: Tue Feb 17, 2009 7:02 pm  

JWP wrote:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/cricket/england/7895611.stm

Bye Bye Stanford 20/20 garbage.

Emily Prior is gutted.

: Tue Feb 17, 2009 7:15 pm  

fredie wrote: Chanderpaul still playing What are you on about??? Not only is he still playing...... http://www.icc-cricketrankings.com/

fredie wrote: Chanderpaul still playing What are you on about??? Not only is he still playing...... http://www.icc-cricketrankings.com/

: Tue Feb 17, 2009 9:05 pm  

285 all out! A fivefor for Swann.

England decide to bat again, I would imagine until lunch time tomorrow and get a quick 100+ and give the bowlers a little rest.

: Tue Feb 17, 2009 11:49 pm  

Day 3 close - England 31 for 1, 312 ahead.

Allen Stanford out for a duck, clean bowled by the SEC.

: Wed Feb 18, 2009 12:42 am  

PAUL M wrote:

285 all out! A fivefor for Swann.

England decide to bat again, I would imagine until lunch time tomorrow and get a quick 100+ and give the bowlers a little rest.

It is the 2nd innings remember. The bowlers will be batting before lunch

: Wed Feb 18, 2009 4:35 am  

JWP wrote:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/cricket/england/7895611.stm

Bye Bye Stanford 20/20 garbage.

Always thought there was something dodgy about him.

: Wed Feb 18, 2009 9:05 am  

Selecting Swann has payed off with 5 wickets. IMO they should have enforced the follow on because if England bowl like they do again they'd have it won by the end of the 4th day.

: Wed Feb 18, 2009 9:10 am  

What an awful shot from Sarwan. He'd played so well and he threw it all away.

Oh and as for Stanford:




shame. No really.

F*ck off and don't ever come back you stupid Texan phillistine.

: Wed Feb 18, 2009 9:12 am  

No1_Saints _Fan wrote:

Selecting Swann has payed off with 5 wickets. IMO they should have enforced the follow on because if England bowl like they do again they'd have it won by the end of the 4th day.

The bowlers were knackered. They need a couple of sessions rest then they'll be refreshed, sending them straight back into the field in those temperatures would have been a foolish move.

: Wed Feb 18, 2009 9:19 am  

Smiggs wrote:

The bowlers were knackered. They need a couple of sessions rest then they'll be refreshed, sending them straight back into the field in those temperatures would have been a foolish move.

Flintoff was struggling with injury, Harmison with "illness" - although why a player who was supposedly suffering from heatstroke spent so much of the day in the field if he wasn't fit to bowl I don't know.

The counter argument to that is there were only 11 overs to bowl after the break between innings. Broad, Anderson and Swann could have covered those between them leaving the other two to get a nights rest and come back fresh in the morning.