It could have been better still for England but while the bowling has been good the fielding has been less than..Lunch
WI 153-6
West Indies lead England by 82 runs with 4 wickets remaining
Shai Hope the main man for the Windies - 60 not out..
West Indies Tests in the UK
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Shai Hope the main man for the Windies - 60 not out..
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Anderson the destroyer as he gets his name on the board again with a 7 for 42...177 all out
England trail West Indies by 106 runs with 10 wickets remaining
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Cook the man out for 17. New boys Stoneman (40) & Westley (44) see England home. The WI bowlers knew the game was up (miracles excepted) before they started though, so hardly Ashes recommendations.ENGLAND WIN BY NINE WICKETS
Anderson has been the England bowler of the summer with 39 wickets at something like an average of 14... Have to go way back to the 50's to find a better return..
The batting however - sorry won't bore you any more on that score..
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3rd. of the 1 day Internationals yesterday - from Bristol.
The Gloucester County cricket ground is in the middle of a housing estate, small & just about my least favourite county ground..
England easily won the first ODI & the second was a complete weather wash out.
With some sort of truce made between the 'play abroad' players & the West Indian cricket authorities it was generally accepted that the visitors would provide a much tougher trial in this form of the game than they generally did in the Test matches.
England were put into bat & stuttered to 74 for 3 until Stokes & Root steadied the ship. It was starting to look like a good score in view when England contrived to lose another 3 wickets for 11 runs that saw them at 217 for 6.
That bought Moeen & Woakes to the wicket & they, again, steadied the ship. Moeen moved along nicely at a run a ball to 39 before he suddenly cut loose with a savage display of batting. His move from 50 to 100 took only 12 deliveries. Admittedly the West Indies should have dismissed him earlier than they eventually did but it was a fine knock for 102.
Innings closed at a massive 369 for 9.
However the West Indies open with one of the biggest hitters in the game - Chris Gayle. While he remained at the crease there was always hope. He stayed there until he was run out for 94 & the hope vanished.
West Indies all out for 245 & can now only draw the series.
Meanwhile, in India, the hosts moved to a 1 day series win over Australia with 2 games to spare.
Australia put on a good enough show to set a target of 294 with Finch (124) & Smith (63) being the stand out scorers.
Batting in India is India's forte though & they ran that off with a couple of overs to spare for the loss of 5 wickets.
The win was enough to put India back to the top of the 1 day rankings, over South Africa.
The Gloucester County cricket ground is in the middle of a housing estate, small & just about my least favourite county ground..
England easily won the first ODI & the second was a complete weather wash out.
With some sort of truce made between the 'play abroad' players & the West Indian cricket authorities it was generally accepted that the visitors would provide a much tougher trial in this form of the game than they generally did in the Test matches.
England were put into bat & stuttered to 74 for 3 until Stokes & Root steadied the ship. It was starting to look like a good score in view when England contrived to lose another 3 wickets for 11 runs that saw them at 217 for 6.
That bought Moeen & Woakes to the wicket & they, again, steadied the ship. Moeen moved along nicely at a run a ball to 39 before he suddenly cut loose with a savage display of batting. His move from 50 to 100 took only 12 deliveries. Admittedly the West Indies should have dismissed him earlier than they eventually did but it was a fine knock for 102.
Innings closed at a massive 369 for 9.
However the West Indies open with one of the biggest hitters in the game - Chris Gayle. While he remained at the crease there was always hope. He stayed there until he was run out for 94 & the hope vanished.
West Indies all out for 245 & can now only draw the series.
Meanwhile, in India, the hosts moved to a 1 day series win over Australia with 2 games to spare.
Australia put on a good enough show to set a target of 294 with Finch (124) & Smith (63) being the stand out scorers.
Batting in India is India's forte though & they ran that off with a couple of overs to spare for the loss of 5 wickets.
The win was enough to put India back to the top of the 1 day rankings, over South Africa.