Philo Wallace 61 vs England 5th Test 1998
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00:00It is now got very fast as we saw during the England innings on the first and
00:05second day that wouldn't have gone away
00:15Big Outs now, Wallace will go for it
00:30very uncompromising
00:45just a push and just emphasizing the speed on this
00:51outfield now this could well be a consideration it's a lot of runs no
00:55question about that and no one expects a team set that number of runs to score
01:00them but this outfield has a really quickened up
01:12high in the air squirted away over galley brings four more for Wallace
01:25we haven't seen Lambert hit through the offside as well as that at any time in
01:33the first innings I think there's also a lesson to be learned here from what we
01:37saw in the first innings I think if I were Mike Atherton I'd be inclined to get a
01:40spinner on very quickly to both these players
01:44that's his best stroke, lovely stroke, good free swing of the bat and we saw the full blade there
02:01there he goes it's a characteristic stroke Craig Cozier was telling me
02:06yesterday it's one that he's made all his own tends to go over the mid-on area
02:13he's a very natural striker of the ball
02:17I've heard so many things about Fiona Wallace's batting style but I don't think you could call him a purist
02:23but that's what it says on his bat
02:32tries again and that is a fearful risk he doesn't know how the ball's gonna bounce
02:38out of the rough but you have to say that it's really quite a strange shot in
02:44the circumstances of the match
02:54if you practice it long enough you'll get it right eventually it's a very good shot
03:03heaved away over mid-wicket
03:08just as Fraser and Tupper were beginning to subdue Lambert and Wallace the 50 comes up
03:21straight back over Fraser's head, it beats Headley at mid-off and it's four more
03:39you have to hurry here
03:43it's going to be close and it'll be referred to the third umpire
03:46the direct hits invariably cause batsmen problem
03:51I think the problem here Paul is that Wallace didn't ground his bat he was just running and he dipped the bat over the line
03:57I think that is going to be the problem
03:59oh he's out
04:04wow
04:08I'm sorry I just can't believe that
04:11it's just inexplicable how the third umpire has got that wrong
04:23big cry of catch it, he's put it down
04:31Dean Headley has put down Philo Wallace at deep backwards square
04:37and everything is going Philo Wallace's way at the moment
04:40back pad and slip in position
04:42it's the first ball of the fifth day's play
04:47great excitement from Tuffnell and Russell
04:54Lambert as per usual going on to the back foot to Phil Tuffnell
04:58and playing inside the line of the ball here
05:01just allowing the ball to go through outside the off stump
05:07oh
05:11Tuffnell started off very well he's got the first ball to bounce a lot
05:15this has hit the rough patches and kept a bit low
05:18pretty well played by Lambert
05:26that's high in the air, Headley's going for it
05:30and he's taken it
05:32it's a very good catch
05:35he'd have seen the other fielder coming in to his peripheral vision
05:39that's to say that Headley kept his nerve and clung on to the catch
05:44Atherton's tactics have worked
05:47he's got an early breakthrough
05:49Clayton Lambert has gone and the West Indies now 72 for 1
05:54Clayton Lambert looking to pull that from pretty wide of off stump
05:58and Headley had a lot of ground to make
06:01well he certainly has made up for the one that he dropped yesterday
06:04the one he dropped yesterday should have been taken reasonably simple
06:07this one a lot harder and he has held on
06:10the West Indies have lost their first wicket on 72
06:16the batsmen cross with the ball in the air
06:19so Brian Lahr will be at the non-strikers end
06:22the West Indies captain comes out to join Phil O'Wallace
06:35there's no third man
06:394 more to Phil O'Wallace
06:438 boundaries for him, he's on to 42
06:48that wicket certainly brought the crowd alive here
06:54big shout from Fraser
07:00Phil O'Wallace desperately trying to get that left foot
07:03outside the line of off stump
07:06just about getting there, I'm not too sure if he's very wide of off stump there
07:13eventually when the leg straightens it is outside
07:16off stump but at the point of striking
07:19well, batsmen usually get the benefit of the doubt
07:23and he got it there
07:26Oh!
