West Indies A V England A

[blinkpip]

Couple of strong teams playing today. It would be good to watch it. I think nearly every England player has played a Test or ODI.



England A win toss and bat
England A captain Vikram Solanki has won the toss and decided to bat against West Indies A in the first Test match at the Antigua Recreation Ground on Friday.

Solanki leads the side again and will be hoping for another performance from his team after their 262 run win over an Antiguan XI in the first game of the tour.

England A: Vikram Solanki (captain), Michael Yardy, Alastair Cook, Owais Shah, Ed Joyce, Alex Loudon, Chris Read, Gareth Batty, James Anderson, Sajid Mahmood, Alex Wharf.

West Indies A: Sylvester Joseph (captain), Lendl Simmons, Siewnarine Chattergoon, Dale Richards, Narsingh Deonarien, Marlon Samuels, Carlton Baugh Jr, Richard Kelly, Dave Mohammed, Tino Best, Jermaine Lawson.

Umpires: Clancy Mack (Antigua & Barbuda) & Basil Morgan (Montserrat)

[Johno]

Joseph, samuels, best and lawson i have heard of before.

england have got a strong line up out aswell....will be keeping up to date.

[larwood]

Clancy Mack

  Surely he has to be the pimp daddy of umpires
A good test for the boys.

[larwood]

We are 109-3 at lunch.