🏏 :engerland: England (and :walesisntit: Wales) Cricket 2024

I cooked and ate a very nice Sainsbury’s Roast Lamb Shoulder while keeping Kitten amused and watching golf having seen they were 35’0.
Kitten’s asleep, golf is won, checks score.
Well played Bashir

All over. Huge collapse. Bashir gets his fifth

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Windies 88-1 after 23.3 overs

Windies 97-3 down at lunch

West Indies are 129 for 5 33-3 overs

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50 for Holder.
Da Silva on 47

Ben has tried everything inc the kitvhen sink to break the partnership
215-5

The kitchen sink got twatted for four

The bidet got rid of Da Silva. 49
I found TVP Info which actually has some images of Paris in the build up and soon as i looked away from the laptop…
224-6

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That was a catch by Root.
Top edge Smith jumps, over him, Root dives in behind Smith to snap it up having covered some ground.
You don’t see those very often

259-9

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England 38-3 after 8 overs Pope and Root in trail by 244 Close of play

79-5 Root 27
Stokes 7

Follow on avoided

157-5 at Lunch Root 58 Stokes 48

12,000 Test runs for Root.
166-5 1st over back

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Stokes gone, victim of his own kitchen sink tactic

Now 191-6 after a massive strike from Smith for 6

Belted the ball out the ground via the roof of The Hollies stand

Now 91 behind

218- 6 England trail West Indies by 64 runs with 4 wickets remaining

Root gone LBW 87
Still 51 behind
231-7

Jamie Smith 50
264-7
18 behind

England trail West Indies by 8 runs with 3 wickets remaining

And we have parity with 3 wickets remaining

Considering we were 54-5 it is a fine effort/recovery

291-7