Cricket: Captain's hundred.CAPTAIN Andrew Strauss Andrew John Strauss MBE, (born 2 March 1977 in Johannesburg, South Africa) is an English cricketer who plays county cricket for Middlesex County Cricket Club and Test matches and One-Day Internationals for England. struck his 16th Test hundred to charge England out of the blocks in their must-win fourth Test against West Indies. Strauss and Alastair Cook shared England's first double century opening stand for more than four years, in fact, to make good of winning the toss at Kensington Oval. But once their stand of 229 came to its conclusion minutes after tea - the highest since Strauss and Marcus Trescothick turned the momentum of a match against South Africa in Durban in December 2004 - the runs dried up. England totally dominated the first two sessions only to be pegged back by a loss of wickets in a turgid turgid /tur·gid/ (ter´jid) swollen and congested. tur·gid adj. Swollen or distended, as from a fluid; bloated; tumid. turgid swollen and congested. evening period, and closed on 301 for three. |
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