END OF OVER:42 | 15 Runs 1 Wkt | WI: 204/9 | RR: 4.85
- Jason Holder41 (33b)
- Kesrick Williams0 (0b)
- Ben Stokes9-0-43-3
- David Willey6-0-39-1
5.35pm So, a valuable hand from Holder at the end, 41 not out from 33 balls to give his team something to bowl at. Alan will be back for the resumption shortly
Dinesh : "If you bowl two beamers, aren't you taken out of the attack? Stokes bowled two in last over right? " I think the second one was deemed to be too wide of the batsman to be dangerous. A rare outbreak of common sense
shake: "52 runs off 103 balls from Samuels and Hope. Thats 17.1 overs in a 42 overs game. If windies lose this game you know where the match was lost!"
DavidL: "3/43 and you say he has restored his figures a touch? Should be match winning figures." Well, yes, all things are relative. He'd gone for 18 in eight overs before that last one...
So, one ball of the innings to go ... Holder on strike
JE Taylor c †Buttler b Stokes 2 (7m 4b 0x4 0x6) SR: 50.00
Ryan Lalsingh: "Alex Chapman, we will always produce quality players but our administration causes problems. The entire middle order and bowling unit have been in and out of the team and players don't have the opportunity to prove themselves."
END OF OVER:41 | 8 Runs 1 Wkt | WI: 189/8 | RR: 4.60
- Jason Holder29 (28b)
- Jerome Taylor1 (1b)
- David Willey6-0-39-1
- Ben Stokes8-0-28-2
Malcolm Hughes: "Perhaps there is something out there that we do not know, but the question arises as to why Ali is not bowling? the spinners have good stats here." Windies have picked two, so yes, we shall soon discover it if was an error
Farzan: "Its hard to do multi-tasking: anatomy and espncric :/ i think i have to take a hard decision now..bye anatomy!!" Good decision. Careers are temporary, cricket is forever!
kritesh: "I wish it was Holding instead of Holder. You could have said "The batsman Holding the bowler's Willey"... lol" Titter indeed. I suspect West Indies wish it was Holding too!
D Bishoo b Willey 5 (19m 10b 0x4 0x6) SR: 50.00
dangermash: "Warning, warning! Danger danger! With 42 overs, aren't only two England bowlers allowed to bowl nine? England look in serious danger of having Rashid plus two of Stokes/Woakes/Plunkett bowling nine. What happens then?" Indeed, you have a point. Hence Willey's appearance for this over, presumably