March 17, 2011. Today a very important match is being played between West Indies and England. West Indies evened things up against England when Devendra Bishoo snared the wicket of well-set Jonathan Trott three short of what would have been a well-deserved half-century in their crucial World Cup Group B match at the MA Chidambaram Stadium in Chennai.
Trott kept finding the boundaries with increasing regularity after he walked in after the exit of Matt Prior for 21.
He biffed three boundaries in one over of Russell before taking West Indies captain Darren Sammy for two fours in the next over.
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Earlier, Andrew Strauss gave England innings the early momentum before falling to Andre Russell for 31.
Strauss started on a quiet note before collecting his first boundary off Kemar Roach in the fifth over. He flicked the same bowler in the seventh bowler before pulling Andre Russell for a boundary. He enhanced his aggression, whacking a six off Darren Sammy in the next over.
Strauss fell to Russell for 31.
Brief Scores: England 131 for 3 in 25 overs (Jonathan Trott 47, Andrew Strauss 31, Ian Bell 26*; Andre Russell 2 for 28, Devendra Bishoo 1 for 17) vs West Indies.
ICC Cricket World Cup 2011 Standings
| Teams | Played | Won | Lost | Tied | N/R | NRR | Points |
|---|
| Group A | |||||||
| Australia | 5 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 1 | +1.693 | 9 |
| New Zealand | 5 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | +1.957 | 8 |
| Pakistan | 5 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | +0.729 | 8 |
| Sri Lanka | 5 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | +2.705 | 7 |
| Zimbabwe | 5 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 0 | -0.669 | 2 |
| Canada | 6 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 0 | -1.987 | 2 |
| Kenya | 5 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | -3.005 | 0 |
| Group B | |||||||
| South Africa | 5 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | +1.606 | 8 |
| India | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | +0.768 | 7 |
| West Indies | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | +2.206 | 6 |
| Bangladesh | 5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | -0.765 | 6 |
| England | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | +0.013 | 5 |
| Ireland | 5 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 0 | -0.881 | 2 |
| Netherlands | 5 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | -2.386 | 0 |
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If England losses this match, then they will be out of the ICC World CUP 2011. Its a DO OR DIE match for England.
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Six games and six close ones at that. How England conspired to make them happen one wouldn’t know but it must be said that their survival in the tournament could augur well for the fans, allowing them a chance to dole out more of such pot-boilers.
It would have been interesting to be a fly on that West Indian dressing room walls when the side went back for their dinner break after bowling England out for 243. They seemed to have gone in with a clear mandate, see ball, hit ball. And to be fair, each time the ball was in the batsmen’s half of the crease, they went after the bowling.
The target equated to an asking rate of less than five runs per over and at different stages in the game, there were different batsmen who batted like the game had to be finished off in 20 overs.
What also confounded many was the batting order that the West Indians went with. Apart from the opening pair of Chris Gayle and Devon Smith, none of the other top-order batsmen batted at their predefined positions.
Darren Sammy batted at three, who was followed by a surprising move to push Devon Thomas to four while Kieron Pollard and Ramnaresh Sarwan batted further down as well but the common thread binding the batsmen together was that they did not shy away from depositing the bowlers over the long-on and mid-wicket fence.
Chasing 244 for the win, Gayle and Smith added 58, of which the former made 43 (21 balls) before being declared out lbw to James Tredwell. There were eight boundaries and a six and included an 18-run over off Chris Tremlett.
Smith followed soon after but that did not deter Sammy from continuing from where Gayle had left off. He slapped three sixes in a typically Caribbean style of batting, to go with his two boundaries, and got to 41 (29 balls). Sammy’s batting was simple; if there was a ball that could be hit, he would wind up and beat the leather off it, if he couldn’t, he would defend. An inside-edge off Ravi Bopara nipped his cameo short.
Kieron Pollard’s was an important wicket and that left West Indies struggling at 150 for 6 in the 28th over, a position from where the English should have considered themselves as favourites.
It was Ramnaresh Sarwan’s cool head that guided Andre Russell through the initial nervousness. However, once Russell got that first six out of the way – flying over the leg-side off Tremlett – the rest of the innings was a blur.
There were a couple of more sixes and boundaries in his innings of 49 that seemed to have got West Indies through to the target.
22 were needed with almost nine overs and four wickets remaining when the game turned again. First it was Russell, who had earlier survived a catch at the boundary – declared six by the third umpire when the falling fielder’s shirt touched the fence – became Tredwell’s fourth victim. Sarwan and Kemar Roach were then consumed by Graeme Swann before Sulieman Benn was run-out, handing England over a stunning win.
Surprisingly, there were changes galore for a game that was as important as this. England chose Luke Wright, James Tredwell and Chris Tremlett in place of Paul Collingwood, Ajmal Shahzad and James Anderson whereas West Indies had Devendra Bishoo making his debut instead of Nikita Miller while getting back the injured Chris Gayle at the expense of the experienced Shivnarine Chanderpaul.
England would have expected to get to a much bigger total than what they finally got, after the kind of start that they had after winning the toss. Clearly, the ‘tenting’ session on the pitch at Chennai had had its effect and the track looked far easier to bat on than the one in the game between England and South Africa.
However, after Andrew Strauss and Jonathon Trott had done their bit at the start of the innings, the middle-order collapsed in a manner that one has come to associate with the side in this World Cup.
Matt Prior left early but the partnership between Strauss and Trott got the innings early momentum. Strauss made 31 but it was Trott who was surprisingly aggressive from the time he set foot at the crease – hitting six of the first nine balls that he faced to the fence.
Strauss departed but Trott and Ian Bell nursed the innings through to 121 for 2 in the 22nd over before it well wrong for the middle-order.
Trott departed just short of his half century when he edged one to the short mid-wicket and this was followed by the dismissals of Bell, Eoin Morgan and Ravi Bopara. England slumped to 151 for six.
The revival came in the form of some lower-order hacking by Luke Wright (44) who playing in his first World Cup game and a 27-ball 20 by Tim Bresnan propelled the side to 243 all out in the 49th over.
Andre Russell was the pick of the bowlers with a four-wicket haul whereas Bishoo scalped three.
Brief Scores: England 243 all out in 48.4 overs (Jonathon Trott 47, Luke Wright 44; Andre Russell 4 for 49, Devendra Bishoo 3 for 34) bt West Indies 225 all out in 44.4 overs (Andre Russell 49, Chris Gayle 43; James Tredwell 4 for 48, Chris Gayle 43) by 18 runs.
Man of the Match: James Tredwell
THE Present Tally is as under:-
ICC Cricket World Cup 2011 Standings
| Teams | Played | Won | Lost | Tied | N/R | NRR | Points |
|---|
| Group A | |||||||
| Australia | 5 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 1 | +1.693 | 9 |
| New Zealand | 5 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | +1.957 | 8 |
| Pakistan | 5 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | +0.729 | 8 |
| Sri Lanka | 5 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | +2.705 | 7 |
| Zimbabwe | 5 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 0 | -0.669 | 2 |
| Canada | 6 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 0 | -1.987 | 2 |
| Kenya | 5 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | -3.005 | 0 |
| Group B | |||||||
| South Africa | 5 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | +1.606 | 8 |
| India | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | +0.768 | 7 |
| England | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | +0.072 | 7 |
| West Indies | 5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | +1.650 | 6 |
| Bangladesh | 5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | -0.765 | 6 |
| Ireland | 5 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 0 | -0.881 | 2 |
| Netherlands | 5 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | -2.386 | 0 |
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