Tuesday, May 26, 2009

Live text - England v West Indies

Chris Gayle and Andrew Strauss

Live video scorecard with TMS commentary (UK users only)

Third one-day international, Edgbaston:
England v West Indies (1045 BST start)
Match scorecard

LIVE TEXT COMMENTARY (all times BST)

By Ben Dirs

606: DEBATE

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ENGLAND INNINGS

1st over - 0-0
Right, players are out, Andrew Strauss to take strike, and it's Jerome Taylor with the new pill in his hand. "Why do they have to change things?" is the mantra of one of my colleagues at work, and at the moment I understand why - bear with me, this auto refresh thingy might force the odd mistake... two slips and a gully in for Strauss, but Taylor's barely getting it through to Ramdin behind the stumps. The pitch appears to have the consistency of a vanilla cheesecake. Maiden over to start.

Former England wicketkeeper Paul Nixon on TMS:
"I think it will be slightly slower today, but it will seam about a bit later. Stuart Broad is coming on leaps and bounds, he strikes me as a future England captain."

1035: More grist for the mill for those who have been criticising the early start to this series - Edgbaston about a quarter full, if that, and we're only 10 minutes from lift-off. Actually looks pretty nice up in Birmingham as well, although Aggers has just been on TMS complaining about the cold, so who knows who to believe...

1030: As you've probably noticed, we're using auto refresh for pretty much all our lives now, and today is no exception. But if you manually refresh the page you will find Test Match Special's video scorecard at the top of the page, if you're in the UK that is.

1025: Despite the grey weather, we should be in for plenty of cricket today, although there is some talk of some showers around the 1600 BST mark. News just in that Windies skipper Chris Gayle has chosen correctly and put England into bat.

1014: England are unchanged from the side which thumped West Indies in Bristol on Sunday, which means Warwickshire batsman Ian Bell misses out:
England - Strauss, JM Anderson, RS Bopara, TT Bresnan, SCJ Broad, PD Collingwood, AD Mascarenhas, EJG Morgan, MJ Prior, OA Shah, GP Swann

1010: Morning all. England looking to wrap up this ODI series in Birmingham today, and one look out of the window suggests they're red hot favourites - murky all over England this morning, and Chris Gayle and his boys don't like it murky...

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