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Post by Admin on Jul 8, 2024 5:38:25 GMT
England squad for first two Tests: Ben Stokes (Durham, capt), James Anderson (Lancashire - first Test only), Gus Atkinson (Surrey), Shoaib Bashir (Somerset), Harry Brook (Yorkshire), Zak Crawley (Kent), Ben Duckett (Nottinghamshire), Dan Lawrence (Surrey), Dillon Pennington (Nottinghamshire), Ollie Pope (Surrey), Matthew Potts (Durham), Joe Root (Yorkshire), Jamie Smith (Surrey, wk), Chris Woakes (Warwickshire)
18-22 2nd Test, Trent Bridge (11:00 BST)
26-30 3rd Test, Edgbaston (11:00 BST)
Just two Tests which is nonsense and they have not played any warm up games, also a nonsense
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Post by lancsdes on Jul 8, 2024 6:27:31 GMT
Thought there was one at Lord’s Admin? A friend of mine certainly thinks he’s going to one starting Wed!
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Post by Admin on Jul 8, 2024 12:45:55 GMT
From the BBC website can't actually expect that to be right
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10-14 1st Test, Lord's
Play starts at 11:00 BST
Scorecard
18-22 2nd Test, Trent Bridge (11:00 BST)
26-30 3rd Test, Edgbaston (11:00 BST)
The first one wasn't on this morning either that or my copy and paste ability has gone tits up as they say
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Post by lancsdes on Jul 8, 2024 14:23:45 GMT
Probably staff on secondment from OT Admin!
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Post by Admin on Jul 8, 2024 15:06:34 GMT
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Post by man in the stand on Jul 8, 2024 21:02:19 GMT
No place for Hartley or Leach?
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Post by oldhamexile on Jul 9, 2024 7:52:53 GMT
I'm surprised they've gone with both Woakes and Anderson. Means that Jimmy will be replaced by either Potts or Pennington for the 2nd Test. Most likely that Woakes plays because 8 is a place too high in the batting order for any of the other bowlers.
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Post by Admin on Jul 10, 2024 13:42:09 GMT
Always great to acclimatise like the West Indies didn't do 106-9
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Post by Admin on Jul 11, 2024 6:00:28 GMT
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England 189 for 3 (Crawley 76, Pope 57) lead West Indies 121 (Atkinson 7-45) by 68 runs
They came for James Anderson, but they got Gus Atkinson. The first Test of England's summer at Lord's was meant to be a farewell for their greatest-ever seam bowler, but West Indies' batters rolled out the red carpet for a debutant instead: they collapsed from 88 for 3 to 121 all out, with Atkinson taking remarkable figures of 7 for 45.
Atkinson took two wickets in his first 14 balls on the first morning, but it was his second spell that sent West Indies into a tailspin. He took three wickets in four balls in his ninth over, ripping the heart out of West Indies' middle order, then took two in three during his 11th. His figures were the second-best by an England bowler on their Test debut, behind only Dominic Cork.
Anderson, playing his 188th and final Test, bowled nine wicketless overs before lunch and was brought back to take the final wicket of the innings, trapping Jayden Seales lbw to a loud ovation from the Lord's crowd. But it was Atkinson, the Surrey fast bowler, who led England off the field midway through a remarkable first day as a Test cricketer.
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On a slowish pitch, he was the quickest England bowler on show, repeatedly touching 90mph/145kph and maintaining an average speed around 86mph/138kph. He made subtle adjustments to his grip but generally used a scrambled seam, allowing him to move the ball both ways off the surface.
England's overnight lead owed primarily to Zak Crawley's quickfire 76. He rode his luck at times during his innings but was vindicated for his attacking intent, scoring heavily either side of point and dragging through midwicket and square leg when West Indies dropped short. He fell 24 short of a fifth Test hundred, Seales knocking his leg stump back with an inswinging yorker.
It was Seales who made the initial breakthrough for West Indies, angling one across Ben Duckett who edged through to Joshua Da Silva. Crawley and Pope combined to good effect after a bad-light stoppage, scoring at nearly five runs per over. Both men fell before the close but Joe Root and Harry Brook remained unbeaten.
Atkinson was one of two players handed their England Test caps on the first morning along with his Surrey team-mate Jamie Smith, having made his white-ball international debuts last year. Atkinson struck with the second ball of his first spell as Kraigg Brathwaite chopped onto his own stumps while attempting a leaden-footed slap through the off side.