07:29might carry the third slip
07:32excellent over from Angus Fraser
07:35wicket taking his tally to 26 in the series
07:4126 of his 5 overs
07:47could so easily have been another wicket here
07:50first delivery went into
07:53Phil O'Wallace this one hitting the pitch and going away
07:56but just falling short of Nasser Hossein in the third slip
07:59not enough pace to carry into the slip on the full
08:02that's a good bowling
08:04getting a bit of movement off the seam Angus Fraser
08:10I thought he would have put quite a few men around the bat
08:13and encouraged the batsmen to try and move them
08:16by playing a few aggressive shots and of course on this pitch
08:19with a bit of rough outside the left hand of off stump
08:22that could be dangerous
08:29one would think that there are only two possible results in this
08:32test match, an England victory or a draw
08:46Lars on his way
08:53wickets costing him 45
08:56that's too many really
08:59expect a good test match spinner to get his wickets
09:02at around 30 or 32 apiece
09:08Dean Headley in pursuit
09:22Dean Headley
09:34Lara looking for the gap down at third man
09:41don't think he was really convinced after playing that shot
09:44that it was the right one though
09:47ball was a bit wide of his body
09:50there it is, that grimace on the face
09:53and then the leave alone
09:5644 for Philo Wallace, 2 to Brian Lara
09:5980 to 1 from 25 overs
10:10problems again for the left hand out of the rough
10:13that one really exploding
10:16that spot there is a problem area
10:19it is difficult for Brian Lara to get to that spot without
10:22leaving his crease to cover the spin
10:25and then of course there is just another little spot here
10:28a bit further out from the batsman
10:31too short
10:34dispatched with some disdain
10:37by the West Indies captain
10:40David Lloyd
10:43alongside chairman of selectors David Graveney
10:46David Lloyd was fairly philosophical earlier on
10:49thinking it was unlikely England
10:52could force a result
10:55and it is going to be even more unlikely because
10:58there is some drizzle falling here at
11:01Kensington Oval
11:04certainly don't want to see a ball behaving awkwardly
11:07even on a normal surface
11:10popping off the glove or the bat onto the pad
11:13and then no one there to take the catch
11:16certainly don't need too many defensive
11:19fielders in a situation like this
11:22it doesn't matter how many runs the West Indies get
11:25it is almost impossible to see a ball
11:28behaving awkwardly
11:31it doesn't matter how many runs the West Indies get
11:34it is almost impossible for them to win
11:37working the catch
11:40it is the wicket of Lara that England are after
11:43someone get it
11:46nicely angled away
11:49Lara sends Wallace back
11:52and the toughens over
11:5587 for 1 the West Indies
12:01oh
12:04got away with it
12:07kept just a little lower than
12:10Lara Thord I think
12:13yeah 5th day obviously of this game
12:16and just a little variation in bounce we praise this pitch
12:19that just kept a little low
12:22Lara still looking to score
12:25it will be a great test for Brian Lara
12:28he's really got to bat as long as he possibly can
12:31scoring runs is not important to Lara in the West Indies
12:34survival is
12:48make sure that he retains the strike
12:51as well Lara who moves on to 9
12:54Philo Wallace has 45
12:58and Mike Atherton and his men would
13:01dearly love a prolonged go at Philo Wallace
13:08have been denied that by Lara's
13:11patience and his artistry and skill at
13:14pinching singles when they matter most
13:17England are on the attack 4 men round the back for Lara
13:20just a little opening
13:23of the face has done the trick there for the single
13:35cries of catch it from short leg and slip
13:38I don't think there was any under edge on that
13:41very very difficult
13:44if there was
13:48just clip the putt on the way through
13:54interested in Tufman's tactics of
13:57coming over the wicket. Oh that's a
14:00magical stop from Dean Headley
14:02anybody in the Premier League
14:05back
14:08in UK would have been delighted with that
14:11handiwork on the touchline
14:15sweetly time from Philo Wallace as well
14:18racing away down to backward square
14:21Dean Headley
14:23the slide tackle
14:25and a good throw
14:27it's the old
14:29scoop it up
14:30knock it across and hope someone's at the far post for
14:33the bullet header into the top corner
14:35volley from the edge of the box
14:37the run out would have been good wouldn't it
14:41wow
14:42now Nasser Hussain was done by a real
14:45grubber a couple of tests back
14:49Brian Lara has very nearly been done by one as well
14:52well you say it might be unlikely for England to win
14:55this mark a few more of these deliveries and straighter ones than this
14:58because that is just literally run along the floor
15:02it's not a question of bouncing it hasn't it's dribbled
