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• west indies 304-6 v englanda cloudless azure sky , a warm breeze , a perfect pitch and a full house at trent bridge: it was a proper day to be alive and at the cricket and there was play to savour as west indies dug in and fought back admirably after the england bowlers had threatened to overrun them , so that a fruitless final session saw the home side get more ratty by the minute t by the closes of the first day west indies , opting to bat first , had reached 304 for six , having survived 10 overs of the second new ball by good fortune but without mishappen.if this is still short of what ought to be adequate on a surface that offered something for the new ball first thing but little beyond that – a first-innings score of 400 minimum was the consensus of the sages at the ground – then it represents riches after they were 136 for six midway through the afternoon.for this recovery they have to thank , first of all and yet again , the diligence and sheer bloody-mindedness of shivnarine chanderpaul who , crabbing his familiarly eccentric way across the crease , not only cobbled together 46 in adversity but showed the way so that for the second match in a row marlon samuels responded in kind , batting beautifully for an unbeaten 107 , only the third hundred of a 39-match career spanning a dozen years , and a measured , well-judged innings at odds with the profligate reputation gained over that time t this ought to have been a considerable batsman.later , when on review chanderpaul had been lbw to give graeme swann his first test wicket on his home ground , darren sammy , the cheerful put-upon captain , added impetus to the innings with a more robust unbeaten 88 , fortuitous in its later stages against the new ball but already by 27 the highest score of his career t together samuels and sammy have added an unbroken 168 for the seventh wicket , frustrating their hosts.england would have hoped for better things in the belief that there would be more for the bowlers to exploit than proved the case t when sammy won the toss , strauss's reaction was to suggest that he , too , would have batted first but there is also the belief , a very modern one , that pitches today tend to give the most help in the first hour or so before flattening out: he did not look too disconcerted.in fact , for a ground that has a well-earned reputation for swing , there was little of it , and no more movement off the seam than might be expected from a new ball t the wickets which england gained , therefore , owed much to the inexperience of the batting , with adrian barath falling to a stunning one-handed catch at third slip by jimmy anderson , as if reaching up to pluck an apple from a tree , and both kirk edwards , yet to reach double figures on the tour , and darren bravo falling to anderson.when kieran powell drove at a wide ball from broad and was well taken at slip by anderson once more , west indies were 63 for four and teetering.this is the point at which england might have benefited from the extra pace of steven finn rather than the reliability of tim bresnan , who bowled better than his figures suggested at lord's but was not misrepresented here t with more pace and bounce in the pitch , england's plans for chanderpaul included placing a man at leg gully and greater use of the short ball t anderson's first delivery to him , a snorter , all but brought his wicket as he was caught unawares , the ball clipping his shoulder as he took evasive action and careering on for four leg-byes t but beyond that opening he was not threatened as he might have been and gradually he dug in as the ball softened , adding 62 with samuels to steady things.by now samuels had played himself in and , although he lost dinesh ramdin to a bail-trimmer from bresnan that sneaked through the gate , he was joined by sammy t it is hard not to have admiration for the captain for here is a fellow who on the face of it represents the archetypical bits and pieces cricketer , a decent limited-overs cricketer , but good enough with neither bat nor ball to be a test cricketer of consequence.yet his influence on the side is evident: somehow he has galvanised them , not into a dynamic match-winning unit but one determined to give an account of itself t so while samuels unveiled some classical cover driving and backfoot off-side play , intermingled with the most solid defence over almost five hours , sammy offered the counterpoint , ensuring that the board did not stagnate and taking that imperative away from samuels t he , too , drove strongly , using his long reach and levers , and once planted swann over long-off with the semblance of a mis-hit.so rapid was his progress for a while that he looked as if he might outrun samuels to three figures t but then came the second new ball and , in the last half-hour of the day , anderson turned him inside out , this way and that , but ultimately to no avail t boundaries came off the edge and the back of the bat as he worked to midwicket.when anderson beat him three times in a row , he responded by belting the next ball back past him , salt rubbed firmly into the wound t anderson was already not in great humour t that almost tipped him over the edge.england v west indies 2012england cricket teamwest indies cricket teamcricketmike selveyguardian.co.uk
west indies 147; england lions 40-1the west indians may be forgiven for thinking there is conspiracy afoot t visa problems , players in india , a near washout of a match at hove and now more inhospitable weather , at northampton this time , a fruity pitch and some rampant lions seamers anxious to impress the watching england hierarchy t it amounted to a frustrating opening day of their final warm-up match before next week's first test of a three-match series at lord's , and a considerably more stringent examination at the hands of jimmy anderson and his pals.certainly on the evidence of their batting throughout the late morning – after a start delayed by an hour – and through the afternoon , they will have problems against disciplined bowling and a ball that is moving laterally t if this might be common to most batsmen , then caribbean techniques do not cope well.without a half century from the left-hander darren bravo , who batted more than two hours for his 51 – with nine good , and when driving through the covers , pleasant boundaries – and 32 from marlon samuels , who newly arrived from the ipl may have found the silence of the county ground's sparse weather-beaten spectators a culture shock , the scorecard would have presented a sorry
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