne Smith
Lendl Simmons


"Some WICB executive members remain opposed to Chris Gayle's inclusion in the team..."

 

[Beamer]

I really believe that is the best ODI squad we have picked in a long long time. We have devastating hitting talent at our disposal, potent bowling and extremely athletic fielding.

That squad should beat England IMHO. I'll be very dissapointed if they don't. The death overs might be extremely messy for England, let's see how they cope.

 

[theegyptian]

meh i think the series will be competitive and the results of the odi's not the foregone conclusion of the tests but I'd still see England as favourites. Narine apart the bowling is poor, and don't expect Gayle to have the same influence on international cricket that he does at domestic level. At least though the games will be worth watching.

 

[Beamer]

meh i think the series will be competitive and the results of the odi's not the foregone conclusion of the tests but I'd still see England as favourites. Narine apart the bowling is poor, and don't expect Gayle to have the same influence on international cricket that he does at domestic level. At least though the games will be worth watching.

Gayle is one of the best opening bats in the history of ODI's averaging nearly 40 with 19 hundreds. He is in the form of his life. His influence will be enormous.

Poor other than Narine? Rampaul is certainly not poor, Russell has had an excellent start to his ODI career with both bat and ball. Bravo looks back to his old self with the ball at least and we have lots of passable part time options in Samuels, Smith and Simmons.

As for the batting, Gayle and Simmons, who has had a very good last 18 months in ODI cricket, make a very good opening partnership. The middle order is a slight weakness and Darren Bravo and Samuels will have to step up to see us through to the 35 over mark. But from then on we have insane hitting power. Bravo, Pollard, Sammy and Russell are monstrous hitters of the cricket ball. They really punished Australia recently even though they were coming in with us in early trouble (Simmons and Gayle were both absent).

This side has the makings of a very powerful one. Certainly the most talent we've been blessed with in one squad for some time. Lets hope they click because it will be a hell of a sight if they do.

 

[Viscount Tom]

He's in the form of his life against bowlers who would get dropped from a number of club sides.

Its not like he's been playing on tough pitches really. That and 20-20 is a different format entirely, especially in English conditions.

With the players available to us (England) I rekcon we should win this quite handily and we've got Ali Ali Cook.

 

[Beamer]

We'll see.

I think you're forgetting that Gayle is a great ODI batsman with a record to match. Even if he doesn't replicate his Bradmanseque form in domestic cricket over the last 2 years he would still make and strengthen any side in the World based on his international record. He is twice the Limited Overs batsman Cook is, let's not be silly.

We might well lose, I've been dissapointed many times before, but with the talent available in this squad I honestly feel we should win and will be irked if we dont.

 

[uvelocity]

When Australia was awesome we were ****y. Everybody else hated it.

The poms are ****y, but they ain't all that good, I'm sure it's much more annoying.

 

[Viscount Tom]

Not been ****y, I just feel that Gayle's been talked about as if he is Bradman on the basis that he's been thumping domestic bowlers in T20s with success. He's not going to fix the Windies problems because he's just not that good.

 

[wellAlbidarned]

No-one's talking about Gayle like he's Bradman, they're talking about him like he's Gayle.