West Indies v England - 1st test

[Paxton Dazo]

Bring It On!

Predictions?

To Win Series :-

West Indies 7/2
England 8/13
Draw 10/3

 

[Fazz62]

Bring It On!

Predictions?

To Win Series :-

West Indies 7/2
England 8/13
Draw 10/3

PD
Having a 1st Test flutter? Best prices

England 11/10 (most firms)
Draw 11/5 (Skybet)
West Indies 5/2 (most firms)

ps WI 15/4 for series with BSq

 

[mattb]

awesome means i can follow this on bbc at work instead of doing work

 

[Billy the Fish]

Looking forward to this one, not least because I'm going to the third test

I think it might be closer than it should be. I rekon either 2-1 us or a 1-1 draw.

 

[Seagull over NZ]

Always love the tours to the West Indies. Lucky enough to have been to tests at Barbados and Antigua in 1998 but love watching them on TV as they are on at such good times. Nick off work a bit early to catch the start of the 2nd session. Hoping Strauss will go with the following line up:

Cook
Strauss
Shah
Pieterson
Collingwood
Flintoff
Prior
Broad
Sidebottom
Harmison
Panesar

 

[Marc]

FINALLY some CRICKET action...whilst its been GREAT watching the fat Aussies lose recently its about time we got our act together so we can thump those convicts in the Summer.

CRICKET on the RADIO at WORK = BRILLIO!

 

[sten_super]

Always love the tours to the West Indies. Lucky enough to have been to tests at Barbados and Antigua in 1998 but love watching them on TV as they are on at such good times. Nick off work a bit early to catch the start of the 2nd session. Hoping Strauss will go with the following line up:

Cook
Strauss
Shah
Pieterson
Collingwood
Flintoff
Prior
Broad
Sidebottom
Harmison
Panesar

There was a piece on BBC sport talking about Shah's place in the team. Thorpe and Butcher both said that he wasn't an architypal number 3; instead much more of a middle order batsmen, that they saw challenging more for Collingwood's spot. I think they are right; the problem is Collingwood has saved himself on a couple of occasions when his place has been under threat with some great innings. The only way I can see it working is if you bump Pieterson up to 3, and then bring Shah in below Collingwood.

As it is, I'm pretty sure for this test they'll stick with Bell. Do feel very sorry for Shah though.

 

[Marc]

for those with a radio/dab/internet:

Test match Special:
Wed 4 Feb, 14.15
Test Match Special
WI v Eng, 1st Test

No doubt they will open with a tribute to Beardy

 

[Hiney]

SkySports live on my PC

 

[Paxton Dazo]

I shall be at the 2nd test, gawdddddd, How will this place cope?

 

[countrygull]

First test: England v Windies

Need a strong series victory to set up for the Ashes in the summer. Let's hope our boys can avoid heatstroke.....

 

[jcdenton08]

I'd say it could go either way or be a draw.

 

[Papa Lazarou]

We have won the toss... probably batting.

 

[Marc]

TMS Special on Beardy at Lunch

 

[Seagull over NZ]

Always love the tours to the West Indies. Lucky enough to have been to tests at Barbados and Antigua in 1998 but love watching them on TV as they are on at such good times. Nick off work a bit early to catch the start of the 2nd session. Hoping Strauss will go with the following line up:

Cook
Strauss
Shah
Pieterson
Collingwood
Flintoff
Prior
Broad
Sidebottom
Harmison
Panesar

10 out of 11 - Bell in for Shah. Not too big a surprise but Bell is lucky in my opinion.

 

[countrygull]

We need a thread merge - anyone know how to do it?

 

[Seagull over NZ]

England win toss and bat. Watch it here:

http://www.justin.tv/coalhouse3

 

[Marc]

We need a thread merge - anyone know how to do it?

now we need the thread title changed

 

[Papa Lazarou]

We need a thread merge - anyone know how to do it?

I do.. done it.

 

[CHAPPERS]

England 1 Andrew Strauss (capt), 2 Alastair Cook, 3 Ian Bell, 4 Kevin Pietersen, 5 Paul Collingwood, 6 Andrew Flintoff, 7 Matt Prior (wk), 8 Stuart Broad, 9 Ryan Sidebottom, 10 Steve Harmison, 11 Monty Panesar.

West Indies 1 Chris Gayle (capt), 2 Devon Smith, 3 Ramnaresh Sarwan, 4 Xavier Marshall, 5 Shivnarine Chanderpaul, 6 Brendan Nash, 7 Denesh Ramdin (wk), 8 Jerome Taylor, 9 Daren Powell, 10 Suleiman Benn, 11 Fidel Edwards.

Good news for Freddie that we bat, gives his back a bit more rest.