Gus Atkinson enjoys his dream first day in Test cricket with Ben Stokes, England vs West Indies, 1st Test, Lord's, 1st day, July 10, 2024
Atkinson enjoys his dream first day in Test cricket with Ben Stokes•Getty Images
He struck again in his third over, angling a full ball across the left-handed Kirk McKenzie whose thick outside edge flew quickly to Zak Crawley at second slip. After his first five-over spell he had figures of 2 for 2, with four maidens and a single scoring shot.
Alick Athanaze and Kavem Hodge, the Dominican batters, added 44 in a partnership that spanned the lunch interval. But when Athanaze steered a low catch to Root at first slip, it sparked a dramatic slide: Jason Holder, playing his first Test in a year, was squared up first-ball and caught in the slips, before Da Silva's inside edge gave Smith his first Test dismissal.
Hodge saw three wickets fall in four balls while standing at the non-striker's end and decided it was up to him to drag West Indies to a respectable total, laying into a cut when Chris Woakes offered him some width. The ball flew straight off the middle of his bat, only for Ollie Pope to take a spectacular diving catch in tight at point. Hodge threw his head back in disbelief.
Atkinson's figures were briefly dented by Alzarri Joseph, who hit four boundaries in five balls: two wristy whips through square leg, a textbook straight drive and a sumptuous lofted extra-cover drive which had his fellow Antiguan Vivian Richards standing to applaud from the hospitality boxes.
But he soon chipped one up in the air to mid-on to give Atkinson a sixth, and two balls later, Shamar Joseph was comically caught by Pope point, losing his footing while attempting to pull him through the leg side. Anderson wrapped up the innings with an inswinger which struck Seales straight in front.
James Anderson walks out to open the bowling in a Test for one last time, England vs West Indies, 1st Test, Lord's, 1st day, July 10, 2024
Anderson walks out to open the bowling in a Test for one last time•ECB/Getty Images
Anderson occasionally beat the bat but bowled a fraction too short, particularly in his first spell. He was applauded onto the pitch by the Lord's crowd when leading England out for the national anthem with his close family present, and his daughters Ruby and Lola ringing the five-minute bell on the pavilion balcony.
Ben Stokes, who opted to bowl under cloud cover, was able to send down eight overs after declaring himself fully fit having skipped the T20 World Cup to continue his rehabilitation from a knee injury. He removed Mikyle Louis, who played brightly on debut, thanks to an excellent diving catch from Brook at second slip.
Louis, who became the first man from St Kitts to play Test cricket for West Indies, was handed his cap by Richards and played with a confidence that belied the fact this was only his eighth first-class appearance. He hit consecutive boundaries in Anderson's first over, which cost nine runs, and his 27 made him West Indies' top-scorer.
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Both Crawley and Pope had surpassed him when the umpires took the players off for bad light in the evening session. Holder thought he had them trapped lbw but the Decision Review System saved both: Pope was given out but the inswinger was projected to miss leg, while Holder convinced Brathwaite into reviewing a not-out decision off Crawley which was upheld.
He did eventually trap an overbalancing Pope in front for 57, ending a second-wicket partnership worth 94 runs shortly after England had nudged into the lead. It was Pope's first 50-plus score in a Test since his 196 against India in Hyderabad and only his second against a red-ball in this English summer.
Shamar Joseph, playing a first-class match for the first time since spearheading West Indies' famous win at the Gabba, bowled nine wicketless overs and suffered from cramp. His namesake Alzarri, who has also spent the last six months playing T20, was short on rhythm and consistency: he bowled three no-balls and leaked 6.6 runs per over.
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Post by Admin on Jul 11, 2024 16:58:30 GMT
55-5 in the second knock they are killing test cricket
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Post by man in the stand on Jul 11, 2024 18:48:54 GMT
55-5 in the second knock they are killing test cricket . |
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Post by Admin on Jul 11, 2024 18:56:43 GMT
55-5 in the second knock they are killing test cricket . West Indies 79-6 |
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Post by Admin on Jul 12, 2024 6:16:07 GMT
West Indies 79 for 6 (Athanaze 22, Anderson 2-11, Stokes 2-25) and 121 trail England 371 (Crawley 76, Smith 70, Root 68, Seales 4-77) by 171 runs
England need four more wickets to secure an innings win over West Indies inside three days, after James Anderson, Gus Atkinson and Ben Stokes shared six wickets on the second evening. The hosts were dominant with the bat, scoring at more than four runs per over across their first innings and then turned the screw with the ball to close in on a 1-0 lead.
