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England chose to field

Anderson opens the bowling
Brathwaite 1*

First runs four for Mikyle Louis and now a nice drive fi another four

9/0

Windies will do well to make 150 under conditions with these rookies!!

Up and down fi Paint

Four more legbyes
Supingle fi Paint
16/0 from 2

In reply to Chrissy

WI playing Bazball.
16 off the first 2 overs

In reply to Chrissy

Change dat score! You want to give me heart attack so early in de morning?

17/0 from 4

Four fi Mikyle
22/0

24/0 from 7
Kraig 4*
Mikyle 14*

27/0 from 8

Pretty windy here at Lords.
Guys holding on

Sweet Mikyle siiiix
Moves to 22*
34/0 from 10


You belong mi youth

In reply to anansi

So far so good

In reply to Chrissy

Jinxed it.

Claataaax Paint
b Atkinson 6

Atkinson’s 2nd ball in test cricket
34/1

Really not sure what Brathwaite was trying to do there

In reply to WICFan

Half hearted attempt at a shot

Wi jet/maiden fi newbie Atkinson
34/1 from 11

Not out yuh tiefing umpire

McKenzie looking like the left-handed version of Paint.

Kirk gawn fi 1

36/2

Not very smart by Mc Kenzie. Ball starting to move around and a big booming drive. Dumb cricket

38/2 from 16

Mckenzie shojld have been 13 th man

40/2 from 17

In reply to Chrissy

16/2 to 40/0

In reply to velo

Foe the manner of dismissal yeah

In reply to ray

Just swap de runs and de wickets!

In reply to ray
LOL. Corrected

Oh skites. - fourrr

In reply to culpepperboy
Nah 1st wicket fell at 34

44/2 from 20

Difficult pitch to bat on.

In saying that Kraig and Kirk both threw away their wickets.

44/3
Louis gone

Damn can they even get to 150

Mikyle Louis ct Brook b Stokes 27 (58b)
45/3

In reply to velo

Try batting out there. Every ball has your name on it.

Four fi Hodge
50/3 from 24

In reply to WIForever

Yes that is why you cant give your wickets away like the first two wickets

In reply to Chrissy

250 is a good score.

Hodge looking quite positive.

Guys nervy nervy...

Pretty green bunch o lads but they are ours.

Fellas like they fraid to move their feet ...dont they trust the pitch?

In reply to powen001

Entirely correct

Four fi Hodge
61/2 from 27
One over to lunch

61/3 at Lunch
Hodge 12*
Athanaze 8*

England's session

Lunch
Athanaze 8*
Hodge 12*
61/3

Atkinson 2: Stokes 1

In reply to Chrissy

What are your assessments thus far?

Nicely played - four and four Athanaze

73/3 now

In reply to InHindsight

Difficult batting conditions in the 1sr session but I think Louis belongs. Kirk is no longer playing his natural game and has not adjusted well.
Paint is Paint- one day I’ll tell allyuh why that is so and how I knew it from early.
I hope Hodge and Athanaze can bat for the rest of the day. Pitch looks easier for batting with the ball getting older.

82/3 from 32

Lovely - four

88/3
Sensible batting now

In reply to Chrissy

very much so

the break did them well.

In reply to Chrissy

I think it's fair. Athanaze and Hodge could give come confidence for batters to come. Mc Kenzie I thought could have been a little more watchful early on

Oh skites
Atkinson strikes
Allick gawn fi 23

Holder gawn fi a golden duck
Atkinson has four now
88/5

Athanaze gone...but I see some promise ...

That was a good ball...

should he have left it?

thought it was too good a ball and the bowler won.

Tell me some on Jason's dismissal, shouldn't you present the full face as much as possible when ball moving around laterally?

In reply to powen001

Powen yuh goatmout!!

In reply to Chrissy

Damn..Holder gone first ball....

sheeeeeeeeet

In reply to culpepperboy

After the fact Goat mouth??

tell me how

In reply to powen001

You watching dis ting on a 10 min delay or what?

In reply to InHindsight
Well I sure got that wrong
Fiver fi Atkinson on debut.
Da Silva fi a quack quack too.

88/6

Windies try to rain on Anderson's parade but Atkinson had other ideas

In reply to powen001

Who was it that said: "the break did them well"?

In reply to culpepperboy

only getting it on Flow..

I will go search on MCTV ...FLOW is almost 2 minutes behind...

Atkinson 5 fer...

the Experienced men aint stannin up to the bowling at all ..sigh.
88/6

In reply to InHindsight

Can you rain on Ander's sun or Atkin's sun?

Is WI too tentative?

I said it holder is now a tailender and should not be batting this high in the order.

In reply to velo

What about DaSilva? Where should he be batting?

I did.

