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[liscon12]

400 run lead now up, try and get 550 WI

[Mister Le Chiffre]

Curran's bowling is borderline pathetic. He's continually bowling long hops at barely military medium pace. is he not watching what Anderson is doing?

[Mister Le Chiffre]

Fifty for captain Holder, improving all the time

[mo_town]

You know everyone always jumps all over England and never ever gives credit where it's due!

I don't think i have seen 1 post (apologies if i missed it) about actually how well the Windies quicks bowled, they were brilliant, genuine pace, mixed with proper line and length and just enough movement etc... and then went for the throat when we were down.

Yes of course we should probably have picked Broad

Yes of course we should have batted better

But if you look at it for a second Hetymer was dropped on 3 (i think it was), take 78 runs off the WI score and it's barely 200 - maybe a lot less than that considering the partnership with Chase. Completely different game walking out to bat then.

All i am saying is can we just for once give some credit to the oppo etc...

The no.3 Test nation getting battered by the no.9 ranked team...I think that deserves getting jumped all over.

[Seniorplayer]

Windies 196 for 6 already and in  control looks like a theres rain break soon

[mo_town]

Fifty for captain Holder, improving all the time

Holder deserves that spot in the Test team of the year XI. He has been the lone shining light for the Windies with bat and ball.

[csnew]

Holder deserves that spot in the Test team of the year XI. He has been the lone shining light for the Windies with bat and ball.

They put his stats with the ball yesterday 35 wickets at 15s!

[rickjames]

A reminder that the selection panel thought two spinners was going to be a good idea

[Bats_Entertainment]

Curran's bowling is borderline pathetic. He's continually bowling long hops at barely military medium pace. is he not watching what Anderson is doing?

We've all been watching what Jimmy Anderson does for years. Doesn't mean we can get anywhere close to being able to do it.

[Mister Le Chiffre]

Holder going into overdrive

[rickjames]

[Bats_Entertainment]

CBF great / pathetic loop.

[csnew]

Shows how poor Sri Lanka really were allowing these two spinners to take wickets

holder's scored more himself than the entire England side - pitch does look like it's become dead then again at times Windies made it look flat on the first day too

Stokes being bowled into the ground again by root, suppose he's got no other option

[mo_town]

Shows how poor Sri Lanka really were allowing these two spinners to take wickets

holder's scored more himself than the entire England side - pitch does look like it's become dead then again at times Windies made it look flat on the first day too

Stokes being bowled into the ground again by root, suppose he's got no other option

Are you seriously comparing the pitches in SL and WI? The England spinners were brilliant in conditions that suited them. This is poor team selection. Picking two spinners on a pitch like this.

[ppccopener]

Root could bowl 10-15 overs himself rather than risk Stokes who has done a lot of bowling, there's still 2 matches to go and they come quick. It seems we got no options because we cannot put any scoreboard pressure on, it's just damage limitation now, unless it rains monsoon style we are losing this game heavily.

I wonder now if the thinking will be to get another bowler in by changing the keeper, that's the worry if we want two spinners for the next test.

Just on the spinners, Leach is a more line and length defensive bowler than the other two, England talk a lot about new style attacking batting and not just defending but there is a role for that type of batsman and bowler over 5 days.

Just listening to Stewart on Sky saying the role of 1,2,3 is to blunt the new ball, it's an old fashioned phrase and something India did very well beating the Aussies with Pujara the main one doing that role