Needing to score 250 - more than double their first-innings total - just to make England bat again, West Indies slumped to 37 for 4 inside 19 overs. Anderson's inswinger knocked back Kraigg Brathwaite's middle stump, Stokes removed Mikyle Louis and Kirk McKenzie during a ten-over spell, and Kavem Hodge chopped Atkinson onto his own stumps.
West Indies' batters were far too passive, looking to survive rather than score but ultimately managing neither. Alick Athanaze was a rare exception from No. 4, but he fell for 22 to a textbook Anderson set-up: he was worked over from around the wicket, with some balls shaping in and others leaving him before edging behind as he attempted to push through the covers.
Joshua da Silva and Jason Holder added 24 for the sixth wicket - damningly, West Indies' third-highest stand of the match - but England struck with the final ball of the day. Stokes laid a short-ball trap with two men out on the hook, and Holder could only fend Atkinson's bumper to Ollie Pope at short leg.
Gus Atkinson celebrates his eighth wicket on debut after Kavem Hodge's chop-on, England vs West Indies, 1st Men's Test, Lord's, 2nd day, July 11, 2024
Atkinson celebrates his eighth wicket on debut after Kavem Hodge's chop-on•Getty Images
England were bowled out at the tea interval on the second afternoon, compiling a substantial first-innings lead with Harry Brook, Joe Root and debutant Jamie Smith joining Zak Crawley and Pope in scoring half-centuries. Other than Jayden Seales, the pick of the attack, West Indies' bowlers were short on red-ball match practice - and it showed.
Root and Brook scored heavily square of the wicket in the first hour, with Brook batting fluently in his first Test innings in almost a year. In his 13th Test, he reached fifty for the 12th time but failed to add to it: he top-edged an attempted hook off Alzarri Joseph straight to da Silva, reinforcing the belief that he can be susceptible against the short ball.
During his innings of 68, Root went past Allan Border's career aggregate to enter the top ten of all-time Test run-scorers but he fell shortly before lunch. He was the second England batter, after Stokes, to fall victim to an exceptional Gudakesh Motie delivery, raising the question as to why it took Brathwaite so long to bring his left-arm spinner into the attack.
Stokes' first international innings of the season lasted only 11 balls. Motie, who vindicated his selection ahead of Kevin Sinclair, tossed the ball up in his first over of the morning and found sharp turn after landing it on a footmark. It ripped back past the inside edge of Stokes' swish and left him open-mouthed as it knocked his middle stump out of the ground.
Ben Stokes was bowled by a beauty from Gudakesh Motie, England vs West Indies, 1st Men's Test, Lord's, 2nd day, July 11, 2024
Stokes was bowled by a beauty from Motie•Gareth Copley/Getty Images
In the penultimate over before the interval, Root was left smiling in disbelief after losing his off stump. This time, Motie went wide on the crease and bowled his arm ball with an upright seam. Root shaped to punch into the off side as the delivery drifted in sharply, but it deviated late off the pitch to beat him on the outside edge.
Smith was the protagonist of the second session, hitting Seales over the Tavern Stand and onto St John's Wood Road during his maiden Test innings. He shared a sedate partnership of 52 with Chris Woakes but after Woakes and Atkinson fell in quick succession to the second new ball, Smith found a new gear while batting with the tail, even with the field spread.
After starting his innings uncharacteristically slowly, he started to skip down the pitch and crunched Shamar Joseph into the Grandstand for six, three overs after reaching a 98-ball half-century. Three overs later, he gave himself room and cracked Seales' short ball over midwicket and out of Lord's altogether.
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Anderson endures the beginning of his end
Louis' dead-eye, direct-hit run-out of Shoaib Bashir at the non-striker's end meant the retiring Anderson was applauded out to the middle for what may well prove to be his final innings in Test cricket. But he didn't face a ball, with Smith pulling the final delivery of Seales' over to McKenzie at deep backward square leg to finish with 70.
