West Indies v England 2015

England all out 257 and 2nd innings 39-5

West Indies all out 189

England lead by 107 runs.

Well 18 wickets tumbled in Barbados on Saturday - the most ever to fall in a day's Test cricket in the West Indies.

England 123 all out.

West Indies need 192 to win.

Chanderpaul played on to a ball from Anderson.

Windies now 80-4. It's going to be a close finish.

West Indies 194-5 win by 5 wickets.

Series drawn 1-1

England's blown it.
The failure to pick a quality spinner has proved to be costly.

^ Your not suggesting Adil Rashid is a quality spinner ? But how will we know until we play him.

Same with Adam Lyth.
If Trott gets dropped and Lyth replaces him in The Ashes then that is one hell of an initiation into test cricket against Starc, Johnson et al.
I can only hope Rashid and Lyth get some test exposure against New Zealand first.

(03-05-2015 21:53 )Boomerangutangangbang Wrote:  ^ Your not suggesting Adil Rashid is a quality spinner ? But how will we know until we play him.

I was thinking about Treadwell.
He got a handful of wickets in the first test on a batter friendly track.

(03-05-2015 22:05 )Charlemagne Wrote:  

(03-05-2015 21:53 )Boomerangutangangbang Wrote:  ^ Your not suggesting Adil Rashid is a quality spinner ? But how will we know until we play him.

I was thinking about Treadwell.
He got a handful of wickets in the first test on a batter friendly track.

Oh yeh,silly me,I was forgetting that we had some reserves players to choose from that don't play for Yorkshire.

Could've played Treadwell & Rashid,no need for 4 fast bowlers.