*Official* England in Bangladesh

[King Pietersen]

Kieswetter gone for the 3rd time in the innings, didn't quite get to the pitch of the ball and was undone by the turn. Hopefully we'll get some entertainment from KP now.

 

[BoyBrumby]

Yeesh. Nicely bowled, but bit of a rash charge down the strip by Kieswetter.

 

[The_roc]

Just had a worrying thought. If Cook was to make 2 big scores in this ODi series and outplays Kieswetter, we could end up seeing Andrew Strauss and Alastair Cook opening in ODi's. Eeek.

Strauss would bat at 3, Prior out

 

[King Pietersen]

FFS. Pietersen gone, looked like he hit his pad and not the ball from what I saw, but he's been given. Hopefully Cook'll keep going.

 

[BoyBrumby]

D'oh. KP didn't look convinced, but nice bit of bowling anyway.

Hey, we can lose this yet.

 

[Stapel]

FFS. Pietersen gone, looked like he hit his pad and not the ball from what I saw, but he's been given. Hopefully Cook'll keep going.

Either caught or LBW. But out he is!

 

[King Pietersen]

Either caught or LBW. But out he is!

He skipped down the wicket, doubt he'd have been given out LBW.

 

[GIMH]

eeek

 

[Jono]

Couple of poor decisions have put Bangladesh in the contest here.

 

[King Pietersen]

eeek

No sweat. We've still got Prior, Wright and Bresnan to come......

 

[GIMH]

Should have had Broad & Swann open tttt

 

[TT Boy]

Good job the Bangla Boys imploded. 270 would have been too much. Why did Cook elect to bowl first? The wicket is getting slower and slower.

 

[BoyBrumby]

Couple of poor decisions have put Bangladesh in the contest here.

TBF, and I know I'm in "two wrongs" territory here, Kieswetter was absolutely stone dead when he was on 4, so things are about equal.

Reviews, anyway. What happened to them?

 

[The_roc]

Reviews, anyway. What happened to them?

can't afford to hire the specialist cameras

 

[TT Boy]

Reviews for what? This is limited overs cricket...

 

[The_roc]

Anyone seen any England fans in the crowd?

 

[King Pietersen]

Good job the Bangla Boys imploded. 270 would have been too much. Why did Cook elect to bowl first? The wicket is getting slower and slower.

The record on the ground suggests that chasing is the best option. Dew is a supposed to be a massive factor in Bangladesh and can actually make it almost impossible to grip the ball. Turns out that there's not been much dew at all tonight.

So long as these 2 are still out there I'm confident, but once we get into Wright, Prior and Bresnan we're going to struggle.

Woah, Morgan lucky not to be stumped off a wide.

 

[TT Boy]

Missed stumping.

 

[TT Boy]

That was out.

 

[Uppercut]

Pretty dire umpiring in this match.