Windies v Eng 1st test in Antigua

I’ve laid England at a silly price and taken a profit, evens was ridiculous!

Could be very competitive, this series.

Wood needs to be fully fit.

Doesn’t he just!

well,this is unprecedented-Eng losing early wkts for jack

one can only ascribe it to a combination of Convid and the boy Vlad,innit!

Just turned to the channel and sure enough, England are 27/3. Are they now the worst of the test playing nations?

I can’t help but laugh at the bleedin’ obvious!

This pitch looks like a bit of a road in the making. It might die or it might crack up.

I would not want to bat last. It might be Engerland who have to bat last though.

Not sure what to do with my money.

I wish to reply to Brentford to a question he asked some moments ago on a different fred.

Basically you wrap it round you index or middle finger, insert and move it up and down and round and round vigorously.  Then when done you use the corner of the paper you have torn off to clean your finger nail!

At th3 risk of th3 curse...Dan Lawrence looks like he has cleaned up his technique a little. I think he is a fine player and kn3 fi4 The present but looked goddam awful in his last outing. Batting coaches should have been sacked but not for smoking a cigar!

.........and thank you very much

40 something for 4

Kwality!

I feared as much regarding your 15.01 post WD....

Jonny B's body language is excellent today, purposeful.

Whispers you have been clamouring for Foakes for a long time, possibly 3 years now you've got him and we will now see.

Anyone else lost all interest in English Test cricket.? I use to sit up for a few hours in the early hours to watch it,
But now the whole outfit from top to bottom needs changing. I would have test cricket over all the one day Gimmicks, its a shame the people in charge of
English Cricket don't think the same.

Yup

Not totally but yup. Unfortunately it’s in the blood. I can’t walk away......yet.

Tbh I am kinda enjoying India play Test Cricket. I really enjoyed them winning in Aus

Cardinal

I still think this a good batting wicket, well maybe not good but easy paced.

England’s best batters are Root, Stokes, Bstard and hopefully Foakes. Woakes can bat on a flat and slow pitch and is not up against extreme pace.

Not sure why but I have backed The Engerland at 2.12

I think it should flatten out for a couple of days and the ball is getting soft now. Not sure about how the game will end so may cash out if England post a tofal

I must admit culling Broad and Anderson in the way they did (saying it had nothing to do with Root, when everyone knows it is).
How can they expect eveyone to get behind after that.
I have had a bit of 5/2 a Windies win.

Foakes doing okay.

The pattern of low scores for the first 4 wickets and then some recovery has gone on for far too long. They just can't play new ball bowlers.

Great to hear David Gower commentating again after being dumped by Sky.

There is a little low bounce. I cannot see a draw here but am tempted at 4.4

Looked plum

Shame for Foakes he looked in complete control. Still moves the game in. Glad I held off the draw.  Mark  Wood with the odd low bounce nit good!

England get anywhere near 300, which, is still a long way off and they are in the box seat

Gone in again at 1.78

As long as the pitch does not die I really think that England are a big price.

Close to 300 which is usually par here. This pitch is slow and dry and the winds are are drying it out. We have seen some uneven bounce particularly low bounce, which, will help our bowlers who are faster and in Wood we have a wrecker I think on this.

Not much rain. Pretty poor batting outfits and the ball is swinging when new although it does go soft. WI did not exploit any reverse but I think our boys might. Leach might also get help as the pitch dry’s and WI bat last.

Can't fault any of that, WD.

Hoping for a match here, so wouldn't mind seeing WI 120/2.

Yup WI need to bat 25-30 overs for the loss of 2 wickets or less, which, they can do. They are more attuned to Test Match batting of late.

Still happy to be on England. 30-0 and I will top up!

John Campbell has been a walking wicket each and every time I have seen him bat.

But, if swipes don't go to hand, he can score quickly with all the edges over slips

Judging by England's ten-plus tick move between innings, could be an extremely juicy top-up at 30-0.

Might even tempt me out of the long grass

Looks like they picked the wrong ball out of the box!

Market knows it. Batting looks easy atm

No swing!

1.68 -> 1.8 was before they'd delivered a ball.

Market might have remembered we're overseas and our attack is led by Woakes and Overton, mind you

Yes!

I have reversed out of everything for a minuscule loss!

Still fancy England thoug( so will look for a better opportunity

Will see what Wood can do. Not much I suspect on a rolled pitch but when it wears off or wears we shall se

Here we go

I think the pitch is too slow for him right now

Desperate start with ball by Eng, if Kraigg Brathwaite is going at nearly a run a ball you know something is wrong.

True dat but Campbell is not going to last and Leach might well have a role to play here. I am buying Engerland  on the way up.

Oh dear dreadful ball and worse shot

Very important wicket. He is a very good player.

Blackwood looking very jumpy/edgy in the early stages here.

Decent case that WI's 6, 7 & 8 are each a spot too high, also but I'm hoping for another partnership somewhere.

No I am back on The Engerland so WI all out for 200 or so would be nice. Their tail is weak although they can slog.

Tough not to see an England win but I want at least four days out of this.

No more non-contests like The Ashes served up. I want a series as close to the SA India beauty as possible, please.

Neither side is very good. England have slightly faster bowlers which helps with reverse. Should be a close series

These two batting really well. Shows there are currently no terrors in the pitch.....yet

They ought to give Leach a go, certainly towards the end of play.

