As West Indies head into the third Test match against Australia, they do so with aspirations of leveling the series at 1-1. The Frank Worrell Trophy is now out of their hands, but there is still the pride of a drawn series up for grabs. And whatever hope the home team bears depends largely on the potency of the front line bowling attack, particularly Fidel Edwards. A cursory look at the series statistics locates Edwards second only to Brett Lee in wickets. His 11 wickets are already a series high, though he has only once played more than 3 Tests in a series. Now it remains to be seen how far he can extend his personal record in Bridgetown.
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If all had gone well, we would have seen the return of Andrew Flintoff to England’s Test team today. We’ve read quite a lot about Flintoff lately, and indeed over the past year during the time he’s been out of Test match action. He’s copped a fair bit of criticism since the end of the 2006/07 Ashes, and we will now look at how fair, or not, this criticism is.
The great game of cricket has been subject to many changes in its glorious history and none more so than in the past ten years.
Technology is now playing its part to put the home viewer in “the best seat in the house”. Playing schedules have become far more demanding on the players; some rule changes have been implemented in all forms of the game to help keep matches as appealing as possible, and to help keep the players on the park playing when there is rain or poor light delays.