England in West Indies: Joe Root & Jason Roy hit centuries in warm-up win
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| Tour match, Three Ws Oval, Barbados |
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| England 371-7 (50 overs): Root 114, Roy 110 ret hurt |
| University of West Indies Vice Chancellor's XI 200 (43.5 overs): Rashid 2-21, Woakes 2-28 |
| England won by 171 runs |
| Scorecard |
Joe Root and Jason Roy hit centuries as England cruised to a 171-run win in their only warm-up match before the one-day series in the West Indies.
Root made 114 off 81 balls while Roy retired out for 110 off 82 in England's 371-7 against a University of West Indies Vice Chancellor's XI.
The hosts managed only 200 in reply at the Three Ws Oval in Barbados.
England's five-match one-day series against West Indies starts on Wednesday at the Kensington Oval in Barbados.
Roy shared an opening stand of 129 with Jonny Bairstow, who made 46, and 57 with Root after England lost the toss.
Although Eoin Morgan managed only eight and Alex Hales, batting at number six, fell for a second-ball duck, Root dominated the home attack with 11 fours and four sixes before falling in the penultimate over of the innings.
Nicholas Kirton top-scored with 37 for the Vice Chancellor's XI, who were bowled out with 6.1 overs unused.
Adil Rashid claimed 2-21, Chris Woakes 2-28 and Mark Wood 2-35.
West Indies beat England 2-1 in the three-Test series. The one-day series is followed by three Twenty20 matches starting on 5 March.
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At the risk of being pedantic, there is one bit that is not taken from the scorecard , the bit in the match summary which says that Jason Roy retired hurt - the scorecard and the text of the article say that he retired out. It is a small point, but if BBC writers cannot be bothered to do the simplest of checks, what faith can we have in anything that they write ?
Anyway, Woakes, Wood, Plunkett & Stokes should be a decent attack for WI pitches... + the "spin twins", of course.
England are no1 ODI side in the world. What are you on about???
Whats fun about being caught 3rd slip in the first over. England have enough attacking players in the test side a steady boring players is required,
When will England realise that they need to open Roy with Burns in Tests?
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Why do people make the ridiculous assumption that because he can whack 100 in an ODI he can do the same in a test match.
In ODI they have restrictions about where fielders can stand it allows for big shots that would otherwise get caught in the covers or slips in a test match
Pakistan played 4 day games vs Kent & Northants, a test against Ireland & Leicestershire ahead of the 1st test in England last summer.
As a result their players had played 50% more 1st class cricket in English conditions than the England players & unsurprisingly won that test by 9 wickets.
Tom Curran needs to be in the ODI/T20 teams.
What will the ashes bring??? Probably more sandpaper !
Michael Vaughan should replace Paul Farbrace
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Good lord.
I mean, aside from being a very good player, exactly what single piece of evidence is there in Vaughn's words or actions to suggest he has any ability whatsoever to coach an international cricket team.
What county does he coach? What sense does he talk?
Maybe he could teach an 'art' class?
England struggle in a warm up - England are crap. England will be beaten easily by a proper team
And yet the very same "idiots" denigrate Boycott, Vaughan, Agnew etc for their remarks. At least they played professional cricket.
We hammered Australia 5 zip.
And the opposition best bowlers only bowl 10 overs, sometimes in 3 over spells.
The 2 games are worlds apart now.