India A tour of England

[Manee]

Generally, I've been impressed by the knowledge quite a lot of posters on this MB have about WI cricket, even though the Windies are not their first team....

From my experience, West Indies are a lot of people's second team.

 

[Mr Mxyzptlk]

A pretty decent pace prospect from Jamaica. Roseboy might've actually seen him bowl in the flesh - I haven't, but reports are he has a good bit of pace, and has a little bit of height too.

He can also bat a little bit too, which helps. He didn't play much for Jamaica this season, only coming into the side towards the end, but he should feature next season, I'd think.

Pretty sure Xavier talked him up at one point. Not entirely sure though. Anyway, Cozier was talking about him the other day, but only insomuch as he's taking wickets and it should keep pressure on (the woeful & unfit) Rampaul.

 

[Manee]

Scotland forging a recovery against India A, but it looks like India A will secure a win eventually. Stars have been Rahane (108) and Tyagi (3/25).

CricketEurope Scotland Live Scorecard

 

[stumpski]

Or not, as it turned out. Scotland won by one wicket.

Of yesterday's two 'A' team matches, I imagine most people would have tipped Ireland to win rather than Scotland.

 

[Arjun]

Now Pujara scores a ton. He's taken a few risks, but eventually handled the bowlers well. The whole match is covered live on Cricinfo, although no television coverage exists here in India. Hopefully they'll pull one back.

 

[Manee]

Tyagi with one and Kulkarni two, so far. Both got three wickets yesterday and some consistent performance in the OD leg of the tour could catapult either into ODI contention. We need all the pacers we can get in that form of the game.

 

[Manee]

Five for Kulkarni and surely Scotland cannot recover from 127/9 (touch wood). The game has also seen the use of the deliberate double bouncer from Abdulla!

 

[Arjun]

Now West Indies A, led by Devon Smith (104) and Andre Fletcher (88) have raced to 251/5 off 42 overs. India have gone in with four seamers and Sudeep Tyagi has got hammered, as also Jaskaran Singh, who pulled back two wickets. Abhimanyu Mithun has been more economical, with one wicket. The cheapest on show was Iqbal Abdulla, who went for under five, but wicketless.

 

[shivfan]

Fabulous win for the Windies A team!

Smith hit a century, and Fletcher hit 88, to take them to 320-odd from their 50 overs, and then they bowled India out for just 163.

 

[Xuhaib]

why is an India A amd Wi A series taking place in England and why is England A not involved in it?

 

[marc71178]

They are though!

 

[superkingdave]

England 162/4 chasing 255 to win with 20 overs left. Run rate shouldnt be a problem but another wicket would leave us in trouble.

 

[superkingdave]

Loins look set for a big score again today, 172/2 with 20 overs left and Bell on 75*

 

[Scaly piscine]

Bell managed 158 off 143. Shame Davies didn't get a big score, although whatever he does short of inventing some South African roots doesn't seem to be enough to get any sort of proper recognition from England.

 

[Scaly piscine]

Some rare economical bowling from Plunkett has left India A needing 39 off the last 3. However Saj is bowling the next over... starts off with a wide.

 

[Scaly piscine]

13 off the pie chucking numpty, just the wide and a no-ball in that one. 6 overs 0-58.

 

[King Pietersen]

Bopara continues to pick up wickets in these Lions games, he's been on fire with the ball for the Lions, but bowled absolute pie on TV for Essex. Don't know how he's picking up so many wickets.

 

[superkingdave]

343-8 each and a tie, interesting game

 

[Jarquis]

Horrific bowling towards the end there from the Lions. Mainly Saj.

 

[stumpski]

Great game by the sound of it. Pleased to see Darren Stevens making the most of his belated opportunity, even if he never gets a call up for the first team.

And these matches are serving one valuable purpose - destroying any pretension Sajid Mahmood still had as an international cricketer. Has probably slipped behind Plunkett now, if he hadn't already.