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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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Sunday, October 19, 2008

The numbers game - 2nd Test, Day 3

1 - The Gambhir-Sehwag pair provided the first instance of an Indian opening pair putting on fifty and hundred runs in the two innings of same Test match against Australia [Images]. These two had added 70 in the first innings.

4 - Dhoni became the fourth Indian captain not to enforce the follow-on upon opposition despite being entitled to do so. Others to do so are Sachin Tendulkar (v New Zealand at Ahmedabad [Images] in 1999-00), Sourav Ganguly (v Australia at Sydney in 2003-04) and Rahul Dravid (v England [Images] at The Oval in 2007). Interestingly, all three Tests ended in draw!

6 - Amit Mishra became the sixth Indian bowler to take a five-wicket haul in his debut innings.

59.62 - Average runs Sehwag adds to his score on the following day after remaining unbeaten at the close of play. Will be interesting to see how many he adds on day four.

60 - Number of wickets taken by Harbhajan against Australia on Indian soil -- most by any bowler. He went ahead of team mate Anil Kumble's tally of 59.

201 - India's first innings lead against Australia. It is the seventh time that India has got a 200 runs or more lead against Australia.

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