Windies v. Poms - Natwest decider

[Donny]

Chris Gayle won the toss and batted. Plunks & Monty back in for England. Sidebottom & Yardy out. 1/77 after 17 overs. Gayle 37* Chanders 19*

[Donny]

Plunkett claims both Chanders (33) and Samuels (9). 3/111 after 24 overs. Gayle 47*

[Donny]

3/152 after 33 overs. Gayle 63* Morton 17*

[Cricketics]

gale goes.. very simply caught and bowled, as holding sir says so.. punket strikes 82 scored by gayle, 42 overs, 193-4

[Gambit]

Bravo doing well. 25*(16). WI 256/4. Haven't seen the game yet but does seem like they are atleast 40 short considering how well placed they were earlier.

[Gambit]

Stuart Broad bowling wide after wide in the 49th over.

[Gambit]

WI finish up on 289. Incredible p'ship between Morton and Bravo. 92 runs off 7.5 overs!

[Donny]

Bravo doing well. 25*(16). WI 256/4. Haven't seen the game yet but does seem like they are atleast 40 short considering how well placed they were earlier.

They were very slow (or careful) early. Morton & Bravo hit 92 in 7.5 overs at the death. That's excellent. 290 to get by England. Morton was 82 n.o. (89 balls). Bravo hit 42 from 24 balls without a 6.

[Donny]

Poms in trouble. Darren Powell has 3/16 including KP for a 2 ball duck. 3/34 after 10 overs.

[zubinpepsi]

England is an overrated team. they were trouncing this hapless windies in tests and now they get owned by those hapless windies.. eng 34/3 in 10.2 overs... if Ind cant win this series against this lousy english team, they will never..

[Donny]

1. They are hardly over rated at 7th. in the world. Before this Natwest series, England was on 103 points and the Windies, in 8th., on 99. 2. Tests and ODIs are quite different disciplines. England is 2nd. in Tests and 7th. in ODIs.

[Donny]

Collingwood and Shah are ticking it over at 6 r.p.o. but falling behind. 4/142 and needing 7.4 r.p.o. Shah 50* Colly 32*

[Ram]

Its such a conundrum seeing England struggle like this in ODI's. I dont know why this happens. They have pretty decent batting order, a good fielding unit and an ok bowling line-up. They cant win everthing , but should be winning more than they are currently. Though i see the following chinks in their ODI team. --- None of their batsman coming in at 1,2,3 have a proven match-winning track record, which is so vital. All the successful odi teams are the ones which had good openers. Boy they miss Trescothick or what ! --- They are too reliant on Pietersen and Collingwood . If both of them fail in a match , their batting looks incompetently light. --- Dont have spinner who can either take wickets or contain in the middle overs.

[apocalypse]

the way pieterson batted today was like a novice. Through him a short pitch ball and in next ball he was flashing at the outside off delivery. No calmness

[Lurker]

Good to see Windies put one past England. Should work very well for Indian moral :shades_smile: