WI TOUR TO ENGLAND 2012

WI TOUR TO ENGLAND 2012

WI TOUR TO ENG

Clip OF 3rd TEST

WI VS ENGLAND 1st TEST DAY 4

Cricket-England win toss, to bowl

Reuters) - England won the toss on Saturday and chose to bowl first against West Indies on day three of the third and final test, after rain had completely washed out the first two days at Edgbaston.

England, seeking to sweep the series 3-0, controversially omitted Stuart Broad meaning they have now opted to rest their two leading fast bowlers after James Anderson was left out of the original squad.

Their places have gone to Graham Onions and Steven Finn.

West Indies made four changes to their side that was beaten at Trent Bridge, as the world's top-ranked batsman Shivnarine Chanderpaul missed out with a side injury

Struggling batsman Kirk Edwards also made way as Assad Fudadin came in for his test debut and Narsingh Deonarine was recalled.

Off-spinner Sunil Narine was also given a test debut in place of Shane Shillingford, while fast bowler Tino Best came back for his first test appearance in three years.

It is the first test match in England since 1964, when Australia were touring, to lose days one and two to the weather,

Teams:

England: Andrew Strauss (captain), Alastair Cook, Jonathan Trott, Kevin Pietersen, Ian Bell, Jonny Bairstow, Matt Prior (wicketkeeper), Tim Bresnan, Graeme Swann, Steven Finn, Graham Onions.

West Indies: Adrian Barath, Kieran Powell, Darren Bravo, Assad Fudadin, Marlon Samuels, Narsingh Deonarine, Denesh Ramdin, Darren Sammy, Tino Best, Sunil Narine, Ravi Rampaul. 

England vs West Indies

May-2012
Thu 17 - Mon 21 10:00 GMT, 11:00 local	1st Test - England v West Indies Lord's, London England won by 5 wickets |
Fri 25 - Mon 28 10:00 GMT, 11:00 local	2nd Test - England v West Indies Trent Bridge, Nottingham England won by 9 wickets |
Jun-2012
Thu 07 - Mon 11 10:00 GMT, 11:00 local	3rd Test - England v West Indies Edgbaston, Birmingham |
Sat 16 09:45 GMT, 10:45 local	1st ODI - England v West Indies County Ground, Southampton, Southampton
Tue 19 09:45 GMT, 10:45 local	2nd ODI - England v West Indies Kennington Oval, London
Fri 22 09:45 GMT, 10:45 local	3rd ODI - England v West Indies Headingley, Leeds
Sun 24 13:30 GMT, 14:30 local	Only T20I - England v West Indies Trent Bridge, Nottingham

3rd Test: England win toss, to bowl first vs West Indies

Birmingham: England has won the toss and opted to bowl first against West Indies in the third test at Edgbaston on Saturday. Play will finally begin at 1000 GMT on day three after the first two days were washed out by rain.

West Indies make four changes to the side that lost at Trent Bridge. Star batsman Shivnarine Chanderpaul is out with a side strain, his place taken by Narsingh Deonarine. Assad Fudadin and Sunil Narine make their test debuts, replacing Fidel Edwards and Shane Shillingford, while Tino Best comes in for Kemar RoachEngland also makes two changes, with bowlers Steven Finn and Graham Onions replacing James Anderson and Stuart Broad, both of whom are rested. England leads the three-Test series 2-0.

Teams:

England: Andrews Strauss (captain), Alastair Cook, Jonathan Trott, Kevin Pietersen, Ian Bell, Jonny Bairstow, Matt Prior, Tim Bresnan, Graeme Swann, Steven Finn, Graham Onions.

West Indies: Darren Sammy (captain), Adrian Barath, Kieran Powell, Assad Fudadin, Darren Bravo, Narsingh Deonarine, Marlon Samuels, Denesh Ramdin, Tino Best, Ravi Rampaul, Sunil Narine.

Cricket: Edgbaston Test rained off again

The third Investec Test at Edgbaston became the first in England for almost half a century to suffer a washout for each of the first two days.

As persistent rain showed no signs of moving away from Birmingham, umpires Kumar Dharmasena and Tony Hill abandoned play shortly after lunch without a ball bowled for the second successive day. No toss or exchange of teams has yet taken place in this final Test of a series England have already won – after victories over the West Indies at Lord’s and then Trent Bridge.

The last time a home Test failed to start before day three was in 1964, when England and Australia were kept off the field at Lord’s. This double washout means there is still a chance the tourists’ lynchpin batsman Shivnarine Chanderpaul may be able to take part after all, despite a side injury.

Chanderpaul had a scan this week, and a slight side strain rather than a tear has been diagnosed. It will be the end of this tour for the left-hander if he does not feature here.

Chanderpaul has not played limited-overs cricket for his country since last year’s World Cup, and is not in the Windies’ squad for either three NatWest Series one-day internationals or a one-off Twenty20 against England. Back to this final Test, a minimum of 156 overs have been lost – with only eight extra overs permitted on each of the final three days, assuming no further interruption from the weather. Today’s forecast is significantly better. England will have precious little time nonetheless to try to close out a 3-0 whitewash – although there is minor encouragement in the reduction of the follow-on from an initial 200 to 100 for what has become a three-day match, at best.

Meanwhile, cricket’s only appearance as part of an Olympic Games will be recalled later this month when teams from France and Britain meet to reprise a match that took place in Paris 112 years ago.

France Cricket (FC), the national governing body for the sport, will field a side against the Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) in Twenty20 and 50-over-a-side matches at Chateaux du Thoiry on 16 June to help raise awareness of the sport within the country. In an Olympic year, the matches will also be a reminder of one of the more unusual episodes in the history of the Games.

The 1900 contest, which took place at the Velodrome de Vincennes, featured a British side from the south west of England – the Devon Country Wanderers – and a French line-up made up of players from the Standard Athletic Club and the Albion Cricket Club in Paris.

The match was 12-a-side and the majority of France’s team were expatriate players, many of them born in England. Britain won the game by 158 runs, with totals of 117 and 145-5 declared, easily outstripping France’s scores of 78 and 26, but the match was only formally recognised as an Olympic event by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) in 1912.

“It is a bit of a quirk that we are the silver medallists,” said Mark Moodley, the general manager of FC.

“When we talk to people about the sport it has become a bit of an ice-breaker before we have a more detailed in-depth discussion... but it is not something we boast about as it happened so long ago.”