But the facts remain.

they had a very good resumption...attititude and application...

but alas...

That debutant fast bowler certainly has a catchy cricket name, Gus Atkinson.

Hope he is not just another one-hit wonder.

What a collapse.

In reply to powen001

...as I said, goatmout.

In reply to culpepperboy

7 down now...doth it make sense to switch to see it faster?

Some good fielding too

In reply to powen001

Don't worry. We got this!
England will be 6 down by the close of play.

In reply to Chrissy

What a collapse cricket

In reply to culpepperboy

Glorious test cricket!

Incomparable.

100 up - straight drive, three fours from AlJo
100/7

In reply to powen001

Why you think they sent we in?
They frighten for we bowlers!
We just got to get 150+ and it is game on!

Four more
104/7

In reply to Chrissy

Atkinson swinging de ball, Alzarri swinging de bat!!

AlJo doing what he does best. Bat.

AlJo gawn
106/8

7/38 on debut
Nine down.
Ah wah du

In reply to culpepperboy

Sarcasm right lol

No worries. We just have to recalibrate. We need 8 wickets by close of play instead of 6.

88/3 to 106/9

Leh we see our bowling now

In reply to Chrissy

well i assume we will be sending for Hope, Bravo and Hetmyer lol

at least ,,,100 up

Jason Holder strikes again!

121/10

well at least the sun is out now at Lords
Good vibes at Lords
Two GT brethren sitting behind me, one of whom I went to primary and secondary school with
Small world

WI 20/20 team was making more runs than the Test team (in half the overs)

In reply to powen001

Not showin on Flow in Grenada

Wickets my side

Debutants showed they belong. Changing of the template to a new generation of test cricketers for WI. Some inspirational leadership will help this relatively young team in the future.

Alzari sending down heat 92mls./hr.

Seales 140k too not bad!

The t20 squad woulda make more than this bunch

11/0 from 4

Not Gawn - dropped srewwwps. - no ball too blow wow

2 chances now....first the runout and now that catch. Stewwwwps

Dropped - need to take those at this time in the match

googley

Lack of proper match cricket clearly evident here.

Totally different pitch when we bowl.

In reply to WIForever

England would have been 2 down if those chances were taken.

Sealessssssssssssssssss!!!

Wicket

In reply to Prako

Phew

Three more now

Tea
30/1

In reply to SnoopDog

I mean literally. Seam movement and swing so much less.

Where's the crowd?

And then we complain that people in the WI don't come out and watch cricket (anymore).

There you go AlJo, show them what you're made of!

52/1
Wickets allyuh

In reply to Drapsey

Like you watching the W.I legends game?

Another two-day test in the making.

Star must be grinning from ear to ear.

Leh we go Shamar - wickets

In reply to Ridge

My apologies. They showed an empty section during the lunch break, and I thought that was a true representation of the entire Lords.

Just got a different view, and the place looked packed.

There you go Shamar, show them what you made of.

In reply to Bamboocane

Shamar looks to be down in pace.

Most of these guys look seriously short of proper match practice.

In reply to SnoopDog

let the man loosen up a bit nuh...has not played in a while

In reply to ray

Isn't that what I wrote?

In reply to SnoopDog

I believe i heard announcer say the pitch was a bit slow and better for swing bowlers when WI was batting.

Holder is bowling well

In reply to Bamboocane

AlJo was in the 90 mph range for most of his spell.

Shamar is mostly in the 87-88 mph in this spell. Contrast that with his spells in Oz where he was in 90-95 mph range.

In reply to SnoopDog

You figet Holder hitting an astonishing 78 mph?

Bad light Phew

In reply to Chrissy

On vacation...just checking in
Same old same old

Licks like peas

In reply to Kay

That's his natural pace these days.

In reply to SnoopDog

Seeing Shamar in Australia, I was really anticipating this England series. I thought WI had a real bowling gem on their in their team. So far I am not seeing that in this inning…hope he is not a one match wonder. got to wait and see.

In reply to birdseye

To be fair he didn't have any red ball bowling in months until THIS match.

His flight to England was delayed because of the hurricane so he didn't get to bowl in the solitary warm-up game before the first Test.

He and most of the team are showing just how rusty they are from lack of red ball match practice.

Pope lbw Holder for 57

England 123-2

In reply to Chrissy

De Pope gawn

In reply to mikesiva

I am not watching
What happened to Motie
Why is he not bowling?

England in the lead already, the WI needed another warm-up match, their bowling is inconsistent in length

In reply to dayne

Only rain can save WI in this Test.

A two for one is almost a certainty.

In reply to Narper

too early yet for spin

In reply to ray

Partnership over a 100...why not try spin
Same tuckery Hokder used to do to Bishoo

In reply to Narper

Your guess is as good as mine....

