Stokes looked the part as a bowler as well, the bit I saw.
Not now. New ball has made the difference. Windies have gone from 224/2 to 264/7. Lead of just 99. 77 overs left in the day’s play and blue sky. Windies need to put on another 100 runs and bat out 30-35 overs to get a draw.
Jimmy Anderson has bowled brilliantly.
Yeah, Anderson was sensational this morning. Brilliant piece of fielding from him as well to get the direct hit to run out Holder.
286/8 at lunch. A lead of 121 with 69 overs left in the day. Ramdin is still there so an outside chance of a draw if they can survive 20 more overs. England strong favourites now though.
England have 61 overs to chase down 143.
Few early wickets could make it interesting. There’s one down- Trott out for a duck, 2/1
34/1
65/1 at tea.
78 runs needed. They should do it barring a catastrophe.
Dungeon this shit.
144/1. Comfortable 9 wicket win. Cook 59 n.o., Ballance 81 n.o.
Was just in the lift there with Brad Haddin, asked him if they’re ready for the Windies. He said they’re all a bit tired and they’ll start preparing next week, seemd a bit non plussed. As he exited the lift though, with a glint in his eye he goes “we’ll be pumped for England though”.
If you bump into him again on the way back down in the lift, make sure and pass on my observations on his most recent test form.
He said “Tell that pommy cunt to get fucked”.
Did you ask him to sign your bat?
He already has. And my Milo In2Cricket jersey as well.
Its the Australians that are the Poms. - Prisoners Of her Majesty’s Service.
didnt you shit yourself before the marathon, i dont think you are in any place to comment on the ancestry of australians mate
3rd test underway this afternoon at the Kensington Oval. You’d imagine that Barbados should serve up a livelier pitch than Antigua or Grenada. Still waiting on team selections. Good news from a Windies perspective is Jerome Taylor is seemingly fit again.
England 240/7 at stumps. A decent revival to get from 38/3 to 233/5 but two wickets in the last 4 overs probably have the Windies slightly ahead. Cook posted his first century in two years, but was out for 105 last ball of the day.
Trott out for a duck, third time this series. First English batsman to achieve that dubious feat in a series of 3 games or less. His test career will be over after the 2nd innings.
- Cooke elected to bat.
- He got Ali run out when well set.
- He got himself out to the last ball of the day.
The Aussies will be praying he retains the captaincy. He has the gravitas of bambi.
[QUOTE=“flattythehurdler, post: 1132194, member: 1170”]1. Cooke elected to bat.
2. He got Ali run out when well set.
3. He got himself out to the last ball of the day.
The Aussies will be praying he retains the captaincy. He has the gravitas of bambi.[/QUOTE]
What a bizarre post.
There are certain issues as regards Alastair Cook’s captaincy, but you’ve touched on none of them.
Cook’s correct decision to bat on a flat track in Barbados has what relevance to Australia? Australia went something like 8 and a half years from Ponting’s calamitous decision to field at Edgbaston in 2005 before they had the balls to field first again in a test match after winning the toss - and that was in Melbourne in the 4th test of the 2013/14 Ashes when they were already 3-0 up.
He was out last ball of the day? Well it happens. He was at the crease for 8 hours in the searing Caribbean sun, facing down 368 deliveries.
When Australia are saying their prayers, they might well reflect on the fact that the last time the Ashes was competed for in England two summers ago, with Captain Cook calling the shots for England, Australia failed to win a test in the series, the first time that had happened in an Ashes series since 1977.
Alastair Cook remains the best opening batsman in test cricket. 8687 runs at an average of 46.45, second on the all time list of English run scorers, now just 213 runs behind Graham Gooch.