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Two Winters and One Summer of English Cricket and Continued Adventures
Logie66:
Day 2 - First Session
We get to the ground nice and early, crowd not so large today the locals have to work !! Everyone is hoping that KP is going to produce some fireworks and entertain the England masses with a swashbuckling innings.
Play get"s underway and nightwatchman Jimmy Anderson is the early casualty, well done Jimmy you work was completed last night protecting KP. Paul Collingwood strides out, he needs an innings !!
Colly takes the game to the Windies bowlers and is the more aggressive, KP seems to go in his shell a bit and Colly keeps the momentum, dispatching the bowlers to the boundary at will. KP plays a delightful pull for four, shot of the morning.
Kp and Colly see us through to lunch with no further loss, 90 runs from the session and Collingwoods fifty in the final over, good knock of just 77 balls. He outpaced KP ;D
Logie66:
Day 2 - Second Session
Play gets going after lunch and it"s spin from both ends, the England batsmen don"t seem to have any problems and the runs keep ticking over, 400 is passed and KP reaches his 50, a reserved knock from KP today but he"s still contrbuting and playing for the team.
Gayle decides to shake it up a bit and brings the Windies best bowler Taylor back on, first ball he sends KP packing and back to the stands, appeared to keep a bit low but Taylor makes the break through, here comes Freddie, there goes Freddie :o
His stumps are everywhere but in the ground, oh well, we"ll have to look forward to his bowling later !! So a mini collapse and we"re 405-6, Matt Prior joins Colly.
Prior and Colly steady the boat, Prior takes the lead and dominates scoring and the strike. Colly takes a bit of a breather and watches from the other end. Prior goes just before tea after a 62 partnership of which he scored 39, good effort that. Young Broad joins Colly and they see the game through to tea, England are 482-7 and looking in a strong position now.
We expect some fireworks after tea as England are expected to score quickly before declaring, giving themselves a few overs at the Windies this evening.
APAT:
This is great Don, sounds like the trip has been rescued! You"ll have to do an honourary APAT live update later in the season, to keep your hand in. :D
Logie66:
Day 2 - Final Session
Broad and Colly resume after tea and once again Collingwood struggles to get much of the strike, it seems that young Broad has been given counting lessons by Boycott as he takes a single on the last ball of the over on a lot of occassions nicking the strike.
He does make the most of it though, hitting some superb boundaries and gets the run rate up once more, is he going to get to fifty before Colly get"s his hundred. Don"t count on it, Colly takes an age to get to 90, but once there he rushes through and scores his eighth Test century, another good knock, Chris Gayle must be asking himself why he asked England to bat on this wicket !!
As soon as Colly gets his hundred, Broad departs for 44, great looking innings from the young lad. Swann strolls to the wicket and starts to have a bit of a bish-bosh, England are after quick runs now, a decleration can"t be far away. Another 37 is added by this pair before Collingwood is caught right on the boundary going for a big hit, Strauss delclares and England have notched up 566 runs.
A good total, but not much in the wicket, will the England bowlers be able to fare any better !!
Logie66:
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