Maybe Kraigg feels the Lords wicket isn't ready for spin on the first day.

Seales gets his second wicket. Crawley yorked for 76.

come on

1 or 2 more today

Shamar down.

... and back up. Good.

In reply to Drapsey

Shamar goes off the field...bad.

New ball yet?

England ahead by 68

need an inspired spell in the morning , Alzharri?

Early 2 wickets will be perfect

Bad batting day for the WI, the most experience batters let the team down, Kraigg, Holder and DaSilva only made 6 runs between them

In reply to Narper
Figured something was up.
Enjoy

In reply to Chrissy

Went to do my volunteer thing at 6.30 a.m after watching a few overs and Louis debut but
missed everything ...we having a serious heat wave and other volunteers took off leaving
a few to soldier on.

But I am not surprised at all about the day's play.. the players are under cooked and mostly
playing without proper match preparation for what is a totally different cricket
environment.
To be honest ,they did better than I thought they would by scoring121.
Improvement will come after they experience some more rough treatment .
Won't be able to watch much tomorrow either so all I can say is good luck to all
and don't suffer too much . WI aint serious about this game. Players deserve much better

Blame the selectors. To send these youngsters that not even making runs in regional cricket to England where one cloud can make the difference in your time at the crease is criminal. They could at least put a different thought process into how they go about selecting this team.

Aljo was very dissapointing

In reply to carl0002

It's worrying that batsmen 3-6 all average under 30 in Test cricket.

This morning, north London has blue sky and sunshine. A good day for batting.

Unfortunately!

Brook gets his half century...and out!

England 244-4

Brook c da Silva b Alzarri 50

If the Pommies want a repeat of the (last) Lords 2-day test against the WI, they should declare now with that 123 lead.

Phew - a Wicket






Come allyuh

Clataaax
Great ball Motie
Five down
254/5

Motie once again proving his worth.

Wickets ain't falling like flies but playing a holding role and keeping the batsmen honest


In hindsight who would have been the better pick in this 11, him or Sinclair.

PS
I do have Sinclair as a cricketer

Every over our bowlers except Motie, bowl one or more boundary balls. The patience and discipline is just not there

In reply to InHindsight

And again.

And VC AlJo has gotten his ton.

Big up!

In reply to Drapsey

A magnificent ton by Aljo

In reply to Drapsey

Can these runs be used for my FL points?

This Gus Atkinson guy is having some kind of a debut.

7-fer followed by a quack. Wow!

Want a debut half-ton, call wi!

Good going young Smith!

This Bashir guy going after Runako Morton's record or what?

Now 17 dot balls and counting.

Let's goo team
Good way to finish the innings
a Run out and a good catch.

Now Let's come out and bat a lot better and put a positive run out there

just imagine, yea imagine...if we scored 250ish

we need to bat better
the bowlers trying

In keeping with rumshop logic, time to drop Seales. He didn't take 5, 6, or 7 wkts

Watch Braithwaite play for a draw, where is Tage when we need him?

Windies have to score at least 600 runs to have chance!

Alyuh hear that stat.

Kraig averages 16 from the last 14 tests.

Louis trying to be more more positive. Whether or not he scores its encouraging to see he's making adjustments. That's good enough for me. He looks like one fore the future

Time for us to move on from Braffi, lol
De man can't score now

Man don't push forward. If he pushed forward it would have wrapped him outside the line. Crap technique.

In reply to carl0002

Who making runs in regional cricket that should've been there?

I don't knwo but it's liek these guys are told to be passive cause look how they batting so negative.

Elementary mistake by Mc Kenzie. Keep it simple

If there is lateral movement, present the full face of the bat. Don't play through the line

Now Louis gone blocking again. I don't mind being out to an attacking shot cause you're trying to score runs. You have to be positive or not go out there.

4 Down.

WI playing like they want to lose this match inside 2 days

And Hodge gone
yeah this stest is finishing today, we won't make 100.
At least we give Jimmy Anderson a good way to bow out. Man aint' even had to play for 5 days.
I believe in everything you do you got to go out there and be positive. The way how they are playing this negative type cricket like you are trying to block your way to a draw is crazy and will not make the game interesting
You have the bowlers who toiled and then the batsmen coming in being negative.

In reply to positiveg

Well Hodge tried that and played on

In reply to Prako

yeah really negative cricket by the batsman, seems like that's the gameplan but out by the coaches. Because everyone from Captain, Louis was ok then Alick started blocking then like he forgot hit 3 nice 4's then remembers the gameplan gone back to blocking and prodding.

In reply to Prako

Is not Hodge fault...the other batsmen just so damn negative, that Hodge was forced to give it a go

In reply to ray

No disgrace to Hodge for that dismissal.

