[Ska'dForLife-WBA]

August

1st - FC vs Essex, Chelmsford (Match drawn)
6th - FC vs Kent, Canterbury (Match drawn)
11th - FC vs Derbyshire, Derby (Match drawn)
17th-21st - 1st Test vs England, Edgbaston (England win by an innings and 209 runs)
25th-29th - 2nd Test vs England, Headingley (West Indies win by 5 wickets)


September

2nd - FC vs Leicestershire, Leicester (Match drawn)
7th-11th - 3rd Test vs England, Lord's (England win by 9 wickets)
16th - 1st T20I vs England, Chester-le-Street (West Indies win by 21 runs)
19th - 1st ODI vs England, Old Trafford (England win by 7 wickets)
21st - 2nd ODI vs England, Trent Bridge (Match abandoned)
24th - 3rd ODI vs England, Bristol (England win by 124 runs)
27th - 4th ODI vs England, The Oval (England win by 6 runs, D/L)
29th - 5th ODI vs England, Southampton (England win by 9 wickets)

[themaclad]

It would be fantastic to see the West Indies get their act together however inter island rivalry and the amount of easy money to be made in the various pub leagues around the world make this highly unlikely.
Players like Sobers, Hunte, Kanhai, Kallicharan, Lloyd, Richards, Holding, Marshall, Ambrose and Walsh etc what players not forgetiing the 3 W's.
Just as a matter of interest Sonny Ramadin is still alive and living in the Saddleworth area.

[Ska'dForLife-WBA]

England vs West Indies Records

Head to Head

Tests: England 46-54 West Indies (51 drawn)
ODIs: England 45-42 West Indies (4 no result)
T20Is: England 4-10 West Indies


Highest Innings Totals on English Soil

Test

West Indies - 692-8d at The Oval, 24th August 1995
England - 619-6d at Trent Bridge, 4th July 1957

One-Day

England - 328-7 at Edgbaston, 26th May 2009
West Indies - 289-5 at Trent Bridge, 7th July 2007

T20

West Indies - 208-8 at The Oval, 28th June 2007
England - 193-7 at The Oval, 28th June 2007


Lowest Innings Totals on English Soil

Test

West Indies - 54 all out at Lord's, 29th June 2000
England - 71 all out at Old Trafford, 8th July 1976

One-Day

West Indies - 139 all out at Headingley, 21st May 1988
England - 147 all out at Trent Bridge, 27th June 2004

T20

England - 88 all out at The Oval, 25th September 2011
West Indies - 113-5 at The Oval, 25th September 2011


Highest Individual Scores on English Soil

Test

Isaac Vivian Richards - 291 at The Oval, 12th August 1976
Peter May - 285* at Edgbaston, 30th May 1957

One-Day

Isaac Vivian Richards - 189* at Old Trafford, 31st May 1984
Michael Atherton - 127 at Lord's, 28th May 1995

T20

Alex Hales - 99 at Trent Bridge, 24th June 2012
Dwayne Smith - 70 at Trent Bridge, 24th June 2012

[jjamez]

Stoneman, woakes and mason crane all called up to the test squad at the expense of finn, dawson and Jennings.

As an aside, west indies cricket will never return to its halcyon days until they have a complete overhaul of ect. Also their pitches have gone from having that deadly shine effect to being tacky and dead, not conducive to the lethal pace bowling they used to have.

They do have some good players, keep an eye on alzarri joseph, he has pace, he's young and it'll be interesting to see how he handles a swinging ball. Our kid the captain, jason holder, not got blistering pace, but seems to keep it extremely tight, using his height, he'll also get a bit of swing. Batting wise, I think a lot of it rests on roston chase, a relative new comer to test cricket, but seemingly their answer to moeen ali as he'll be bowling spin too. Otherwise it is probably blackwood and shai hope where hope lies.

[themaclad]

Saw that one day innings of Richards at Old Trafford in the WC semi the rest of the side only made 80 between them

[Lord Snooty]

Viv Richards was an absolute genius. My all time cricketing hero.

[Ska'dForLife-WBA]

That 291 from Sir Viv at the Oval in all its glory.




And the ODI 189 at Old Trafford.

[Ska'dForLife-WBA]

1st Test Match

Edgbaston, Birmingham

With many a song and dance and plenty of soundbites about History Being Made, day/night Test cricket arrives on English shores on Thursday, some two years after its inception, with an inaugural match under the lights of Edgbaston.  Four have been played worldwide to date, with Australia featuring in three; as this winter's Ashes will also feature one pink-ball outing, the reasoning is that it wouldn't do to send Joe and the boys into Adelaide unprepared.  (Or at least, any more unprepared than they're already liable to be).

In a nation that still routinely sells out its daytime Tests, and in which the climate is hardly conducive to sitting outdoors after 8pm unless you're wrapped up like Captain Oates on a skiing holiday, that is pretty much the only sound reason to be having this experiment.  The round of day/night county games in June proved a very damp squib, although tellingly, the pink ball caused top-order carnage at many a ground before the rains came.  The visitors have already had their baptism of fire on that front, having played a day/night Test against Pakistan last year which they lost; something they tend to do a lot these days.  It's been nearly three years since the Windies last won a Test series, and that against Bangladesh; for their last triumph over major opposition you'd have to go back to New Zealand in 2012, or perhaps even England in 2009.  To put it mildly, the boys from the Caribbean come here as cannon fodder, and it'll take a lot of pink-ball carnage to even up the odds in this one.

So, the summer of 1976 will feel a distant memory in all regards as a work-in-progress England take on a miracle-needing West Indies in the darkness of a Thursday night.  Still, if there's one place you can rely on the punters to tip back a few jars and make some noise regardless of the circumstances, it's Edgbaston.  We've got sun on the first day, cloudy weather the next two, a chance of rain on Sunday and then all fine for the last day, so there's a good opportunity to see how the ball behaves in all conditions.  And of course, to get the first win of this short series under the belt.

Play commences at 1400, 17th August 2017

[themaclad]

Boundaries galore in the first session but Stoneman and Westley fail, suspect both Cook and Root on the way to mammoth centuries

[Lord Snooty]

Is it Tea yet? Or Lunch? Confused!