Pathetic from the Windies, truly truly abject, some of those dismissals.....devon smith playing round a straight one ffs. I feel really let down for some reason, had high hopes for them this series. Feels weird having test cricket this early in England, it's still football season (as much as I dislike chelsea and love barca the blues were robbed last night)! In general the batsmen have been abysmal this test from both sides, Bopara obviously the stand out but even he had a huge let off on 40, the pitch is a belter, the outfield lightning, no extravagant swing (especially considering the time of year) or spin on offer. The Windies may well have helped Australia here, England are going to stick with Onions for a while after this, he's gonna get mauled by the Aussies. How the hell Swann is returning such figures is beyond me, he's just a steady offy! Doesn't even bowl a doosra ffs (which for an international offie is sort of expected these days). Thought Anderson was good in patches, he's improved a lot, just needs to get more consistency, he's been injury free for a while now, he has to start making it count.
); he was bowling around 86mph and the ball was skidding through, some shape away from the batters, but nothing really to trouble them.