Poor execution though

For the sake of WI cricket I just want to see Anthanze get some runs under his belt asap

Deficit under 200 now.

1 hour to go to stumps

In reply to VIX
You would know that better than I, chances are this is the best of the lot but that's not really the point. I also said selectors could have put a different thought process into how they go about putting this team together, rather than put these youngsters in a situation to rely on a hope and prayer and potentially ruined. Just watch and see how some people will refer to these batsmen when this is over.

In reply to InHindsight

Another inning of 20-something

5 down

what an easy out Athanaze, no need whatsoever to play. was he watching holder though a righthander and different angles?

In reply to carl0002

It seems these youngsters lose concentration once they get into the 20s.

Athanaze out to Anderson for 22, chasing a wide one that he should've left alone.

WI 55-5

Atha Ganga

Is Alzharri watching how to be consistent and build pressure?

Mini Nelson
55/5

In reply to mikesiva

its that they have to work much, much harder to get to 20 than what they're used to.

1000 Test Runs for DaSilva

Holder out with 2 balls remaining in the day's play which ensures this is the last ball of the day

79/6

DaSilva 8*

WI trail by 171

Easy out for Holder too. You have padding all over just let that ne hit yuh since you think you shouldn't duck or lean since it reared from not very short a length.

Now back to watching tennis.

With this match poised to finish within the 1st Session tomorrow, they might still get a sell out crowd as it will be Anderson's last hour of cricket.

Views from Test Match Special today

Sir Alastair Cook
Someone needs to take hold of Test cricket in the West Indies as a leader and take control. Give us three years, give us X amount of players to work with.

It might be impossible, the infrastructure might not be there, but they need some identity as a team. They beat Australia at the Gabba, nobody ever does that. There is clearly something there. But they just need someone, I think, some inspiration.

I wasn't the most attacking batter but I knew that if the ball was in my area, I could find the boundary. They are lacking the confidence to do that.

They haven't got much experience in Test cricket so it's that ability to play a long innings, the discipline that it takes.


Carlos Brathwaite
They are averaging 30 in first-class cricket, you need players averaging 45. I think players need to hold themselves to higher accountability.

But I think Mikyle Louis has showed potential on debut, he is in his first year of playing first-class cricket and is all of a sudden at Lord's playing against James Anderson. It is not comparable to Jamie Smith who has played for years at Surrey and had that exposure.

Let's not kid ourselves with talk of belief in this Test. There are two Tests to look at now and salvage some pride from. They have been outclassed here and that's the way to look at it, it's an opportunity to show some fight.

It’s been disappointing, I’m sure a lot of West Indies fans would have been up early watching or listening. There needs to be a little more resilience, put a price on those wickets.


Michael Vaughan
West Indies are all over the place. It is so sad to see a batting line-up that's got nothing. They are up against a very good bowling attack including the greatest of all time but it upsets me. The pitch has done a little bit but it's not a pitch you should lose 16 wickets on in the space of two days.

I do fear for the West Indies. There is little substance in their batting, very little experience once Kraigg Brathwaite is out. There doesn't seem to be much of a plan from West Indies' batters, they are just sitting.

I don’t think most West Indies fans will de devastated by this performance, they were hoping for something from the youngsters ala Shamar Joseph in Australia but it was always gonna be tough.
Between the lack of vision from the administration and not enough application from the players when the opportunity is presented, we fans have ceased to be disappointed but continue to be hopeful

In reply to jacksparrow

True!

Overcast this morning, and chilly in north London. It's 15 Celsius now, so not great conditions for batting.

Just a matter of time....

Anderson gets rid of da Silva...WI 88-7

Alzarri out now...Atkinson gets his 10th in the match. WI 96-8

In reply to mikesiva

Alzarri out? Did you mean he gifted his wicket.
Not a great look especially for a VC

In reply to Mustwin


Shamar bowled by Atkinson for three...WI 103-9.

Nine down
Pathetic

Shamar out

In reply to jacksparrow
Sad but true. I celebrate the rare victories but understand reality.
The entire region has been structurally adjusted.

Dropped - return catch by Anderson off Motie

In reply to Acid
Anderson dropped de series?

Motie onto the top score

In reply to Acid

Atkinson finishes with another five-fer.

Innings defeat.

In reply to culpepperboy

Torched passes to Atkinson for his second 5 wicket haul on Debut

In reply to mikesiva

And that ends WI’s poor test

What a ting - Motie has di highest score in both innings.

In reply to Chrissy

only player to cross 30

it was a bad batting show

we must do better

I personally have enjoyed watching James Anderson swing that cricket ball and work batters out.
Cricket fans have been blessed.

Well, normality has been restored to CW. It's a big pity.