***Official*** West Indies in England

[zaremba]

Needs a bit of perspective, Taunton is flatter than Keira Knightley

Great line. And yet it somehow makes Taunton seem that little bit more fascinating to me...

 

[superkingdave]

Good to see that the BBC and cricinfo have finally pulled themselves out of their IPL lovefest to finally write something about the Windies in England....

??? all i saw was a preview of West Indies warm up game in South Africa?

 

[shivfan]

Here's one....

BBC SPORT | Cricket | International Teams | West Indies | Windies begin tour without stars

And here's the other....

Cricinfo - Windies hope to catch England cold

The quotes are practically the same, so it was probably written by PA, and sent to both BBC and cricinfo....

How lazy can these journos be?

 

[superkingdave]

Wow, Leicestershire playing only one South African and one Australian, must be a record.

 

[shivfan]

DJG Sammy, N Deonarine, captainwicketkeeperD Ramdin, LMP Simmons, SJ Benn, AP Richardson, DS Smith, LS Baker, BP Nash, RR Sarwan, DM Richards

So, Bernard and Pascal have been omitted....

 

[Scaly piscine]

16 byes already...

 

[Beamer]

Yep it would seem that Ramdin has turned into Mathew Prior for this match.

Windies have an awful bowling attack for this match. Baker, Richardson, Nash (), Sammy and Benn. Come back Taylor and Fidel, please!!!!!!!!!

 

[TT Boy]

Windies doing pretty good considering their attack. Leicestershire 4 down for 96, Benn with 2 but Human and Allenby are at the crease.

 

[TT Boy]

Human gone. Benn doing his chances of test start no harm at all, he now has 3.

 

[superkingdave]

Shouldn't this be rename 'official' and stickied? The Aus in UAE has been stickied for ages?

 

[shivfan]

Shouldn't this be rename 'official' and stickied? The Aus in UAE has been stickied for ages?

Yeah, are the mods taking their cue from the late English media coverage?

Benn got the important wicket of Dipenaar....

I'm not convinced about Richardson, but this is a good opportunity for Sammy and Baker to press their claims.

 

[TT Boy]

Allenby gone. Benn with 4.

 

[TT Boy]

Windies already batting. Leicestershire bowled out for 182, that after Human won the toss and elected to bat.

 

[Manee]

Safe to say it is likely a questionable track.

 

[shivfan]

Good bowling figures for Benn and Richardson, but missed opportunities for Dale Richards and Devon Smith....

 

[The Masterplan]

Good bowling figures for Benn and Richardson, but missed opportunities for Dale Richards and Devon Smith....

Good old Dev' get out in the twenties.

 

[Beamer]

I have been following the match on Sky Sports News in the UK. I'm planning to go Grace Road tomorrow.The track is ok for batting, there was a bit of turn on offer and swing available with the new ball (which our new ball bowlers wasted by all accounts).

Windies dismissals were as follows:

Richards - Smacking it straight to the cover fieldsman - poor batting
Sarwan - caught 2nd slip off a decent outswinging delivery.
Smith - lbw playing back to off spinner, poor decision from umpire as was clearly missing off.
Deonarine - lbw to the opening bowler during the last over of the day, though he was almost definitely outside the line and got a huge stride in. The non-striker Lendl Simmons was not impressed with the decision.

For the Windies Suliemann Benn produced two excellent deliveries that caught the edge and were snapped up at slip by Devon Smith. The dismissal of Dippenaar was particularly pleasing as he beat him in flight.

 

[roseboy64]

Stickied.

 

[shivfan]

I take it Simmons won't be recommending Messrs MJD Bodenham and A Hicks to his friends....

 

[four_or_six]

Strauss has given an interview saying county players getting runs have a bit of an edge over the IPL players. Seems as though we might be getting Bell or Vaughan instead of Shah in the test team.