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Big-up to Siddo
By Will 2 years ago, mid-July, No Comments; be the first!
A big-up (hyphen, Jenny?) to Siddo, who - being the shameless globetrotter that he is - has flown in from the Caribbean where he was pretending to cover the West Indies against India. Well done that man. Always good to put a face to a name on messenger. He’s off to watch Sachin bat at The Oval this evening. He really can’t get enough.
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West Indies v India, 4th Test, 3rd day
By Will 2 years ago, at the start of July, No Comments; be the first!
Fascinating Test match at Kingston. West Indies wrapped things up pretty quickly to dismiss India for 171. That left Windies 269 but they’ve already lost four - including Brian Lara and Shiv Chanderpaul.
All is not lost, as Ramnaresh Sarwan - the guts of the side, as far as I’m concerned; the real bare-knuckled streetfighter - is still there on 43, and they need another 164 to win. One thing’s certain: it won’t be a draw.
Money’s on India, but COME ON Windies! Live scorecard.
Update: bugger. Sarwan gone for 51.
No Comments »West Indies are all over India
By Will 2 years ago, at the end of June, 2 Comments »
Title says it all. In the 38 overs bowled so far in the fourth Test, India are 56 for 3. That’s under two runs-per-over! Rahul Dravid (inevitably) and Yuvraj Singh have put on 22 for the fourth wicket to steady proceedings, but it’s a cracking start to the Test. Check out the live scorecard.
Update: 91 for 5 from 50 overs
Update: 91 for 6. Read my colleage Jamie’s comments in the ball-by-ball coverage at Cricinfo:
Collymore to Dhoni, OUT, GONE! Short ball on off, Dhoni goes for his favorite cut shot but can only hit it to Dwayne Bravo in the slips, what a good catch, made it look so simple, another Indian falls prey to this disciplined bowling attack, they’re in tatters here at Sabina Park, what a batting display, check one more for the Windies
Yes, he did say disciplined! What a first day West Indies are having.
2 Comments »The limiting factor for West Indies
By Will 2 years ago, at the end of June, No Comments; be the first!
When the captain of your country (countries) turns up to lead you in a Test match, you have every right to feel confident in his ability. Confident that the selectors chose a born leader of men; someone with whom to go into battle. As captain, you also might expect to have a degree of confidence in the men you have chosen. WRONG. If you’re a West Indian captain, you have no say in such matters - pah! The very thought! - which, as Brian Lara is finding out, is a bit of a problem. Yes, the pitch can often be a lottery…but in “home Tests,” generally speaking, the home side holds the aces. They have a whole nation of cricketers to choose from. Not West Indies! Ohh no.
“My only concern is the combination for the final Test,” he said while analysing his team’s performance. “We played an extra batsman here but if you want to get 20 wickets, we need to put players there to get us those wickets. It’s left upto the selectors, let’s see what happens … Guys who’ve been here have done a tremendous job throughout this series, performing on surfaces that really haven’t helped them. Two days rest between Tests and to go back to the reserves and pick fast bowlers would be showing a weakness. Very confident with the likes of Corey Collymore, [Pedro] Collins, [Jerome] Taylor - coming into his own - and Bradshaw has been good. Maybe an addition would be a good choice and we will have the final decision a day before the match.”
The selectors must be loving it, rolling on the floor watching Collins, Taylor and co. all struggle to take the wickets. “If only they had another bowler, eh? Moohhahahahaha” they chortle from the hideaway selectors’ mansion, hidden inside a cave under the sea.
No Comments »West Indies set India 392 to win
By Will 2 years ago, at the end of June, No Comments; be the first!
Cracking Test at Basseterre, where India have been set 392 to win (final day). Come on Windies - this could be the start of something reeeeet special.
No Comments »West Indies v India, 3rd Test
By Will 2 years ago, at the end of June, 1 Comment »
Now then, now then, now then. The West Indies are racing along in the third Test, which has been good to watch. After Daren Ganga and Ramnaresh Sarwan both brought up their hundreds, India struck back to reduce the West Indies from 346 for 1 to 420 for 5. Regardless, a fairly splendid effort from West Indies (who we like, lots, here down the Corridor. Get down with the Corridor, in fact).
