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100 partnership for the 4th wicket by Alastair Cook 180* and Dawid Malan 38* from 179 balls 
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1st Day/Night Test, England v West Indies, Edgbaston, Aug 17-21 2017 2pm start
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Oooh... almost a wicket... half-hearted cut from Cook just evades backward point.
Drinks - England 390-3 (104 overs)
Drinks - England 390-3 (104 overs)
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England 402-3 (105.4 overs) and counting...
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Another record for Cook - I see he has surpassed Gower as most test runs by an England player at Edgbaston.
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100 partnership for the 4th wicket by Alastair Cook 180* and Dawid Malan 38* from 179 balls
And ton-up for Joseph!
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Dawid Malan 50* (112 balls, 7 fours)
A maiden Test Match fifty, in his 5th innings.
Fill yer boots!
A maiden Test Match fifty, in his 5th innings.
Fill yer boots!
This is buffet bowling...........
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Oi...sod off rain!!
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With Cook one profiterole away from a double ton...
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421-3, this could be 700+ the west indians look like they aren't enjoying our glorious summer weather
What a depressingly predictable one sided match this is turning out to be.
England failures at #1 and #3 - check
England batting far too good for the once proud WI team - check
Dreadful bowling - check
I think a lot more than day-night changes need to happen to rescue world wide test match cricket.
England failures at #1 and #3 - check
England batting far too good for the once proud WI team - check
Dreadful bowling - check
I think a lot more than day-night changes need to happen to rescue world wide test match cricket.
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Alastair Cook 202* (339 balls, 30 fours) 
His 4th double hundred in Test Match cricket
294 v India 2011 Edgbaston
263 v Pakistan 2015 Abu Dhabi
235* v Australia 2010 Brisbane
(and it was a shocking misfield at third man
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His 4th double hundred in Test Match cricket
294 v India 2011 Edgbaston
263 v Pakistan 2015 Abu Dhabi
235* v Australia 2010 Brisbane
(and it was a shocking misfield at third man
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Because it us rare for a batsman to have a good day the. follow it up with a 2nd good one.
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Today seems to be one of those days!
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What a depressingly predictable one sided match this is turning out to be.
England failures at #1 and #3 - check
England batting far too good for the once proud WI team - check
Dreadful bowling - check
I think a lot more than day-night changes need to happen to rescue world wide test match cricket.
I get your point but this match also holds a morbid curiosity - could this be England's biggest test win against the Windies? Can the hapless Malan bag an unlikely test ton? Will Cook beat his previous best of 294?
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and will a humiliating series in England shame Cricket West Indies into doing something to shake this up, or just precipitate an even greater slump or complete withdrawal from Test cricket?
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Well this is all very dull, and one sided. That said, well Cook.
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.
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Out of nowhere, Malan goes in the final over before lunch... edging Chase and easily caught at slip for 65
'Lunch', Day Two
England 449-4 (117.2 overs, RR3.82)
Cook 213* and Malan 65 added 101 runs from 27.2 overs in the 'morning' session, and their partnership was 162.
'Lunch', Day Two
England 449-4 (117.2 overs, RR3.82)
Cook 213* and Malan 65 added 101 runs from 27.2 overs in the 'morning' session, and their partnership was 162.
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Malan out for 65