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Think this could be a really good series just like the Sri Lanka tour with lots of fast scoring/flowing tests. West Indies look half decent especially in the bowling stakes with Gabriel, Roach and Holder all very good performers. My team although they won't go for it would be... Burns Woakes (they'll go Jennings) Bairstow Root Stokes Buttler Foakes Ali Curran/Rashid on conditions Broad Jimmy.
I'll predict a 2-1 England victory, chucked in a half day today to watch..always loved the Caribbean test matches, the 90 tour is probably the first away series I remember. Gooch, Lamb, Ned Larkins taking it to Marshall, Ian Bishop, Patrick Patterson and Walsh (Ambrose couldn't get in the side!!)...conch shells in the background and Tony Lewis on the mike, great stuff!!
Think only real question is do they go for Broad / Rashid / Leech. No chance they will leave out Curran he's played 6 out of 7 tests and the one test he didn't play in we lost!
England should win but they've lost and drawn to far worse WI sides than this one.
Bit annoyed they are not playing in Jamaica, the wife is 1/2 Jamaican so not short of offers to stay and watch if we had played there!
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England tour of the Windies on 13:26 - Jan 23 with 5914 views
Thanks - but that's no use to me if you need an internet connection to listen. One of the joys of TMS was its free to air broadcast which you could carry round the house/garden/listen in car or out walking etc.
As someone who got into cricket in the late 70's and early 80's seeing the Windies terrorize everybody with sheer pace it acrually seems a bit surreal for me to see England playing at the Kensington Oval with two spinners and a medium pacer in the bowling line up.
We should win this series comfortably, we won't though.
No idea when I began here, was a very long time ago. Previously known as Spirit_of_81. Love cheese, hate the colour of it, this is why it requires some blue in it.
Looking a bit toothless on a pretty benign pitch atm. Bet they wish they picked Broad now. Edit, although this might explain his absence (ouch!!)
Broad's bed bug bites
Jonathan Agnew
BBC cricket correspondent in Barbados
''There's an untold story about why Stuart Broad might not be playing.
He has got some terrible bed bug bits - and on quite a sensitive area, which I inspected yesterday on the outfield.
There are a few issues at the hotel they're staying at. It involves some of the players sleeping out on mattress in the corridors of the hotel. He went to bed with his whites on, but it sounds as if a few got into his jockstrap. He's on some treatment.''
England tour of the Windies on 16:53 - Jan 23 by jimsymBLUE
Looking a bit toothless on a pretty benign pitch atm. Bet they wish they picked Broad now. Edit, although this might explain his absence (ouch!!)
Broad's bed bug bites
Jonathan Agnew
BBC cricket correspondent in Barbados
''There's an untold story about why Stuart Broad might not be playing.
He has got some terrible bed bug bits - and on quite a sensitive area, which I inspected yesterday on the outfield.
There are a few issues at the hotel they're staying at. It involves some of the players sleeping out on mattress in the corridors of the hotel. He went to bed with his whites on, but it sounds as if a few got into his jockstrap. He's on some treatment.''
[Post edited 23 Jan 2019 17:04]
Poor lad!
You'd have thought the England management team would have been competent enough to recce their hotel before booking wouldn't you ...
I should like cricket, but I have never been able to understand it properly. That is to say the nuts and bolt of overs and win criteria more so than the on-field rules.
England tour of the Windies on 17:43 - Jan 23 by wkj
I should like cricket, but I have never been able to understand it properly. That is to say the nuts and bolt of overs and win criteria more so than the on-field rules.
I think if you got to see an important Test match, or maybe ODI (say against Aus) live, you'd pretty soon pick it up & get hooked. It's what happened to me when I was having a tutorial at the home of my OU tutor, and her husband rushed in saying "you must come and see this, it's absolutely amazing". Their house was in Cardigan Rd. Leeds, and they had a platform at the bottom of their garden overlooking the Headingley ground. It was 1981 & Botham was single-handedly winning the match!
England tour of the Windies on 17:54 - Jan 23 by Ryorry
I think if you got to see an important Test match, or maybe ODI (say against Aus) live, you'd pretty soon pick it up & get hooked. It's what happened to me when I was having a tutorial at the home of my OU tutor, and her husband rushed in saying "you must come and see this, it's absolutely amazing". Their house was in Cardigan Rd. Leeds, and they had a platform at the bottom of their garden overlooking the Headingley ground. It was 1981 & Botham was single-handedly winning the match!
After I meed Hoppy for that drink take me to the cricket one day!
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Poor lad! 