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[locky801]

8/122

Rizwan back in the sheds

Warrican heading for the MOM IMO

Good call. Also named man of the series. 19 wickets and a not insignificant 86 runs.

Like the look of him, if only the Windies could be more consistently good

[DOC]

Yep. Didn’t like losing to them but for the sake of world cricket we need them.

[Brodlach]

Windies first win in Pakistan since 1990

[The Dark Knight]

8/122

Rizwan back in the sheds

Warrican heading for the MOM IMO

Good call. Also named man of the series. 19 wickets and a not insignificant 86 runs.

Like the look of him, if only the Windies could be more consistently good

I don't think they can be consistently good with such a weak batting line up but with three handy spinners and a decent pace attack if they get Bunsen burners or Green seamers they could be more of a chance than playing on flat wickets. Will be interesting to see what pitches they produce when Australia travel to the Caribbean in the middle of the year, bowling friendly wickets will give them a chance of winning another test against Australia.

It was obviously the pitch that helped the Windies the most in winning the match, Bunsens like that definitely even up the contest and the Windies spinners out performed the Pakistani spinners. A pitch like that can cancel out the fact that the Windies batting lineup is alot weaker than Pakistan's.

[The Dark Knight]

Day three stats-https://www.espncricinfo.com/story/pak-vs-wi-stats-jomel-warrican-dominates-a-series-made-for-spinners-in-multan-1470641

[whufc]

Great to see the Windies on the rise slightly.

[Brodlach]

Great to see the Windies on the rise slightly.

They played a group of LO 4’s

[whufc]

Great to see the Windies on the rise slightly.

They played a group of LO 4’s

Absolutely, but remember the Windies were the LO'4's a few years ago. Throw in the win against Australia last summer and there is the smallest glimmer of light at the end of the tunnel.

[mal]

TDK
Ive taken the liberty to post a result
Shepparton Dogs
RACE 11
7/4/2025
1st Rabarda
2nd Virat

[The Dark Knight]

Bit of a watch on this (news from yesterday)- Temba Bavuma has a left elbow injury, the same one he has injured before, fracturing it in 2022 missing three months then injured it last year during an ODI against Ireland and missed SA's test series against Bangladesh. It's 8 weeks until the WTC Final so he could be in a race against time to be fit for it. He has been SA's second highest run scorer in this WTC cycle averaging 60.90 in 7 tests being their best batter in tests of late.
https://www.espncricinfo.com/story/sout ... al-1480538

[mal]

Some of the Bavuma digs were made in bowler dominated matches- so that average is superb
For a sMAl man he will be a BIG loss

[locky801]

1st test Bangladesh Vs Zimbabwe

Bangladesh 191
Haque 56

Zimbabwe 273
Williams 59
Bennett 57
Hasan 5/52

Bangladesh currently 2/118 lead by 36

[locky801]

Rohit Sharma announces his retirement from Test cricket

Over 4300 runs at an average 40.6 with 12 centuries and 18 x 50's

[Armchair expert]

Ended up with a decent record for a bloke that was penciled as a white ball only player for the early part of his career.

[Armchair expert]

Now Kohli has retired from test cricket.

[locky801]

Now Kohli has retired from test cricket.

https://www.foxsports.com.au/cricket/ha ... zdqFXNCQig

[Armchair expert]

The man I dubbed the Windies Agar is now their captain

Roston Chase to captain the side against Australia next month.

[The Dark Knight]

The only test between England and Zimbabwe starts tomorrow night at Trent Bridge, it's a four day test match.
England have named their team, perhaps a prelude team for the one that will play India-
Crawley, Duckett, Pope, Root, Brook, Stokes (c), Smith (wk), Atkinson, Tongue, Sam Cook (debut), Bashir.

[RB]

The only test between England and Zimbabwe starts tomorrow night at Trent Bridge, it's a four day test match.

If I was supreme overlord of cricket, this match wouldn't be accorded test status.

[Brodlach]

TBH even if it was a 10 day test match it would still be over in 3 days