***Official*** West Indies Tour of the UK 2017

[SillyCowCorner1]

These guys can bat. Bat on lads!

 

[MW1304]

So this has gone from 'oh this could be an interesting game' to 'oh yeah England don't do close games either way do they'.

What the hell did they have for lunch?

 

[OverratedSanity]

Eh, Woakes easily could've had a couple of wickets in his first spell. Beat the bat plenty. Broad has been the weak link, not Woakes.

I'd like to take this back. This is rubbish from Woakes now.

 

[flibbertyjibber]

So bringing Woakes back with hardly any cricket has worked well.

 

[Firebreaker]

i knew Woakes would flop.

Crane would been a better option

 

[a massive zebra]

West Indies now favourites for the match according to bet365.com!

 

[Daemon]

nooooooo

 

[marc71178]

i knew Woakes would flop.

Crane would been a better option

He really wouldn't have been but I think almost all your posts show a distinct lack of any knowledge of cricket so can understand why you'd say that.

 

[fredfertang]

Ah well, 'twas fun whilst it lasted - they'll fold now

 

[srbhkshk]

Hoping for a quick Holder 150 here.

(and then 7 wickets in the next innings)

 

[andruid]

Bring back Liam Plunkett!

 

[Beamer]

Yes Shai! Finally getting the runs his talent deserves. His last good knock won us a test. Really hoping it does again here.

 

[Daemon]

Blackwood's been batting at ridiculous strike rates of late.

 

[SillyCowCorner1]

Yeah, Blackwood has been doing ridiculous training prior to this tour.

Like a triathlon of cricket prep.

 

[weldone]

Odd of 10.5 for West Indies win doesn't make any sense at this stage. Get on it.

It's nuts. 258 isn't that much at all. Put 30 on

Hope others acted on the tip too. It's still paying 3 - still worth putting something in imo.

 

[_Ed_]

Whoa, I was hoping I'd wake up to see that WI had scratched their way to a first-innings lead. I didn't expect that! Amazing. Well done Brathwaite and Hope.

 

[NUFAN]

The positive for England is that Stoneman, Westley and Malan are going to need to make runs next bat and if any of the trio does do well, it could be the making of their Test career, the first moment they actually feel like they belong as runs against Gabriel and Roach will not be easy.

BTW if there is a discussion somewhere let me know but i would be curious to read an English test batting pecking order for the best 10-12 bats.

 

[Black_Warrior]

Excellent from Brathwaite and Hope. Brathwaite has established himself as a solid test opener for West Indies over the last few years and if he bats with someone like Blackwood, Chase or in this case Hope, it takes a lot of pressure off him and he gets a lot of runs in the process.

Blackwood needs to go big here with Hope and set up at least 150 runs

 

[GotSpin]

You just kind of feel that the Windies will **** it up somehow

 

[Adders]

You just kind of feel that the Windies will **** it up somehow

Yeah well I had that feeling in the first session yesterday when I promised to eat Howes shoe.........they haven't managed to do so yet.