West Indies v England, 1st Test, Kingston, Feb 4-8

PeterCS wrote:

THICKEDGE wrote:The black arm bands are for Bill Frindall the incredibly dull scorer from TMS (BBC radio commentry). He died of legionaries disease, which is a very odd way to die.

De mortuis nil nisi bonum. Shame.

Speak nothing but good of the dead?

Agree BTW.

20.1 Benn to Bell, 1 run, flighted, but Bell sees it coming and gets ready to sweep it on the full behind square

oh dear. there goes england's great hope

wellity, wellity, wellity! Bell gone! FFS when are we going to open our eyes and see that a top 3 of Strauss Cook Bell isn't going to get us anywhere?

Bell gawn!!!!

I genuinely am not sure whether to he happy or sad that Bellend is out.

The Young debutant did well for 28.

Big_Bad_Bob wrote:

PeterCS wrote:

THICKEDGE wrote:The black arm bands are for Bill Frindall the incredibly dull scorer from TMS (BBC radio commentry). He died of legionaries disease, which is a very odd way to die.

De mortuis nil nisi bonum. Shame.

Speak nothing but good of the dead?

Agree BTW.

Yes, exactly. I think it's a good adage. If the recently deceased person is a horror, of course it would be ... unnatural to find anything good to say. But for the vast majority, it's generally better to say nothing at all if it cannot be well-disposed. Better for the speaker, too - acid is corrosive.

Apart from which, I don't think it's a statistician's job to be thrilling.

Is it the end of bellend ?

If only all bellies were as easy to remove as Belly.

Nass chirping up with the usual ''the one thing you'll get with Paul Collingwood is he's a foytah!'' lets hope he can kick on and get some runs or we are screwed...

Radio commentators now murdling about how England should have included two spinners.

Ah the privileges of hindsight.

In regard to the 2 spinners would have been pretty damn good to see Adil make his debut on this deck... Looks like days 4 and should we get to it, 5 will be a battle of Monty vs WI

Jaggernauth would have loved this pitch. Instead they still pursue with that lanky stock bowler, Benn.

philcric wrote:Is it the end of bellend ?

We've all been wishing it for 2 years .. but the answer will continue will be "no" as long as Piles is a selector.

Are you guys watching this match, Benn has bowled what looks to be the correct pace, and has bowled very pleasantly!!

As for Ian Bell..... I have nothing but contempt for Strauss and the selectors for his inclusion!!!

Just qunuts!!

If Benn is turning it square, Monty will do the same, and Jaggers or Wallace, who are bigger turners of the cricket ball than either of those, would have been awesome.

This pitch has made me nervous tbh.

Soz Charles, I just prefer Amit!

Fair enough, I have always thought Benn was a very tidy, clever bowler from what I have seen.

Nick Knight is for some reason trying to defend the balless little qunut... Saying he is trying to emulate KP?? WTF??

Although a very good point about Bell's rapid fire starts about teams plans!

Either way he's got to be farked off if he gets dip magain in the second dig.

Real chance for WI

At times Fred isn't too comfortable against spin so WI might be 1 wicket away from a collapse.

Maybe the problem with Bell doesn't exist. Not a bad thing to have a player who always scores 30-50. Brings consistency to the total that players who either get 100 or 0 don't.

I knew we would fark up. Bell is atrocious. String him up and cut out his freckles.

THICKEDGE wrote:Maybe the problem with Bell doesn't exist. Not a bad thing to have a player who always scores 30-50. Brings consistency to the total that players who either get 100 or 0 don't.

Oh please do Fark off!!!!

How many players do we have that are 100 or 0 merchants????? Answer 0!!

Ian Bell is alright...

at least a lot better than Faisal Iqbal

Gayle the destroyer. Amusing Gayle's spin v KP battle about to commence?

BAN the person who just emailed Sky saying 'Bob Willis for England coach'. Jebus.