West Indies v Bangladesh, 2nd ODI, Roseau, July 28

Chin up Dello, West Indies might win this one.

2-0 for Tigers....

It would be worth wagering on a 3-0 or a 2-0 win [any chances of a game getting rained off?] instead of 2-1!

A West Indies win would depend what they do with the batting lineup in this match. We have to play with a captain who can't bat to save his life so that's a serious handicap. Apparently 19 year old wicket keeper/batsman Devon Thomas will play today (he was injured before). He scored a hundred against Bangladesh in the A team match so that would be a bit of a boost.

Kieron Powell must play IMHO, if we are going to be humiliated we might as well do it with youngsters so we can get some sort of positive from this series (other than Roach obviously).

So it should be:

Dale Richards (will be lbw to a left arm spinner)
Kieron Powell
Devon Smith
Floyd Reifer
Travis Dowlin
David Bernard Jr
Devon Thomas (wk)
Darren Sammy
Rawl Lewis
Kemar Roach
Gavin Tonge/Nelon Pascal

Still a piss poor batting lineup as the number 4 batsman can't bat at all, the opening batsman can't bat spin to save his life, the number 5 is ok without being international standard. It's utterly depressing.

West Indies C finally bat properly to reach 274/6, mainly thanks to an excellent 100 not out from Travis Dowlin, who batted surprisingly well.

Devon Smith has clearly worked on his play against spin because he looked good for his 44 before being brilliantly run out by Tamim. Reifer was once again clueless, hitting a long hop softly to backward point.

Exciting finish on the way, MMs need 32 off 36. Wickets shouldn't be an issue.

Some bloke called Tonge bowling like MJ at the moment.

Bangladesh win by 3 wickets.

The novelty of this whole Scabados/Windies C thing has worn off now. Can we please have our players back WICB?

Letting Bangladesh chase 275......honestly.

It was farcical too, the wicket keeper batsman Devon Thomas took of his pads and got 2 wickets .

WIFAN wrote:

It was farcical too, the wicket keeper batsman Devon Thomas took of his pads and got 2 wickets .

Looked a lot better than some of the other bowlers as well

Also, even though Devon Smitth is generally considered as a horrible batsman(rightly so) he still seems leagues ahead of anyone else on the team since he joined the side for the ODI's which shows the lack of quality of Reifer and company.

What a debacle...

Yep.... I despair. I have watched or followed every West Indies match in the last few years, but I'm not going to bother watching the last ODI unless they give Kieron Powell a game and Reifer doesn't play. You are spot on about Devon and it really is scary to think that the guy who has failed so often at international level is so much better than all of them except for Dowlin.

It's a complete waste of my time watching a large percentage of these replacement players. If the senior players come back Roach, Sammy, Bernard and Dowlin are the only ones who will stay in the mix.

You need a good dose of IPL to cheer you up WIFAN.

I should have betted on Tigers in the end after all. Now onto a 3-0 icing on the 2-0 cake.

So will Bangladesh become the first test [???] playing nation to return unbeaten from WI and whitewashing the hosts in both traditional forms of the game?

Zat wrote:You need a good dose of IPL to cheer you up WIFAN.

Or I could just record an advert break on sky plus, call it a tactical break and then watch it repeatedly...................

Powell gone first ball.


Oh.dear.

Now Devon Smith gone playing that horrible on drive to the inswinger he tried against Onions a few months ago.

Can't play swing, can't play seam........... oh dear. Only good thing is that this pitch has a bot more pace in it so if we can get any sort of total we will have a good chance against the Bangles.

Reifer comes on, should have been out lbw when on 2, is on 10 from 39 deliveries and just run out the teams only form batsman Dowlin.

Great job skipper...................