*Official* West Indies Tour of England 2020

[SillyCowCorner1]

England have won the toss and are batting first.

 

[Howe_zat]

Stokes with a 100% record as captain.

 

[Beamer]

Ffs no Cornwall when it's going to spin and will be slooow.

Oh well, just glad to have some cricket, mustn't get too annoyed.

 

[Magrat Garlick]

no Cornwall, no fun

goes back to work

 

[Howe_zat]

'What about the attack?'
'We've gone with Woody, Jofra, Jimmy and myself'

Stokes doesn't believe in off spinners either.

 

[SillyCowCorner1]

The muscles on Blackwood though.

 

[SillyCowCorner1]

At least, we'll get to see some of Denly's leggies.

 

[morgieb]

I completely forgot Jermaine Blackwood still existed, lol

 

[Howe_zat]

WI have opted to bat deep but you feel like Cornwall probably would have added more value than some of these rookie batsmen.

 

[honestbharani]

I think Blackwood could go well, tbh. Excited to finally see some cricket

 

[Howe_zat]

I completely forgot Jermaine Blackwood still existed, lol

Well on his way to 8000 test runs.

 

[wpdavid]

Going back to the discussion about where this top rates against previous line-ups, wouldn't it be possible to calculate their combined points that are used for rankings and see how that compares?
Not that I have any idea how to do that in a hurry.

EDIT
Well, I could work out the current score.
Burns (579) + Denly (550) + Sibley (471) + Crawley (288) = 1,888

Whereas the total score when we played that first test in NZ in 1978 was
Boycott (726) + Randall (482) + Miller (232) + Rose (127) = 1,567

So it's official.

 

[GotSpin]

Ffs no Cornwall when it's going to spin and will be slooow.

Oh well, just glad to have some cricket, mustn't get too annoyed.

I get why they want some more batting though

 

[Kraken]

Finally keen to see some live cricket. Holder to be the big key early on here

 

[trundler]

Only 1 h4x keeper for England

 

[SillyCowCorner1]

Just amazed at how much weight Sibley has lost.

 

[GotSpin]

Roach will be on here

 

[honestbharani]

Only 1 h4x keeper for England

Pope is also there.. he keeps, right?

 

[Neptune]

Just amazed at how much weight Sibley has lost.

2 stone apparently. Top effort that.

 

[Spark]

Given that there's no one there, this is an awfully noisy minute's silence