Shamar Joseph spent some of the afternoon session off the field due to some muscle tightness after a recent diet of T20, and was seen receiving treatment on his left hamstring in the dressing room. He was forced to leave the field midway through his 15th over, and looked in discomfort after getting through one further over with the second new ball.
There are not enough batters left for Anderson to leapfrog the late Shane Warne and become the second-highest wicket-taker in the format's history. But in his 188th and final Test, he has the opportunity to clinch one final victory for his country on Friday.
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Post by Admin on Jul 12, 2024 12:46:14 GMT
Didn't last 7 sessions refunds will amount to a massive amount they will be pleading poverty next
England 371 (Crawley 76, Smith 70, Root 68, Pope 57, Brook 50, Seales 4-77) beat West Indies 121 (Atkinson 7-45) and 136 (Atkinson 5-61, Anderson 3-32) by an innings and 114 runs
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He said all he wanted to do was contribute to a win. James Anderson got his wish, though the Lord's crowd were denied the fairytale five-for that seemed there for the taking at the start of day three. He finished with three in the innings, four in the match, and 704 for a Test career that has spanned more than two decades, as England completed the formalities of a crushing victory over West Indies.
As Anderson took his final bow, the centre stage was claimed by his latest successor. Gus Atkinson ripped out three more wickets to finish a brilliant first outing with match figures of 12 for 106 - the best by an Englishman on Test debut since 1890. Atkinson's sheepish grin was perhaps partly in recognition that he had denied Anderson the chance to bookend his extraordinary Test career with twin appearances on the Lord's honours board, but his ruthlessness was to be applauded as he blew through the West Indies tail.
Anderson even missed the opportunity to finish the match with a catch off his own bowling, dropping a chance dollied back to him by the No. 9, Gudakesh Motie. The moment drew gasps and groans, though Anderson could smile as he sank to his knees mid-pitch, the ball having rebounded out of his grasp as he went for it one-handed. Unlike his longtime new-ball partner, Stuart Broad, the Hollywood ending was not to be.
Anderson was phlegmatic when interviewed on Sky Sports at the close, cradling a pint of Guinness in the changing room: "I'm gutted I dropped that catch, to be honest. It's been an amazing week, I've been quite overwhelmed with the reaction, proud of what I've achieved."
Motie finished as West Indies' top-scorer across either innings, throwing the bat around for 31 not out. The fact that neither batting effort from the visitors lasted more than 47 overs underlined that gulf between the sides, West Indies unable to live in particular with Atkinson's pace and accuracy. The Surrey man completed his second five-for of the match with the final wicket to fall, as Jayden Seales holed out to deep midwicket.
Gus Atkinson is the seventh England bowler to take a 10-for on their men's Test debut, England vs West Indies, 1st Men's Test, Lord's, 3rd day, July 12, 2024
Gus Atkinson is the seventh England bowler to take a 10-for on their men's Test debut•Getty Images
As he took the field for the final time as a Test cricketer, 7722 days on from his debut against Zimbabwe, Anderson had to endure further ceremony - this time a guard of honour formed by players on both sides. The skies above were grey but there was a hint of a smile as he doffed his cap in appreciation of the crowd's applause.
He claimed the first wicket of the morning with his seventh ball, a classic Anderson delivery nipping away on fourth stump to kiss Joshua Da Silva's outside edge. With three West Indies wickets still standing, Anderson was two away from concluding his storied career with a 33rd five-wicket haul - only for Atkinson to seize the moment, much as he had on day one when he swept up seven in his first Test bowl.
Alzarri Joseph was next to go, having twice changed his bat in an attempt to out-bomb Atkinson in their short-ball contest - whatever size the stick, he could not clear deep backward square leg, giving Atkinson his ten-wicket haul.
Motie resolved not to die poking and prodding at Anderson, clumping him for a boundary down the ground, before Atkinson shelved any notion of sentimentality by detonating Shamar Joseph's off stump with a searing yorker. Anderson had his chance to bring down the curtain himself - but then, as he has hinted this week, perhaps he just wasn't ready to go? Atkinson then bounced out Seales, leaving Anderson looking as pleased as he ever has during his 188 Tests for England.
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Post by Phil on Jul 12, 2024 14:56:29 GMT
No place for Hartley or Leach? Hartley not good enough outside of India |
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