Cricket

Hell mend them then!

Geoffrey Boycott

"I wasn't so thrilled with the batting, especially after the way Jimmy Anderson had bowled. I thought 300 was OK, nothing special.

I thought we'd make 400 and get a decent lead. It wasn't only disappointing, it was embarrassing."

The best laid plans of mice and men...

why do they have a pitch that was only fit to last a 20/20 game?

makes a farce of test cricket

the good news is at least England have gained access to the secret board

:)

just wait until they have to face JHYE

JHYE
JHYE
JHYE

The LOLz continue...

This is brutal. I imagine this is the end of Rashid for a while.

Leach should obviously have played tbh

did SV mean they'll find a way to lose the series? even that has to be in doubt at this point, although they will have an extremely angry stuart broad to contend with

this is kind of glorious murder meanwhile

England win this series 2-1. My brother pointed out this morning that the lack of regard these cunts pay to the first test in every series is immoral

why do they have a pitch that was only fit to last a 20/20 game?

Some 20/20 game this is from WI.

229 and counting for the 7th wicket, no. 7 batsman on the verge of a century, 150 already up for the no. 8 bat. The pitch is a ruddy disgrace.

WI contrive to lose...the fifth day

Another comedy collapse. 8 for 60 for Roston Chase, who didn't even get a bowl in the 1st innnings!

Shane Warne's best ever Test performance was 8 for 71, a dibbly-dobbly part-time non-spinning spinner has just topped that.

The English top 6 are worse than any English side of the 90s. Roots batting has been awful since becoming captain

Anyone think the windies will even need to bat again in this test?

I think they will need to bat again, but whether they need 50, 120 or 200, we shall see...

Bairstow out so probably 50. England have their problems but remember that they beat the world no. 1 side 4-1 not so long ago.

they beat the odd team in the 90s too

beating Sri Lanka 3-0 in Sri Lanka wasn't bad either. No shame in losing overseas to what is a good WI team, and no reason for doom and gloom

A good WI team? Have you told Geoffrey Boycott?

G Boycott should keep his mouth shut

It seemed to have the desired effect on the WI team - though not the effect Boycott would have wanted.

This series is a pasting for the ages

the WI are not a good side but they have a better attitude. The 20/20 players fucked off.
The English players just want to play like KP and they are being found out. England needs some players in the top 4 who can just dig in and lay a foundation for the flair players like Bairstow, Buttler (as keeper and at 7) and stokes.

Funniest thing I've seen in years.

Disappointed it took the Windies so long to knock off the runs tbh.

the collapse is on and Root looks mentally shot. Captaincy is ruining him.

Butler dropped on 0

Hetmyer had that catch all the way

It's kinda hard to imagine Butler punishing them innit. I like him a lot and think he should be keeping and batting at 7 with Bairstow @5 but you know he's going to slash at another one soon enough.

This is a hugely important innings for Root. Captains need to be able to score big tons when the team is struggling.

And Root fails out before tea

a good day for England. Root is just out of touch, I don't think it's the captaincy.

I switched the tv off when stokes was c&b as i was feeling a bit dizzy and just found out he got a reprieve!

Why don't umpires look and give no-balls like how they did for a hundred odd years?

it was a very close call, impossible for the on-field umpire to call I think. Stokes played really well today.

wrap mark wood up in cotton wool please. Dont overbowl him. 5 over spells.

There's nothing quite like a fast bowler bowling at 95MPH, eh?
Neil S said it watching Mitchell Johnson in Sydney a few years ago in the Ashes.

I grew up in an era when the Windies had 4 of them and a conveyor belt behind them waiting.

Anyone remember Geoff Thomas? He was seriously fast for England.

he's just got another one! Amazing

This is proper. WI can't handle it.

It does need to be said that Brathwaite started the collapse with maybe the worst shot a Test captain has ever played

Don't break yersel, Mark!

xp

since KP?

Broad! What a catch!

WICKET!
Broad follows that with a superb one-handed catch to dismiss Joseph and Windies are nine down:

📺 Watch #WIvENG live: https://t.co/4QkdTP8h6H
📰 Live blog: https://t.co/bsJpoMqm0B pic.twitter.com/p9yXYSx4W7

— Sky Sports Cricket (@SkyCricket) February 10, 2019

Wood gets his fifth

154ao