I've conspired to seriously butcher a decent setup, and comfortably more than halved my green since I had my evening meal.

Calling that a night.

Pitch seems slow and fairly easy still.

I've no horse in the race but I'll take tight first innings so I can hopefully trade some back when I wake up fresh and ready tomorrow. Grrrr.

Good luck in the meantime

Live to fight another day. Rule 1

Pitch is dying . Look at the last 2 tests here against Sri Lanka it gets easier to bat second innings both ending in draws albeit slight rain interruptions.

Live to fight another day. Rule 1 Too true.

Raring to go. Everything looks better the next day.

I make the sam3 mistakes constantly too. I buy and hold early in the game. I should have bought the draw at 6’s and WI’s I think at 8 yesterday.

Too busy counting my winnings when England were 1.6. To my credit I did cash out at one point and buy back at a better rate but Day 1 and 2 in a Test Match I think it pays to buy between 6 and 10 when sides are matched

Pretty confident England will win, certainl6 if the new ball dies the trick this morning. Pitch still looks flat but may not deteriorate until late day 4/5

Low bounce is featuring more

Still on an Eng win WD?

Yep. Thinking about a top up!
A big top up

can't ever see MightyAlbion being anything other than a bang average Associate member

their 'bowling' is woefully toothless,so dire it makes their pathetically gutless batting look half good

If they break this partnership soon then they are back in business as I sense Windies need to be well ahead of 311 to be robust favourites.

D’you think there are signs it will spin?

We are bottom of the table Johnny

Behind Bangladesh. 9th out of 9!

We do look toothless but this is a ver6 slow pitch

Whisperingdeath 10 Mar 22 16:03 
We are bottom of the table Johnny

Behind Bangladesh. 9th out of 9!

on a good day lol!

nice delivery that from woor Jackie

50 lead for Windies now, 2 wickets to fall.

A 70 or 80 run lead for them will be a real challenge to England.

I didn’t plan for that. Was more worried that would happen in the 4th innings.

I still think a result is possible and a draw lay would be the bet as both these sides can bat badly although it does look like a draw atm.

Plenty of sun today and more cross winds so anything is possible. Quite dull to watch I have to say.

Where now? The draw?

Lees already played and missed almost as many times as Bonner

Not easy to see England's price shortening - only really runs *and* wickets that can see that happen.

Either runs or wickets, on their own, push each of the other results down, but not ours.

I guess we could try to push on if we reached 100-0, but that is usually a way away on a slow track.

(cue England trading under 4s in no time)

Just have to be patient

See what develops. Will the pitch offer anything after tea? Doesn’t look like it thus far

I fancy Crawley for a score today if he can see off the new ball. Cue.......

Playing out nicely thus far.

England get off to a decent start (21-0 in 7 overs) and our price has gone from 5.8 -> 7.2

While he looks great clipping them across the line he is a prime lbw candidate.

Shame there wasn't a day more in the match, as it's quite an expensive lay at 5.8

I think Crawley has got the game (admittedly almost all of that based on a monster v Pakistan).

Just waiting for the head to catch up (so he becomes more selective)

Or the eyes to catch up (ala Smith, so he can play those 'dangerous' shots with impunity because he never misses)

another new opener, another failure. Who will they try next?

These two are fluent scorers so hoping they move the game on but another wicket will give me an opportunity to clear my draw red, which, I think is the most likely result.

I might be inclined to give Alex Hales a go

I am sure he would have been involved too, but the second drugs suspension looks to have been a final nail for him.

6.00 England

6.8 Windies

1.44 Draw

Draw now nailed on, unless England had a ridiculous collapse. Commentators babbling on about England will declare with a lead of 180-200 and hpe to bowl them out in 2 sessions. They must watch another game to everone else. England won't declare until is out of Windies reach, which will be around just after lunch and with the ball doing absolutly nothing apart from when its new. I can't see England even declaring.

Draw seems almost certain now.

Its a dead pitch, just abit of low bounce and we have no bowlers to exploit this anyway with Wood injured.

Perhaps Strauss will get down off his high horse and fly out a couple of bowlers for the next test to shore up his pop gun attack.

Bad luck with the rain, 40 or 50 runs last night would have moved the game on. I can’t see England giving WI’s a sniff but I would like to see them go after the bowling this morning to try and set something up.

1.01 busted for £87 on the 350 runline

1.28 the draw..q big as it goes tho' it could go near 1.5 were they to lose early wkts
but i thought their middle to lower order looked q comfortable in the 1st inns
so really can't see them not holding on for the draw
tho' they have previous for collapses
on this particular pitch and our less than deadly bowling think one can fill ones boots on the draw for the big odds on backers imho

Walking wicket, John Campbell

Hope there's a little life in the next pitch - these two sides have a great match in them.

Aptdemon • March 12, 2022 4:57 PM GMT
Walking wicket, John Campbell

Maybe he wasn't dropped on 1.

Damnnnnn!

I doubt they'll make a difference to the outcome but...

not reviewing the last one (presumably because it was our last review) and then reviewing that complete punt ten minutes later

In mitigation, they'll have been very tilted to have seen that the LB would've been given if they'd gone for it

Just watching Bumrah. 5 wickets on a Bunsen!

Kwality!