15:05there you go all the way along the floor
15:10this doesn't look good does it we've got the ground
15:13staff getting ready they've got the yellow oilies on
15:16forecast from the Met Office was that the afternoon
15:19would be clearer they're not blue skies by any means
15:22and there may be occasional showers
15:29good hit
15:32wide away down to the far post
15:36good hit
15:39wide away to go to 50
15:41when you've been recalled to the test side
15:44you do it with a maximum
15:59first ball round the wicket for a while
16:03dispatched onto the top of the Pickwick Pavilion
16:06by Philo Wallace
16:13when you've had a rough time of it in test cricket
16:16on one outing you're left out and then recalled
16:19you're under pressure and here in front of his own
16:22people in Barbados he's pushed that pressure aside
16:25played his own natural game hasn't compromised
16:28himself at all gone out and enjoyed it
16:31and it's reflected in his scores
16:36more runs for him here
16:42there's two of them
16:44hundred up for the West Indies
16:47there was
16:50so much disappointment
16:53when he was judged LBW
16:56in the first inning so much so that one or two people
16:59over a quiet drink in the evening
17:02were telling me that
17:05had there been a full house here of West Indian supporters
17:08rather than the fifty percent English supporters
17:11might have been a danger of play being stopped. So angry
17:13would the locals have been on mass and
17:16who could blame them when your favourite son
17:19is going like a train and suddenly
17:22and surprisingly given out LBW
17:26measure there the straightness of his hitting
17:29twenty-one of those runs in the V between mid-off and mid-on
17:34that's a very interesting chart that actually
17:37you would expect an opening batsman against the
17:40new ball to have a much higher percentage of runs
17:43behind square than straight down the ground
17:46he's only just scored more runs behind square than
17:49down the ground
17:55very clever stuff from Fraser
17:58and what he did was he got Lara off balance
18:01now that was my point about Lara and
18:04Lara's need to score
18:07didn't need to play at that
18:10but Fraser has been nagging away at him
18:13and that line tighter than that
18:16on off stump and it is
18:19a very clever play
18:23and it is clever bowling because it's a little bit
18:26fuller that delivery not a half volley but just a bit fuller
18:29bit wider and it drew Lara out of the crease
18:32made him play at it
18:40well England have got to get lively in that area
18:43to cover a mid-off it's twice now
18:46Lara has just dropped the ball out on the offside
18:49pretty much straight to fielders
18:52he's taken the pace off the ball with the quite soft hands
18:55but England know that he's looking to just get away from Fraser
18:58really keep the strike moving all the time and those fielders
19:01have got to be in tight
19:15cracking hit
19:19good way to end the over for the West Indies
19:22clean strike straight over
19:25mid-off
19:28you can't fault that stroke
19:31just maybe worth Fraser's while bowling with a deep
19:34long off
19:37since he hit Tufnell for that towering
19:40six over long on he's put a man out
19:43he's out at deep long off though
19:50yeah
19:53lest anybody wonder why that would be why you wouldn't plug
19:56the area where he's hitting the ball the reason is that
19:59Tufnell will think that Wallace looking to hit him on the
20:02onside is a plus point
20:05for the bowler because the ball is turning away to the offside
20:08and it may just make for a full stroke
20:11you want to encourage him to hit
20:14against the spin of the ball
20:20Andrew Caddick into the attack
20:23instead of Angus Fraser Jack Russell into the action down the
20:26leg side
20:31good stop from Jack Russell
20:38Russell has to go a fair way to his left
20:41better dive from him seems to struggle to get down the leg side
20:44at times I think it's because
20:48of this very open stance he adopts facing extra cover
20:52sort of blocks himself out going down the leg side
20:57very close yeah had to be this time
21:01Wallace has a look because he thinks he's forward but
21:04Caddick has hit him very low on the shin
21:07just nipped it back a fraction off the seam
21:10and I don't think Wallace will have too much of a grievance
21:13with that one when he looks at it on the replay that's good bowling
21:16from Caddick
21:19bit of extra pace the previous delivery and this one has nipped
21:22back hit him plumb in front on the crease
21:25going nowhere other than middle stump
21:28and Eddie Nicholls says that's out
21:31Phil Wallace has gone for 61 West Indies
21:34108 for 2
21:37Shivnarayan Chander Paul the new batsman for the West Indies
21:4023 years old but the player
21:43enormous maturity you'd think cut out for a rear guard
21:46situation such as the one