West Indies vs India.

[Arthur Crabtree]

Bostin from Roston- 2fer. Might be good for India that the spinner has a couple. Though the first one sounded like batter error.

[backfootpunch]

Bostin from Roston- 2fer. Might be good for India that the spinner has a couple. Though the first one sounded like batter error.

According to cricinfo the second one was as well

Says Rahane missed a full toss

[Aidan11]

India should get 200 but it wont be easy.

[Arthur Crabtree]

Difficult to know how bad is too bad for India, given WI are unlikely to score many.

[Dr Cricket]

Difficult to know how bad is too bad for India, given WI are unlikely to score many.

TBH reckon even a crap WI team could score 300 here.
So india would need around 200 to be in the game.
looks like taking the handicap into account after india bowled out it would be an 50-50 game in the first innings.

[Dr Cricket]

India might struggle to make 200 now.

[Dr Cricket]

No ball, Ashwin Survives.

[backfootpunch]

India might struggle to make 200 now.

Back foot no ball

Don't see that too often

[Aidan11]

Decent recovery so far.

[Arthur Crabtree]

Slow though. A couple of wickets with the new ball and India are struggling again.

[Arthur Crabtree]

Not going to get the bleeding overs in!

[Arthur Crabtree]

Three hour fifty for Ashwin. Well done lad.

[Dr Cricket]

Slow though. A couple of wickets with the new ball and India are struggling again.

looks like the outfield is slow so you could take 50-100 runs out of the par total.
really 200 is probably worth 300 here.
impossible to get 4 or get value for your ground shots here.

Think 250 will be a good total and probably the par here.
reckon 200 might be the even handicap mark.

[Dr Cricket]

Not going to get the bleeding overs in!

WI quicks been worse than england, they been more laboured than england in the field.
Can't remember much stoppages as well.
doubt anything would happen though, ICC are quite toothless.
When I read the hales story today, I thought it was going to say ICC has given a warning to both sides to quicken the game up but nope it didn't.
wonder when ICC will take action in the overrates stuff.

West indies are not that slow normally since they have 2 spinners usually bowling.
doesn't help Gabriel is the slowest bowler to bowl his overs.

[backfootpunch]

The no ball and dropped catch of ashwin looking very costly for the windies

Since they are batting last they really need to get ahead of Indias first innings score