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One is sure better than the other.

In reply to Raggs

England are running a whole lot more runs that West Indies did. It is the difference in this game.
All bowlers except Stoke were slaughtered here.
We were about 30-40 short with Gayle not being able to run quick singles and doubles.
His strike rate needed to be much higher in the end to make up for that.

In reply to WIForever

Glad you observed that.

In reply to WIForever

Gayle mek ah 100 and we complian bout the man....instead blame the fellas who failed at bat like Pooran & Hetty....

I seem to remember this happened to Shiv of recent times.

Wait till Gayle fails the next match.....

we go lose by a WORSE margin than today.... SMH

Gayle needs to turn over the strike while he is getting his eye in.And run for others to keep the scoreboard moving.

Some of us here are really illogical. We made our highest score against England (360) in ODI and we are blaming slow start. If our bowlers cannot defend 360 then we are hopeless. Slow start was a means to the end. And a good ending I might add.

In reply to jaba

That fast start took the pressure off the other batsmen. All of sudden 360 didn't look so far away.

In reply to Raggs

So if you think logically:

(i) 360 was defendable...no?

(ii) England made a fast start.

(iii) It means our opening bowlers let us down and generally we must have bowled poorly.

I remember something like this happening to us in the last World Cup.

Hindsight we should have tried to contain them upfront than attack for wickets.Strangle those wickets off them.

In reply to Raggs

Now your eyes are opened. 360 on any ground is defendable with a couple decent bowlers being economically. This had nothing to do with slow start. We barely batted 50 pvers.

We could get a fast start if Simmons and Campbell open,Gayle to bat at number 4,a fast start is what every team is capable of in recent times,we used to be like that,not anymore.

In reply to RemainsUnknown

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We happy he make a hundred, but we not rotating the strike enough. but a strike rate of 109, 42 overs faced, and mucho dot balls needs improving.
I tired of hearing that we can hit sixes. Hit sixes and run singles will add another 30 to 50 runs.
Imagine the score if we hit all these sixes with the same amount of dot balls as england. That is 400 runs.
That is the reason for england scoring 300 plus runs so often

In reply to jaba
Yes 360 is defendable but we could put more runs on the board if we have less dot balls.

In reply to number09

Any team batting first would have taken 360 at the toss. This is the joint third highest total chased in ODI. What do have to put on the board that our bowlers can defend?

In reply to Raggs

We played lousy and lost 121 dot balls???
Dropped catches,poor bowling, lousy fielding Pooran, Holder etc didn't bat well

But it still took the Pommies over 48 overs to win

You guys really speak a lot of crap. Gayle as your opener makes 135, at a strike rate over a 100 and your complaining?

So what, the team doesn't have any other batsman or bowlers?

In reply to don1

Thank you.