*Official* Afghanistan vs West Indies 2019

[SillyCowCorner1]

Ahhh, all of that for nothing.

 

[SillyCowCorner1]

Chase on 84...100's on the offfing.

 

[SillyCowCorner1]

Chase giving these guys catching practice, and they are not holding on.

 

[weldone]

It looks like not Asghar Afghan but Shai Hope modelled his batting on Rahul Dravid.

 

[SillyCowCorner1]

Chase into the 90s

 

[SillyCowCorner1]

Chase a victim of the nervous nineties.

 

[SillyCowCorner1]

Good win that. Always a good feeling getting the first win. But we shouldn't be complacent. Same thing happened in the WC campaign for us, and then we all went downhill. This wicket is not a bad one for cricket. Good old fashioned cricket. Whoever wins the toss will be looking to bowl first.

Jason Holder was one of the stars of the show today. Decent debuts for Shepherd and Hayden Walsh Jr. Chase as well, with that test match approach to batting sums up the performance by us.

 

[Beamer]

A surprisingly cerebral performance from us, I was pleasantly surprised.

When I saw how much the ball turned in the 1st innings and how big the ground was I thought it would be a typical 2014-2019 Windies performance with lots of catches in the outfield and poor shot selection. I was delighted to be proven wrong. Chase and Hope played to the situation perfectly.

I also liked how Pollard mixed up the bowling and set attacking fields to new batsmen. That is something Holder hardly ever did. If this bowling attack works out we will have a left arm seamer, a right arm fast bowler, 2 right arm seamers, a leggie an an offie. That is the most balanced attack we've had in ODI cricket for years.

 

[Tom Flint]

Would pollards vast experience in t20s over the years benefit west indies in terms of setting fields and saving runs?

 

[SillyCowCorner1]

Of course yeah. He's played more T20s than than there are degrees in a circle.

 

[Beamer]

Of course yeah. He's played more T20s than than there are degrees in a circle.

Plus he's just more naturally proactive then Jason anyway. Jason is a 'keep doing the same thing if he doesn't think it's broken' type. Hence the lack of innovation in the field or bowling changes during his ODI captaincy.

Pollard will be a better captain in the field, there's no doubt about it. We'll see if he performs well enough to earn his place though.

I am excited to see what Jason Holder will achieve now he is unburdened by captaincy. His bowling today was absolutely superb. I think he can start achieving in ODI's what he has done in tests.

 

[Jack1]

But nobody will base batting style on Asghar

He's closer to Geoffrey Boycott with the occassional boom boom Afridi to catch up on strike rate . A strange mixture, very entertaining to watch bat

 

[SillyCowCorner1]

Still waiting to be stickied...

 

[Sanjay kumar]

Wi bat first

 

[Sanjay kumar]

hetmyer gone

 

[mr_mister]

90's strike rates

 

[Jack1]

5 down 50/50 ball game right now

 

[Jack1]

90's strike rates

It’s a match up for the ages . The way WI have approached the innings they seem to think 220 will be enough ? If they can get there

 

[Beamer]

It’s a match up for the ages . The way WI have approached the innings they seem to think 220 will be enough ? If they can get there

The pitch was pretty bad tbh. Turning a lot and slower balls were very hard to time.

If we bowl half decently we should win comfortably. That's a big if though.

I must say I've enjoyed our approach to batting so far. We've really been found wanting in recent years on pitches like this, but we've played very sensibly.

 

[Jack1]

247 is a good score no doubt. I feel like 220 might be the cut off for Afg. Remains to be seen. Rahmat Shah whilst a good player does enjoy gifting his wicket away, he isn’t ruthless enough.