West Indies vs England 2014

Agree entirely. No bottle whatsoever but there you go typical Essex player( from a Surrey boy)

In any event it was the worse game of Cricket I have seen in awhile I reckon I could have some scored some runs myself.

Ben Stokes has gone down in my estimations,who the hell walks in this day & age.I thought he was a bit off a street fighter.He didm't even look at the umpire who was shaking his head at the time.We were 5 down at the time I don't get it.

(03-03-2014 00:00 )Boomerangutangangbang Wrote:  Ben Stokes has gone down in my estimations,who the hell walks in this day & age.I thought he was a bit off a street fighter.He didm't even look at the umpire who was shaking his head at the time.We were 5 down at the time I don't get it.

My thoughts were the opposite what a sporting thing to do in this age of cynically bending the rules and win at all costs.

What I have noticed about this series so far is that the crowds have been on the small side. It could be that the English supporters haven't got enough money to spend on travelling to the West Indies after they've spent money on the recent Ashes trip down under.

What seems more noticeable to me is a lack of home support (although locals seemed to drift in after work and I believe tickets for them are relatively expensive) rather than limited Barmy Army support.

You can't argue that the many of the Islands are very poor,but I think you'll find that ticket prices for the away English supporters are way more than the locals have to pay.
The Barmy Army Tours are usually based around the Test Series & maybe take in the odd ODI/T20 at the start or end depending on which comes first.As there are no Tests we have fewer supporters.

Morgan's fit and could be selected for today's decider

West Indies won the toss and have invited England to bat.

West Indies Team
DJ Bravo*, DM Bravo, NO Miller, SP Narine, KOA Powell, D Ramdin†, R Rampaul, DJG Sammy, MN Samuels, LMP Simmons, DR Smith
England Team
MM Ali, RS Bopara, TT Bresnan, SCJ Broad*, JC Buttler†, MJ Lumb, EJG Morgan, SD Parry, JE Root, BA Stokes, JC Tredwell

It's good to see Morgan back and Wright seemed the obvious choice to make way. West Indies are stronger too though as they have Samuels back. Does anyone know what a good score will be on this wicket?

England made a good start,but 2 quick wickets fell with the score on 37,Ali & Stokes which set them back

Latest - 45-2 after 8 overs