article_snippet.sent: Alastair Cook (13) both may have had a long break working on Alastair Cook (13) both batting with Alastair Cook (13) both old mentor Graham Gooch but Alastair Cook (13)
article_snippet.sent: England fought long and hard before they decided to bring James Tredwell on this tour and considered Surrey’s Zafar Ansari and even Zafar Ansari veteran team-mate Gareth Batty before they plumped for the likeable yeoman of Kent.
article_snippet.sent: Moeen Ali’s absence gave an opportunity to an off-spinner who could not even get into Kent’s championship team last season, the promise of Adam Riley being preferred to Moeen Ali, and James Tredwell had to go on loan to Sussex to get a game.
article_snippet.sent: Yet James Tredwell is reliable, steady and under-stated and England knew Moeen Ali would not let them down when them preferred Moeen Ali to the more naturally talented but inconsistent Adil Rashid for this first Test.
article_snippet.sent: What kind of batsman is batsman?
article_snippet.sent: a very aggressive player — batsman hit James Tredwell for six off batsman second ball of the innings
article_snippet.sent: — but perfectly capable of a well-worked innings.
article_snippet.sent: James Tredwell isn’t the first Test bowler Blackwood has hit over the rope at the start of James Tredwell innings.
article_snippet.sent: It will be difficult for England to leave batsman out now, even though Moeen will join the squad in Grenada in time for the second Test, particularly if James Tredwell can spin James Tredwell to victory on this slow Antiguan pitch.
article_snippet.sent: It was James Tredwell who made the first breakthrough of the day for England and the most important one in persuading the limpet-like Shiv Chanderpaul to chip tamely to extra cover in an off-side dominated field.
article_snippet.sent: Ian Botham’s Iain O’Brien at Old Trafford in 2008