superkingdave
Hall of Fame Member
Haha yeah, normally wouldn't really care about what happened in these ODI's too much, but with Sammy being such a **** it's quite enjoyable
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*Official* England in West Indies
- Thread starter Richard
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zaremba
Cricketer Of The Year
Yes mate - I've supported England all my life through thick and thin. And it's almost always been thin. I'm happy to enjoy the good times when they happen, which isn't very often.
As for Windies being a better team than England, well they looked pretty closely matched in both the Test and ODI series. I suspect that in the return series in England your boys will struggle badly. We shall see. In the meantime, cling on to whatever you can.
Dyson scrwed this up for the windies and also the last game had it gone the full distance who knows.. anyway.. Windies making some good strides here... Cant play Pollard and Sammy.. Have to bench one of them.
zaremba
Cricketer Of The Year
Nice to have these dilemmas again! I'd drop Sammy on principle after his antics today
Not clinging, we got players you fear. There is no one on the Eng team who makes me worry. During the series, non of the Eng players got going. They only won when WI playes failed, these lucky wins won't happen everyday. When there is no luck, Eng will bowl 10 overs to fidel edwards and darren powell without taking a wicket - thats not true talent.
Sammy is limited with batting and his bowling is Ok. But windies need to drop him and use pollard more as a bowler and get a proper batsman up the order.Nice to have these dilemmas again! I'd drop Sammy on principle after his antics today
four_or_six
Cricketer Of The Year
Think he was more referring to him pick the ball up off the floor and claim he caught it.
zaremba
Cricketer Of The Year
Keep telling yourself that, mate. And when you do it, click your heels together 3 times and say the magic words "there's no place like home" and you'll be magically transported back to the days when you had a bowling attack where your opening bowlers averaged less than 40.
None of them are in the test team.
The last game strauss got caught and was given not out, thats just the type of luck keeping the team alive, but when it's time to display real talent and skill they just don't have it. They could never set a total out of the reach of WI, it's just these things they fail to realize. That sort of playing cannot beat better teams than WI at the moment.
four_or_six
Cricketer Of The Year
Looks that way.
luckyeddie
Cricket Web Staff Member
*cough*
Huh ? The openning bowlers right now avg less than 40.
I don't need to go back, the current bowlers are able to bowl Eng out for 51.
Mate, lets not talk abt on-field behavior and what not. England are no saints either.. there have been many instances when every team has cheated. so let's forget that.Think he was more referring to him pick the ball up off the floor and claim he caught it.
Rebecca
School Boy/Girl Captain
Neil Pickup
Cricket Web Moderator
You're right. You'd have won if we hadn't been allowed to take catches on the one-bounce rule. Oh, wait, again... that wasn't us.
Dude I have seen many times English fans cheering that it doesn't matter how the wicket came about, they wanted it. As Richard put it, thats good enough for a tail ender, it was KP's highest score during the series. He had made more than expected.
zaremba
Cricketer Of The Year
Once.
I wouldn't start creaming your pants just yet though.
Consider the other performance of your bowlers against an England team (which you repeatedly claim to be talentless) in the Test series:
318
7/0 (abandoned due to unacceptably poor ground)
566/9 declared and 228/9 declared
600/6 declared and 279/2 declared
546/6 declared and 237/6 declared
If you were alive during the days of Marshall and Holding and Garner you would feel pretty ashamed of this.
But if it's good enough for you, enjoy it.
Neil Pickup
Cricket Web Moderator
I'm now bored. This is the sort of argument that I use when intentionally trying to wind up ten year olds.
My concern is that you genuinely believe your own posts.