India vs. West Indies 3rd Test

[kaliman2006]

West Indies going well so far at 454/3 Bravo 143* and Kieran Powell 73*. It is the session after lunch.

[vb]

WI 473/4...Powell out for 80, Bravo 154 NO.

VB

[kaliman2006]

West Indies 524/6. Bravo falls for 166, one short of Brian Lara's score in his 13th test match and Baugh falls for 4, playing on to a delivery from Aaron, India's debutant pacer.

Baugh is really a dunce with the bat.

[banton]

   AB Barath    c †Dhoni b Ashwin    62    148    8    0    41.89    

   KC Brathwaite    c Kohli b Ashwin    68    184    8    0    36.95    

   KA Edwards    c †Dhoni b Sharma    86    165    13    0    52.12    

    DM Bravo    c †Dhoni b Aaron    166    284    17    0    58.45    

   KOA Powell    c †Dhoni b Ojha    81    149    9    0    54.36    

    MN Samuels    c Dravid b Ashwin    61    103    9    0    59.22    


   CS Baugh†    b Aaron    4    6    1    0    66.66    




   DJG Sammy*    c †Dhoni b Aaron    3    6    0    0    50.00    

   R Rampaul    c Kohli b Ashwin    10    14    2    0    71.42    
   FH Edwards    not out    7    22    1    0    31.81    
   D Bishoo    not out    2    7    0    0    28.57    
   Extras    (b 8, lb 15, nb 2)    25                
                  
   Total    (9 wickets; 181 overs)    575    

[Aviator]

I really hope Sammy declares over-night and then proceeds to go on the attack. Our chances of losing are very small from this position. Even when taking into consideration that the Indian batsmen are more aggressive and will more than likely take 5 instead of the 6 sessions we have taken to get to 575, that still puts us at tea on the 4th day!!. If they get that far they will want to bat on and mount a lead, so we looking at the morning session on the 5th day.

It will be damn hard to bowl out India twice on this track on any for that matter, but we have to give it a try.

Come on Sammy be smart.....

[ann3boys]

Yay! something to celebrate! Congrats to Darren Bravo! Congrats to the six batsmen who made over 50s 

[Dumplingdinho]

we can always score runs when it dont matter...that pitch is dead so tendulkar can score a century.

[Bitter]

we can always score runs when it dont matter...that pitch is dead so tendulkar can score a century.94

 

[kaliman2006]

we can always score runs when it dont matter...that pitch is dead so tendulkar can score a century.94

 

  Serves him right for bussing style and sitting out the tour to the West indies earlier this year.

Ah glad is ah trini who get him out.

[Socapro]

http://www.trinidadexpress.com/sports/Big_Runs-134440193.html

Big Runs
Bravo (166) leads WI onslaught
Story Created: Nov 24, 2011 at 12:41 AM ECT

MUMBAI

Elegant stroke-maker Darren Bravo stroked his second successive century and his third in six innings to lead a fabulous West Indies batting effort against India in the third and final Test here yesterday.
 
The left-hander carved out a superb 166 to follow up his 136 last week in Kolkata as West Indies finished the second day at the Wankhede Stadium on a mammoth 575 for nine.
 
Resuming on 57 with the Windies 267 for two, he passed 1 000 runs in his 12th Test en route to yet another milestone in his fledgling career.
 
He hit 17 fours in 284 balls at the crease and was one of the six top order batsmen to pass fifty, as fellow left-hander Kieran Powell stroked 81 and Marlon Samuels got 61.
 
Bravo extended his overnight 117-run, third wicket stand with Kirk Edwards (86) to 164 before putting on a further 160 for the fourth wicket with Powell.
 
Edwards resumed the day on 65 and seemed set for his third Test century in six Tests before becoming the only wicket to fall before lunch. The right-hander counted 13 fours off 165 balls.
 
Drawing comparisons with his illustrious countryman Brian Lara for his fluent strokeplay, Bravo also looked good for his maiden double century until he became debutant fast bowler Varun Aaron's first of three victims.
 
Aaron finished with three for 104 runs while off-spinner Ravichandran Ashwin got four for 154, to be the leading bowler.
 
West Indies maintained a brisk run rate, scoring 308 runs in the day – 111 in the first session, 116 in the second, and 81 in the last when five wickets fell in a heap for just 48 runs.
 
It was a hard day for the Indians on the field on a benign pitch, forcing captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni to use as many as seven bowlers, but the West Indies batsmen carried on from where they had left off Tuesday evening.
 
