equatorSeems to be broken.
The most telling aspect of the whole debacle was the look on Chris Gayle’s face as Dyson called Sammy and Miller to the pavillion. He KNEW his coach had got it wrong.
It was noticeable that, thoughout the debate which followed the players leaving the field, it was Andrew Strauss who took the lead for England, but Gayle stayed very much in the background.
There can be little doubt, now, where the balance of power in the West Indian team lies. But Dyson just loosened his grip just a little.
There’s an old theory that, in 50 over cricket, you reckon on your score at 50 overs being at least double what you have at 30. That’s even more the case now that the batting side usually has a powerplay up their sleeves at that point. At 30 overs the West Indians were 130-1 and cruising. To lose from there, well, that’s the sort of thing England would do.
Dyson has done a fine job of bringing together the famously fractious Windies. Now they have lost a game they could and should have won, and all due to his misjudgment. Not only are England now 1-0 up, the home side has just given themselves a bigger psychological blow than a mere defeat ever would have done.
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Skiver,
Good piece that.
Who was Jord?
Nice spelling.
Would have felt v sorry for W Indian coach for the error – but he’s an Aussie so smirking a lot
Is this his application for the England job?
Did he go to school?
This is the curse of the parallax error. Beware the curse!!!!!!!!!!!!
This is why I love cricket: http://harrissports.wordpress.com/2009/03/21/play-the-game-son/
I noticed Gayle’s demeanour too. I interpreted it that he disagreed with the cowardice showed by Dyson. Why should they take the light when they could bat it out and win properly?
I am continually amazed at people’s inability to read a table across and down. Or am I missing something and is it in fact very complicated for people to read (not calculate) the DL system?
It is if you look at the chart and forget that you’ve just lost a wicket!