England v West Indies, Only T20, Trent Bridge, 24 June, 2012

nice one, centurion

First time in 3 months that we've cracked 100 topics. Dire.

skully wrote:First time in 3 months that we've cracked 100 topics. Dire.

You purposefully helped to manufacture it though!

Aye, I too blame skully.

Probably.

vilkrang wrote:

skully wrote:First time in 3 months that we've cracked 100 topics. Dire.

You purposefully helped to manufacture it though!

How is that different to what I do every day? I purposely (and purposefully) help to manufacture the continuation of this sleepy hollow every day, every week, every month. I live in forlorn hope that this place will somehow return to something representing a small percentage of its former glory.

Looks like we'll get a game...

West Indies 1 Chris Gayle, 2 Lendl Simmons, 3 Dwayne Smith, 4 Marlon Samuels, 5 Kieron Pollard, 6 Dwayne Bravo, 7 Denesh Ramdin (wk), 8 Darren Sammy (capt), 9 Sunil Narine, 10 Ravi Rampaul, 11 Fidel Edwards

England 1 Alex Hales, 2 Craig Kieswetter (wk), 3 Ravi Bopara, 4 Eoin Morgan, 5 Jonny Bairstow, 6 Jos Buttler, 7 Samit Patel, 8 Graeme Swann, 9 Stuart Broad (capt), 10 Jade Dernbach, 11 Steven Finn

Actually fancy the WI over 20 overs. Then again, i said that about the ODI's!

WI win toss and bat

Yeah, it looks a pretty fair day out there. Both teams have exciting batting line-ups. I can't wait to watch it!

managed to get a feed! the boyf is way more persistent than I.

As well as Stuart Broad happy 71st to former Leicestershire favourite who used to bowl for some other sides too, 'Garth' McKenzie, also happy 45th to former Surrey & Notts batter, Darren Bicknell.

Sedate start from the Windies.

Damn! Gayle's out.

4 Notts players in the England side. Is this a record? Should guarantee a win though.

Great catch from Jonny B. Double bonus that it's Crabby Simmons out.

What happened to calypso cricket? Windies are crawling along.

Red wrote:What happened to calypso cricket? Windies are crawling along.

Good bowling.

Lovely batting from Smith.

Highest score made against England on this ground in T20Is beating Kallis' 57* in June 2009 (and 3rd HS overall). No England player has made a 50 in T20Is on this ground.

Bravo and Pollard are smashing it! Been waiting for this all innings.

Red wrote:What happened to calypso cricket? Windies are crawling along.

Maybe they are all too short.

Wowzer! Dernbach getting thrashed.

A partnership of 64 off 4.4 overs takes Windies to 172... it's a decent total, plenty of runs to chase.

Yup, be a good effort to chase that down. No thanks to dirtbag.

WI total second highest v. Eng next to 208-8 at The Oval in June 2007. That was also last occasion 2 50s were made in a T20I against England in England when Smith made 61 and Samuels made 51. The last instance of 2 50s in a T20I v. England was at Centurion in November 2009 when Graeme Smith made 88 and Bosman made 94.