Bravo made his intentions clear right from the start, cracking Aaron for fours off the first two balls of the day. In the young fast bowler's next over, Edwards went one better, hitting him for three fours.
 
Seamer Ishant Sharma finally gave the Indian team something to cheer for by removing Edwards before lunch with an excellent delivery that pitched just outside off and took the outside edge through to Dhoni for one of his five catches.
 
The 21-year-old Powell, who came in for injured veteran left-hander Shivnarine Chanderpaul, kept the scoreboard moving at a fast clip. He struck six boundaries in the first six overs he faced and the 50-run stand for the fourth-wicket came up off just 66 balls.
 
Bravo, meanwhile, got to his third Test century in style with a four off Ashwin, a beautiful drive that pierced cover. Powell reached his half-century off 91 deliveries and also seemed poised for three figures in only his fourth Test when he edged a cut at left-arm spinner Pragyan Ojha into Dhoni's gloves. He faced 149 balls and hit nine fours.
 
India tasted success seven overs after tea when Bravo slashed at one from Aaron and give Dhoni another simple catch.
 
His dismissal cut short a promising 44-run, fifth wicket stand with Samuels and sparked a collapse as wickets tumbled cheaply.
 
The right-handed Samuels, who cracked nine boundaries off 103 balls, then held the innings together before he was ninth out.

[Socapro]

http://www.trinidadexpress.com/sports/Bravo_destined_for_greatness__says_Lara-134476453.html

Bravo destined for greatness, says Lara
By Kwame Laurence kwame.laurence@trinidadexpress.com
Story Created: Nov 24, 2011 at 11:50 PM ECT

Brian Lara is excited about Darren Bravo's recent success in Test cricket and believes he will become an all-time great. However, Lara has warned the 22-year-old batsman that he is now a marked man.
 
Bravo notched his third century in four Tests when he scored 166 against India in Mumbai on Wednesday.
 
Lara, a batting genius who has the highest score in Tests (400 not out) as well as the highest score in first class cricket (501 not out), was inducted into the First Citizens Sports Foundation Hall of Fame on Wednesday. Afterwards, he complimented current West Indies batsmen, Kraigg Brathwaite, Adrian Barath, Kirk Edwards and Bravo.
 
"It's been excellent. We haven't won any Test matches in India, but I still believe that the young players have done a great job. Number one, two, three, four—they don't even have 50 Test matches between them, but they all look very good— Brathwaite, Barath, Edwards and Bravo, of course. He seemed to go from strength to strength. It took a bit of time before he got his first hundred, but now he's had a taste of it and he's going to carry on.
 
"He (Bravo) will just have to keep going," Lara continued. "He's got to understand now that a lot of the opposition will start looking at him—the Australians, the English, because he's now a recognised player, and he will come under a bit of pressure. Hopefully, he has the maturity to come out of it."
 
While delivering the feature address at the Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony, former West Indies fast bowler Wes Hall predicted phenomenal success for the young Trinidad and Tobago batsman.
 
"Darren Bravo," Hall declared, "will be the next great West Indian batsman that will gladden our hearts. I know that they said he looks and plays like Lara. Lara has done great things. He's the only man in the world that has scored a hundred, 200, 300, 400 and 500 runs in a cricket match. I am saying to you that Darren Bravo will be the next great West Indian batsman, and I think if he remains healthy throughout his career, could actually eclipse those records that we hold so dear."
 
Lara concurred.

"I believe what Wes Hall said. He's going to be one of the great players."

While Lara is pleased with Bravo's progress, he is disheartened about the state of West Indies cricket.
 
"I still believe that the infrastructure for our cricket is very poor, and there's nothing to build on. I still believe that what we're seeing out in the middle is raw talent. I don't believe they're getting what is necessary to harness their talent to make it something on a world stage on a consistent level that we're going to be very proud of.
 
"You're seeing some of the best young players in the world," Lara continued. "Three, four years from now, hopefully they're still holding up under the pressure, because it's a pressure situation. You're playing cricket, you're not winning, you've got to make a career for yourself at the same time. Until I see a few things done, administration and infrastructure-wise, I still believe we're going to have those sporadic performances where we're going to beat the best in the world, but it's not going to be on a consistent basis."

