Oh what a match!
This last cricket match in the Digicel 5-Test Series was nail-biting down to the very last ball bowled...
With England declaring at lunch, at 237-6...England was determined to bowl the West Indies out.
However, this was not to be, with West Indies at 107-8 (107 runs and 8 wickets down) and 3 overs left, as Fidel Edwards (bowler) and Denesh Ramdin (wicket keeper) used their bats to block balls spinning at them from all angles (from superb bowling from James Anderson and Monty Panesar), in a very deteriorated pitch at the Queens Park Oval, in Trinidad.
These two West Indians stuck it out like true warriors.
In the end, West Indies has won the series 1-0, thus regaining the Wisden Trophy. [The trophy has been in English hands for the past nine (9) years].
This win represents the first Test Series win for the West Indies in five (5) long years!
Girl With a Purpose (GWAP) Blog sends a hearty congratulations to the West Indies cricket team.
We hope that this will be the first of many more victories for you and that you will learn from the mistakes made in this series, so that you can win the One-Day Tests and 20-20 match coming up between March 15 and April 3, 2009.
(Please see West Indies vs England 2009 Itinerary, here ).
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The final scores are as follows:
Ist Innings score:
England 546-6 declared
West Indies (W.I.) 544
2nd Innings score:
England 237-6
W.I. 114-8
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Again, a Big GWAP Congratulations to the West indies Cricket Team!
I would like to thank Caribbean Cricket for the use of their Flickr inset picture of Denesh Ramdin,above.
Gillian
Sources Include:
Digicel 5-Test Series coverage on Television Jamaica, March 10,2009
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