The series is level at 0-0 with one further Test to play after this one, which looks like rain could force a premature end.
1 Comment »West Indies and India draw first Test
By Will 2 years ago, at the start of June, 2 Comments »
The West Indies wobbled and stumbled but their last-wicket pair, Fidel Edwards and Corey Collymore, staved off the threat of Anil Kumble and Sreesanth to snatch (??) a draw. Good effort, and I’m rather chuffed - and not just because I can smirk at my Indian colleagues on messenger at work tomorrow. This could be a turning point for the West Indies; even a year ago, you wouldn’t have imagined them lasting 3 or 4 overs to save a Test. But they did it, and they should be bloody proud.
Of course, they let India back into the game thanks to Wasim Jaffer’s double hundred. But there is a new-found bite about West Indies, and I’m liking it.
Ever the optimist…
2 Comments »West Indies v India, 1st Test, Antigua, 4th day
By Will 2 years ago, at the start of June, 1 Comment »
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1 Comment »West Indies v India, 1st Test, Antigua, 3rd day
By Will 2 years ago, at the start of June, No Comments; be the first!
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No Comments »West Indies v India, 1st Test, Antigua, 2nd day
By Will 2 years ago, at the start of June, No Comments; be the first!
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No Comments »West Indies v India, 1st Test, Antigua, 1st day
By Will 2 years ago, at the start of June, No Comments; be the first!
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No Comments »Ambrose not in tune with the game
By Will 2 years ago, at the end of May, 3 Comments »
Fascinating interview at Cricinfo with Curtly Ambrose provided by PTI, in which he says cricket was never his real first love. Regular Corridor readers will know that watching Ambrose sparked my interest in the game (and my fondness of West Indies cricket today), so it’s quite disheartening to hear him speak of the game in such a detached manner.
Cricket gave me an identity but it wasn’t my first love,” he explained. “I did it as a job, for me basketball and music were my true passions. I started the game very late, at around 21 years, and didn’t enjoy the day-to-day discipline. I packed up when my body told me to do so. I felt happy to be out of it.”
He added that he did not miss cricket at all. “Now I don’t even watch the game. I have hardly watched a full game since I retired. I sometimes see a few snatches of play on television and that’s about it. I might not even come to watch the first Test on Friday.”
There is an irony in his comments. When you consider how devastating he was; how brilliant a bowler he was for so long; what presence he had on the field with his gangling medallions and perfectly rythmical approach to the crease, and he didn’t even want to be there (on the basis of these quotations). Yet on the eve of West Indies’ first Test against India, they could benefit from someone half as good as him - especially if they are to make good their renewed fizzle and spark in the field following their 4-1 demolishing of India in the one-dayers.
Oh well. Heroes have a habit of failing to live up to ones’ expectations. Despite his comments, he always appeared to give his very all to every match I saw him play. It was only the batsmen who wished he was bowling a basketball…
3 Comments »West Indies v India, 5th ODI, Trinidad
By Will 2 years ago, at the end of May, 6 Comments »
The 5th one-dayer between West Indies and India at Trinidad. Posted in advance. Open thread - chat away…
6 Comments »West Indies v India, 4th ODI, Trinidad
By Will 2 years ago, at the end of May, 2 Comments »
The 4th one-dayer between West Indies and India at Trinidad. Posted in advance. Open thread - chat away…
UPDATE: And they’ve done it!
2 Comments »Sarwan sinks India
By Will 2 years ago, at the end of May, No Comments; be the first!
As I’ve said far too many times, I’m a big West Indies fan and it was brilliant to see them sink India yesterday thanks to Ramnaresh Sarwan. Come on, Windies! Ryan reckons he’s coming of age, is Sarwan…
I didn’t see any of his innings, for reasons which I’ll explain later this week, but by all reports it was pretty damn fine.
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