There wickets/test match ratio are fairly similar, Botham took 102 tests and Anderson is playing his 100th....... 68 overs left to get the last 6 wickets.....
Spent quite a few weeks out in the WI back in the 90s following England - its a real laugh. Before i started work proper of course (and pre-wife and kids). Where did it all go wrong?
Yes well done jimmy & I applaud holder for a battling display of defiance & deserved ton, but with our attack we should have seen them off.
Cook should have declared sooner. Another 15 overs in the field might have made a difference - psychologically at least. But if you can't bowl them out in 130 overs, you don't deserve to win. They bowled nothing to unsettle Holder - he's a no.8 batsman; he must have some weakness.
Maybe, but I didn't see a plan for Holder, as well as he played. The short ball might have troubled him or it might have sat up to be smacked about - but either way it would have presented some risk to his wicket. He had it very easy.
You're both probably right. After all, this is the pitch where Lara scored 775-1 v England on his own. It's just disappointing as England's side is vastly superior. Only Taylor and Chanderpaul would have any chance of a mention in a combined XI. Maybe Ramdin as he's a better 'keeper and more experienced.
Yeah, my point exactly! Cook's in some bad form and Lyth deserved his chance - and as an attacking opening batsman, he was what England needed to gain time in the game. If the Windies had had to bat another 20 overs the result might have been different - but maybe not.
My comments were a statement of fact not an attempt to detract anything from what you quite rightly point out was a battling display from the W Indies. Trott and Cooke managed a whopping 28 runs between them in the entire match, if that isn't out of sorts then I don't know what is. And surely you can't deny that if that pitch had a bit more life in it then England would have won the match.