Old school fast bowling in the West Indies

I've been keeping an eye on the 1st Test in Kingston but the game had been proceeding as expected until Day 3. Brett Lee was back to his fast bowling best, even dusting off his chainsaw celebrations after knocking one batsman's stumps over. But the highlight was a bone crunching bouncer that crashed into the back of a ducking Chanderpaul's head, immediately felling him to the ground. However, Chanderpaul went onto score a century - gutsy effort, that! Then the West Indies quicks had Australia reeling at 4 for 17 at stumps. Suddenly I'm having flashbacks to all those horrific Tests against the Windies in the 80's. Australia are only 136 runs in front with 6 wickets in hand, two days to play. Will be watching the next two days with both eyes...

Posted by JC on Sun 25 May

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Were in for a thrilling finale today, both in the caribbean and in england. Personally I'll back Australia to scrape through, but the Windies have shown some guts and who knows, a good over here or there (which implies MacGill is bowling) could spur them on. Meanwhile in Manchester, its upto the English to show why sitting out of the IPL is benificial :) Hopefully the red devils' double this year motivates them.. First round uspsets at the French Open, a fascinating Monaco Grand Prix, great test cricket, seems we really are back to the old school!

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