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Off Topic 1st, 2nd & 3rd Test WIndies v England....

Discussion in 'Queens Park Rangers' started by Tramore Ranger, Apr 13, 2015.

  1. Quality Passing Rules

    Quality Passing Rules Well-Known Member

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    Acclaim for Jimmy on equalling Boths record. Will hold it outright by the end of the day probably.
     
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  2. Tramore Ranger

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    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.....
     
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    Botham scored a few more runs though.
     
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    That's true Strolls.......about 2000 or so runs more than Anderson.....
     
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    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?
     
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  6. Hoops Eternal

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    So pleased for Jimmy Anderson, brilliant bowler and great servant to English cricket
     
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    Well done Jimmy. Plesure to watch.
     
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    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.
     
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    Great innings by Holder.
     
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    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.
     
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    A little harsh, there was nothing in that pitch for the bowlers
     
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    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.
     
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    It's a lot easier for the batsmen when they don't have to worry about scoring runs
     
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  14. Quality Passing Rules

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    I was about to make the same point. Not enough in that wicket for bowling.
     
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    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.
     
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    Yeah right. The pitch was so easy Cook and Trott scored 28 between them in two innings.
     
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  17. Hoops Eternal

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    That was a very flat track and they are two very out of sorts batsmen
     
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  18. littleDinosaurLuke

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    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.
     
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    How about giving the Windies credit for a battling draw?
     
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    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.
     
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