England's day starts badly and gets worse; Experimental side is more miss than hit as Windies take control 1 Edition

Andrew Flintoff came on for the 10th over and picked up two wickets in three balls, as Ricardo Powell mistimed a drive and Ramnaresh Sarwan went for a duck in front of his home crowd in his first knock as skipper. However, he was a mite unlucky as he looked to have got an inside edge to one that cam...

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Published inHerald (Glasgow, Scotland)
Main Author O'reilly, Dominic
Format Newspaper Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Glasgow (UK) Newsquest (Herald & Times) Ltd 19.04.2004
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Clarke, Rikki
Trescothick, Marcus
Vaughan, Michael
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Summary:Andrew Flintoff came on for the 10th over and picked up two wickets in three balls, as Ricardo Powell mistimed a drive and Ramnaresh Sarwan went for a duck in front of his home crowd in his first knock as skipper. However, he was a mite unlucky as he looked to have got an inside edge to one that came back off the seam. Chanderpaul looked an unlikely man for a rescue job; he is a slow scorer at the best of times and to prove a point ground just nine singles from his first 50 balls and as the cliche goes, looked like he was batting for a draw. That six transformed Chanderpaul and the West Indian innings as he feasted on the support bowling. He pulled and drove [Rikki Clarke] for boundaries from successive balls and then played a flick sweep for 6, the first of three successive boundaries off [Paul Collingwood], whose sole over went for 17 runs. He was supported by a typically flashy knock from Dwayne Smith, who got off the mark with a square-drive for 4 and was relentless in his desire to up the tempo until he hit Clarke to short mid-on for 16.