1st Test WI v SAf, Port of Spain, Jun 10-14, 2010

Starts soon.

Can't really see the WIndies troubling the Jaapanese, but it's a funny game, cricket.

(And any chance of a Rikki? Might shut Lever up, who was happy to whinge about the FootGilly getting a Rikki, but not to start a thread on a Test himself.)

Hello Zat

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This is getting worrying

The all-seeing frog must have an auto-response.

Hello skully

I am happy to see posters starting international threads.

Fromage

Hehehe, I see. Cheers for the heads up, cheeseman.

PeteyCS is playing a cool hand here ... the stinking piece of Gouda.

PeteyCheesyStinker??

Woah, Shillingford running through the SAF top order.

I recall WIFAN discussing him not so long ago. Good prospect orrrr?

DJ_Smerk wrote:Woah, Shillingford running through the SAF top order.

I recall WIFAN discussing him not so long ago. Good prospect orrrr?

Yeah. There was questions about his action originally so that's why he wasn't in the side before. His action seems clean now. Trinidad typically helps spinners so this is a good place for him to start.

Pity SAF don't have any.

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PeterCS

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Thanks cheesey.

Were the Saffies crabbing like wounded crabs on a siesta, or was it a minefield?

You've been busy Pete.

with ...?

Shillingford has been busy, even if he's the only one.

BUsy moderating the forum. All those new smilies.

Ev yew jeust nottise neow? Tres negligeant, mon ami ...

So, Fat Jack to the rescue??

I resent that . . .

Nah, you usually send Jack's Fat to the rescue.

From cricinfo,

If WI tastes another defeat in this test, for the first time since '76, their overall win-loss ratio will diminish to less than one. Currently they have won and lost exactly 152 Tests apiece.

For SA, on the other hand, the graph has been moving in exactly the opposite direction since their return to Test cricket in 1992, and a win in the first Test in Trinidad will take their overall ratio to one, a mark it has intermittently touched over the last year and a half.

In test cricket only Aus, Eng and Pak have their win/loss ratios greater than 1.

DJ_Smerk wrote:Woah, Shillingford running through the SAF top order.

I recall WIFAN discussing him not so long ago. Good prospect orrrr?

FFS Smerkles. 2 wickets hardly constitutes running through the top order.