5th Test - West Indies v England, Queen's Park Oval, Port of Spain Trinidad

[IanG]

For discussion of the 5th Test of the series at Port Of Spain Trinadad

England have won the toss and will bat first

England Line Up: AJ Strauss(c), OA Shah, AN Cook, KP Pietersen, PD Collingwood, MJ Prior(WK), SCJ Broad, JM Anderson, GP Swann, MS Panesar, A Khan

West Indies Line Up: CH Gayle(c), DS Smith, RR Sarwan, LMP Simmons, RO Hinds, S Chanderpaul, BP Nash, D Ramdin(WK), DBL Powell, FH Edwards, LS Baker

 

[eddiesmith]

2 absolutely awesome bowling lineups there :lol:

 

[NK Arsenal]

2 absolutely awesome bowling lineups there :lol:

:lol:

Where is Jerome Taylor?

Who the f**k are Swan and Kahn?

 

[IanG]

:lol:

Where is Jerome Taylor?

Who the f**k are Swan and Kahn?

Graeme Swann England spinner

Amjit Khan a fast bowler. Born in Denmark of all places obviously of Pakistani heritage

 

[Earl]

Andrew Strauss 3 consecutive hundreds. England 2/259 after the first day.

 

[hineyrulz]

England need to win this test, and only scoring 260 2 down shows their thinking.....

 

[IanG]

Wonder if this could degenerate into another draw.

 

[TheParraboy]

poms playing an extra bowler, WI an extra batsman

something tells me the WI wont be declaring no matter what first inning lead they may get, lol

 

[hineyrulz]

poms playing an extra bowler, WI an extra batsman

something tells me the WI wont be declaring no matter what first inning lead they may get, lol

Nope, the Windies will take a series win no matter how boring. Not good for the spectators but a good morale booster for the Windies....

 

[Goey Man]

Stumps Day 2
ENG 546/6 dec
WIN 92/1
Gayle 49n.o. from 62 balls

 

[simmo1]

Nope, the Windies will take a series win no matter how boring. Not good for the spectators but a good morale booster for the Windies....

Looks like they just gave the ball to their part-timers. f**king pathetic.

 

[TheParraboy]

WI 4/349

Gayle retired hurt 100
Nash 70*

Poms need early wickets day 4 to have a decent crack, otherwise WI will win the series imo

 

[TheParraboy]

not sure why poms havent declared yet, they need to give WI a good chance to win, otherwise they will just defend till its a draw.

Poms 5/221 - lead 223 close to lunch final day

 

[pnub]

A fair amount of reverse swing in a little over 20 overs from the Poms i wonder if someone has a mouth full of mints again.

 

[IanG]

Finished in a Draw. So the Windies finally win a test series.

 

[eddiesmith]

not sure why poms havent declared yet, they need to give WI a good chance to win, otherwise they will just defend till its a draw.

Poms 5/221 - lead 223 close to lunch final day

They would have defended to a draw no matter what the target

The only question was how many overs did England need, obviously they needed alot more than they could get