**Official** West Indies in England 2012

[Jacknife]

Oh Trotty, beaten off the seam, must be about the first one to do so.

 

[weeman27bob]

KP to run Strauss out.

 

[LegionOfBrad]

Strauss is looking a nervous wreck out there atm i hope he can nick one to the boundary and then settle.

 

[Jacknife]

What a way to get off the mark.

 

[Jacknife]

 

[four_or_six]

**** yeah

Go Straussy.

 

[Jacknife]

Nice to see Shiv & Young Bravo come up and congratulate him.

 

[Woodster]

Wonderful effort from Straussy! Should quieten down any serious critics out there for now, but more importantly it sets him up nicely for the summer, so important for the captain to be in the runs and have that confident aura while leading the team into various challenges.

 

[Uppercut]

Handy century to keep the media off his back but he's not really demonstrating anything we didn't already know, given the standard of bowling.

 

[Howe_zat]

Played.

 

[jan]

Got home right in time to load stream with Strauss on 97*, well played

 

[Jager]

pretty happy for Sir Straussy. He was due.

 

[GIMH]

Handy century to keep the media off his back but he's not really demonstrating anything we didn't already know, given the standard of bowling.

Faced gash bowling all last summer as well, and didn't ton up.

 

[Woodster]

Strauss doesn't need to demonstrate anything we don't know, it';s simply a case of him getting back to the kind of form that takes him to these big scores.

 

[Spark]

Wow that was a bad over. Absolutely awful - Roach can feel lucky he only went for 10, frankly.

 

[Uppercut]

Strauss doesn't need to demonstrate anything we don't know, it';s simply a case of him getting back to the kind of form that takes him to these big scores.

He's really quite crap. Has been for years. But England don't want to be dropping him because it would upset the whole system. Innings like this are great news because it means they can avoid acknowledging that he's crap for a while longer.

 

[Howe_zat]

In the grand scheme of things Strauss will go down as a relatively mediocre player but "really quite crap" is pushing it.

 

[Woodster]

He's really quite crap. Has been for years. But England don't want to be dropping him because it would upset the whole system. Innings like this are great news because it means they can avoid acknowledging that he's crap for a while longer.

He really isn't. England won't like dropping him because alongside being an excellent leader of the side, he happens to be a very accomplished opening batsman that has had a rough trot like any other player in the world endures. Hopefully now he's coming out the other side and can push on this summer.

 

[Furball]

Handy century to keep the media off his back but he's not really demonstrating anything we didn't already know, given the standard of bowling.

I think with the winter England as a team suffered, the captain showing signs of returning to a bit of form are a massive positive.

 

[Uppercut]

Meh, 'relatively mediocre' is just a politer way of saying 'quite crap'.