*Official* West Indies Tour of England, JULY 9th to 25th, 2024-- 3 TEST MATCHES

[Red_Ink_Squid]

Credit to da Silva though.

 

[BazBall21]

A good fifty from Da Silva, he is good enough to bat in the top order or at least ahead of Holder.

Much better bat than Holder fundamentally imo. Just needs to start applying himself more consistently.

 

[wpdavid]

Butcher. “The tail is frustrating those efforts “
what about the ridiculous tactic of spreading the field and taking numerous methods of dismissal out of the game ?
that’s the frustrating thing

And it does send the message to the batters that we don't think we're good enough to get you out, which changes the whole psychology of the game. As we're seeing right now.

 

[The Brian Hardie Stance]

This is excruciating. Bowling to Da Silva like he is some kind of peak Gordon Greenidge.

Hey ho, at least we've got an over at Joseph

 

[Arachnodouche]

Ooh Shamar's finally showing the spunk from Aus. Tricky innings coming up for Eng...under heavy skies too.

 

[BazBall21]

Hope WI take the lead. Would serve England right for their casual attitude towards crucial first innings runs.

 

[CartyDurham]

25 off 4 overs ,so the protecting the boundary tactic is clearly not working

it’s pathetic this and totally against the so called attack philosophy

 

[The Brian Hardie Stance]

West Indies sensing a lead here says Butcher.

Should comfortably get it now England have stopped trying to get wickets.

 

[Arachnodouche]

Surely Shamar's good enough to hold up an end and more? Not sure you want to be leaving singles out there.

 

[wpdavid]

Has anyone ever analysed this tactic to see if it actually works or not? Because intuitively it feels awful.

I suspect it doesn't. I also wonder about the knock-one effect of handing the psychological initiative to the other side when they eventually get to bowl at us. I know it's only a sample of one match, but didn't both of our openers go for ducks when we did this against India in 2021?

 

[King Kane]

Butcher has some West Indian heritage, get the feeling he is supporting them.

 

[wpdavid]

Butcher does have some West Indian heritage, get the feeling he is supporting them.

His dad did play for England, you know. No idea about his Caribbean mum's sporting prowess.

 

[Arachnodouche]

Butcher does have some West Indian heritage, get the feeling he is barracking for them.

Hard not to when they're fighting hard tbh. Sense a genuine fondness from ex-player comms when Windies do well and not in a patronizing way either.

 

[CartyDurham]

The ground was rocking when the 9th wicket fell

one ball to Joseph and after that, the field has been on the boundary and one slip

runs coming easily and now the crowd is apathetic

I hope these two put a ton on

 

[wpdavid]

Time to take a break when England are doing this sort of thing. Catch you later chaps.

 

[King Kane]

Hard not to when they're fighting hard tbh. Sense a genuine fondness from ex-player comms when Windies do well and not in a patronizing way either.

I also get the feeling Athers and Nasser are supporting them too, I think they just want to see a good contesr, they probably still hope England wins.

They just don't want to see England win as easily as they did at Lord's.

 

[Arachnodouche]

Such a stylish pull that from Shamar.

 

[Qlder]

Shamar batting like he did in Adelaide on debut

 

[Arachnodouche]

Wow, never seen that before! Hope the elderly lady's ok.

 

[King Kane]

Shamar Joseph is quite the talent, great bowler and a great batsman too, he is too good to be batting no.11.