[kaliman2006]

West Indies as usual trying their best to lose this match due to the inability of their batsmen to play spin properly. 117/6 in the 2nd innings. Marlon Samuels and Carlton Baugh played some especially atrocious shots. Bravo's shot was not that great either.

[Savannah boy]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gp14Vct0-Ak

I feel dey does teach dis shot in de Jamaican Cricket Academy. Carlton Baugh do de same dotishness jes now and get out for one.  Yuh doh cover drive an off spin bowler like dat if it not overpitched unless yuh sure it was a doosra, top spinner or a straight ball.  Going against the spin comes with serious risk.  Dis fella is a senior batsman doing chupidness like dat.  He basically opening ah gap fuh de ball to spin through. He is a blasted dunce. Steups.

[Tenorsaw]

I just fed up of these collapses against the spin bowling.  For years, it's been obvious that WI vulnerable against good sping bowling, but nothing doing.  We need to really focus on teaching our batsmen how to play spin.  The paucity of good spin bowling in the Caribbean does not help us either, so is like our batsmen are mesmerized when they meet good spin bowling.  Now India might be daring and chase these runs for the whitewash.

[vb]

I just fed up of these collapses against the spin bowling.  For years, it's been obvious that WI vulnerable against good sping bowling, but nothing doing.  We need to really focus on teaching our batsmen how to play spin.  The paucity of good spin bowling in the Caribbean does not help us either, so is like our batsmen are mesmerized when they meet good spin bowling.  Now India might be daring and chase these runs for the whitewash.

I don't think this is entirely true. Spinners usually dominate the averages. They get an abundance of assistance at Bourda, the QPO and Kennsington. They've also done well at other venues.

Not surprisingly the better players of spin usually come from TT and Guyana, where these guys grow up facing them on pitches that usually aid spinners.

But I do believe that not only do the batsmen in general need some pointers. We need to support our spinners. In years gone by, they would bring down specialist coaches just to work with spinners and they usually give any good performer a spot on the WI A side.

However, our spinners are like our pacers. They may take wickets but how many usually stand out. Performing at regional level does not always mean they can carry it to the Test level.

I'm glad that Samuels is taking wickets but besides Bishoo wasn't there another class spinner that could've stepped in for Edwards?

VB

[Bitter]

As always, never a dull moment.

I go to bed, this match is headed for a sleepy draw. I wake up and is last-ball drama to salvage a draw.

[Dumplingdinho]

west indies has to be the 2nd $hittiest sports team in the world.

[rotatopoti3]

west indies has to be the 2nd $hittiest sports team in the world.

Nightmare..yuh had meh taxing meh brain for ah while... with that presumptuous comment then ah realized what Numero Uno wuz.....

[Tenorsaw]

I just fed up of these collapses against the spin bowling.  For years, it's been obvious that WI vulnerable against good sping bowling, but nothing doing.  We need to really focus on teaching our batsmen how to play spin.  The paucity of good spin bowling in the Caribbean does not help us either, so is like our batsmen are mesmerized when they meet good spin bowling.  Now India might be daring and chase these runs for the whitewash.

I don't think this is entirely true. Spinners usually dominate the averages. They get an abundance of assistance at Bourda, the QPO and Kennsington. They've also done well at other venues.

Not surprisingly the better players of spin usually come from TT and Guyana, where these guys grow up facing them on pitches that usually aid spinners.

But I do believe that not only do the batsmen in general need some pointers. We need to support our spinners. In years gone by, they would bring down specialist coaches just to work with spinners and they usually give any good performer a spot on the WI A side.

However, our spinners are like our pacers. They may take wickets but how many usually stand out. Performing at regional level does not always mean they can carry it to the Test level.

I'm glad that Samuels is taking wickets but besides Bishoo wasn't there another class spinner that could've stepped in for Edwards?

VB

I hear what yuh saying, and yes Guyans and TT have historically provided the better spinners that have been produced in the region, but generally, the WI is not serious about really breeding good spinners in the other islands.  Besides Rawle Lewis, who has really come out of the other islands recently?  We are not accustomed to facing good spin bowling on a regular basis in regional competition.  Plus, there has to be a deliberate effort to produce more spinners in the WI.  When you go to the subcontinent and even places like Australia, you need to have two spinners you could take on tour.

[Dumplingdinho]

west indies has to be the 2nd $hittiest sports team in the world.

Nightmare..yuh had meh taxing meh brain for ah while... with that presumptuous comment then ah realized what Numero Uno wuz.....

lol...that should have been easy man.