England V West Indies Test Match Series 2020

Three more self inflicted batsman dismissals second time round for England so far.
Very, very poor.

Mike Atherton gets stitched up by his fellow sky tv pundits

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(11-07-2020 15:22 )snookered Wrote:  Three more self inflicted batsman dismissals second time round for England so far.
Very, very poor.

Make that 6!!
Hopeless, inept, senseless batting.
Three wickets in virtually no time at all.
The old England failings rearing their head yet again.

Edit: Ok 8 then

Day 4 Close England 284-8 lead West Indies by 170 runs
England lose 5-30 after Crawley (76) & Stokes (46) put together a 98 run partnership for the 4th wicket.

(11-07-2020 14:14 )Boomerangutangangbang Wrote:  It's A tough job at the highest level under extreme scrutiny.

I agree. I wasn't posting about the reviews as a way of criticising the umpires. It's just that reviews are such a big part of the game now and even bigger in this series with teams having the extra review available. Having said that, the number of decisions overturned in this test is way above average.

^^ I know, it didn't read it as a criticism.

England 313 All Out
West Indies require 200 runs.

Despite their fragile batting over recent times, I would put West Indies as strong favourites.
Archer & Wood really have to come to the party for England to have half a chance. Not the help in the wicket for Bess that they had hoped, given that they chose to bat first.

think its looking like the west indies are going to win 3 early wickits but a nice partnership starting now, i think England have totally misjudged the pitch it hasn't broken up or started to turn much like Stokes was saying he expected it to on day 5 when he won the toss, its looking like bowling on the cloudy first two days is what will win things, looks like England over thought things at the toss when anyone who has ever played would have bowled when that weather,
my fingers are crossed for a west indies batters throwing it away with silly shots as think its the only way

West Indies beat England by 4 wickets

Comfortable win after the 3 early wicket. England had their chances, a couple of umpire calls on review that could've gone their way. Run out chance, 1 or 2 catches that might have been held, one of which was off a no-ball.

Hussain suggested that if this had been the 1st Ashes Test, would they have left out Broad. I'd say no way. So we didn't rate a West Indies side that have already beaten us in the Caribbean.

The number of reviews reached 22 for this match, more than double the test average, with 9 decisions being changed.

By team:
West Indies 14 reviews, 7 decisions changed
England 8 reviews, 2 decisions changed

By umpire:
Illingworth 11 reviews, 5 decisions changed
Kettleborough 11 reviews, 4 decisions changed

By dismissal type:
Caught 7 reviews, 1 decision changed
LBW 15 reviews, 8 decisions changed

By batsman or bowlers:
Batting side 9 reviews, 5 decisions changed
Fielding side 13 reviews, 4 decisions changed

^^ That is a lot, but captains were happier to risk burning reviews, with having 3 instead of 2 per innings. So not an exact comparison.