Beamer
International Vice-Captain
Sri Lanka were going for the declaration and he kept darting it in. He really should not be bowling many overs.
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*Official* West Indies Tour of England 2020
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flibbertyjibber
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Perfect downhill skiing opportunity for Buttler here to save his career.
wpdavid
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Yes. I'd rather like to see him trying to build an innings from time to time, although obviously this isn't one of those occasions. Ideally, he'd have spent the last three months batting at 4 or 5 for Surrey, but there you go.
Groundking
International Debutant
Upset Stokes didn't get a double. Fantastic work from him, easily our best player at the minute
trundler
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Haha yeah but I would imagine that's way more common than the score doubling after that point. Or the rest adding 200 more. The same thing happens in 5/40 scenarios where instead of the tail being wrapped up quickly the team manages to get to 120 odd somehow.
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Arachnodouche
International Captain
Yeah, not at all the kind of innings that's going to earn Buttler much goodwill.
Bijed
International Regular
I acutally don't mind this from Buttler so far that much (and I'm normally quick to rag on him). Yeah, it'd be great if he had scored more quickly but we haven't got such a huge score as to justify being totally reckless. If we reach 450 and he's still there I'll be irritated if he doesn't accelerate at that point, but that's a way off and may well not happen.
I'd me more annoyed with him if everyone else had found scoring fairly easy so far, but that hasn't been the case.
I'd me more annoyed with him if everyone else had found scoring fairly easy so far, but that hasn't been the case.
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trundler
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Fair but this is exactly the sort of surface where Buttler would come in at 4 for not many and blast a run a ball 50 as Root crawls along at the other end (with the other not having been good enough to stick around) if this had been an ODI.
grecian
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Yeah, I may give it a 6, simply because it stopped a total lolapse, but nothing to change anyones mind either way. Will be interesting to see how he keeps, which might be more telling.
I can see why the West Indies stuck with the same pace attack - I wonder how good some of the backup is at Test level. In hindsight might have rested Gabriel with his knack for getting injuries and the quick turnaround but the worry is if West Indies don't bat out of their skin they could be entering the final match at 1-1 either looking to a pace attack who have played 2 matches in quick succession or a reserve bowling attack either scenario isn't ideal. Makes things so much better if we can get out of this with a draw with bad weather (which I still think is a huge ask) - the mini session before close of play will be crucial.
