[ ] The West Indies are shrewdies

[Longy]

Anyone watching the cricket, so com.

[Josedinho]

Brilliant isn't it!

[ripple11]

 

[scotty2hatty]

just got a text from a mate saying something similar - what's happened?

[TightEnd]

stupidity of the highest order

quite stunningly brilliant!

[Josedinho]

Windies taken light when they are behind on D/L

[ripple11]

 even more........

[Longy]

just got a text from a mate saying something similar - what's happened?

About 5 overs to go in fading light, west indies batting. They have lost a couple of quick wickets and are offered the light, game will be decided on Duckworth lewis.

The west indies are 1 run behind on d/l, yet the coaching staff call them off. Therefore England win.

[matt674]

[ x ] West Indies coaching staff took the 6/4 about an England win

[maldini32]

Some crazy shit

[Horneris]

Glad im finishing in 7 mins.

All the punters who backed the Windies will be ringing up wanting their money back/kicking off etc...

[TightEnd]

2145: This is remarkable. The replays show that coach John Dyson called the batsmen in, but replays also show him being handed a piece of paper a few minutes later and realising he's made a horrible rick. Skipper Gayle, meanwhile, looked like he was sat in front of an episode of Songs of Praise throughout the whole process. The England players not celebrating yet, although Dyson is doing his nut on the balcony.


I must say Gayle is a prime example of a captain who doesnt actually captain. Was clueless all test series too

[kukushkin88]

gg £200 on WI at 9/4. Staggeringly WI were deducted 2 runs in the middle of their innings when the umpire changed his mind about the award of a six, obviously completely against the rules. 

[AndrewT]

Love the Guardian's cricket text commentaries.

WICKET! Ramdin 11 LBW Broad (47th over: West Indies 244-7 (Sammy 1) need 271
West Indies need 28 from 24 balls. The umpires muse over a light-reading but think better of calling a premature end to proceedings. As it stands West Indies are three runs ahead on D/L method. And that's a wicket! Ramdin is plumb LBW to a daisy-cutter. That changes things. West Indies are now behind on D/L method.

This is bizarre, really bizarre. I think we may have another Pollock at Durban in South Africa 2003 moment here. The West Indians have accepted an offer of bad light and walked off the pitch. The West Indians, John Dyson in particular, are convinced they're ahead on D/L method. But they aren't. The West Indies have walked off the pitch and accepted the end of the game even though they're behind on D/L!

I wish you could see the West Indian faces! This is priceless! They've just realised they've not won! England are celebrating a win, their first of the winter, and they've been gifted it by an idiotic mistake by John Dyson.

Dyson is still staring at his D/L sheet, doing and re-doing his sums. He can't believe it. The West Indians are dumbstruck by their collective stupidity. Gayle is fuming. One player has burst into laughter - I wouldn't do that if you want to keep your place in the side fella, as a hilarious a mess as this may be.

Dyson flicks his papers back and forth desperately trying to find a way out of this that doesn't end with him looking a complete tool.

The game is over, one way or another because the presentation boards have been out out on the pitch. Dyson is in frantic negotiations with the match referee Javagal Srinath. Not for the first time, I'm afraid it is my sorry duty to report that this is an absolute and utter farce. The England players are all in floods of laughter - as well they might be - but everyone else is just stood around in confusion waiting on Srinath to explain to Dyson that 'yes, I'm sorry, but you've been a complete tool, and you've cost your team the result.'

Yup that's confirmed now, England have won by one run on D/L method simply because the West Indian coach chose to call his players in for bad light. Dyson is still checking his D/L sheets, he just can't fathom it. And neither can his gobsmacked players.

Well that was one of the funniest things I've seen in a long while. I wonder if Dyson is still in the running for the England job?

Well, a fine way to earn your first win of the winter, I'm sure you'll agree. Thanks for your emails and company all. I'm going to laugh myself all the way to the pub, then laugh myself home, then laugh myself to bed. Final word goes to Nick Butler. "Funny? Why? We've been robbed off another exciting finish." For the answer to that my friend, you will have to find some TV footage of the look on the West Indians' faces when they found out what they had done. And they way Dyson carried on afterwards. Cheerio.

[thetank]

That's quality!