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Cricket: West Indies frustrates England
West Indies bat impressively frustrating England’s bowlers. PHOTO/Getty Images
England endured a wicketless morning at Lord’s as Marlon Samuels and Shivnarine Chanderpaul continued West Indies’ unexpected fightback in the first Investec Test.
The tourists began on Saturday with a 155-run first-innings deficit, and were soon a perilous 65 for 4. But from that point, Chanderpaul (73no) and Samuels (79no) dug in on a benign surface, and by lunch on day four, their unbroken stand was a source of significant frustration for England.
On 212 for 4, Samuels’ and Chanderpaul’s contrasting styles had taken their team 57 in front, and given England’s bowlers precious few moments of encouragement that a breakthrough might be on the way.
On this slow pitch, the value of the short ball was minimized, and time and again in the early exchanges on another cloudy morning, edges by both batsman were controlled short of the slips.
