Saturday, February 7, 2009

England allout for 51 [:o]

It's been so long that West Indies' fans have had cause to cheer this long and hard, and the players - who, to be honest, look shell-shocked - are walking around a sun-baked ground to wave to the supporters. An outstanding allround performance from a team which - whisper it - might have turned the corner.

England, though, are disconsolate. It's their third-lowest Test total (their second-lowest of 46 came here in the Caribbean in 1994) and today their batsmen have lacked application and intent, against Jerome Taylor whose 5 for 11 won't be forgotten for a while.

It's just pure elation for West Indies almost disbelief.
With such a disasterous performance in carrebian it looks like the ashes this year is going to be a nice watch with bost australia and england on a downslide....



England 2nd innings R M B 4s 6s SR
captain AJ Strauss c wicketkeeperRamdin b Taylor 9 69 50 0 0 18.00

AN Cook c Smith b Taylor 0 11 6 0 0 0.00

IR Bell c wicketkeeperRamdin b Benn 4 24 22 0 0 18.18

KP Pietersen b Taylor 1 3 3 0 0 33.33

PD Collingwood b Taylor 1 35 20 0 0 5.00

A Flintoff b Edwards 24 78 47 3 0 51.06
wicketkeeper MJ Prior b Taylor 0 2 4 0 0 0.00

SCJ Broad c Marshall b Benn 0 5 2 0 0 0.00

RJ Sidebottom lbw b Benn 6 51 43 0 0 13.95

SJ Harmison b Benn 0 10 3 0 0 0.00

MS Panesar not out 0 3 3 0 0 0.00

Extras (b 2, nb 4) 6











Total (all out; 33.2 overs; 155 mins) 51 (1.53 runs per over)

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