[Cricket] 3rd Test: West Indies v England at Bridgetown, May 1-5, 2015

[jakarta]

Does anyone else just find England too boring to watch? I have Sky sports, but really can't get entertained by our batting. Rattling along at 2.5 an over just bores me to tears

Will a comedy run-out entertain you?

 

[Driver8]

Why is it all teams now feel the need to put on Indian/Pakistani accents now when geeing up their bowlers? All this "Bowling (insert name)", "come on boy" in stupid high pitched voices gets right on my tits.

 

[Leekbrookgull]

I agree...it doesn't augur well.
The selectors have made a fundamental error in recalling Trott. When ' your bottle ' has gone in sport, you are a pale shadow of your former self and the opposition will pounce on any opportunity to inflict more mental anguish. Its painful to watch the disintegration of a once top sportsman but its a hard cruel business and Trott is now a passenger at International level. He cannot cope mentally and therefore his decision-making process is flawed.
He suffered a mental breakdown only a relatively short while ago and yet good old England have thrown him straight back in again. They watched him seemingly rehabilitate in county cricket and thought that was enough. It wasn't. He should never have been allowed to play at Test level again.
If they pick him in the summer it will be like a coconut shy, a rabbit caught in the headlights. The selectors are totally to blame. They should have allowed him the dignity to slowly rebuild his career in the more comforting surroundings of county cricket. Its a staggering display of insensitivity, ignorance and selfishness and they should carry the can for this.
I feel sorry for Trott. He is a good player, who has gone through personal and public turmoil. They have just thrown him to the lions and it is a disgrace.,

Crap 'his bottle is gone' it's called situational anxiety.

 

[Driver8]

Crap 'his bottle is gone' it's called situational anxiety.

Isn't that pretty much the same thing?

 

[Stumpy Tim]

Will a comedy run-out entertain you?

For the other team yes

 

[jakarta]

Cook has batted all day for 88 runs and there are 10 overs to go before close of play.


94no at Stumps?

 

[Leekbrookgull]

Isn't that pretty much the same thing?

Yes !! So why take as so many have said,it's hard to see a way back for Trott ?

 

[BensGrandad]

Will Cook get that century which has alluded him for so long. When was his last one in test cricket?

 

[Driver8]

Will Cook get that century which has alluded him for so long. When was his last one in test cricket?

Yes.

 

[jakarta]

Well Played Skipper

 

[vegster]

Well done Alistair Cook, been playing a lot better in the last Test and this one.

 

[Driver8]

Hopefully he'll speed up a bit now!

 

[Beach Hut]

Cook

 

[Beach Hut]

Will Cook get that century which has alluded him for so long. When was his last one in test cricket?

May 2013

 

[vegster]

OOps ! Cook gone.

 

[jakarta]

Oh Bollocks......

 

[Beach Hut]

All out for 257............

 

[fleet]

Not gone well - the pitch was at its best and we blew it after winning a good toss. Should have been 350 but too many wickets were gifted to WI

 

[dazzer6666]

Nice catch Katie, 0-1

 

[Beach Hut]

WI

0/1 after 1 over