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Alviro Patterson wrote:

Aidan11 wrote:This seems to be going nowhere.

Get Root on!

Might be worth a go.

Apart from Anderson's early spell , the batsmen have looked reasonably comfortable. A few things nearly happening for Stokes ; but I'm having trouble seeing a wicket coming here. Moeen not looking likely - perhaps the Root option might be worth a spin...

Have to say the odds on a draw are shortening.

Bring back Tredders.

Rashid will be into the early part of his decent one and a half spells out of four soon...


...all will be well...

So if England don't get a result here, how can they strengthen the batting further?

yuppie wrote:So if England don't get a result here, how can they strengthen the batting further?

Anyone for Broad!

Also nice to see the WI batters going along at a nice run rate above 3 an over.

Gingerfinch wrote:

yuppie wrote:So if England don't get a result here, how can they strengthen the batting further?

Anyone for Broad!

He's no longer a all rounder, so they should bring one in to replace him

Arthur Crabtree wrote:Last year, Broad scored 255 runs at 28.3, with a highest score of 47.

seems like a long time since he got off the mark

As in 2009, the West Indies pitches are absolutely shocking. No wonder people are being turned off test cricket when boards are prepared to put up with dross like this. Bar a collapse in the first test in 2009 we could be looking at a 6th tepid draw in a row.

Is it just me or is Test cricket generally dull nowadays? I think South Africa v Australia is the only series I've enjoyed in the last year.

dan08 wrote:Is it just me or is Test cricket generally dull nowadays? I think South Africa v Australia is the only series I've enjoyed in the last year.

i would be in favour of making tests four days and playing on pitches that offer the bowlers much more assistance, whether it be for the fast bowlers or the spinners

a game dominated by the ball is always much better than one dominated by the bat

Sky's sycophantism over Cook is becoming rather laughable, "You can't question the imagination of the England captain"?

Knight adds to the nonsense, praising Cook for his extra cover when Bravo was caught off an edge from a forward defense.

Are they on commision for the number of times they can try and convince us Cook is a half decent skipper?

dan08 wrote:Is it just me or is Test cricket generally dull nowadays? I think South Africa v Australia is the only series I've enjoyed in the last year.

No it's not just you, I'm sure that the number of test loving fans across the world are extremely, extremely, most extremely a minority. Doesn't help though when captains don't know when to declare.

England should have set themselves up to take the second new ball for maybe 5 overs before stumps today. There lies your problem. I don't recall seeing any commentators even rumour at the thought.

To finish the day with 75 overs bowled and to my knowledge no one has even considered that targeting 85 overs might have been a good idea is just flabbergasting, and has been more than enough to dig my way out of my hibernation. Geez it's still cold though.