***Official*** West Indies in England (Pointless 2 T20 series for Sky's benefit)

[superkingdave]

Rashid wasn't even the best spinner in his side in T20 this year.

 

[Daemon]

Borthwick's watched a lot of Warne. His follow through is basically plagiarism.

He trained a bit with Warne in Australia according to Cricinfo

 

[OMM!]

Neither was Borthwick. Briggs meanwhile was outbowling Tahir and Afridi!

 

[Howe_zat]

Well, you'd have to say that 1-15 flatters Borthwick a bit, better batsmen would have put those couple of full tosses away. But a good turn out, happy for him.

 

[AlwaysProteas]

**** me this is dire. Don't think WI could win a match in CLT20.

 

[Jacknife]

Didn't think they were going to catch that, nice one.

 

[OMM!]

World class catch by Halesy! That was sensational given Stokes was charging/diving in front of him!

 

[BoyBrumby]

Good grab from Hales. Kept his eye on the ball despite the chance of being taken out by his teammate.

Barnwell had to do something tho. Depressingly bad stuff from the Windies here.

Ha, boundary as I type, but my point stands.

 

[Jacknife]

These guys do play outside of England Internationals you know?

I've seen Rashid, Briggs and Borthwick ten or fifteen times a piece this year. Briggs is number 1, Rashid 2nd and Borthwick 3rd.

Don't you think it could have something to do with England looking for some variety to their attack for when they go abroad. They know about Rashid and he's had a poor year, he's also been around the squad before, they've got a left arm spinner so that's why they are not so in a rush to see Briggs.

 

[Howe_zat]

I was about to praise that shot from Samuels before realising that the rarity of good shots made it look better by comparison.

Ravi taking Dernbach's overs again. Looks like Swanny's decided he's done bowling as well.

 

[The_roc]

Will they make 100?

 

[BoyBrumby]

Better over for the Windies. Three more like that and they might make 120.

 

[Howe_zat]

Yeah. Little bit too much faith in Bopara here. Not a great decision.

 

[OMM!]

Pitch looks dead for anything over 55mph. Bopara being made to look like a club bowler.

Interesting chat between Nasser and Athers there about the lack of quickies around. Although I'd suggest Atherton is going mental if he doesn't think Finn is a "fast" bowler. He's easily as quick as Allan Donald was! No way was Donald above 93-95mph!

 

[Jacknife]

Another good catch, went very quick off the bat.

 

[Jacknife]

Pitch looks dead for anything over 55mph. Bopara being made to look like a club bowler.

Interesting chat between Nasser and Athers there about the lack of quickies around. Although I'd suggest Atherton is going mental if he doesn't think Finn is a "fast" bowler. He's easily as quick as Allan Donald was! No way was Donald above 93-95mph!

The thing is though Donald in test match cricket had it around 90-93mph all day. Finn hasn't done that yet in test match cricket.

 

[OMM!]

Interesting from Swann. Drops Finn. Doesn't pick Anderson. Doesn't trust Bresnan at the death.

His Twitter mates are getting treated very badly by him!

 

[BoyBrumby]

The thing is though Donald in test match cricket had it around 90-93mph all day. Finn hasn't done that yet in test match cricket.

Finn's only about 12 tho. I think he's still younger now than AAD was when he debuted for SA and is obviously getting quicker as he grows into his not inconsiderable length.

Deffo "fast" for my money. Not like he occasionally shaves 90mph like Dernbach or Bres, he was constantly way over it.

113/5 then. Nasser informs us it's the lowest ever score batting first at The Oval in a T20. Shocking, in all honesty.

 

[Howe_zat]

This is the lowest score ever in a completed T20I innings for six wickets or fewer down, "beating" Pakistan's 126/4 at Cardiff last year.

 

[OMM!]

Speaking of Twitter and fast bowlers, some interesting thoughts from former West Indies pacer Tino "Mind The Windows" Best on his Twitter page:

"tinobest Tino97
Nasser Hussain u was the Biggest Bitch in International cricket when u Played. Fidel and I run u off the pitch each and everytime #Coward"