West Indies v Australia, 1st Test, Roseau, 3-7 June, 2015

One Mickey Mouse tour game before this.

To Shiv or not to Shiv?

Talk of us playing two spinners.

Meh, there's always that sort of talk. And it never works.

JGK wrote:Talk of us playing two spinners.

You are using the term "spinner" loosely?

Two in the tour game..

taipan wrote:

JGK wrote:Talk of us playing two spinners.

You are using the term "spinner" loosely?

Lyon and Fawad.

Shit, I forgot about Fawad. Traditionally, the Windies shit their pants at the initials LS next to a player's name.

How grouse would it be to see Elmer and Towlie wheeling away in tandem?

JGK wrote:

taipan wrote:

JGK wrote:Talk of us playing two spinners.

You are using the term "spinner" loosely?

Lyon and Fawad.

As I thought.

Lyon does spin the ball Taips (whatever his other faults) and so does Fawad...they are not of the saffie no breaker school

Your Pakistani immigrant is about as good as ours.

taipan wrote:Your Pakistani immigrant is about as good as ours.

Yours is certainly better than he was a couple of years ago.

and Fawad is not bad

horace wrote:and Fawad is not bad

The sound of straws being clutched.

not really...not claiming he deserves to be in the almighty shadow of SKWarne...but I like the way he bowls...tosses it up (and will always go for plenty) but he has variety and seems rarely phased...good to see attacking spin bowlers in action...took shedloads of wickets in the Shield comp - so give him a go I say.

Talking of leggies what happened to that Muirhead kid? I think that's his name.

He seemed to be a bit handy the couple of times I saw him on telly.

Lindsay no.2 wrote:Talking of leggies what happened to that Muirhead kid? I think that's his name.

He seemed to be a bit handy the couple of times I saw him on telly.

Victorian coaching. Bowls more pies than a pie shop

Nath wrote:

Lindsay no.2 wrote:Talking of leggies what happened to that Muirhead kid? I think that's his name.

He seemed to be a bit handy the couple of times I saw him on telly.

Victorian coaching.  Bowls more pies than a pie shop

England will make ANY leg spinner look handy.

Nath wrote:

Lindsay no.2 wrote:Talking of leggies what happened to that Muirhead kid? I think that's his name.

He seemed to be a bit handy the couple of times I saw him on telly.

Victorian coaching.  Bowls more pies than a pie shop

Shipperd is a complete dill...any kid with talent was emuslified

As mentioned in the Chanderpaul thread, Shiv has been dropped.

"West Indies squad for the first Test Denesh Ramdin (capt), Devendra Bishoo, Jermaine Blackwood, Kraigg Brathwaite, Darren Bravo, Rajindra Chandrika, Shane Dowrich, Shannon Gabriel, Jason Holder, Shai Hope, Veerasammy Permaul, Kemar Roach, Marlon Samuels, Jerome Taylor "

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I think Boof and the boys will be chuffed.

Looking forward to watching the tests - interested to see how your boys fare against a 'mediocre' team we managed to destroy with ease eke out a drawn series with.

The Windies would be foolish if they didn't attack Australia with plenty of spin.

Rogers sconed in the nets ...ruled out with concussion

embee wrote:Rogers sconed in the nets ...ruled out with concussion

But they are talking about opening with Marsh and not Twatto.

If Bog has a big 2 Tests, that my be the end of Buck's soon-to-be-over-anyway Test career.

skully wrote:If Bog has a big 2 Tests, that my be the end of Buck's soon-to-be-over-anyway Test career.

S Marsh is a flaky middle order bat with dubious technique.....could we get one opener with technique?

better off opening with Vogues, if we cannot fly someone over