Cook 11 (28) b Roach Trott 0 (3) c Bravo b Taylor Ballance 10 (46) c Bravo b Holder Bell 143 (256) c Ramdin b Roach Root 83 (133) b Taylor Stokes 79 (95) c Holder b Taylor Tredwell 8 (24) c Bravo b Holder Buttler 0 (22) c Ramdin b Roach Jordan 21* (38) Broad 0 (3) c Blackwood b Roach Anderson 20 (22) c Holder b Samuels
Jonathan Agnew @Aggerscricket 55s55 seconds ago England innings: 34/3. 307/2. 58/5. 2nd highest total ever by a team losing 1st 3 wkts for less than 40 and last 6 wkts for less than 60
Jonathan Agnew @Aggerscricket 55s55 seconds ago England innings: 34/3. 307/2. 58/5. 2nd highest total ever by a team losing 1st 3 wkts for less than 40 and last 6 wkts for less than 60
I reckon Alistair Cook should just play like that. He doesn't have many shots - instead of putting himself under obvious pressure to score more quickly he should just say f**k it, I'm staying in; run rate doesn't matter - and bat like this kid. There's a real certainty to his game
Jonathan Agnew @Aggerscricket 55s55 seconds ago England innings: 34/3. 307/2. 58/5. 2nd highest total ever by a team losing 1st 3 wkts for less than 40 and last 6 wkts for less than 60
I'm sure all the Kent fans on here are getting excited by Tredwell....
At least we have someone to cheer on ;-)
fair point! give it a couple years and the young surrey boys will form the backbone of the side! Burns Sibley Ansari Roy Foakes Curran Dunn Meaker will be all over it!
It is now almost two years and some 60 innings since Cook scored a ton in a Test or ODI.
Still, no doubt he will prove himself to be a modern day Brearley when we come to field.
Judging by his defensive post lunch field placings he ain't no Brearley either.
Dont want to keep on about Cook and his captaincy, but he just drives me crazy - Blackwood is on 99 , never made a Test match century before - and he puts Long Off on the boundary ! Its schoolboy stuff.
Our top three are a real concern. Cook no hundred for 60 innings and almost two years, Trott's performance this Test will do nothing for his confidence and Ballance in the World Cup batted like a rabbit in headlights.
After that we do have the basis of a team but, all the time we're giving the opposition the upper hand at the outset, we are going to be on the back foot.
TBH. i think that Trott has got 2 very good balls to get him out - i have confidence that he'll sort it out, however, with Cook, he has been sussed.The problem being that if Windies have sussed him then certainly Oz will have. This all comes bck to my view that it is very probable that he will have a stinker of a series against NZ, what with Boult and Mclenaghan - all leads to KP coming back as Captain !
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Jordan 20*
Anderson 16*
Anderson loops the part time spinner into the hands of cover for 20.
Jordan finishes 21 n/o.
Cook 11 (28) b Roach
Trott 0 (3) c Bravo b Taylor
Ballance 10 (46) c Bravo b Holder
Bell 143 (256) c Ramdin b Roach
Root 83 (133) b Taylor
Stokes 79 (95) c Holder b Taylor
Tredwell 8 (24) c Bravo b Holder
Buttler 0 (22) c Ramdin b Roach
Jordan 21* (38)
Broad 0 (3) c Blackwood b Roach
Anderson 20 (22) c Holder b Samuels
1-1 (Trott: 0.5ovs), 2-22 (Cook: 8ovs), 3-39 (Ballance:16.5ovs), 4-211 (Root; 63.2ovs), 5-341 (Bell, 89ovs), 6-357 (Stokes: 95.2ovs), 7-357 (Tredwell: 98.1ovs), 8-361 (Buttler: 101.6ovs), 9-361 (Broad; 103.3ovs), 10-399 (Anderson; 110.4ovs)
England innings: 34/3. 307/2. 58/5. 2nd highest total ever by a team losing 1st 3 wkts for less than 40 and last 6 wkts for less than 60
Braithwaite 21*
Samuels 4*
Smith caught behind off Anderson for 11 and Bravo caught behind off Jordan for 10.
Braithwaite 39*
Chanderpaul 4*
Samuels caught behind off Broad for 33.
Compare that to Benn's figures of 26-3-85-0
194-5 after 80 overs and new ball being taken
227-6
Treders the pick of the bowlers with impressive figures of 26-12-47-4
After that we do have the basis of a team but, all the time we're giving the opposition the upper hand at the outset, we are going to be on the back foot.
He was sussed out a long long time ago and just doesn't know where his off stump is
We have better county players now. I'd go for the Yorkshire openers.