Windies winners get chicken dinner
Roar Guru By art pagonis, 27 May 2012 The Crowd is a Roar Guru
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Can you believe Darren Sami and Marlon Samuels? Can you believe how much spirit this West Indies group have got?
Michael Holding has a broad smile today.
I think the Windies were 6/126 or some such when these two characters came together last night against the might of England, the World’s best Test Cricket nation.
And all they did was add 170 plus unbeaten.
Samuels knocks up a ton after a great showing at Lords in both innings. He is a great comeback story and a fine young man. He and Chanderpaul have learned that patience is the greatest virtue of all in Test Cricket.
Sami is a blast literally, and nice to see him destroy that petulant profligate Graeme Swann, who has gotten too big for his budgie smugglers lately. Sami walks the walk….especially with the ball in hand or the bat being wielded. He is a true Captain and could be the calm voice of reason on the field that the Windies haven’t had since Clive Lloyd.
England don’t have Tremlett and Finn to throw at the Windies, but the Windies don’t have Narine, Bravo 2 Gayle and Taylor…and guess what, the Poms don’t like the fight the Windies are putting up because they’re expected to win.
What I like about the Windies is that the boys at the top of the order are picking up so much experience and improving at a great rate.
Barath, Powell and Bravo might not have gotten big scores last night but they are definitely wonderful players with a hell of a lot of potential.
Harnessing the pace attack and the spinners is now Sami and the Board’s big test.
They can be better than India and as good as Australia, England and South Africa if they get everyone on the same page.
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May 27th 2012 @ 4:06am
Johnno said | May 27th 2012 @ 4:06am | Report comment
It’s an open secret in cricket circles that Marlon Samuels was seen as a more naturally talented batsmen than Brian Lara, he just had some misfortune in his career and lacked the work ethic as he has known to be lazy, and some other off field scandals in his prime. But Marlon is magically talented. He made his debut in Jimmy Adams captaincy of the west indies tour of Australia aged just 19 in 2000 with no red stripe domestic cup matches under his belt. And he tope scored out of the windies players at the MCG boxing day test in both innings in the year 2000.
May 27th 2012 @ 7:50am
Lolly said | May 27th 2012 @ 7:50am | Report comment
He is qutie fantastic to watch. When he’s on , he makes batting look like a stroll in the park.
May 28th 2012 @ 1:50am
Brendon said | May 28th 2012 @ 1:50am | Report comment
He and Sarwan never realised their full potential. A common story amongst West Indian players of the past 12 years.
May 27th 2012 @ 8:02am
Disco said | May 27th 2012 @ 8:02am | Report comment
One good partnership – no more, no less.
‘England vanquished!’ by the tone of this article.
May 27th 2012 @ 1:57pm
Rhys said | May 27th 2012 @ 1:57pm | Report comment
I don’t know who this ‘Sami’ character is, but Darren Sammy is a genuinely inspirational captain. Not the most gifted player going around, but a committed performer.
May 27th 2012 @ 2:47pm
Rabbitz said | May 27th 2012 @ 2:47pm | Report comment
As long as it was Jamaican Jerk Chicken. mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
May 28th 2012 @ 1:54am
Brendon said | May 28th 2012 @ 1:54am | Report comment
The West Indian top order is continuing to under perform badly failing badly in the 2nd innings. Chris Gayle is needed badly to come in as opener. Opening batsmen and finishing off the tail is West Indies big weakness. All this rebuilding will be for nothing if they can’t fix their batting problems post Chanderpaul.
No Finn or Tremlett is no big deal. Bresnan, Broad and Anderson are performing solidly.
May 28th 2012 @ 3:27am
JonnyP said | May 28th 2012 @ 3:27am | Report comment
They had a good partnership……. AND?? Anything to add now Art
May 28th 2012 @ 5:17pm
Rhys said | May 28th 2012 @ 5:17pm | Report comment
Apart from using the correct spelling ‘Sammy’, instead of this ‘Sami’ nonsense. Seriously, you would think a writer labelled as ‘guru’ would get the name of the article’s primary subject correct.
May 28th 2012 @ 9:32am
Pope Paul VII said | May 28th 2012 @ 9:32am | Report comment
Marlon’s on a roll and Dazza is nothing if not a fighter. I think the record for 7th wkt is 347. Might be a good day to break it.
May 29th 2012 @ 9:02am
Pope Paul VII said | May 29th 2012 @ 9:02am | Report comment
Oh well. Hope Marlon keeps up his form. Averaging over 100 at present.
May 31st 2012 @ 2:00am
KeepItReal said | May 31st 2012 @ 2:00am | Report comment
Sammy has many admirable qualities and his committment and passion can only be admired. There’s a lot more to like in him than the selfish Gayle. Sammy represents all that is good about sport; Gayle, Bravo & co. represent all that bad about professional sport.
Unfortunately Sammy is just not good enough to be a 3rd Test pace bowler, and he’s not good enough to be a No.6 batsman either.
Unless one of your other Top 6 batsman can be the 4th bowler (like a Flintoff or Kallis), there’s just not room in a Test side for a ‘bits and pieces’ allrounder.
The comments about the Top order can’t be “let thru to the ‘keeper”. The Top 4 were woeful against Aus and so far they have been no better against England. How can you possibly say they are improving at a great rate? All their averages and performances are in steep decline! I don’t see too much class in there except for Bravo.