short, pulled, lobs to the keeper, and that's the end of that! No reviews left, so Gabriel has no second opinion, so it is England who draw first blood in this best-of-three rubber!
West Indies vs England, 1st ODI at North Sound, , Mar 03 2017 - Ball by Ball Commentary
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1st ODI, North Sound, March 03, 2017, England tour of West Indies
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5.52pm So, that's it for now from Antigua. Have a read of George Dobell's match report, and join Alan and myself again on Sunday for the second match of this three-game series. Thanks for the feedback, sorry I couldn't count them all! Good night.
5.47pm Mayfield and Gravy have been invited to do the presentations! Meanwhile, here's Jason Holder: "Quite a few soft dismissals, if we'd taken our chances we'd have been better off. We dropped Eoin Morgan early on, but this is a ground where you can make ground back up. Jason and Jonathan got us a good partnership that gave us a chance to launch. It's a matter of going into the next game full of confidence."
Sure enough, Eoin Morgan is Man of the Match. "I've enjoyed my cricket more so since before Christmas, some runs in the Big Bash and continued it into India. Enjoyed some luck early on, but made the most of it."
"What's pleased me most is we produced everything we talked about before the series. It's set a high benchmark for the rest of the series."
5.34pm So, England are victorious by 45 runs in what was a more spirited West Indies chase than might have been predicted at 108 for 4 at the halfway mark. Jason Mohammed's 72 led the resistance with Jonathan Carter also chiming in with a half-century. But England's seamers found the right methods for a sluggish surface, with Chris Woakes and Liam Plunkett starring with four apiece. But the man of the match, surely, will be England's captain, Eoin Morgan, who paced his own performance and that of his team with a terrifically patient hundred. Back in a mo for the presentations.
Pizzazz: "Shoutout to Kapil who at the end of the first innings called it: "England have scored at least 45 too many to make it interesting"!!"
47.2
W
Plunkett to Gabriel, OUT
Shannon Gabriel c †Buttler b Plunkett 0 (4b 0x4 0x6 6m) SR: 0
gopaul misir fr: "don't depend on Gabriel for anything" Quite useful for annunciations, to be fair
47.1
1
Plunkett to Bishoo, 1 run
full length, outside off, pushed to third man
end of over 476 runs • 1 wicket
WI: 250/9CRR: 5.31 • RRR: 15.66
Shannon Gabriel0 (3b)
Devendra Bishoo11 (5b 2x4)
Chris Woakes 9-1-47-4
Steven Finn 9-0-49-0
David: "If Windies pull this off I will eat this keyboard" Mmm... crunchy, with a hint of dandruff
46.6
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Woakes to Gabriel, no run
lovely slower ball! Beaten all ends up, as it hops past the edge, stumps, and dribbles to the keeper. The full-blown back-of-the-hander
Abhay Arora: "It's not stats guru mr commentator. A rough figure would do. Like 10 or 100 or 231 or 142. " Eh? Are you still banging on? I. Don't. Know! "Lots" is my nearest guess!
46.5
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Woakes to Gabriel, no run
low full toss, but can't cash in
46.4
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Woakes to Gabriel, no run
tight line to welcome the new batsman
Tharaka Jasenth: "What is this noisy ruckus? I wake up at the crack of dawn to find England playing a bit of cricket in the Caribbean! Quite splendid! " Hussah!
46.3
W
Woakes to Nurse, OUT
great riposte! Wider on the crease, a much fuller length, and pinned plumb in front! A long pause for thought from the umpire, and rightly, West Indies use the review, but hard to see how he'll be saved here... the angle was a touch deceptive, to be fair, but it is clipping leg, and off he goes
Ashley Nurse lbw b Woakes 21 (15b 0x4 2x6 21m) SR: 140
46.2
6
Woakes to Nurse, SIX runs
high and mighty! Seized on the width this time, and capitalised on a fractionally fuller length. Throws his hands through the line and that is clean into the stands at long-off!
46.1
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Woakes to Nurse, no run
outside off, hauled into the leg side as Woakes goes too wide to allow a conventional drive
end of over 4612 runs
WI: 244/8CRR: 5.30 • RRR: 13.25
Devendra Bishoo11 (5b 2x4)
Ashley Nurse15 (12b 1x6)
Steven Finn 9-0-49-0
Chris Woakes 8-1-41-3
45.6
4
Finn to Bishoo, FOUR runs
another mown boundary through the leg side, it's still improbable, but those two balls meant the runs briefly flowed at twice the required rate ...
45.5
4
Finn to Bishoo, FOUR runs
banged over cow corner, clearing the front foot and letting the bat do the rest
Abhay Arora: "If not the probability. At least you can tell the number of comments to @Aditya. Don't be so rude. " Easy tiger. I would count the comments, if I had a stadium's worth of fingers
45.4
1
Finn to Nurse, 1 run
banged in short, hoisted out to deep midwicket
45.3
1
Finn to Bishoo, 1 run
full length, and punched into the covers
45.2
1
Finn to Nurse, 1 run
an inside-out lofted drive down to third man, bounces just short of the man as they cross for a single
45.1
1
Finn to Bishoo, 1 run
width outside off, and jabbed down to third man
end of over 459 runs • 1 wicket
WI: 232/8CRR: 5.15 • RRR: 13.00
Devendra Bishoo1 (1b)
Ashley Nurse13 (10b 1x6)
Chris Woakes 8-1-41-3
Steven Finn 8-0-37-0
44.6
1
Woakes to Bishoo, 1 run
round the wicket, targeting the stumps, pushed to mid-on
44.5
1
Woakes to Nurse, 1 run
big wind-up, high in the air, who wants it, Moeen calls, and it plugs safe, just behind the bowler! Woakes himself was probably closest, but he would have had to pivot in his followthrough to get there
44.4
6
Woakes to Nurse, SIX runs
another slower ball, and there's no mercy for this one! Down on one knee, and utterly battered through cow corner
Well, what do you know ... how England would have swapped that shot .... but hey ho, water under several bridges now.
44.3
W
Woakes to Brathwaite, OUT
slower ball, massive wind-up, a spiralling outside edge, Root calls early on the edge of the circle and pouches what could be the killer catch!
Carlos Brathwaite c Root b Woakes 12 (12b 1x4 0x6 19m) SR: 100
44.2
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Woakes to Brathwaite, no run
striding onto the front foot, and wafted to the leg side
44.1
1
Woakes to Nurse, 1 run
swivel-pull, again not fully nailed, but another single to the cause
Woakes returns from the top end
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