1st Day/Night Test, England v West Indies, Edgbaston, Aug 17-21 2017 2pm start

[Titanic]

England 450-4 (117.4 overs)

Cook 213* Stokes 1*

Should be a fun 'afternoon' session with plenty of batting to come

 

[¡Cereal Killer!]

Hopefully just knock it around the ground until just before tea.

 

[Titanic]

Hopefully just knock it around the ground until just before tea.

If we do declare, it will be well after 'tea'... 650 on the board at least.

 

[Titanic]

Stokes gone for 10... reverse sweeping... top edge or maybe glove caught at slip

England 466-5 (121.1 overs)

 

[Pavilionaire]

If those are the questions that interest you, then maybe we should organise a game against France? This WI team is incredibly poor, made all the worse because of the anti-T20 bias in their selection process. Are people really going to want to pay to watch this standard of opposition in 5 years time?

It's not that it is so one-sided. It is the fact that everybody KNEW it was going to be this one-sided.

Turn that on its head. It's exactly what the West Indies were saying about England before, during and after the back-to-back series 5-0 Blackwash drubbings.

 

[Mackenzie]

Turn that on its head. It's exactly what the West Indies were saying about England before, during and after the back-to-back series 5-0 Blackwash drubbings.

I guess the difference is that we were picking our strongest test team against a far superior opposition, this isn't the strongest team that the WIndies could have selected.

 

[Titanic]

Alastair Cook gets a life... went for the pull, leading edge straight up in the air... dropped just out of reach... lucky boy!

 

[Titanic]

Alastair Cook 239* (390 balls, 32 fours, SR 61.28), his third highest Test Match score

294 v India 2011 Edgbaston
263 v Pakistan 2015 Abu Dhabi
239* v West Indies 2017 Edgbaston
235* v Australia 2010 Brisbane
190 v India 2012 Kolkata

and England move on to 501-5 (129.3 overs)

 

[Titanic]

Bairstow perishes too... dragged a little dab cut onto the stumps... gone for 18... WIndies hardly celebrate... have they given up already?

505-6 (130.4 overs)

 

[Titanic]

Moeen Ali skies a wild straight drive off Chase... takes the edge and flies to point... and he has gone for a duck

506-7 (131.5 overs)

650 looking a long way off now... although 500+ is probably plenty!

 

[Titanic]

Alastair Cook chasing wide ones outside off... trying to keep the scoreboard ticking... no point in occupation now.

512-7 (135 overs)

45 overs remaining in the day

 

[Titanic]

LBW review against Cook... looked plumb to me, but not given.

 

[Titanic]

Alastair Cook lbw Chase 242 (407 balls, 33 fours)

and England declare 514-8 (135.5 overs)

Slightly surprising but a good move from captain Root... Anderson and Broad can have a nice go at the openers before 'tea'.

 

[Titanic]

Good use of the review... but that was another absolute SHOCKER from Erasmus.

 

[Titanic]

Here comes Jimmy... now we will find out what the pink ball can do.

Tough time for Powell and Brathwaite.

Should get the crowd going too

 

[Titanic]

Anderson has his first victim

Perfect line and length... Brathwaite nibbles on the wrong line... edges through to YJB

West Indies 0-1 (2.2 overs)

 

[vegster]

Alastair Cook lbw Chase 242 (407 balls, 33 fours)

and England declare 514-8 (135.5 overs)

Slightly surprising but a good move from captain Root... Anderson and Broad can have a nice go at the openers before 'tea'.

Not that much of a surprise, little batting to come and would 534 ao been realistically any more challenging than the 514 already on the board ? .... Anderson STRIKES ! WI 1-0

 

[Titanic]

Huge shout for LBW... Erasmus doesn't give it... but he has had several shockers already... looked like it might be high/leg??

 

[Petee]

Kyle Hope in now and then Shai Hope and he'll be followed by No Hope

 

[Titanic]

Huge shout for LBW... Erasmus doesn't give it... but he has had several shockers already... looked like it might be high/leg??

it was just clipping the leg bail... umpires call... so good decision not to review.